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haikuKATHA - Issue 42

Updated: Apr 22


haikuKATHA unfolding the story within a monthly journal from Triveni Haikai India

Issue 42 22 April 2025 founder and managing editor: Kala Ramesh associate editors: Ashish Narain

Firdaus Parvez Priti Aisola

Sanjuktaa Asopa Shalini Pattabiraman Suraja Menon Roychowdhury Vandana Parashar Vidya Shankar web editor: Ravi Kiran proofreader: Sushama Kapur

cover art: Milind Mulick


ISSUE 41 Please post your feedback about the poems and the overall experience on this thread. Hearty congratulations to all the poets featured in our Forty first ISSUE! Here's wishing haikuKATHA goes from strength to strength each month! ISSUE 42 is now LIVE!!

Earlier in the year, associate editors K. Ramesh, Shobhana Kumar, Madhuri Pillai, Akila G., Reid Hepworth, and Hemapriya Chellappan stepped down for personal reasons. A huge thank you to all six excellent editors. We wish them the very best.


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10 Comments


I'm only just getting a chance to sit down with this issue and I am surprised and delighted to see that "beloved children" connected so strongly with the editors. Thank you so much, Suraja, for the lovely and insightful analysis highlighting the tension between cherished pastimes and adult responsibilities. I'm deeply honoured!

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I loved the verse chosen for Editor's commentary. It is the story of our lives. Mothers, who struggle to keep their interests and identity intact even when they are actively self effacing it for their family. Relatable. Congratulations to the contributers. Great work by the Triveni Haikai team.

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Nice to have you here, Leena. Happy you liked the tanka chosen for the ECC.

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Such a beautiful issue of wonderful writers. Always grateful to be included. Thank you to the team for all your support and hard work.

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Thanks, Joanna.

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thank you to everyone concerned, in including "Troubling Times" tanka prose, it is much appreciated

best to all, Dinah

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Dinah,

Welcome!

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Thank you for including my tanka in this issue—thanks to all those who commented and helped me in revising it!! Thanks to the editorial team!! My hearty congratulations to all the poets.

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Most welcome, Padma. Keep writing and sharing.

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