Charanbhumi – Echoes from the Grazing Lands
Set during the heydays of the Communist Government in Bengal during the 1970s, it follows the protagonist Munshi as he tries to navigate through a series of personal and political travails. The novel is packed with different characters—each lively and carefully drawn with their own set of eccentricities and problems—moving through interconnected subplots that narrate…
The Art of Embracing Life Anew
Coming Out Solo is ultimately a book about giving love its due – love that is not of the romantic and marital variety, but the love of friends, siblings, parents and children. This is the love that builds itself in loyalty and solidarity and yet is not ‘eulogized obsessively in poetry and song and film.’…
Emergent Voices
Parcham Online would look to feature and showcase young authors, poets, artists to give their words and art a place and a home in a special section in the magazine which we have called Parcham Emergent Voices. We are especially looking for contributors below the age of 25, those who are trying to navigate the…
Book in Focus: Vanished by Ahmed Masoud
Vanished: The Mysterious Disappearance of Mustafa Ouda is a gripping and emotionally charged novel that blends literary mystery with the harsh realities of life under occupation.
In Memory of Zubeen Garg
All The Things Music Can Make Happen by Kaushik Hazarika and Anindita Kar At Guwahati’s Sarusajai Stadium, where Zubeen Garg’s body lay in state for two days, we were among lakhs of grieving admirers standing in serpentine queues for hours for a final glimpse of their beloved icon. Poor arrangements, waterlogged grounds, broken railings, rain…
Fiction and Fiction in Translation: July 2025
Travelling Light : Ranu Uniyal Staring at the carpeted floor, papered walls and empty ceiling of an unknown house, a lump dislodges itself at the pitch of my throat and eyes flash with an insipid glare. Brown and pink of the room mixes staunchly with the deep grey of my heart and ripples of intrepid…
Fiction and Non-Fiction: March’ 2025
Editorial: Suranjana Choudhury Is it the beginning or the end of a road that we pursue? Like complex algebraic equations, roads – the real and the imagined, oftentimes confuse us. In our ways, we try to gather meanings from the many roads we tread. In the long run, whatever we have gathered makes up our…
August’24 Issue: Short Stories and Fiction
Editorial by 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…
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…
FICTION: THIRD ISSUE
Life Jacket by Suzette Marie Bishop B.J. liked to wear his lifejacket around the house. They had a small pond in the front yard. B.J.’s dad, a freshwater biologist, was sold on the water feature when they bought the house, but his parents worried he might fall in. Instead of taking the lifejacket on and…
Short Fiction October Issue, 2022
PERSONAL TRANSIT Kristine Harley It was a migraine this time, stretching the halls into shimmering periscopes, long dark tunnels at the end of which twinkled fractured destinations—the table, the conference room, an office door. It was a migraine that she had this time, not a headache, but the big one: a shifting kaleidoscope dizziness that…
Short Fiction: Spring Issue 2022.
Kafka’s Kashmir by Takbeer Salati Fasola’s Freedom by Shruti Sareen Kailash Pattanaik’s Flash Fiction translated by Khushi Pattanayak Kafka’s Kashmir By Takbeer Salati We lay there under open skies on a boat, of our dreams uncoated with heartbreaks. He had a lot of layered assignments and yet he lay with me amidst the lotuses, reciting…
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