What it is
Annual · English and Urdu
- An annual edition asking what independence has come to mean in practice
- Poetry, essays, short fiction, memoir, and historical or reported writing
- Partition and its inheritance, borders, language, citizenship, home and belonging
- Written in English or Urdu, by writers at any stage of their work
- Published each 14 August, and read with more than the anniversary in mind
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Each edition gathers new writing around the theme, in print and digital.
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Kya Ham Azaad Hain?
Reflections on memory, identity and belonging, and what independence still asks of us.
Deadline
16 August 2026
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