Dissent: Volume 6 of the Helter Skelter Anthology of New Writing
CURRENT ISSUE
Tashan Mehta
Time and Space and a Complicated Place
Siddhartha Deb
Fever Dreams and Buried Truths
The Decade of the Indian Internet Novel

The Decade of the Indian Internet Novel

Not only is the Internet Novel in India an experiment with contemporary form, but also a sign of a difficult political moment. 

Dharini Bhaskar
The Promises of Possibility
Gigi Ganguly
Open Worlds, Organic Truths

NOISE

Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize 2024
Win a Free Entry to the Desperate Literature Prize 2024
Now Available: ‘Identity’, vol. 7 of the Helter Skelter Anthology of New Writing
The Helter Skelter Anthology of New Writing
Original art, fiction, and poetry from India
Volume 7
The Helter Skelter Anthology of New Writing: Volume 6
Volume 6
The Helter Skelter Anthology of New Writing: Volume 5
Volume 5
The Helter Skelter Anthology of New Writing: Volume 4
Volume 4
The Helter Skelter Anthology of New Writing: Volume 3
Volume 3
The Helter Skelter Anthology of New Writing: Volume 2
Volume 2
The Helter Skelter Anthology of New Writing: Volume 1
Volume 1

IN THE MOOD FOR...

Mahesh Rao
Books
Madboy/Mink
Music
Travel
Culture
Amruta Patil
Graphic Novels
Masaan
Films

REVIEWS

What Would It Mean If Women Were Allowed to Dream?

Book Review: The Anger of Saintly Men
Book Review: The Black Anthology: Language
Book Review: No Straight Thing Was Ever Made
Film Review: Eeb Allay Ooo!

INTERVIEWS

Praveena Shivram

Fertile Ground in Grey Spaces

In conversation with Praveena Shivram about fluidity in worldbuilding, reimagining mythology, and transcending binaries in her debut novel Karuppu.

Tejaswini Apte-Rahm
The Abstraction of Desire
Sonia Filinto
The Bread Earners of Goa

MOST POPULAR

Humans of Hindutva 1
One Giant Inside Joke
Je Suis AIB 2
A Contemplation of Satire
The Myth of Normal 3
The Myth of Normal
The Brown Anthology: Language 4
Words, Connections, Fences
Ghosts at a Contested Funeral 5
Ghosts at a Contested Funeral
Jerry Pinto 6
A Struggle Against Invisibility

FEATURES

Throwback Tuberculosis
An Ode to Disappearing Terraces
Royal Blue Pyjamas
A Eulogy for My Royal Blue Botanical Pyjama Set
The Myth of Normal
The Myth of Normal
The Baby-Sitters Club
The Baby-Sitters Club
The Greens of My Lives
The Greens of My Lives