Issue Number 3

Fiction "Just as the first constellation, Aries, arced to the center of the night sky, Brendan slid his hand down Niv's arm and interlaced his fingers with hers. They fit perfectly. Then came Taurus." —Passing at Hyde by Anasuya Krishnaswamy "In the morning I wake up remembering. I need another name, a mental eraser, but that's not how the game works." —Digging In by Mehnaz Turner "Pramod Paanwalla lived a life of reds. His cheeks were red, his wife Urmila's cheeks were red, the Christmas lights outside his restaurant, Bombay Palace, were red..." —Pramod Paanwalla's Predicament by Sunil Hariani "Everyone in line turned their heads at once. A man wearing a turban was shouting obscenities while hopping on one foot." —The Green Turban by Aman Batheja
Poetry —Elephants by Arun Sagar —Upon Finding Ganesh in the Medicine Cabinet... by Tua Chaudhuri —Always with Insects Overhanging by Soham Patel —Sad Tree by Indran Amirthanayagam —Crowning by Geetha Ravindran	Art —by Mahesh Patidar —by Anahita Vossoughi —by Sarita Chouhan
Reviews *In The Early Works of Buddhadeb Dasgupta, Amitava Nag discusses the great visual artisan and his works.* —The Early Works of Buddhadeb Dasgupta by Amitava Nag "Literature and film are two very different mediums and when a literary work is adapted successfully on celluloid..." —The Namesake: The Book and the Film by Amit Shankar Saha
Humor A cartoon by Mahendra Shah. —ABCD by Mahendra Shah "I think I have a crush on my new psychiatrist..." —Chemical Serenity a poem by Alka Bhargava
Articles "This is a story about my pregnancy and what it means to be a pregnant woman. Four years ago, I made an active decision to become pregnant;" —Contesting Maternal Ideology: The Yonic Myths of Motherhood by Dr. Roksana Badruddoja *"As a tourist traveling on the road, it's very common to stop for chai just anywhere, wandering into someone's garh* before craning your neck up at yet another painted ceiling of a dome." —By the Roadside** by Mita Kapur

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