The London Miscellany was first founded in 1825 as an irreverent alternative to the established literary magazines of the day. Throughout its various publishing guises, it has maintained that initial character of the witty bystander, commenting with dry humour on the doings of his fellows. The magazine has veen recently exchanged hands by the renouned fine artist and poet, Papia Ghoshal, who was working as the international editor of the magazine since 2006. Ghoshal is now the editor-in-chief and the publisher of the magazine. The magazine was refounded in 1990 by Christopher Arkell, who has published it ever since. The Miscellany reached its third decade under his guidance, and looked further afield for the poetry, short stories, reviews and commentaries on current affairs which have made literary magazines published in Britain the admiration of the world. Papia Ghoshal has introduced the magazine to the English speaking countries, including India. She has also explored the idea of discussions about the world cinema. The magazine started it's digital journey in 2023. Recent contributors to the magazine include: Peter Porter, Ann Stevenson, Irina Ratushinskaya, Boris Akunin, Viktor Pelevin, David Benn and Adam Johnson (the poet who died so young and full of promise - "a modern Keats"), Guy Thompson, Prakash Karmakar, Mani Shankar Aiyer, Jay Viswadeva and many other stalwarts. Ghoshal has earnestly tried to discover hidden jewels in the literary scenarios, and they had been published regularly. Ghoshal is all geared up to carry forward the legacy of Christopher Arkell to publish the new London Miscellany magazine a mark of it's own. 2025 will witness the completion of 200 years of journey of The London Miscellany! The English Heritage Literary magazine becomes truly international as Ghoshal plans to launch the latest 200th edition in all the major countries of the world. Kolkata International Book Fair 2025 will be the starting point, followed by London, USA, Australia, China, Africa, and the list goes on.
Illustration by Bronislav Malakhovski (1902 – 1937) – a Russian architect, artist and cartoonist, arrested in 1937and executed in 1937 as a Polish spy. Daniil Kharms (1902 – 1942) was an early Soviet era Avant-gardist and absurdist poet, writer and dramatist. Arrested in 1941 for spreading “libellous and defeatist mood”, died of starvation in prison in 1942, during the siege of Leningrad.
The Onge, like other indigenous populations of Andaman and Nlcobar archipelago like the Jarawas, the Sentinelese, the Great Andmanese and the Shompens in, remains little known and least understood tribal citizen of the modern world. The Onge are negrito gatherer-hunters who have been found inhabited an isolated island in the Andaman Sea, about 162 nautical miles away from Port Blair. Little Andaman is the southernmost island, among the Andaman group of islands, in the Bay of Bengal. It is about 44 km in length and 16-26 km in breadth. Once it was the exclusive habitat of the Onge.
At the gate, about to go under the yoke of obedience to the rules of the uncompliant he shrinks to a passenger, another "bloke" to be let alone, or put into restraint if there is turbulence in the air or heart: he's with the shufflers forward, journeyers each to a future, a welcome, a slap in that part most vulnerable to pain and shrivelling - there's the point of prayer, the multi-faith meeting room, embarrassing all but the needy eye as if these passengers were at the threshold of their tomb and this were the last they'd see of this day's sky: tomorrow his sky opens elsewhere; he is shrunk no more, but in that world springs free.