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Issue 14 – WITNESS
Editorial: Translations – ULR Issue 14, Witness
Time stretches and contracts according to what it is asked to hold. To witness, then, is to remain present, to stay with what unfolds, even when language gives way to silence.
The works gathered under this year’s theme, Witness, dwell in that staying. They attend to sorrow without spectacle, to memory as something carried in the body, and to refusal as a form of clarity. Silence becomes a reply; the everyday reveals its quiet violences and devotions.
Across these poems, testimony arrives obliquely. What matters is not declaration, but accompaniment; becoming, as one poem suggests, “a wordless current,” flowing alongside what must be endured.
I hope this issue invites you to pause with these voices and consider what it means to witness—not from a distance, but from within.
Happy reading.
Sonakshi Srivastava
Sonakshi Srivastava is a writing tutor at Ashoka University, Sonepat, India. She is one of the recipients of South Asia Speaks mentorship programme (cohort 2021), working on translating the Hindi novel, “Titli” into English under the mentorship of Arunava Sinha. She was the contributing translator columnist at “The Bilingual Window’. She was longlisted for The Stinging Fly Translation Bursary 2022, and was awarded the Katharine Bakeless Nason scholarship for the Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference 2023. Her works have previously appeared in or are appearing in ASAP art, Usawa, Proseterity, The Monograph, Alipore Post, Hakara, potluck zine, orangepeel mag, Qissa mag, and Rhodora among others.