Poetry: July 2025
Wedding : Srilekha Mitra Twenty three broken mirrors Glazed with the hazelnut ice-cream of your wedding Slashed eyeballs rolling down the savannah green floor Fresh milk spilling over the granite kitchen slab Smoke rising from burning cigarettes And a few hopes crying Women wearing pretty white gowns Their cheeks painted in red and golden Grooving,…
“Roads”: Poems March 2025
Editorial: Suranjana Choudhury Welcome to Spring, Dear Readers. 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…
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…
Spring Issue: Poems on Children and Childhood
Trying to still the children for a photo— Danielle Mcmahon is a simple matter of physics, a wending metaphor, a jar of fireflies, a tin-can telephone, for my shutter speed cannot match to capture the verb and reverb of such giddy atoms, a giggling symptom charged with the challenge of time-keeping— those blurred expressions, stolen…
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…
Poems: Third Issue, March 2023
We, at Parcham, have been overwhelmed with the submissions that have come in for the Poetry Section for this particular issue. As Founding Editor, I would like to thank Bhaswati Ghosh, Candice Louisa Daquin and Sumana Roy, for helping me curate this section. My apologies to the contributors for the delay in publication. But I…
Poetry Section: October, 2022 Issue
Ankush Rakela by Pooja Ugrani 1. My paycheque overshadows my worldview I cannot afford to voice my opinion I squirm in the comfort of shutting up for my loved ones My safety net wasn’t woven that dense 2. A peek into a larger world, I am pulled back by the ankush of check marks against…
Spring, 2022 Issue: Poems
We are delighted to present to you the Poetry Section of the inaugural Issue of Parcham. My sincere gratitude to Candice Louisa Daquin for the tireless work she put in to curate this issue and to Sumana Roy, whose invaluable inputs and insights were a guiding force. We have managed to provide a platform to…
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