ISSUE 6 , Dec 2021

COVER ART : What do we want? Freedom – Kamla Bhasin (24th April 1946 – 25th September 2021)
Image: Wiki Creative Commons License

FICTION

Without Graves by Joginder Paul

Untold lives by Vaikhari Aryat

To Break the Unbreakable by Tejaswinee Roychowdhury

The Last Weekend by Mohit Parikh

EDITORIALS

Smita Sahay Editor-in-Chief

Suneetha Balakrishnan Translations Editor

Vinita Agrawal Poetry Editor

INTERVIEW

About Tanka Thumri and KHA In Conversation with Kala Ramesh

Looking Death in the Eye Through a Film Lens In Conversation With Barnali Ray Shukla

POETRY

Three Poems By Ko Ko Thett

Spring and rabid dogs by Moe Nwe

A question for God by Khet Thi

September by Maw Min Thann

A Stillbirth by Nithya Mariam John

NON FICTION

Down to the Image: Fiction as Feminist Critique in the Arena of Reproductive Autonomy by Manasee Palshikar (nadi)

Film script: “GESTATION TRUCE” By Manasee Palshikar(nadi)

Kamla Bhasin…knowing her from the fringes by Urmila

Periphery of Truth: Beyond the Bamboo Curtain by Dean Kerrison

BOOK REVIEWS

Arundhati Subramaniam’s Women Who Wear Themselves review by Dr Rahana K Ismail

Dibyajyoti Sarma’s translation of Five Novellas About Women review by Vineetha Mekkoth

Farah Bashir’s Rumours of Spring review by Kinjal Sethia

Jerry Pinto’s translation of Ranangan review by Suneetha Balkrishnan

Kunwair Narain’s Witnesses of Remembrance review by Kinshuk Gupta

TRANSLATIONS

Marriage : The Garden Of Roses

Three Translated Flash Fiction Pieces From Poland

Translation: “Devi”

BOOK SHELF

Our Editors share their picks for 2021

Usawa in Swahili means equality. The Usawa Literary Review is a bi-annual English language literary magazine dedicated to feminist literature and writings by and about underrepresented communities.

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