Happy Birthday Borderless… Click here to read.
Editorial
Celebrating a Borderless World… Five Years and Counting… Click here to read.
Translations
Jibanananda Das’ poems on war and for the common masses have been translated from Bengali by Professor Fakrul Alam. Click here to read.
A Scene with an Aged Queen, a poem by Ihlwha Choi has been translated from Korean by the poet himself. Click here to read.
Tagore’s Esho Bosonto, Esho Aj Tumi (Come Spring, Come Today) has been translated from Bengali by Mitali Chakravarty. Click here to read.
Pandies’ Corner
For Sanjay Kumar: To Sir — with Love has been written for the founder of pandies’ theatre by Tanvir, a youngster from the Nithari village where pandies’ worked with traumatised victims. Over time, these kids have transcended the trauma to lead fulfilling lives. The late Sanjay Kumar passed on this January. This is a tribute to him by one of his students. It has been translated from the Hindustani original by Lourdes M Surpiya. Click here to read.
Poetry
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Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozábal, Kiriti Sengupta, Ryan Quinn Flanagan, Snehaprava Das, Stuart McFarlane, Arshi Mortuza, George Freek, Jyotish Chalil Gopinathan, Ahmad Al-Khatat, Michael Burch, Bibhuti Narayan Biswal, Mark Wyatt, Owais Farooq, Adriana Rocha, Rakhi Dalal, Rhys Hughes
Musings/Slices from Life
Farouk Gulsara muses on the dichotomies in life exploring beliefs that shape our world. Click here to read.
Beachcombing on the Abrolhos Islands
Meredith Stephens goes beachcombing in a thinly inhabited island. Click here to read.
As Flows the Gomti: A Monument of Tranquility
Prithvijeet Sinha takes us to the past of Lucknow. Click here to read.
Musings of a Copywriter
In All Creatures Great and Small, Devraj Singh Kalsi talks of living in harmony with nature… is it tongue in cheek? To find out, click here to read.
Notes from Japan
In Haiku for Rwandan Girls, Suzanne Kamata writes of her trip to Africa where she teaches and learns from youngsters. Click here to read.
Essays
Ratnottama Sengupta takes stock of women in Bengali cinema over the last fifty years. Click here to read.
Drinking the Forbidden Milk of Paradise…
Meenakshi Malhotra explores the past of poetry and women writers. Click here to read.
Where have all the Libraries Gone?
Professor Fakrul Alam writes of the loss of libraries as we knew them. Click here to read.
Stories
Paul Mirabile gives us a story set in Scotland. Click here to read.
Naramsetti Umamaheswararao gives a fable set in a forest. Click here to read.
Swati Basu Das shares a lighthearted flash fiction. Click here to read.
‘Solitude is a Kind of Freedom…’
Munaj Gul gives an introspective story set in Balochistan. Click here to read.
Why I Stopped Patronising that Cheese Maker’s Shop…
Zoé Mahfouz shares a humorous vignette of Parisian life. Click here to read.
Conversations
Ratnottama Sengupta discusses the famous actor, Soumitra Chatterjee, with his daughter, Poulami Bose Chatterjee. Click here to read.
Keith Lyons interviews Malaysian author and editor, Daphne Lee. Click here to read.
Book Excerpts
An excerpt from Frank S Smyth’s The Great Himalayan Ascents. Click here to read.
An excerpt from Rhys Hughes’ The Devil’s Halo. Click here to read.
Book Reviews
Somdatta Mandal reviews Tsering Namgyal Khortsa’s non-fiction, Little Lhasa: Reflections in Exiled Tibet and fiction, Tibetan Suitcase, together. Click here to read.
Malashri Lal reviews Rachna Singh’s Raghu Rai: Waiting for the Divine. Click here to read.
Bhaskar Parichha reviews Sandeep Khanna’s Tempest on River Silent: A Story of Last 50 Years of India. Click here to read.
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