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Issue 5 is released!
Asian Extracts Issue 5 is now available. We bring you sparkling prose, short stories, an interview with a writer/dancer, poetry, and lots...
Nov 1, 20211 min read


Asian Extracts # 5 - Call for Submissions
Call for Submissions Asian Extracts Magazine invites submissions for our fifth issue coming out in October 2021. Who Can Submit: Emerging...
Sep 2, 20212 min read


Asian Extracts #4 is released
In Issue 4, prose, poetry, and art blend in a quiet explosion of originality and local content. It features submissions from Asmadi...
Aug 1, 20211 min read


Asian Extracts #3 is released!
We are happy and excited to bring to you the April 2021 issue of Asian Extracts. Issue 3 contains prose and poetry on history,...
Apr 28, 20211 min read


Asian Extracts Issue No. 2: Call for Submissions
Asian Extracts Magazine invites submissions for our second issue coming out in January 2021. Who Can Submit: Emerging writers from Asia...
Nov 9, 20202 min read


Asian Extracts Issue 1 is Out!
We are proud to bring to you the first issue of Asian Extracts. This issue features writings on the theme Home. You will find prose by...
Oct 28, 20201 min read


Mountains Calling: Amartya Bagal Rana
Soon after my elder son's board exams, we headed out to meet his paternal grandparents who lived in the rolling hills of Palampur in...
Sep 22, 20205 min read


Asian Extracts Issue No. 1: Call for Submissions
Asian Extracts Magazine invites writing on the theme Home for our first issue coming out in October 2020. Issue No. 1 will also feature...
Aug 30, 20202 min read


A Civilization Long Past: V J Singam
It was breath-taking—the beautiful, waist-high piles of brick and earth, outlining the walls and courtyards of the ancient, uninhabited...
Aug 27, 20205 min read


The Grandest Society of Merchants in the Universe: Angad Sahota
Book Review — The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire by William Dalrymple[1] “A commercial...
Aug 19, 20207 min read


Remembering Rahat Indori Sahab
Today, we remember Dr Rahat Indori, who passed away on 11 August 2020. Rahat Sahab was a lyricist, author, and poet. He was also a...
Aug 13, 20202 min read


Home in the Hills: Ratna Pande
Though I was named Jagdish, which means ‘Ruler of the World’, I was always called Jaggu. Even I thought of myself as Jaggu rather than as...
Aug 7, 20208 min read


Home is Mine: Manju Chellani
I must warn the reader right in the beginning that this piece is a collection of my whimsical musings about what we call home. If I seem...
Jul 30, 20207 min read


Getting Ready: An Excerpt from A Poetry Handbook
The following excerpt is from A Poetry Handbook: A Prose Guide to Understanding and Writing Poetry (1994) by the poet Mary Oliver...
Jul 22, 20202 min read
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