Genealogy: Jashodhara Chakraborti

Photo Credit: Jashodhara Chakraborti

You may think I am a street dog, It's a description I defy When it comes to where I come from There's more than meets the eye. My ears aren't dog eared, No, no - you mustn't think that A great great grand uncle Used to be a fruit bat. If my eyes captivate you, I'd like you to know That my maternal grandmother Was part canine, part doe. When I nip downstairs in my trotters Rumours are rife That I used to be Anubis In another life. There's some labrador in me And healthy Indian pie But my home life is rather Bengali That I cannot deny. Between fish, sweets and siesta And Britannia Marie with tea I am quite the Bengali Bhadralok But for the lamppost pee.

---

Jashodhara Chakraborti is the author of two fantasy adventures for Young Adults, The Wordkeepers and its sequel, Skyserpents (as Jash Sen). She is also a TedX speaker, a regular moderator at The Kolkata Literary Meet and an occasional columnist. Jashodhara discovered her love for funny rhymes during the lockdown. She will let you decide if she is a poet.

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 work already published on the Delhiwallah Poetry Collective.

Theme: Home is about places where we live (whether temporary or permanent) and the way they affect us. It could include an opportunity to explore domestic dramas, generational and cultural divides, class, politics, and psychology. Writers can also explore a whole range of issues concerning Home.

Who Can Submit: Emerging writers from Asia are encouraged to submit. Submissions in all languages (with or without translation) are accepted.

Deadline: September 25, 2020

---

General Guidelines

Thank you for considering Asian Extracts for the publication of your original creative nonfiction (essays, reviews, photo essays on travel, food, entertainment, culture, history, etc.), fiction (flash fiction, short stories), poetry, or art.

Asian Extracts publishes fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and art by writers from Asia.

• We do not charge for submissions.

• Submit all your work as a Microsoft Document in Times New Roman 12-point font, double spaced.

• Submissions in all languages (with or without translation) are accepted.

• Please be sure to submit work that is previously unpublished or has permission to be republished. Tell us in your cover letter whether your submission is exclusive to us or whether you have submitted to other magazines as well. If another magazine accepts your work for publication, please get in touch with us immediately.

• There is no limit on the number of submissions made by a submitter. However, please consider the guidelines as mentioned—poetry (up to three poems), fiction (flash fiction, short stories), creative nonfiction (essays, reviews, photo essays on travel, food, entertainment, culture, history, etc.) or art (up to five images).

• If you are sending work in more than one category, please send your submissions in separate documents.

• If you are sending more than one poem, please combine all poems in one document and start each poem on a new page. Each poem must have a title.

• If you are submitting art, please make sure that it includes a title, medium, and date.

• Please make sure to provide sources wherever necessary in your submissions.

• We respond to all submissions by email. If your work is selected to be published, we will get back to you within two weeks.

• Please make sure to save delhiwallahpoetrycollective@gmail.com in your contacts to prevent our response being caught up in your spam folder.

---

How to Submit Your Work

We accept submissions via email.

Please submit your work to delhiwallahpoetrycollective@gmail.com with a subject line Asian Extracts Submission: [Writer’s Name]. Mark a copy to rxnarang@gmail.com and ratzest@gmail.com.

The body of your email must include the following details:

NAME (As you wish to be credited)

TYPE OF SUBMISSION(S) (Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry, Art)

TITLE OF SUBMISSION(S)

WORD COUNT

IF THE SUBMISSION IS EXCLUSIVE TO US (If no, please share details)

ANYTHING ELSE YOU WOULD LIKE US TO KNOW

---

Size Limits

Fiction, Creative Nonfiction: Up to 3000 words

Poetry: Up to three poems

Art: Up to 5 images

For any queries, please write to us at delhiwallahpoetrycollective@gmail.com.

अनमयस्क कविता: Chinmay Jha

Photo Credit: Jr Korpa (@korpa)/ Unsplash Public Domain Dedication

अनमयस्क कविता

बैठा सोचता हूँ

आज शायद-

बेतूकी हर बात कविता

उठ के चलना,

बैठ जाना,

लडखडाना

और संभलना

कुछ नयी

और हाँ-

हर पुरानी बात कविता

दिन पहर

या शाम बोझिल

हर सुबह की बात कविता

एक नशीली रात कविता

बैठा सोचता हूँ

आज शायद-

बेतूकी हर बात कविता|

---

Chinmay Jha is a gold medallist in Mathematics at undergraduate-level and an Economics graduate from Delhi School of Economics. In day to day life, he works as a Data Scientist in the field of Machine learning & Artificial Intelligence at a consulting firm. For Chinmay, writing is a creative hobby and an escape from the mundane reality. He writes poems and short stories and is fondly known among the group as "the one who writes Bougainvillea!"