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The Fan Page Project

Fandoms are sustained by fan pages. From solo to shippers, updates to edits. The ecosystem of any fan community is shaped by the efforts of fan page owners. In The Fan Page Project, we dive into fandom collectives, one fan page at a time. Interviews by Anushka Bidani. X. In…Continue reading “The Fan Page Project”

[ISSUE II] Foreword by Paridhi Puri

In her Introduction to Attia Hosain’s Sunlight on a Broken Column, Anita Desai wrote, “In India, the past never disappears.…

Critical Analysis

In Paris, to not be: An essay on how the cultural gaze shapes women’s cinematic journeys by Muskaan Chaudhary

21 Aug 202521 Aug 2025

There are few industries as familiar with stories of love as Bollywood. It would not be going too far to bet that for every bright covered chick lit novel, there…

Suddenly, I’m not Half the Man I Used to Be by Tracy Neis

14 Aug 202514 Aug 2025

Illustration by Tracy Neis One morning, as Paul McCartney was waking up from an anxious dream, he discovered that he had been changed overnight into a human-sized beetle. He lay…

Poetry

damn it jim, i’m a doctor not a poet by Kriti Dhanania

4 Aug 20254 Aug 2025

(a poem entirely made up of star trek quotes and titles) to boldly go where no man has gone beforefor the world is hollow and i have touched the skythe…

Critical Analysis

The Evil Dentist Trope by Agrima Thakur & Meghna Mukhopadhyay

8 Jun 20253 Dec 2025

The experience of excruciating dental pain has stood the test of time. Shakespeare once wrote, “For there was never yet a philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently." Artists have…

Undertaker of Love by Anit Singh

16 May 202516 May 2025

Cover source: Behance // Ann Mathew He goes from house to house in his belle ambulance that had all the markings of a normal one, except that, mentioned minutely with…

Poetry

Sokka Writes An Elegy to Yue by Para Vadhahong

23 Apr 202523 Apr 2025

after Natalie Wee's "Asami Writes to Korra for Three Years" Para Vadhahong is a Thai US writer and zinester whose words are published in The Hyacinth Review, Lover's Eye Press,…

In conversation with bucket_hat_cult by Anushka Bidani

12 Apr 202525 Sep 2025

Bucket Hat Cult Bucket Hat Cult was started by a few women’s sports enthusiasts. Members of BHC come from all walks of life, connected with one motto - growth of…

Lines Crossed Out a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey by Arya Vishin

CHARACTERS: William — William Wordsworth. Sam — Samuel Coleridge. Lights up. William is reading something scribbled on a piece of paper. WILLIAM: “To William Wordsworth: Lines composed, for the greater…

Critical Analysis…

Let’s talk about Sita and Gita by Spandana

23 Mar 20253 Dec 2025

Many years ago, two women on-screen showed me how to dream without hesitation and love without desperation No, not the 1972 Hema Malini film. This column is about Sita from…

A Séance in the Dark by Tracy Neis

Illustration by Tracy Neis Ringo lifted his right hand to rap on the door, then hesitated. He held it in front of his face for a few seconds and examined…