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never seen with an intruder's eyes/what is theirs.

From Austin University at Texas, Yeh Dil Hai Ki Chor Darwaja hops to yet another dreamland: London Book Fair. May it find its tribe!

Aditi Maheshwari, thank you for making such wonders happen.

We are thrilled to announce the names of our Book Review Contributors for Issue 11 of the Usawa Literary Review, themed 'Appetite'.

#bookreview #appetite #usawaliteraryreview #usawameansequality

Celebrating Rabindranath Tagore Jayanti: Honoring 4 Progressive Women in ‘The Stories of Rabindranath Tagore'.
#RabindranathTagore #ProgressiveWomen #IndianLiterature #FeminismInLiterature #TagoreAndWomen #InspiringWomen

We are thrilled to announce the names of our Non-Fiction contributors for Issue 11 of the Usawa Literary Review, themed 'Appetite'.

#fiction #appetite #usawaliteraryreview #usawameansequality

Shouldn't existence be a quarrel with all that could be better but isn't? But what does it mean to not belong to your own side, to be at perpetual war with them, to remain perpetually on the outside?

- Choice, Neel Mukherjee

ahhhh I’m so happy. thank you so much to Usawa Literary Review and especially Kinshuk Gupta for being such a good editor, helping me in sharpening significant aspects of the story and making it tighter ♥️♥️

What a gruelling but quite rewarding journey to choose these stories from the slush pile. Our acceptance rate dropped to less 4 percent. Excited to present their stories to the world.

This is the house where legendary poet and lyricist Shakeel Badayuni was born. A century-old building in in dire straits. While his verses enliven poll campaigns, but his house lies in ruins. Residents demand that govt should convert it into a memorial.

indianexpress.com/article/politi…

#सतरंगीवाणी

युवा लेखक Kinshuk Gupta की वाणी प्रकाशन ग्रुप के उपक्रम ‘सतरंगी वाणी’ से प्रकाशित पहली किताब ‘ये दिल है कि चोर दरवाज़ा’ की कहानी ‘मिसेज़ रायज़ादा की कोरोना डायरी’ का अनुवाद ‘पेंगुइन रैंडम हाउस के इंप्रिंट इंडिया वाइकिंग’ की पुस्तक ‘On the Edge: 100 Years of Hindi

open your fucking eyes and recognise the pattern; they attacked during the super bowl, the grammys, the oscars and once again now during the met gala, all these westernised distractions so they can continue committing their cruel and inhumane genocide on the innocent people of 🇵🇸

Terrible

What a searing poem AnnieZaidi
Such beautiful rendition @sahay

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Today a Palestinian MA student from the destroyed Al Azhar University successfully defended his MA thesis in a tent in Rafah. The student now plans to do a PhD in Education.

All eyes on Rafah. We are on the precipice of one of the darkest unfoldings of this century.

24 hours post-publication, stats suggest that the #opportunities of most interest to the #WritingCommunity include those w/Portland Community College, Cincinnati Review, Bombay Lit Mag, @MatchbookLitMag, @TabletMag, The Malahat Review, Barrelhouse, VarietyPack, Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.s, & Speculative Literature Foundation.

Gaya #Bihar 9th C. Pala period, Goddess Durga slaying demon Mahisasur.