Dear friends,
February has been a difficult month for us, and those of you who have just escaped or are still undergoing such things as board exams, school or college internal exams, campussing and hasty project submissions will understand exactly why. At one point we almost abandoned the idea of being able to compile a March edition of Ex Nihilo, but as you can see, of course, we did not.
In this issue we have made a new addition to our magazine, the Art Feature, which we hope to continue in future editions. Contributions are open to the new section, and you’ll have to check the Submissions section for details. As you’ll also notice, a few more links have been added to the sidebar. We continue to link back to all your blogs that have placed a link to Ex Nihilo, and we continue to appreciate your support.
Without further ado, here’s wishing you all the luck for the exams that remain and hope you enjoy the period of relief that follows π
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Contents:
Special Feature
On Indians Writing in English and Suchlike: An Interview with Amit Chaudhuri
Poetry
Angel Wings by Meshal Raza
The Song of Dead ChildrenΒ by Monidipa Mondal
Stalled and After Paradise by Rijula Das
Photo Feature
The Kala Ghoda Art Festival 2008Β by Tania Dey and Aamina Nizar
Art Feature
Women in ImaginationΒ by Sayantani Dasgupta
Short Fiction
Silence by Sohini Pal
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Header art by Samita Chatterjee.
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The header art is lovely!
The header art is mind blowing!
The header art is very nice.
header art and art feature are brilliantly done!!
the header art is fantastic
read up all the poems and loved all of them. Linkin this up at my blog now.
The headed is brilliant. photos are great. the poetry & other writing are good too. nice work.
Lets repeat in unison…
Header art is Mindblowing… who’s it by?? who’s it by ??
well… the whole compilation is good, not just the header art! :~)
header art is especially mindblowing
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and so are the other stuff including rij’s and mandy’s poem, (the only stuff i have read till now)
the header art : truly Ex Nihilo…
muchos muchos kudos to the brave 1 π
to Tania: the header art is by my grand-dotter -Samita. π a budding artist
nice to bump into u here π
ur photoblog is cool too π
@Shandar – yeah.. been a while.. and you have a very cool grand dotter..
ohh and btw.. you guys have been banana’s on 10bananas.com.. 3rd rank the last time I saw.. yippie..
It just gets better and better! Brilliant artwork and writing!
Jaw-dropping artwork… this one. loved the entire issue π
finally, something serious hits the scene.
header art is fantastic. excellent work samita!!
wonderful..wonderful work
liked the sections and most the contributions..
technically speaking…tags…user-interface etc is commendable too….also the fact that it is an interactive forum…
the team could look forward to working toward a community of readers/contributers and involving as many as possible
best wishes
I love the poetry section.
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LOVE the header, and the use of colour. Like the interface too…really clean and compact. The interview’s great. Will now read through the rest of this.
brilliance. the header art is mindblowing, as is the art feature. loved everythign else too.
kudos!
If I may make a suggestion?
I think you should have a short prose section as well, not quite short fiction but just prose, within 500-700 words, whatever limit you feel.
Something like a 55-word story I read once.
Not demanding the structure of a short story or script, neither that of a poem. Just writing.