Mithila Review to be a Quarterly with Payment!

Mithila Review to be a Quarterly with Payment!

Mithila Review will be turning into a quarterly publication with occasional essays, interviews and reviews in between. Starting with our next issue, we want to pay a flat rate of $10 for poetry, flash (under 2500 words), non-fiction (essay) and reprint, and $50 for...

Dreams & Delusions

“Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.” — Susan Sontag Eight years ago, I was super excited about Obama’s election. I was a twenty-something copyeditor then, working for an American newspaper. Over the...
Turning the Lens to Asia

Turning the Lens to Asia

With the launch of our new issue, we have become aware of two things. One, that we are extremely lucky to be part of such an active, open and diverse community of wonderful readers, writers and scholars from around the world. We remain grateful to our amazing readers,...

A Plan to Survive Year Zero

When we registered the domain name for Mithila Review in late 2015, we didn’t really know what we were signing up for. We knew that there was a need for a SF publication in South Asia, but we didn’t know what was exactly required to address the vacuum. When the first...