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Issue 13 • Memories of the Future • June 2025

In this issue, we explore the intersections of memory and imagination, the spaces where past and future collapse into a singular present. Our contributors examine…
In this issue, we explore the intersections of memory and imagination, the spaces where past and future collapse into a singular present. Our contributors examine how we remember what has not yet happened, and how those memories shape our understanding of time, identity, and possibility. Through poetry, fiction, and critical prose, this collection invites readers to consider the ways in which anticipation becomes archive, and how the stories we tell about tomorrow are always, in some sense, stories about yesterday.
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Liquid Sky (2014): an intervention in a public space. The mirror acrylic sheet that was suspended on the nala may have been a stream, which now has become the identity of the locality near Aarey colony in Bombay. The reflection of the sky makes the mirror look as if a clear water plot. And when the bird flew over, it seemed as if a fish swam.
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LIQUID SKY BY POONAM JAIN (2014)

In This Issue

In a world that celebrates noise—where poetry performs more than it communicates, where voices are flung like flags across the wind—some poets come from a lineage that spoke in silences. Many of their stories weren’t told; they were steeped in spice jars, pressed beneath prayer...

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Conversations become a big part of our memory. We develop our own worlds using the narrative of other voices. Their opinions and perspectives free our restricted minds. An absolution takes place and we, along with them, traverse in the dimensions they create. Valuable conversations consist...

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“The days were longer then (for time, like money, is measured by our needs), when summer afternoons were spacious, and the clock ticked slowly in the winter evenings.” (Middlemarch, George Eliot) Time is subjective. Time is fluid. Memories flow—from the past to the present, until...

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Are we always unconsciously writing letters to ourselves in the future? Are we mindful of the fact that our present is becoming future nostalgia or a site of introspection and reflection? Are we writing our futures as we breathe? The visual becomes a bridge from...

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Greetings Dear readers! We are living in troubling times. With wars raging across two continents, intensifying climate change, and the recent spate of air crashes (the recent Air India crash in Ahmadabad; and the chopper crash in Uttarakhand), our hopes for a better, brighter future...

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