By Thomas Sanfilip To draw inspiration from a poet like Guillame Apollinaire—one of the foremost French poets of the early 20th century and who died over a hundred years ago—and to translate his work for a modern audience today is…

By: Mary Bone Wild Sage While walking to schoolI saw wild sagein an open pasture.A sweet aroma was floating aboutSage has an earthy flavor in food.It’s aroma therapy at its best. Pirates Cove A winding creekin a bamboo forest.There was…

By: Ethan Goffma Son: Father, our black cat is invisible at night and so an excellent hunter. Yet he has a white spot that can give away his position as he lies hiding, waiting to pounce. Is there some biological…

By: Goutam Roy Deep withina remote Cumbrian cave,where silence has enduredfor millennia,lay a child—not yet four—whom archaeologistshave named Ossick Lass.She was laid to restwith quiet intention,in the early ageof Mesolithic people—one of the first tracesof human remembrance.Time has not preserved…

By: Pradeep Trikha Gopal Lahiri Selected PoemsSelected by Sanjeev SethiCLASSIX (An imprint of Hawakal)Aug 2025, ISBN: 978-81-988424-0-4, ₹650, 128 pages Contemporary Indian English poetry increasingly functions as a dynamic contact zone where personal memory, historical consciousness, ecological awareness, and metaphysical…

By: James Aitchison The printed book is dead.  Long live the book.  Despite dire predictions since the arrival of e-books, industry data tells a different story. By 2029, the physical book market is projected to reach $70.75 billion, markedly higher…

By: KJ Hannah Greenberg Panoply Magnificent displays of objects, some of okenite, others obsidian, arrangedPer social media’s dictates and other niche authorities’ mores, glitter akin toFool’s gold. Sadly, “impressive” arrays of goods often lack the beauty of Australian MistCats else…

By: Garry Fourman On a mild morning during my final weeks in Fiji, I visited a small fishing village, gathering material for a project on how storytelling can be used effectively in teaching. I sat on a beach with an…

By: Barbara E. Dolan           Bethany was a young lady with two children, a boy and a girl, the loves of her life. But for the first time in her life, she found herself needing to raise her children on…

By Somdatta Mandal Title: ‘Santiniketan: Nature’s Gateway to Spirituality‘ Authors: Bitann Chakraborty and Kiriti SenguptaPublication: Hawakal Publishers Pvt. Ltd, 2026; Price: Rs. 1500/- In 1863 Maharshi Debendranath Tagore acquired twenty bighas of land in the village of Bhubandanga in a…