Tag: writing
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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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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.’…
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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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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…
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In Conversation with Mehak Jamal
Mehak Jamal talks of creating a “a repository of undeniability“ Mehak Jamal’s debut work Loal Kashmir: Love and Longing in a Torn Land has been the talk of the literary world since its publication. Sayan Aich Bhowmik was in conversation with the author, trying to dig deeper into what went into the mapping of the book,…
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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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