The Inaugural Issue
Volume I · July 2026
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The Inaugural Issue
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Poems · Translations · Essays · Interviews
Volume I · July 2026
The Inaugural Issue
The first issue of the Kavita India Journal brings together poems, translations, essays, and conversations from the languages and traditions represented in the collective. It marks the beginning of an ongoing publication that will appear quarterly.
This issue carries work emerging from the interactions around the July 2026 event series — including reflections on publishing, anthology-making, and translation — alongside original poems in multiple Indian languages with English translations.
Table of Contents (Planned)
Poems
Original poems in Malayalam, Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Kannada
New poems in Odia and Telugu
Poems from the oral tradition (transcribed and translated)
Translations
Side-by-side translations: Malayalam → Hindi
Side-by-side translations: Tamil → Bengali
Poems from world literature translated into Indian languages
Essays & Conversations
On the state of poetry publishing in India
The multilingual anthology: problems and possibilities
Translation as a form of literary citizenship
The inaugural issue is currently in preparation. It will be published to coincide with
the July 2026 event series. Submissions are handled by the editorial team directly.