Out of Print 6

Our sixth issue released!




The December Out of Print features work by Altaf Tyrewala, Lucinda Nelson Dhavan, Dipika Mukherjee, Meenakshi Jauhari Chawla, and Tashan Mehta.
And my own story makes up the sixth.


Cover art, a drawing of Amitabh Bachchan dancing in drag, by Vinayak Varma. 

Pangea

Pangea, an anthology of short stories compiled and edited by myself and Rebecca Lloyd is slated to be out in April next year.

This anthology of thirty-four short stories reflects its title, Pangea, meaning all lands or all earth. The twenty-five authors whose stories are included here come from, live in, or have connections with many countries including Canada, England, Finland, Ghana, India, Wales, Ireland, Mexico, New Zealand, Nigeria, Scotland, South Africa, and the U.S.A.  Naturally, the stories reflect varied perspectives and strike a range of different tones, but broadly speaking, they are about loss, identity and entrapment, and that fine tipping of order into chaos that is so often a characteristic of skilfully written short stories.  

'The Perfect Shot' appears in Pratilipi

The Perfect Shot appears in the November 2011 issue of Pratilipi.

The story was inspired by many things, including a phenomenal lecture on Indian photography by Ram Rahman at Jnanapravaha, and a conversation between Homi Bhabha and Anish Kapoor following the latter's show in Bombay.

Out of Print at MiD DAY Bangalore

I could have talked for ages about short stories and Out of Print, but Amrita Bose of Mid Day Bangalore manages to distill a neat yet full interview from my relatively controlled answers to her questions.

Out of Print 5

Out of Print has been around for a full year, which we think is quite phenomenal.

We feature work by one of India’s foremost literary figures, Kannada author U R Ananthamurthy. Apoorva, translated by Deepa Ganesh, explores an encounter between strangers, each of whom is in a marriage in which one partner contemplates death as the singular solution to a dying relationship. Our second translated work, The Cow by Pakistani writer Firdaus Haider allegorically examines the female condition. The translation is by Nighat Gandhi whose own writing appeared in our first issue. Three other stories, Annie Zaidi’s, Sujata,  Sharanya Mannivanan’s The High Priestess Never Marries and Roshna Kapadia’s Eyes Like Yours, expose the complex and sometimes brutal layers of character and society that influence human interaction.  

Work by Chandrahas Choudhury and Murzban Shroff complete this collection. Shroff’s Mind over Matter, written in a light-hearted tone, is a scathing commentary on individual and systemic corruption. And aspects of the wonderful Dnyaneshwar Kulkarni Changes His Name by Choudhury resonate with this issue’s cover art from Jan Banning’s Bureaucratics series.

Drawing

the bulbul has flown

Draupadi

Out of Print 4

The mythology issue of Out of Print is up. An editorial by Samhita Arni sets the context for the edition.

The issue is rich in art: we feature cover art by Pushpamala N. Work by Jitish Kallat, Ratna Gupta, Naz Ikramullah, Pushpamala N and Ram Rahman accompany writing from Kuzhali Manickavel, Annam Manthiram, Musharraf Ali Farooqi, Devdutt Pattanaik, Samhita Arni and Neeta Deshpande. Also, a picture essay by Pushpamala N adds to the intense aesthetic aspect of this release.

Out of Print in Forbes India




Image: Vikas Khot

SMALL BATTLES
Indira Chandrashekhar's 'Out of Print' is two issues old but has a fine selection



Out of Print features in an article about small magazines in Forbes India. A report on the article appears in The Publisher's Post.

Out of Print in Forbes India, April Issue

Out of Print is in the April 8 issue of Forbes India in an article on small magazines. 

Out of Print, Issue 3

Seven stories by women, seven stories about women – but for that commonality, the stories in the third release of Out of Print form an eclectic collection. Or do they? Although their voices are distinct and their stories quite different, Jahnavi Barua, Priya Sarukkai Chabria and Saudha Kasim each write about a woman recognising her self. All three stories examine the premise of marriage and a woman’s place in it. In contrast, in Anita Roy’s Jenna, set in the terrifying bleakness of a futuristic prison, we confront isolation and the tentative yet essential instinct to develop relationships. Radhika Venkatarayan also writes of relationships, in this case, the complex ones within a multi-generational family structure. In 16^th July, Uma Parameswaran tells of the grace of a woman forced to face the extreme. Finally, in the contemporary allegory, Ma Tujhe Salaam, Divya Dubey deals with the nature of power

Out of Print Blog

The Out of Print blog is live: http://outofprintmagazine.blogspot.com/.

Watch us for book reviews, discussions on literature, forums and more.

Out of Print at the Kala Ghoda Festival

Out of Print will be at the Kala Ghoda Festival, 2011

Samhita Arni on the panel on Mythology and Literature, on 5th of February 2011

PEN: Sites of Literary Assembly
Discussion on Independent Initiatives in Literature
Monday: 7th February 2011, 6 pm
Prince of Wales Museum Garden
Panelists: Indira Chandrasekhar Out of Print, Sharmistha Mohanty Almost Island, Divya Nadkarni Nether, Hemant Divate of the small press Poetrywala, along with Sampurna Chattarji and Ranjit Hoskote from the PEN-All India Centre.

Jaipur literary festival

The Out of Print editors will all be at the Jaipur festival. Come and talk to us about your short stories.

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