haikuKATHA - Issue 53
- ravi kiran
- Mar 21
- 1 min read
haikuKATHA unfolding the story within a monthly journal from Triveni Haikai India
Issue 53 22 March 2026 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: Prakash Thombre
ISSUE 53
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Hearty congratulations to all the poets featured in our Fifty Third Issue!
Here's wishing haikuKATHA goes from strength to strength each month!
ISSUE 53 is now LIVE!!
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.


Thank you to all the people behind the scenes at Triveni and to the poets who had their work published - simply wonderful!
Hearty Congratulations to the Triveni team and participants and appreciate all the efforts that be gone into it! 💐The artwork on the cover is wonderful as always!
Feel honoured to be included too.
Many congratulations to all the team and so much gratitude for all their hard-work and support. Honoured to be included. Congratulations to Jacek, for his well deserved award.
Hearty congratulations to all the poets! Congratulations to the editorial team and everyone behind the screens who made it possible for the issue to come on dot, as always! I wish all the best to everyone. 👋😍