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Literature, Culture & Arts | Estd. 2022

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  • All Issues
    • Pratibhāsika (Speculative Fiction, July 2026)
    • The Many Lives of Atlas A (Special Issue, January 2026, Web Edition)
    • Fictile Feelings (Poetry Special, October 2025)
    • Issue 4 (April 2025)
    • Murals (December 2024)
    • Issue 3 (April 2024)
    • Wee Hooghly, Issue 1 (January 2024)
    • Issue 2 (October 2023)
    • Issue 1 (April 2023)
  • Weekly Features
    • Craft
    • Culture
      • Faith
      • Film/TV
      • Food
      • Literature
      • Music
      • Mythology
      • Satire
      • Science
      • Society
      • Sports
      • Theatre
      • Wildlife
    • Humour
    • Photo Essay
    • Translation
    • Travelogue
    • Book Review (Till Feb 2025)
    • Weekly Features Archive (October 6, 2024 and Before)
  • ASAP Corner
    • Books
    • Commentary
    • Conversations
    • Excerpts
    • Film/TV
    • Magazines/Journals
    • Music
    • Remembrance
  • The Writer’s Gauntlet
  • Submissions
  • Who We Are
    • Founding Editors
    • Guest Editors
    • Recognitions
    • Nominations
    • Privacy Policy

Pratibhāsika (Speculative Fiction, July 2026)

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Fictile Feelings (Poetry Special, October 2025)

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The Many Lives of Atlas A (Special Issue, January 2026, Web Edition)

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  • The Writer's Gauntlet with Sadie Kaye

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    I’m doing my best to communicate with people who’ve been dead for centuries.

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  • ASAP Corner - Books

    “Someone Else’s War: A Review of Patricia Grace King’s Those Who Vanish” by Joanna Theiss

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    For King’s characters, war is not just a flash on the nightly news, but ever-present and unavoidable, in real time or in recurring memory.

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  • Culture - Society - Weekly Features

    “The Day You Came” by McLord Selasi

    30 August 2026

    I told her my surname. She shook her head. She meant the one that came before the surname and before the English first name on my passport.

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  • Culture - Society - Weekly Features

    “When Nooria Became Noor Ahmad” by Marwa Karimi

    30 August 2026

    She realised that as Noor Ahmad she at least felt like a person. As Nooria, she returned to being a shadow. Returning was harder than changing.

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McLord Selasi reveals the logic behind the many names of Ewe children, and Marwa Karimi shares a story from a regime where being a woman is a liability.

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