Editorial
Whispers of Stones… Click here to read.
Translations
Tagore’s Mono Mor Megher Shongi (‘The Clouds, My Friends‘)has been translated by Professor Fakrul Alam. Click here to read.
The Welcome, a skit by Tagore, has been translated by Somdatta Mandal. Click here to read.
The Bus Conductor, a short story by Dalip Kaur Tiwana has been translated from Punjabi by C. Christine Fair. Click here to read.
Hasan Sol: A Balochi Folktale from Geedi Kessah-4(Folktales Vol: 4) compiled and retold by Gulzar Khan Mari, has been translated by Fazal Baloch from Balochi. Click here to read.
Cry of the Sunflower written in Korean and translated to English by Ihlwha Choi, a poem for Ukraine. Click here to read.
Tagore’s Nobobarsha (or ‘New Rains’) has been translated by Mitali Chakravarty. Click here to read.
Pandies’ Corner
This narrative is written by a youngster from the Nithari village who transcended childhood trauma and deprivation. Lockdown had been written in Hindustani by Jishan and translated to English by Grace M Sukanya. Click here to read.
Poetry
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Michael R Burch, Supatra Sen, Jenny Middleton, Pramod Rastogi, Ron Pickett, George Freek, Devangshu Dutta, Candice Louisa Daquin, David Francis, Raja Chakraborty, Michael Lee Johnson, Ashok Suri, Ryan Quinn Flanagan, Sutputra Radheye, Maid Corbic, Rhys Hughes
Poets, Poetry & Rhys Hughes
In The Anthology in my Mind, Rhys Hughes talks of a make believe anthology. Click here to read and find out what he imagines.
Conversations
Eminent film journalist, Ratnottama Sengupta, converses with legendary actress, Deepti Naval, on her literary aspirations at the Simla Literary festival, Unmesh, in June 2022. Click here to read.
Keith Lyons interviews Steve Carr, a writer who has written 500 short stories and has founded the Sweetycat Press. Click here to read.
Stories
Sohana Manzoor leaves one wondering if the story is about felines or… Click here to read.
Erwin Coomb has a strange encounter at night. Is it real? Click here to read.
The story by Rinu Antony focusses on chance encounter at a bus stop. Click here to read.
Murder at the ‘Pozzo di San Patriza’
Paul Mirabile travels to 1970s Italy to experience a crime inside a sixteenth century well. Click here to read.
Musings/ Slices from Life
Grune Point and an Inkling of Eternity
A poetic account by Mike Smith as he explores the area that hovers between England and Scotland. Click here to read.
Olympic Game Farm: Meeting and Greeting Animals from Disney Movies
Hema Ravi visits a farm that houses animals that had a past in Disney. Click here to read.
Notes from Japan
In A Visit to the Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum, Suzanne Kamata visits a Museum dedicated to an American Japanese artist. Click here to read.
Musings of a Copywriter
In Shopping for my Funeral, Devraj Singh Kalsi goes on a bizarre spree. Click here to read.
Mission Earth
In On a Bamboo Bicycle from Thailand to Indonesia, Kenny Peavy revisits his trip across Asia exploring the biodiversity and conservation efforts. Click here to read.
Essays
Discovering Books and Places: The Voyage from Eden
Meredith Stephens sails the Australian coastline, recording her experiences with words and her camera. Click here to read.
Ravi Shankar treks up to Tilicho Tal at 4940 m. Click here to read his trekking adventures.
A Modern-day Animal Fable with Twists
Dan Meloche visits a contemporary Canadian novel written as an animal fable to draw an unexpected inference. Click here to read.
The Observant Immigrant
Is it okay to be ordinary? by Candice Louisa Daquin explores the responses of people to being accepted as ordinary. Click here to read.
Book Excerpts
An excerpt from The Mendicant Prince (based on the Bhawal sannyasi case) by Aruna Chakravarty. Click here to read.
An excerpt from Nabendu Ghosh’s Dadamoni: The Life and Times of Ashok Kumar. Click here to read.
Book Reviews
Meenakshi Malhotra reviews Tagore’s Gleanings of the Road translated by Somdatta Mandal. Click here to read.
Rakhi Dalal reviews Geetanjali Shree’s Mai, Silently Mother, a Sahitya Akademi winning translation of the Hindi novel by Nita Kumar. Click here to read.
Indrashish Banerjee reviews Nabendu Ghosh’s Dadamoni: The Life and Times of Ashok Kumar. Click here to read.
Bhaskar Parichha reviews Prosanta Chakrabarty’s Explaining Life Through Evolution. Click here to read.
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