Contents: Issue 20/ December 2025Editorial
Short fictionA Grotesque Despair by Syed Abdul Malik (tr. Syeda Shaheen Jeenat Suhailey)
Don’t Wink at the Star by Sudha Subramanian
Gokul’s Wife by Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay (tr. Goutam Chakraborty)
Another Day, Another Daybreak by Madhusre Das
Tavaa by Vanya Lochan
Five Days by Saadat Hasan Manto (tr. Ali Yusufzai)
The Video Clip by Maleka Parveen
Poetry
Gooseberries by Asbah Sahar Imteyaz
Two Poems by Karthik Krishnaswamy
Two Poems by Jyotish Chalil Gopinathan
Three Poems by Pravy Jha
Four Poems by Ranajit Das (tr. Ketaki Datta)
Three Poems by Kishwar Naheed (tr. Anam Kazmi)
Two Poems by Eshwari R
Two Poems by Deepthi Krishnamurthy
Three Poems by Miller A M
Two Poems by Anindita Basak
Three Poems by Chetan
Given by Gary Duehr
Schrödinger’s Cat by Jina Dcruz
Essay
Deradicalizing Qawwali by Akhil Faizal
A Dirge for the Humanities by Aditya Shiledar
Cover photo: Jagjit Singh
Artwork: Isabel Quintanilla