Category: Hear! Hear!
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August 2024 Poetry: Issue Theme– Music
Editorial: Bhaswati Ghosh On those nights when sleep eludes me, which, unfortunately aren’t all that few, I turn to Spotify’s Calm station. As if they were a mother’s hand stroking my head, soft, kindhearted notes glide me into sleep. Our world is insomniac now too, one might argue. Sleep has long been eluding children in…
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Call For Submissions: August 2024 Issue
Your mother’s heartbeat when you’re still inside her womb. The unmistakable coo of a koel, a song sparrow’s irresistible spring song, a cardinal’s earnest tweets — each a symphony so sweet to wake up to that, to paraphrase one of Rabindranath Tagore’s songs, it makes the very sleep it breaks, coveted. Snatches of a keertan…
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April Issue—Nishi Pulugurtha
The guard has waved the green flag, Appagaru would say, the sound of the whistle that he blew could be heard softly and the wheels set in motion. We kept looking back in the direction of the platform waving goodbye for as long as we could see Appagaru, Sahu and Shibu.
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Photography Section: April Issue
THE BAT TREES OF AADORPARA— Ipsita Deb Attempting to articulate the child’s perspective, through lenses, or to write about it, is a daunting task. For me, I have always found myself, perpetually trapped within the child I left decades back. I can’t write ‘about’ the child. And so, I surrender to the intimacy of memory…
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Short Stories and Flash Fiction: April Issue
Safe— Lance Minion When I describe the intersection where I turned my car off the road the first thing you’re going to do is ask where I was coming from and where I was headed when I made this decision. I understand this and yet I don’t feel it’s as important as you might. I…
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Non-Fiction & Personal Essays — April Issue
Foreword— Candice Louisa Dacquin When Khaled Hosseini, in the acclaimed novel The Kite Runner, wrote, “There are so many children in Afghanistan, but no childhood,” he was alluding to a phenomenon and truism about every war-torn country. Women and children have, as history is witness, borne the brunt of nations locked in crisis and conflict.…
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August Issue: Poetry Section
Letter from the Other Side of Silence — Stephanie L. Harper Dear One: A life-long dusk of onyx-black has failed to send back even faint echoes of my own refrains. I know what it is to be mocked by the wind’s bare-rhythmed hiss through night-hidden palm fronds and rolling surf, stultifying me with its droning…
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Non- Fiction: August Issue
Racial profiling in Japan: Who could speak for them? Mayumi Yamamoto One Friday morning, while browsing online news, I was searching for a material to use for discussion in my class. Due to my academic background, after retiring from my career as a researcher, I have been taking care of the students from one of…
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Ipsita Deb in conversation with Portrait Artist Subhojit Bhar
Ipsita : Subhojit, please take us through your journey. How did you first discover your passion for painting? Also, about your techniques, medium, and the colours you use. I am a self-taught portrait artist who likes to work both in traditional and digital media. For the most part of the day though, I am a…
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SNAPSHOTS: Photo Series August Issue.
Editor’s Note by Ipsita Deb “There is no story behind it. It is split like a second.” “The Butterfly”, Arun Kolatkar. Snapshots – often technically “imperfect” or amateurish photographs, poorly framed – are evanescent and ephemeral fragments of time, in their essence. Whether it’s an instantaneous sun-down, existing in a singular moment in history; or a sudden revelation…
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