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SUNARMA — MAHBUB MAYUKH RISHAD

  TRANSLATED FROM BENGALI BY RAJIB MAHMUD             1 The wayward wind has returned like a 'no-show' office employee, absent too long without an official leave or unofficial word. Storms these days have become…...

GOD IS A TRADER — VINUTA HANCHINAMANI

TRANSLATED FROM KANNADA BY THE AUTHOR   It was a scorching afternoon in May. The sun hung heavily in the sky as if it had wrapped the atmosphere in fire. The trees stood motionless, resembling meditating…...

BOOK REVIEW OF THE HUNGER THAT MOVED A GODDESS AND OTHER STORIES BY ENDAPALLI BHARATHI — NISHI PULUGURTHA

BY NISHI PULUGURTHA The Hunger That Moved A Goddess and Other Stories by Endapalli Bharathi Translated by V.B. Sowmya SouthSide Books, Hyderabad, 2025              It is interesting to see an increasing interest in translation in…...

POEMS — SUFI SHOWKAT

TRANSLATED FROM KASHMIRI BY MOHAMMAD ZAHID   Contemplations about Life (One)    You have to save the scorching summer in your eyes You’ll have to burn to ashes the shadowy evenings keep blazing words available to…...

POETIC FRAGMENTS — STÈVE-WILIFRID MOUNGUENGUI

In Poetic Fragments, the speaker longs for her beloved, whom she met only once, at the beginning of time, and now tries to trace him through her poetry...

A Letter Arrived — Surya Dhananjay

Parthu fled home at a very tender age after getting scolded by his father. He was determined to become a movie star like Chiranjeevi someday. Eighteen long years have passed, and there has been no word from Parthu about his whereabout, then suddenly one day a letter arrived that shook the entire family...

Interview with Anita Agnihotri — Owshnik Ghosh

INTERVIEWED BY OWSHNIK GHOSH     Anita Agnihotri  is a Bengali writer. She has been writing poetry, short stories, novels and essays over four decades. Her works have been translated into several major Indian and foreign…...

Today I Saw Some People from the Visitor’s Gallery — Vandana Yadav

TRANSLATED FROM HINDI BY SHIVANI YADAV     Today I saw some people from the visitor’s gallery.Those people who disappear after elections,Whom people wait for,Four and a half years to see again.Yes, today from the visitor’s…...

Book Review of Arvind Vegda’s Forgotten Sorrows, Translated by Intaj Malek — Falaknaz Malek

BOOK REVIEW BY FALAKNAZ MALEK     In the shadowed spaces of human experience, where the burden of societal inequities weighs most heavily, Arvind Vegda’s Forgotten Sorrows stands as a luminous testament to the…...