haikuKATHA - Issue 48

ravi kiran
Oct 21
1 min read

Updated: Oct 24

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

Issue 48 22 October 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: Priti Aisola

ISSUE 48 Please post your feedback about the poems and the overall experience on this thread. Hearty congratulations to all the poets featured in our Forty Eighth Issue! Here's wishing haikuKATHA goes from strength to strength each month! ISSUE 48 is now LIVE!!

Read Issue 48

In 2022/23, 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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6 Comments

Joy McCall

Oct 26

how wonderful to read tanka prose - so many stories I love here.

Kala Ramesh

Oct 23

The editors of the Tanka Take Home, loved Baisali's tanka.

Any favourites here?

Do share your feedback freely.

It helps us to take our beloved journal forward.

joanna ashwell

Oct 24

Replying to

This is one of my favourites from the issue:

comma butterfly —

all the torn leaves

of summer

C.X. Turner

Mohua

Oct 23

Another great issue, especially love Baisali's poems. Thank you Team Triveni.

joanna ashwell

Oct 22

Another beautiful issue, congratulations to all the writers and many thanks for this team for all the support of this forum and fine journal.

Vaishnavi Ramaswamy

Oct 22

Dear Triveni Editorial Team,

Thank you so much for the delightful haikuKATHA issue 48. Eagerly waiting to read all the beautiful poems. Thank you Priti for the most lovely done Diwali Diya cover page! Thanks again for the motivation you provide us!

Kind regards,

Vaishnavi