"The Beast Within" and "Black River" pose a shared question through the recurring symbolism of waste: whom does society deem fungible?

This short and fast-paced novel proceeds from nine-year-old Tunu's point of view whose experiences in his maternal home, Mama Bari, turns uncanny, brushing with the horror.

This short story collection explores the slice-of-life vignettes of middle class and working class life across the Hindi heartland, with special focus on the women and their interiority.

The issue contains rich translations from Bengali, Hindi, Kannada, Tamil, Urdu, Turkish, Italian, French, Assamese, Gujarati, Malayalam and German.

This chapter addresses by way of multiple interviews and data collected through cookbooks the various inventive ways in which urban kitchens in Kolkata circumvented the Bengal famine of 1943; how they have sustained such culinary practices through post-memory and inter-generational transfer.

This Chapter engages with the idea of the nation especially looking at fiction and non-fiction narratives from Kashmir, through the lens of Memory--individual vs. community memory.

India's first ever international anthology of flash fiction, co-edited with Marzia Rahman. Published by The Antonym Collections, September 2024 https://amzn.in/d/05YZq3qi

It is different for me as an urban gardener here in Kolkata, with an ever-increasing temperature, ever-shortening winter, late and over-abundant rains, the impact of climate change is clearer from an observation of my small rooftop garden.

I have always admired the Kanchengzonga for being capricious. It is the clouds darling, and one is really fortunate if one gets to view its entire panoramic majesty because it is mostly hidden in clouds. It was the same this time around as well.

Told conversationally from the point of view of a child, this coming-of-age narrative set in the 1980s is a nostalgic homage to small-town life before the liberalization of the Indian economy and spans a period of roughly six or seven years in a place on the cusp of socio-economic upheaval.

Mohammed Shafiqul Islam's slim volume of poetry On the Other Side of Silence, tries to wade through the general environment of shock, betrayal, and overall moral degeneration to focus on the necessity of artistic endeavour, especially when silence is chosen or enforced.

Ramya Chamalie Jirasinghe’s Father Cabraal’s Recipe for Love Cake, set across two timelines, one in the early-colonial moment of the late-seventeenth century and the other in the contemporary twenty-first century, explores the violence embedded in colonial food pathways and the indelible residue they have left upon postcoloniality.

What unfolds is a philosophical meditation on reality itself, on the merging of the real and the virtual, shaped through the contours of an unlikely friendship.

This flash series explores with hilarious tropes the state of things in Bangladesh, indeed all over he world, especially of writers , artists and freedom of speech.

So many people have been away from their homes and villages in this distant land for their stomachs! Then, who stays in the places they have left behind?

Suryamukhi wasn’t listening either, her eyes gave it away—they reflected the sprightly fireworks of a wedding ceremony.

Digital intimacy made no sense to her, it made her lonelier, suffusing her body with strange yearnings that knew no home.

I rushed to your picture frame first, but it yielded nothing. No, not nothing. A certain distaste, that felt like tar in my mouth, heavy, unrelenting, dark, putrid, unpleasant.

You come rather suddenly sometimes Wake me up from the white noise We set about yet again To dust the fairy cobwebs Of reminiscence Or to shake off the bit Of rust That gathers every time We don’t talk.

Sometimes it seems that the world We call our own, Is nothing but a parody Of a beauty salon.