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The context in which the original peoples of west-south Africa came to be is very similar to the current geo-political situation of Gaza, where today the Isarelian government is carrying out an operation of generalized extermination of the Palestinian population by leading to the total destruction of a civilization. This teaches us that history has a cyclical trend and that the tendencies of totalitarianism accompanied by a repressive policy devoted to the law of the strongest tend to return sometimes in even more violent forms.

Semeen Ali reviews The Yellow Metaphor

How does one think about power? Is it brute force, a state’s will to unleash destruction or is it more ordinary, running through and around us daily, without us even realising its presence, invisible … We are now reading for Issue XI

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With Bhaswati Ghosh

Parcham is proud to host a workshop on Crafting and Compiling a Fiction Manuscript titled From Foundation to Finish: Creating Compelling Fiction Manuscripts curated by Poet, Author and Translator Bhaswati Ghosh. The Two Day workshop will take place over Gmeet/ Zoom on the 17th of April ( Friday 7:30 P.M-8:30 P.M) and on 19th April ( 11:30 A.M-12:30 P.M). Session 1: From Foundation to Finish:…

March 2026: Featuring James A. Greensmith

In “attempting to find in motion what was lost in space” : James A Greensmith in conversation with Ipsita Deb “I didn’t go to the moon, I went much further - for time is the longest distance between two places… The cities swept about me like dead leaves, leaves that were brightly colored but torn away from the branches.” — Tennessee Williams, The Glass MenageriePerhaps Tom in Glass Menagerie…

Non-Fiction: March 2026

Editorial: Aditee SharmaThe Ecology of Her Becoming: Forest, River, and Daughter–Kawya Pandey Editorial: Aditee Sharma “We are either going to have a future where women lead the way to make peace with Earth or we are not going to have a human future at all.” Vandana Shiva This claim made by Shiva calls for the urgency of the ecological crisis and the need to find solutions where women must…

Poetry: March 2026

Issue Editor’s Note : Aditee SharmaWhat My Mother Taught Me About Soil– Abraham Aondoana Issue Editor’s Note : Aditee Sharma “We are either going to have a future where women lead the way to make peace with Earth or we are not going to have a human future at all.” Vandana Shiva This claim made by Shiva calls for the urgency of the ecological crisis and the need to find solutions where women…

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Book Review: Medusa Says It All

Reviewed by : Jhilam Adhikary While reading T.S. Eliot talking of John Donne in his now famous essay The Metaphysical Poets, I came across the part where he praises Donne’s works, which frankly, opens the door for a renewed interest in Metaphysical Poetry early in the 20th century. To put it simply, quoting the line, “A bracelet of bright hair about the bone”, as an example, Eliot explains that…

Short Fiction: Bindi

Bindi by Purav Pradhan Glass beads tied into a thread makes up a necklace on Bindi’s chest. There are glittering lights and the ghastly bokeh on the mosaic of the changing room. Hollow muffled voices space the room like smoke infiltrating the humid atmosphere. The smell of cheaply scented make-up and sweet lip balm cakes on Bindi’s face like a corpse before cremation. “Bindi, the client has…

A Death in the Forest: A Review

Ruta Dharmadhikari reviews Paromita Goswami’s collection of Short Stories. Paromita Goswami’s short stories are resplendent, each shining in their own light of local language and deep cultural sensibilities of the native and indigenous population of the forests of Chandrapur, Maharashtra. Goswami’s work as grassroots activist on issues pertaining to the violence inflicted upon women, land, and…

Semeen Ali Reviews The Opposite Bank and Other Poems

Poet: Ramchandra Pramanik Translator: Sreejata Paul Publisher: Antonym Collections Poetry often emerges from two impulses. One is deeply personal, where the poet dives into their own experiences, bringing forth pearls of wisdom from an intimate well, placing the self at the heart of the poem. The other is observational, where the poet turns their gaze outward, chronicling the lives and…

Short Fiction by Shivangi Thakur on Parcham Online...

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Review of Language Has No Homeland

Language Has No Homeland Poet: Aditi Dasgupta Reviewed by: Malini Bhattacharya Aditi Dasgupta’s Language Has No Homeland is a slim book, albeit an inventive and cadenced one. This is a collection of poems that builds bridges across languages and the unique emotional semantics that each represents. We meet Bengali, Tamil, Urdu, Hindi, Marathi, Assamese, Bodo, Kashmiri and more, and Dasgupta…

Book Review: Undecember

Review of Amit Shankar Saha’s Undecember: The Thirteenth Month Reviewed by Subashish Bhattacharjee In Undecember: The Thirteenth Month, Amit Shankar Saha extends the calendrical imagination that shaped his earlier volume, Etesian::Barahmasi, into a liminal poetic space: an intercalary month, a surplus of time composed of “stolen days.” Conceived as the lunar adjustment that reconciles…

Short Story by Riya Dubey

THE ALBRECHT FAMILY DISAPPEARANCE- CARLSON DETECTIVE Rain had been falling since morning, and the power was out again. In Levington, that was nothing new—winter storms came and went, and people had learned to live with the dark. Now and then, a crossbill called from somewhere unseen, but mostly the town lay quiet. Time felt slow here, as if each day simply repeated the one before. The steady…

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The Forsaken: Translated by Pratyasha Sen

The Forsaken First published as “Upekhhita” in Parashuram Granthabali, Vol. 3. Fifth reprint, 2006. 3 Rhododendron Road, Ballygunge. Outside, it had been pouring incessantly. Inside her drawing room, Garima Ganguly sat near the piano. Facing her was Chotok Roy, seated on an easy chair. The drawing room had scant furniture. Garima’s father had recently received a transfer order to Dhaka, so most…

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"...To Write As Sharp As A Knife.."

Candice Louisa Daquin in conversation with artist, poet and activist, Dr. Jharna Choudhury “The mouth of a needle” is the embroidery activist Dr. Jharna Choudhury’s first collection of short poems in English. Choudhury has been writing since 2011; and she split her poetry manuscript into two books. The first, “the mouth of a needle,” was published on the dark day of the legendary artist Zubeen…

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