“Mera sheher ek lambi behas ki tarah hai”/ “My city is like a prolonged argument”
~Amrita Pritam
Cities carry the weight of countless emotions often becoming the locale for interaction between enmeshed pluralities. They breathe, burn, break and build overnight. Arts and literature have used the city as a motif to dissect a plethora of economical, political, cultural, and personal sensibilities. From the classical Shahr-i-Ashob (City-disturber) tradition of Persian and Turkish poetry to the 19th-century genre of European realist fiction, the city as a symbol has been moulded over time and culture.
As a shared space, cities carry burdens of alienation, they articulate fragile frustrations as well as weave tales of resistance and aspirations. What constitutes your relationship with a city? Has a cinematic piece hit you differently by indulging into the nooks and crannies of city-space? We want to delve into the layers of your imagination and criticality as you walk on old soils again.
In contemplation of ideas like nostalgia, memory, longing, loss, displacement and more, we invite entries for dillinama’s first issue, sheher.
Submission window: November 1st- December 31st
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