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Out of Print: The Short Story Online Out of Print is an online platform for short fiction with a connection to the subcontinent. Send us your stories and we’ll send them to the world.

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Out of Print 56: Confronted with a ‘yawning pit of time to kill’, the protagonist begins to document their existence by ...
28/05/2025

Out of Print 56:
Confronted with a ‘yawning pit of time to kill’, the protagonist begins to document their existence by drawing. A story about the city, about observing the city, and about observing the city’s people, this is also a story about the protagonist’s relationship with their own creativity.

https://outofprintmagazine.co.in/2025/03/29/the-democracy-of-dust/

The body and its particularities weave through Smita Sahay’s ‘Unborn’, a story in which the protagonist grasps her sexua...
23/05/2025

The body and its particularities weave through Smita Sahay’s ‘Unborn’, a story in which the protagonist grasps her sexuality with boldness and abandon. She must face the conflicts imposed on her by societal expectation – rendered even more complex by lockdown because of which she has to traverse urban and rural geographies – and rely solely on herself to make critical decisions.

‘The Old Man Has Lost His Mind’ by Padmini Sankar focusses on generational repercussions against the backdrop of the vio...
20/05/2025

‘The Old Man Has Lost His Mind’ by Padmini Sankar focusses on generational repercussions against the backdrop of the violence of war. Set in the present and looking back at the Japanese occupation of Borneo, it deciphers the protagonist’s attempt to make sense of the past.

Prasanta Das’ ‘Theo’s Folly’, which is framed by the mores and moralities of missionary communities in nineteenth centur...
12/05/2025

Prasanta Das’ ‘Theo’s Folly’, which is framed by the mores and moralities of missionary communities in nineteenth century Assam, reveals the complexities of living within the norms and the immense sacrifices that calls for, at the same time revealing what it takes to step outside prescribed expectations.

Read the story here:
https://outofprintmagazine.co.in/2025/03/29/theos-folly/

In Joopaka Subhadra’s ‘Mother Bereft of Traces’ a woman, a government servant, originally from a ‘backward village’ must...
25/04/2025

In Joopaka Subhadra’s ‘Mother Bereft of Traces’ a woman, a government servant, originally from a ‘backward village’ must apply for a passport to travel abroad for a literary meeting. To fill up the forms, she must search the records for her mother, and is overcome, through the experience, by the absolute powerlessness of marginalised women, of women in ‘bonded labour’.

Issue 50, September 2023 can be accessed on our archive page:
https://outofprintmagazine.co.in/archives/
Link to the site in the bio
Link to the story: https://outofprintmagazine.co.in/2024/03/12/mother-bereft-of-traces/

From the Archives:In 'Honour' by Ajay Navaria translated from Hinid by Sudarshan Purohit, the deadly mix of caste, class...
17/04/2025

From the Archives:

In 'Honour' by Ajay Navaria translated from Hinid by Sudarshan Purohit, the deadly mix of caste, class, modernity and patriarchy come together in an act of sexual violence. Through his protagonist Usha, Navaria dismantles and grinds to dust that construct called honour or izzat that forces shame upon violated women.

Out of Print 18, March 2015:
https://outofprintmagazine.co.in/archives/
https://outofprintmagazine.co.in/2024/04/01/honour/

Out of Print: 54 - ‘Slander by Ponmugali is translated from Tamil by Sree Prasad. Set in a women’s hostel, it compels th...
03/11/2024

Out of Print: 54 - ‘Slander by Ponmugali is translated from Tamil by Sree Prasad. Set in a women’s hostel, it compels the reader to ask whether the two narrative threads in the story that meet and intertwine in the main character inform each other. Whether the decision she must take about her lover, with his ‘unnatural’ desires, is impacted by the enormity of the decision she has taken in the hostel or if they are simply parallel threads that entangle within her.

Out of Print: 53 - The nine featured stories offer the reader intensely sharp views into the worlds inhabited by and see...
29/06/2024

Out of Print: 53 - The nine featured stories offer the reader intensely sharp views into the worlds inhabited by and seen through the lenses of their respective main characters.

From spare clean narratives to wild wandering trajectories, the stories in this edition are by:
- returning authors, Prasanta Das, Nighat Gandhi, Anuradha Kumar and Farah Ahamed
- authors and translators appearing for the first time in Out of Print – Russel Nichols, Aashika Suresh and Indu Menon whose work is made accessible to us by Unnikrishnan Edathatta who also appears for the first time in Out of Print,
and
- debut writers Rose Alexis and Bushra Khalique.

Cover art by Arshi Irshad Ahmadzai.

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