by Ajapa Sharma | Sep 10, 2018 | Editorials
Purchase this issue: Gumroad | Amazon The 10th issue of Mithila Review comes to you after a long interlude. The word “interlude,” however, doesn’t quite do justice to the time between our last issue and this one. “Interlude” suggests a notion of passiveness — the idea...
by Ajapa Sharma | Apr 11, 2017 | Editorials
Last week, Salik and I made a short video based on a poem he wrote in Nepali about a revolutionary poet. It crossed a hundred views in a matter of few days. It’s a small but significant number for a poem. The popularity of film as a medium is partly due to its...
by Ajapa Sharma | Apr 11, 2017 | Reviews
Margrét Helgadóttir and Jo Thomas began a series of coffee-table books on short stories about monsters from across the world. After traveling to Europe in 2014 and Africa in 2015, Jo Thomas had to step out, and Helgadóttir put forward a wonderful edition on Asian...
by Ajapa Sharma | Aug 8, 2016 | Poetry
Damp vapor engulfs my existence; the heat runs up to my ears. The city is a hallucination, dizzy with excess life – churning my stomach into a violent nausea. In the night, somewhere in the back yard, small lives hum and buzz, jackfruits drop – plop, burst open, and...
by Ajapa Sharma | Aug 7, 2016 | Interviews, Roundtable
With Aliette de Bodard, Alyssa Wong, Isabel Yap, John Chu, JY Yang and Priya Sharma By Ajapa Sharma & Salik Shah “The question of how distinct subjective experiences shape aesthetic choices has been of constant concern to us at Mithila Review. This “Asian SF”...
