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Literature, Culture & Arts | Estd. 2022

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  • All Issues
    • 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
      • 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
    • Conversations
    • Excerpts
    • Film/TV
    • Magazines/Journals
    • Music
    • Remembrance
  • The Writer’s Gauntlet
  • Submissions
  • Who We Are
    • Founding Editors
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    • Recognitions
    • Nominations
    • Privacy Policy

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

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  • ASAP Corner - Film/TV

    “The Curse of the Sequel Gets the Devil This Time” by Rajvi

    16 June 2026

    Do you believe in curses? Sequels are cursed. And this curse is the hardest on legacyquels—those revived for audiences old and new.

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    Vijayalakshmi Sridhar in conversation with Shobha Viswanath

    15 June 2026

    “Against Indifference: On the Death of Marjane Satrapi” by Harshita Bathwal

    12 June 2026

    “It’s-ah-Me, the Decay of Attention Spans!: Thoughts on The Super Mario Galaxy Movie” by Rich Kern

    11 June 2026
  • ASAP Corner - Conversations

    Vijayalakshmi Sridhar in conversation with Shobha Viswanath

    15 June 2026

    If I had to reduce Karadi Tales' differentiator to one idea, it would be this: authentic Indian storytelling with global craft, and very particularly, our audio storytelling.

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    Related Posts

    “The Curse of the Sequel Gets the Devil This Time” by Rajvi

    16 June 2026

    “Against Indifference: On the Death of Marjane Satrapi” by Harshita Bathwal

    12 June 2026

    “It’s-ah-Me, the Decay of Attention Spans!: Thoughts on The Super Mario Galaxy Movie” by Rich Kern

    11 June 2026
  • Culture - Society - Weekly Features

    “Is productivity a socially acceptable anaesthetic?” by Shristi Das

    14 June 2026

    Now Steve, he is—in the most clinical sense—a “highly productive person” with an absent bandwidth for unnecessary upheaval in his life.

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    “it’s only a wheelbarrow” by Doğa Kaplan

    14 June 2026

    “The Paan Daan Trail” by Saeed Ibrahim

    31 May 2026

    “Chronicle of the Scarred Mountains” by Gunjan Joshi

    31 May 2026
  • Culture - Literature - Society - Weekly Features

    “it’s only a wheelbarrow” by Doğa Kaplan

    14 June 2026

    So much depends upon this red wheelbarrow. But Williams never tells us what depends on it or why. He trusts us to understand.

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    “Is productivity a socially acceptable anaesthetic?” by Shristi Das

    14 June 2026

    “The Paan Daan Trail” by Saeed Ibrahim

    31 May 2026

    “Chronicle of the Scarred Mountains” by Gunjan Joshi

    31 May 2026
  • The Writer's Gauntlet with Sadie Kaye

    Helen Lederer is funny, quite fat and enjoys physical pursuits — she pursues these a lot…

    12 June 2026

    Sadie Kaye's new column, The Writer's Gauntlet, gets off to a celebrity start, thanks to the wit and support of Helen Lederer, fairy godmother to witty women everywhere and founder of the Comedy Women in Print Prize.

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