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Issue III: Social Media AU

A Social Media AU (SMAU) is defined by its integration of social media platforms / practices into fan works. This inclusion spans format (message templates, email snaps, newsletter blasts) & content (imagine: your OTP just came out to the world—here is how fans on Twitter & news channels are reacting). …Continue reading “Issue III: Social Media AU”

21Feb 202512 Aug 2026
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[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.…

Personal Essay

Writing About Sholay by Purbasha Roy

18 Nov 20253 Dec 2025
In Jaipur’s Raj Mandir Cinema, a special screening of Ramesh Sippy’s blockbuster film Sholay was held in August on the completion of 50 years of its release. IIFA's 25th edition…
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In conversation with A🍉. (callaedit) by Anushka Bidani

26 Sep 202512 May 2026
A🍉. (callaedit) Instagram: @callaedit Anushka Bidani: I noticed that your earliest edits revolved around Indian Television (ITV) shows. What inspired you to start watching and editing them? A🍉. (callaedit): As I…
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TINY LETTERS: VOL. 1 by Anushka Bidani

19 Sep 20255 Aug 2026
Dear friend, Now I need to write this quickly before the rainlight of Melbourne throws any more tempting shadows onto my page. I have woken up to my sixty-eighth morning…
Critical Analysis…

Smiling with a burnt heart by Spandana

14 Sep 20253 Dec 2025
In Dino and Qayde Se from Anurag Basu’s Metro films are the soundtracks of my one-sided love story Metro… In Dino is on Netflix. As is its spiritual prequel, Life…
Critical Analysis…

Hoping Against Hope In The Universe of “The Teacher Who Promised The Sea” by Zainab S Qazi

12 Sep 202512 Sep 2025
Forgetting is a burdensome task; the act is taxing, demanding more than you can possibly offer. More so, if it is linked with the sense of sight, where each detail…
Fanfiction

I was an extra on “Jason and the Argonauts” by Simon Collinson

29 Aug 202529 Aug 2025
Being in films is not all glamour.I should know I've been in a few.But I never got a lead role or even a credit.I guess my most famous role was…
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…
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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…

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