On Flaubert’s Parrot, the futility and necessity of describing facial features, and how webby an amateur’s reading life progressively becomes

Overview Overview Thank you for your interest in contributing to The Bombay Literary Magazine. We publish three times a year: April, August and December. Our most recent issue is Issue 60 (April 2025)...

Chief Editor’s Note This is the sixtieth issue of The Bombay Literary Magazine. The first fifty issues varied a lot in the number of items they contained, so the count of how many issues depends on wh...

The short story writing program I launched in mid-November concluded classes for its first batches yesterday. Here's a report...

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60 likes, 0 comments - thejcbprize on September 30, 2023: "Sewaram Manjhi works as a security guard outside a posh Bombay café. On the surface, he’s not ..."

Our culture is fanatical about success and will repeatedly push us to be rabid in the pursuit of our dreams, but common wisdom suggests a limit to ardency. Kota need not be a graveyard of ambitions