Current Issue: Number 10, 2019: India
photo by Medha Singh
a special regional compilation edited by Medha Singh
Featuring: Shashi Tharoor on the air-brushing of history; Announcements and The Days by Adil Jussawalla; stories by Anjum Hasan and Annie Zaidi; and Sarojbala by Anita Agnihotri, translated from Bengali by Arunava Sinha
Poetry: Restoration Elegy by Rohan Chhetri; Rhapsody in the Present Moment by Arun Sagar; The Voidworm by Devanshu Mishra; two poems by Vivek Narayanan; Anti-Love Poem by Mona Zote; Cold Wave by Uttaran Das Gupta; Kanchenjunga by Sumana Roy; When we needed someone by Mamang Dai; One by Biswamit Dwibedy, from Film of Dust; erasure poetry by Priya Sarukkai Chabria; three poems by Anand Thakore; and work by Arjun Rajendran, Nandini Dhar, Mantra Mukim, Suhit Kelkar and Bhanu Kapil
Literary Despatches: Souradeep Roy on the political theatre group Janam; Samik Dasgupta recalls the anger of a Brahminical playwright; and Chinmaya Lal Thakur on nostalgia for India from Melbourne
Fiction: Runaway by Keki Daruwalla; Who Will Do for Me Now? by Zainab Priya Dala; Vanya by Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee; and Beautiful Losers by Avantika Mehta
Plus: Lambkin, a chapbook insert by Matthew Carey Salyer; poetry by Savita Singh, translated from Hindi by Medha Singh; a nd by way of visual complement: street photography from India, and street art of Florence.
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