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COVER ART : Credits: lecercle
Dedicated to the Ongoing Violent Unrest in Manipur
EDITORIALS
Smita Sahay Editor-in-Chief
Babitha Fiction Editor
Vinita Agrawal Poetry Editor
Ankush Banerjee Book Review Editor
IN FOCUS
In Focus by Vinita Agrawal
In Focus by K Srilata
In Focus by Kinshuk Gupta
THE BOOKSHELF
Books That Our Editors Liked
EXCERPTS
Pratirodh ka Stree Swar: Samkaleen Hindi Kavita By Savita Singh
My Body is Not a Vessel By Shamayita Sen
The Sea Elephants By Shastri Akella
My Devi, My Shakti By Dr. Alka Pande from Mystics and Sceptics : In Search of Himalayan Masters edited By Namita Gokhale
NaCoHuS By Purushottam Agrawal
Queersapien By Sharif D. Rangnekar
The Inheritors By Nadeem Zaman
The Broken Rainbow By Ruth Vanita
Salt and Pepper By Sukrita Paul Kumar
Water in a Broken Pot By Yogesh Maitreya
INTERVIEW
A Conversation between Daisy Rockwell and Jey Sushil
A Conversation between Onir and Smita Sahay
A Conversation between Preety Choudhari and Neelakshi Singh
A Conversation between Kinshuk Gupta and Rohini Agarwal
A Conversation between Akshaya Kumar and Kiriti Sengupta
A Conversation between Aneeta Sundararaj and Professor Dato’ Dr. Andrew Mohanraj
POETRY
Barren Womb and Other Poems By Akhila Mohan CG
DEVASTHAN (For Asifa Bano) and Other Poems By Aftab Yusuf Shaikh
Meeting Madri By Archana Pai Kulkarni
The Fridge and Other Poems By Arjun Rajendran
Massacre on the island and Other Poems By Ashwani Kumar
Sentence and Other Poems By CP Surendran
It is him; it is not him By Jahnavi Gogoi
Father and Other Poems By Kanupriya Rathore
Ladies and Gentlemen Lunch is Served by Kavita Ezekiel Mendonca
Problem and Other Poems By Kinjal Sethia
syzygy and Other Poems By Kashiana Singh
Crossing the Threshold and Other Poems By Lina Krishnan
The Pile and Other Poems By Namratha Vardharajan
The Dome of Life and Other Poems By Qaisar Bashir
Bad Places and Other Poems By Robin Ngangom
Ghazal By Shahzeb Athar
Dolls for Muslim Girls By Sahana Ahmed
Women of the Land where pain blooms like poppy and Other Poems By Sarita Jenamani
Sweet Jasmine and Other Poems By Shikha Lamba
Growing a Callus by Sonia Dogra
Night of the Mosquito and Other Poems By Sophia Naz
Mosaic By R. Suresh babu
Lemonade and Other Poems By Susmita Bhattacharya
Stardust Underskin By Sumit Shetty
The breakdown of a staph infection disguised as a poorly delivered lesson from the universe' By Tanvi Kiran Kulkarni
FICTION
And After By Zachary Tichauer Bushnell
A Thirteen Digit Number By Shalim M Hussain
An Everyday Affair By Gargi Binju
White Nights By Samruddhi
Hello Yama By Aneeta Sundararaj
The Adopted Son By Shinjini Kumar
NON FICTION
The sensory politics of fictional violence by Diya Sengupta
On Listening by Satyen Khashu
Violence against Wildlife by Dr. Sarita Subramaniam
Urban Myths by Urmila Bendre
Bruised Eclipse by Anesce Dremen
CNG by Sreelekha Chatterjee
Songs of a Fallen Warrior by Sonali Bhagchandani
WRITERS RESPOND
Salman Rushdie —Of Blood, Fear and Blank Pages By Shankar Mony
Dubravka Ugresic – Writing from Anywhere But Home by Shankar Mony
Indian Wrestlers Fighting Their Hardest Fight Yet by Neha Paranjpe
How Charles Simic Brought me Closer to Poetry by Rahul Singh
Mahsa Amini by Mandakini Pachauri
TRANSLATIONS
“Play”, a short story by Jainendra Kumar, translated
by Sonakshi Srivastava
“Battlefield”, a short story by Vishram Bedekar, translated from the Marathi
by Jerry Pinto
“Fifty Five Pillars, Red Walls”, a short story by Usha Priyamvada, translated from the Hindi by Daisy Rockwell
BOOK REVIEWS
Violent Gateway of Thieving Hearts : Review By Mridula Garg
Between Revolution and Rebellion: The
Unimagined Communities of Arunachal
Pradesh: Review By Abhimanyu Acharya
New Architectures of Resistance and Reclamation : Review By Krishnan Unni P
'Space' and Its Significance in Life and Poetry : Review By Urna Bose
The Freedom of Those Million Evenings: Review By Kabir Deb
Portrait(s) of Alternative Masculinit(ies): Review By Ankush Banerjee
The Anatomy of a Revolution, And What Remains Thereafter: Review By Monica Singh
A Narrative of Hope Amidst Mayhem & Destruction: Review By Aditi Yadav