In this issue

For our theme, ‘Seasons’, Arshia Sattar writes about how our epics depict emotions, the weather and nature while Apoorva Tadepalli reflects on the Mumbai monsoon mirroring the intensity of this city by the sea. Parikshit Rao photographs a year in his Himalayan valley and Anurag Banerjee makes images of the light changing from his window through the year. Giti Chandra offers poetic, and photo- graphic, meditations about Iceland’s weather. Saumya Sinha reports on how the pandemic has altered the fashion industry’s seasonal calendar. Shougat Dasgupta explores how time marches differently for sports fans. Sameera Iyengar explains how theatrical performances in rural India are associated with the seasons. And Tanaya Sharma offers new metaphors for the seasons in her art.
This issue also contains short fiction by Ipshita Mitra and Kate Sarah as well as a new translation of Qurratulain Hyder. And our always-exciting poetry section has new works by Alolika A Dutta, Siân Melangell Dafydd, Kunjana Parashar, Ashwani Kumar and Karan Kapoor.
Our issue comes to you in April, the ‘cruellest month’. But hopefully, with such refreshing reading, the summer will go easier for all of us.

The Indian Quarterly Magazine Description:

The Indian Quarterly (IQ) is a national and international magazine. We hope that just as The New Yorker exhibits a distinctly Manhattan sensibility and always contains articles about New York City, IQ will manifest the fact that it is edited and published in Mumbai through its cosmopolitan and open-minded perspective on the world and on India.

In fact, we hope to provide a unique way of interpreting our ever changing culture, and to define our own experiences through the strength of thought, ideas and imagery, be it in the form of fact, fiction, poetry, illustration or photography. IQ is therefore a paean to the polyphonic nature of reflection and the creativity that is its outcome.