Contents: Issue 14/ June 2024


Editorial

Short fiction

Hangman by Pandey Bechan Sharma ‘Ugra’ (tr. Ankita Gupta)
There the Gods Delight by Agyeya (tr. Vishal Ranjan)
Bicycle Diaries by Vempalle Shareef (tr. Jyothsnaphanija)

Poetry

Three Poems by Uday Prakash (tr. Sejal Arora)
Not Welcome Anymore by Praniti Pathak
A Spot of Blood by Nashrah Tanvir
After by Atreyee Majumder
Two Poems by Zufishan Rehman
Parlour Aunty Told Me I Look Like a Man So I Stormed Out in Anger (also Crying) and Here’s What I Saw on My Way Home by Saranya Subramanian
Two Poems by Kedarnath Singh (tr. Addhaya Anil)
About it: a Ghazal by Ibra Zahoor
Three Poems by Manoranjan Sahoo (tr. Pitambar Naik)
Four Poems by Sant Raidas (tr. Surabhi Katyal)
Two Poems by Sanitha Sathyan
War, noun: by Lavanya Arora
Three Poems by Naveen Kishore

Essay

On the Degrees of Loss, or, Reading the Kural in Translation by Samyuktha R.
Afternoon by Uday Prakash (tr. Varsha Tiwary)
‘Kaifiyat:’ Hindustani Classical Music, Journeys through History by Suryashekhar Biswas
The Casteist Politics of Indian Graphic Design by Bao