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…...
Poems — Laura Recanati
TRANSLATED FROM ITALIAN BY PATRICK WILLIAMSON There is nothing in this room.There is only you. Mouthing off,drinking milk. Playingwith a small coin. The air drips white from the ceilingand when it falls it tinkleslike…...
Of Words and Wind — Silvia Seminara
NOTES ON TEHRAN FROM A PUBLISHING FELLOW In Iran, wind is precious. Even in ancient Persia, tall, austere towers were built specifically for capturing it. They rose like chimneys above other buildings,…...
Jala’s Broken Teeth — Akhtar Mohiuddin
TRANSLATED FROM KASHMIRI BY NAGEEN RATHER The donkey driver Rasul’s eldest daughter had completed her B.A. and then also earned a law degree. Now a small-sized nameplate hung on the gate of their dilapidated…...
Poems — Dhee Sankar
TRANSLATED FROM BENGALI BY CAMELLIA PAUL Moon’s Eclipse, Earth’s Elapse You were eclipsed beneath my shade.Too late to the terrace, I found you gone.Even now, you’re hardly around—Only your mellowy aromaLingers in the…...
Book Review of Han Kang’s Human Acts — Sanchayita Biswas
BOOK REVIEW BY SANCHAYITA BISWAS “The state represents violence in a concentrated and organized form. The individual has a soul, but as the state is a soulless machine, it can never be…...
The Bride Chooses — Omkar Gupta
TRANSLATED FROM BENGALI BY MANJIRA MAJUMDAR I can never turn down Haru Da’s summons. And if there is a note of urgency as I detected in this one, I try to visit him…...