Usawa’s June issue is dedicated to our planet and all the different intersections that allows. I wanted this issue’s Poetry Section to reflect on conceptual, philosophical, social and political foundations of a new era of citizen science. The section does indeed reflect work that reconsiders...

In Cho Dharman’s story “Woebegone Forest” translated from the Tamil by Padma Narayanan, a pair of parrots face a slow but dramatic loss of habitat. “We were born on a big ilava tree with many hollows; near the nilavahai tree… its canopy of branches kept...

Dear Readers, The June issue of the Usawa Literary Review is dedicated to Collarwali, the legendary tigress of Pench lovingly called Mataram or the ‘super mum’. She was one of India’s most famous tigers after starring in the BBC documentary, Spy in the Jungle. She...