The Literary Times
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A home for writers navigating beyond the contemporary literary world.
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Splitting at the Seams by David Krishna Strong Upadhya
Up to 150 species go extinct daily. The acquisitions of businesses, housing units, and family…
The Performance of being busy by Anushree Singh
There is a strange pride people carry in exhaustion now. You can hear it in…
Wo-man, Wo-wife, Wo-mom by Debayoti Ghosh
Domesticate culture. Doemesticate identity. The ideal wife in India is seen running around in circles…
Violence of Freedom by Sharanya Bhattacharya
Freedom is seldom peaceful or even more rare for explanations. We speak of it as…
The god of moving by Ashay Vaidya
There is a certain type of magic involved in the process of uprooting your entire…
The Choreography of Annihilation: Danse Macabre and the Seduction of Death in Literature by Mishika Bhatia
The medieval danse macabre is often understood as a moral allegory: a skeletal Death leading…
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