Tag: Poetry
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June 2026 : Poetry
Words come together in delightfully new ways through poetry, fiction and non fiction, rife with irony or pregnant with unusual imagery to say that silence is no longer an option, that celebration of alternative ways of living than those configured by the norm, to create new solidarities and newer languages that are unafraid to reimagine…
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Call For Submissions : Issue # 11
How does one think about power? Is it brute force, a state’s will to unleash destruction or is it more ordinary, running through and around us daily, without us even realising its presence, invisible and web-like?
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Of Passions & Provocations
Filmmaker and Writer Devashish Makhija’s New Book Bewilderness is a Homecoming to Poetry
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Poetry : December 2025 Issue
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.
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Emergent Voices: Poetry
Kashmir: A Valley Between Guns by Saniya Naseem In the cradle of mountains, where silence once sang,Now echoes of sorrow and gunfire hang.The chinar trees whisper of blood in the snow,And the rivers run red with the tears that flow.A mother waits by the shattered door,For the son who will never return.A father’s eyes search…
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“I’d like to see literary magazines become more than mere platforms of publishing good literature.”
PrimarilyI would like to see literary magazines become more than mere platforms of publishing good literature. I strongly believe that good literature, good readers and good writers need to be nurtured, and in that literary magazines have a role to play.
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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,…
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Dibyajyoti Sarma: Rooted in Freedom Through Poetry
Semeen Ali in conversation with Dibyajyoti Sarma I spoke to Dibyajyoti to reflect not just on poetry or publishing, but on how language and a city can shape, un-shape, and reshape a person. This exchange is less an interview and more a quiet tracing of that delicate line between rootedness and drift. Dibya, as his…
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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…
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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…
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