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Arts & Culture, Litro #156: India

Litro #156: India: Why My Father Hated India

This rage is what makes it impossible to reduce Pakistan’s obsession with India to matters of security or a land dispute in Kashmir. It can heal only when the wounds ...

by aatishtaseer • 15th August 20179th May 2018

Litro #156: India, Technology

Litro #156: India: Mapping Memories

A dot shines on the page
at the zero degree of all directions.
Here ends your returning.
You are home.

by amarjitchandan • 5th October 201615th January 2026

Litro #156: India

Litro # 156: India

Litro #156: India: Featuring: Shashi Tharoor, Aatish Taseer, Abraham Verghese, Mona Arshi, Nikesh Shukla, Shehan Karunatilaka, Vivek Santhosh & many more.

by Litro Magazine • 4th October 20169th May 2018

Litro #156: India

Litro #156: India: Excerpt from My Own Country

An inevitable accompaniment to this scene of a city hospital under siege was the sight of foreign physicians. The names of these doctors—names like Srivastava, Patel, Khan, Iqbal, Hussein, Venkateswara, ...

by abrahamverghese • 4th October 201625th January 2022

Litro #156: India

Litro #156: India: In Search of Equatorial Roots

I imagined how my father must feel to return to the land of his birth after fifty-two years. More than the physical aspect of traveling long and far it was ...

by VIVEKSANTOSH • 4th October 201625th January 2022

Litro #156: India

Litro #156: India: Sharmini Subramaniam: Name, Unknown

I can tell she’s newly arrived from India. She has that smell which wraps itself around women and men and children newly arrived from India; of pickles and incense and ...

by selmacarvalho • 4th October 201625th January 2022

Litro #156: India

Litro #156: India: Firefly

We soon got to the sex and lies. At first he told me he and his wife were in an ‘open relationship.’ Then he said he was torn between his ...

by divyaghelani • 4th October 201625th January 2022

Litro #156: India

Litro #156: India: The Dragon Slayer

Jamie’s stories died that night, because all stories are based on two things. There should be at least one listener who appreciates them. And there should be hope on which ...

by abhaiyengar • 4th October 201625th January 2022

Fiction, Litro #156: India

Litro #156: India: The Warehouse

To understand our family is to know about the warehouse. Magic things happened there. Our fortunes fluctuated. We ran a small international company by each of us occupying every single ...

by nikeshshukla • 4th October 201625th January 2022

Litro #156: India

Litro #156: India: DIASPORA

Forgive your country every once in a while.
If that is not possible, go to another one.
-Ron Padgett

by shehankarunatilaka • 4th October 201625th January 2022

Litro #156: India, Poetry

Litro #156: India: LOST

When I returned home I went into the kitchen and my partner and my ex-father-in law were both looking for it. They’d emptied out the cutlery drawer and the cupboards ...

by monaarshi • 4th October 201625th January 2022

Digital Subscription, Letters from the Editor, Litro #153: Open, Magazine | Archives

Litro #153: Letter from the Editor

by eric-akoto • 7th June 20166th December 2018

Digital Subscription, Litro #152: World Series: Sweden, Magazine | Archives, Print Issues

Litro #152: World Series: Sweden

by Litro Magazine • 5th May 20166th December 2018

Digital Subscription, Litro #151: Adrenaline, Magazine | Archives, Print Issues

Litro #151: The Adrenaline issue

by Litro Magazine • 11th April 20166th December 2018

Litro #151: Adrenaline, Magazine | Archives

Litro #150: The Britishness issue

Litro: 150 Britishness: Art by Sarah Maple, Poetry from Kayo Chingonyi, Fiction from Lochlan Bloom, Ryhs Timson, Shiv Rayani and more….

by Litro Magazine • 9th March 20169th March 2016

Litro #149: Love, Magazine | Archives

Litro #149: The Love issue

Featuring Art by Hsin Wang, stories from Annie Brechin, interviews Douglas Kennedy, short stories from emerging new voices and more….

by Litro Magazine • 11th February 201616th February 2016

Litro #149: Love, Technology

Litro #149: Love – What Happens To Smart Women

Professor Ecks wanted to know. “I see them pass through, at the top of their class, always single, with their stories of lost hopes, one-night stands, the men who couldn’t ...

by anniedawid • 11th February 201615th January 2026