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…

By Douglas Young      “Soon after the clock strikes one…” Dorsey Cullen shouted across the lawn at Waller Patton College.      “Planet Pax rocks the Straight Arrow,” his bandmate Jasper Wilcox replied with a grin.      “It’ll be balls to…

By: Rose Blake Darkness When darkness settles—what happens to the light, what happensto laughter, what happens to mymight when darkness drownsthe corners of my room. I curl within and hold on—like I’ve got a friend in my inner tombwhen the…

By James Aitchison In 1944, Australian surrealist poet and publisher Max Harris opened a packet of poems on his desk in Adelaide.  The poems had been submitted for publication in Harris’s avant-garde arts journal Angry Penguins.  Harris, in his own…

By: James Aitchison (Scottish Mcdada attributed to the Gude Wallace, circa 1527) And thus Lord Scroope the young the fairsaw ships cleave the brine to whereglows the larch’s vivid greenand Bogles when first seenthrough the cordage sangthe hoar frost round…