Tag: fiction

• December 26, 2025

  December 2025: Fiction

  In placing ourselves — humans — front and centre of everything, we’ve turned into Frankensteins condemned to self-destruct. The scales of justice haven’t merely tipped off balance; they’re on the edge, about to crumble under the unbearable weight of obese human greed.
• November 26, 2025

  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.’…
• July 23, 2025

  Non-Fiction, July 2025

  I admit it sounds strange but the key to packing books – so that they can withstand, and prevail, a rough and tumble journey in the back of a truck lurching over potholed roads – is ‘breathlessness’. Every last square inch in the carton must be occupied, stuffed with either a book or rolls and…
• May 26, 2025

  Call for Submissions: Parcham July 2025

  Parcham ‘s July 2025 Issue will be an Open Issue. We invite previously unpublished Poems, original Short Stories (In English), translations of Short Stories, Non-Fiction pieces, Editorials, Photo-Stories and articles on Films and Popular Culture from interested contributors. Send in your submissions for the July Issue by the 5th of July 2025 to parchamonline@gmail.com. Please follow the guidelines below and in…
• May 21, 2025

  Priyanka Sarkar: A Journey

  Semeen Ali In Conversation with Priyanka Sarkar A Note from Semeen Ali: Continuing my conversations with writers, poets, and translators, I now present my exchange with the wonderful Priyanka Sarkar. Through this conversation, I have sought to unveil the journey of a person – the path one takes, or must take, to arrive at where…
• February 11, 2025

  Semeen Ali in conversation with Reema Ahmad

  A note from Semeen Ali: Understanding a writer is key to understanding not only what they write, but why and how they write. In my conversation with Reema Ahmad, I seek to explore the influences that have shaped her as a writer, tracing the origins of her creative voice and examining how these origins permeate…
• January 2, 2025

  Call For Submissions– ROADS (March 2025 Issue)

  Submission for the March Issue is currently closed. We thank the contributors for sending us their work. We are working on the review and since we are a small team, it might take a couple of weeks for us to get back to you. We look forward to bringing out an engaging and stimulating issue.…