Contents: Issue 18/ June 2025

Editorial


Short fiction


Nasreen by Mohammad Sabbir
The Tale of a Trip by Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay (tr. Aniruddha Mukherjee & Mamta Nainy)
Politics Will Always Break Your Heart by Varsha Tiwary
She Called It Blood Disco by Shanaia Kapoor
Don’t Think of a Pink Elephant by Anusha Mysooru
Scarecrow by Salam Bin Razzaq (tr. Syed Kashif)
Serve and Volley by Sadhana Kamat (tr. Sahir Avik D’souza)
Cataract by Basanta Kumari Patnaik (tr. Rohan Kar)
420 by Yashpal (tr. Radhika Saraf)


Poetry


Crawling by Shankha Ghosh (tr. Abhik Ganguly)
Three Poems by Mamta Kalia (tr. Carol Blaizy D’Souza)
Two Poems by Esther Larisa
Upon Laying Down my Weapons by Vedika Mehendale
Outright Refusal by Gurbhajan Singh Gill (tr. Kumar Sushil)
Three Poems by Jasmin Naur Hafiz
Two Poems by Owais Farooq

Three Poems by Aakanksha Ahuja

Teeth by Anshu Yadav


Essay


Nobody’s Voodoo, Nobody’s Echo Either by Rohit Saha


Artwork: Amrita Sher-Gil