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Editorial

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Translations

Nazrul’s Karar Oi Louho Kopat (Those Iron Shackles of Prison) has been translated from Bengali by Professor Fakrul Alam. Click here to read.

Five poems by Ashwini Mishra have been translated from Odia by Snehprava Das. Click here to read.

The Dragonfly, a poem by Ihlwha Choi, has been translated from Korean by the poet himself. Click here to read.

Tagore’s Aaj Shororter Aloy (Today, in the Autumnal Light) has been translated from Bengali by Mitali Chakravarty. Click here to read.

Poetry

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Ryan Quinn Flanagan, Onkar Sharma, Ron Pickett, Arshi, Joseph K Wells, Shamim Akhtar, Stephen House, Mian Ali, John Grey, Juliet F Lalzarzoliani, Joseph C.Obgonna, Jim Bellamy, Soumyadwip Chakraborty, Richard Stimac, Sanzida Alam, Jim Murdoch, Rhys Hughes

Poets, Poetry & Rhys Hughes

In Soaring with Icarus, Rhys Hughes shares a serious poems. Click here to read.

Musings/ Slices from Life

Parenting Tips from a Quintessential Nerd

Farouk Gulsara relooks at our golden years and stretches it to parenting tips. Click here to read.

Instrumental in Solving the Crime

Meredith Stephens takes us to a crime scene with a light touch. Click here to read.

What’s in a Name?

Jun A Alindogan writes about the complex evolution of names in Phillippines. Click here to read.

Bibapur Mansion: A Vintage Charmer

Prithvijeet Sinha takes us for a tour of Lucknow’s famed vintage buildings. Click here to read.

Musings of a Copywriter

In Demolition Drives… for Awards?, Devraj Singh Kalsi muses on literary awards. Click here to read.

Notes from Japan

In Contending with a Complicated History, Suzanne Kamata writes of her trip to US from Japan. Click here to read.

Essays

The Bauls of Bengal

Aruna Chakravarti writes of wandering minstrels called bauls and the impact they had on Tagore. Click here to read.

The Literary Club of 18th Century London

Professor Fakrul Alam writes on literary club traditions of Dhaka, Kolkata and an old one from London. Click here to read.

Stories

Looking for Evans

Rashida Murphy writes a light-hearted story about a faux pas. Click here to read.

Exorcising Mother

Fiona Sinclair narrates a story bordering on spooky. Click here to read.

The Storm

Anandita Dey wanders down strange alleys of the mind. Click here to read.

The Fog of Forgotten Gardens

Erin Jamieson writes from a caregivers perspective. Click here to read

The Anger of a Good Man

Naramsetti Umamaheswararao makes up a new fable. Click here to read.

Feature

A review of Jaladhar Sen’s The Travels of a Sadhu in the Himalayas, translated from Bengali by Somdatta Mandal, and an online interview with the translator. Click here to read.

Book Excerpts

An excerpt from Jaladhar Sen’s The Travels of a Sadhu in the Himalayas, translated from Bengali by Somdatta Mandal. Click here to read.

An excerpt from Prithvijeet Sinha’s debut collection of poems, A Verdant Heart. Click here to read.

Book Reviews

Somdatta Mandal reviews Aruna Chakravarti’s selected and translated, Rising From the Dust: Dalit Stories from Bengal. Click here to read.

Rakhi Dalal reviews Mohua Chinappa’s Thorns in My Quilt: Letters from a Daughter to her Father. Click here to read.

Pradip Mondal reviews Kiriti Sengupta’s Selected Poems. Click here to read.

Bhaskar Parichha reviews Kalyani Ramnath’s Boats in a Storm: Law, Migration, and Decolonization in South and Southeast Asia, 1942–1962. Click here to read.

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Poets, Poetry & Rhys Hughes

Soaring with Icarus

**The Fall of Icarus** by Peter Paul Rubens **(1577–1640)**. From Public Domain

ICARUS

Your wings soared
to foolish heights
once only;
the wax slipped away
from an angry sun,
sealing your fate
on the waters below
with your own
mortal stamp.

Few feathers
remained to fall
in your wake;
most, caught by currents
of air, circle the globe
and fall over
our cities even now.
I found one
in my gutter.


COUNTY HALL VISTA

The fountains are silent
the fishermen hunch
in the rain
After lunch, the workers
greet the day again
mayonnaise on their lips
stretching weary limbs
while the aged heron
skims low with
ponderous dignity
across the bay
beak soured in oil.

Senile Pagoda
lonely as the fishermen
who line the wharf
stuffed full with
intentions pending
never ending bureaucratic
mockeries of a system
At lunchtime the
workers feed;
I watch them through the
canteen window.

Rhys Hughes has lived in many countries. He graduated as an engineer but currently works as a tutor of mathematics. Since his first book was published in 1995 he has had fifty other books published and his work has been translated into ten languages.

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Tags Icarus, Peter Paul Rubens, Rhys Hughes

Poetry

Strolling among the Stars…

By Fhen M

𝑽𝑰𝑹𝑮𝑶 

I see you in the eastern sky
a fair maiden strolling among the stars
your feet, light as a feather,
like the feet of my daughter.

a rope mark around your neck
I heard the wine god
(I refrain from drinking liquor)
inflicts insanity on unmarried women

𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦'𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘶𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘣* 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘺𝘰𝘶,
𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦'𝘴 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘮𝘦

the willow branch broken
she dropped beside a brook

If I die, I want my daughter
to live a long and happy life

so I say a prayer to Erigone*
sometimes to the drunkard deity
before wine is poured to a glass

a fair maiden strolling among the stars
(death will kindly stop for me)
let me sing a song on your short life
in the eternity of the heaven.



*Rue is a herb that gives relief from anxiety 
*Erigone in Greek mythology was the author of Icarus. She was placed in the constellation of Virgo after she hung herself post her father’s death by his friend, Dionysus, the god of wine.

Virgo. Digital art from the Public Domain

Fhen M was a fellow in a creative writing workshop. His poems “A Name Whispered in the Wind,” “Yakal House beside the Sabang River”, among others appeared in 𝘗𝘰𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢 anthology.

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Tags Dionysus, Erigone, Fhen M, Icarus, Sabang River, Virgo