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Kya Ham Azaad Hain?

Reflections on memory, identity and belonging, and what independence still asks of us.

Kya Ham Azaad Hain? is a literary magazine exploring freedom, memory, identity and our evolving bond with home. Through poetry, essays and prose it creates a thoughtful space for reflection, inherited truths, and what independence still asks of us.

1 issue English and Urdu
Kya Ham Azaad Hain? magazine cover
Latest: Issue No. 01
What it is Annual · English and Urdu
  • An annual issue 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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The issues

Every issue, newest first

Each issue gathers new writing around the theme, in print and digital.

Issue No. 01Print and digital
Kya Ham Azaad Hain? Issue No. 1 cover

Issue No. 1

Published August 2026

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Open for submissions now Log Kya Kahenge?Issue No. 2

Writing on resistance, non-conformity, and the question that shapes so many lives.

Deadline 18 October 2026
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Send your work to Kya Ham Azaad Hain?.

Send one original piece for this year’s issue. You keep the rights to your work, and every submission is read by our editorial team.