ISSUE 9 , June 2023

COVER ART : Credits: lecercle
Dedicated to the Ongoing Violent Unrest in Manipur

FICTION

White Nights By Samruddhi

The Adopted Son By Shinjini Kumar

Hello Yama By Aneeta Sundararaj

And After By Zachary Tichauer Bushnell

EDITORIALS

Ankush Banerjee Book Review Editor

Babitha Fiction Editor

Smita Sahay Editor-in-Chief

Vinita Agrawal Poetry Editor

IN FOCUS

In Focus by Vinita Agrawal

This Kind of Child By Srilata

Ye Dil Hai Ki Chordarwaja by Kinshuk Gupta

POETRY

Barren Womb and Other Poems By Akhila Mohan CG

DEVASTHAN (For Asifa Bano) and Other Poems By Aftab Yusuf Shaikh

Ghazal By Shahzeb Athar

Lemonade and Other Poems By Susmita Bhattacharya

Father and Other Poems By Kanupriya Rathore

EXCERPTS

My Body is Not a Vessel By Shamayita Sen

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

Pratirodh ka Stree Swar: Samkaleen Hindi Kavita By Savita Singh

Queersapien By Sharif D. Rangnekar

WRITERS RESPOND

Dubravka Ugresic – Writing from Anywhere But Home by Shankar Mony

How Charles Simic Brought me Closer to Poetry By Rahul Singh

Indian Wrestlers Fighting Their Hardest Fight Yet by Neha Paranjpe

Mahsa Amini by Mandakini Pachauri

Salman Rushdie — Of Blood, Fear and Blank Pages By Shankar Mony

TRANSLATIONS

“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

“Play”, a short story by Jainendra Kumar, translated by Sonakshi Srivastava

NON FICTION

Violence against Wildlife by Dr. Sarita Subramaniam

Urban Myths by Urmila Bendre

The sensory politics of fictional violence By Diya Sengupta

Songs of a Fallen Warrior by Sonali Bhagchandani

On Listening by Satyen Khashu

INTERVIEW

A Conversation between Daisy Rockwell and Jey Sushil

A Conversation between Onir and Smita Sahay

A Conversation between Akshaya Kumar and Kiriti Sengupta

A Conversation between Preety Choudhari and Neelakshi Singh

A Conversation between Kinshuk Gupta and Rohini Agarwal

BOOK REVIEWS

Violent Gateway of Thieving Hearts : Review By Mridula Garg

The Freedom of Those Million Evenings: Review By Kabir Deb

The Anatomy of a Revolution, And What Remains Thereafter: Review By Monica Singh

Portrait(s) of Alternative Masculinit(ies): Review By Ankush Banerjee

New Architectures of Resistance and Reclamation : Review By Krishnan Unni P

THE BOOKSHELF

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