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A’mai — A Poem by Mirum Quazi

Mirum Quazi presents a poem about the experience of losing a grandparent, one that is grounded in the feeling of being uprooted and suspended within a space drawn between memory and its recollection. These verses dare to explore and confront the exact moment of such a loss. In doing so, the poem gro

“Art Creates Itself and We Are Merely Its Medium” — A Conversation with Mehran Ansari

In an effort to present the works of artists and the artists in their own words, Inverse Journal introduces a select number of works by digital artist Mehran Ansari. Along with a detailed conversation regarding his digital art practice, his entry into the world of music-making, and his various creat

Gaekhir Republik’s "Jazz Ahmad Jazz”: A Surreal Spin on Rock — A Commentary by Mohit Kilam

Mohit Kilam presents a long overdue commentary on Gaekhir Republik’s latest music video release for “Jazz Ahmad Jazz”, the second song on their critically acclaimed album Mandnyan Shaam [https://gaekhirrepublik.bandcamp.com/album/mandnyan-shaam] (Gaekhir Republik, Mir Kashif Iqbal, 2023). In the pro

"13. Firdous Cinema" — An Excerpt from Dapaan: Tales from Kashmir's Conflict by Ipsita Chakravarty (Context, 2025)

Inverse Journal presents an excerpt from Ipsita Chakravarty's latest book, Dapaan: Tales from Kashmir's Conflict, published by Context-Westland Books [https://www.instagram.com/context_books/?hl=en]. Described as “a quiet book in a time of noise”, Ipsita’s work steers away from the “hypernationalist

To Be or Not to Be: Between Palestine and Israel — Introduced and Compiled by Muzaffar Karim and Mubashir Karim

At a time when intellectual complicity determines the validity of certain intellectualism and the way we approach intellectual figures, Muzaffar Karim and Mubashir Karim present a list of 50 leading intellectuals, writers, thinkers, philosophers, etc. vis-a-vis their positions on Palestine and Israe

"I have to save myself from the world" — Two Poems by Carol Blaizy D’Souza

Carol Blaizy D’Souza presents two poems that explore structure, spatiality and the enunciating subject intertwined within the former. Such verses trace the lines where the soul wanders within a human gaze, be it one affixed on oneself or one’s surroundings, and in both poems succeed in capturing mov

Is Islamic Marxism an Oxymoron? — by Musa Malik

Musa Malik reflects on the development of Islamic Marxism as a hybrid ideology at the intersection of Marxist principles and Islamic tenets. In his piece, Musa problematizes the contradictory aspects of Islamic Marxism as a paradoxical political philosophy and system of thought that integrates the d