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It is with quiet pride and deep gratitude that I present the twentieth issue of DoubleSpeak—a milestone shaped by voices that travel across borders, disciplines, and lived experiences. This edition gathers work from contributors based in India, England, Wales, the United States, Mexico, Russia, Australia, Nigeria, Spain, France, and beyond, reminding us that imagination does not recognise passports. Within these pages, professional writers converse with first-time contributors; students write alongside retired hobbyists; doctors, lawyers, academicians, and educators share space with well-exhibited fine artists, photographers, and filmmakers. What unites them is not uniformity of style or background, but a shared willingness to speak, to listen, and to trust language and image as vessels of meaning. The poems, fictions, visual essays, and abstractions in this issue move between the personal and the political, the intimate and the expansive, offering fresh narratives rooted in fundamental human emotions and contemporary realities. As DoubleSpeak reaches its twentieth issue, it feels less like a magazine and more like a living archive of global empathy—an ever-growing conversation sustained by generosity, curiosity, and the belief that creative expression can still bring us closer, even in fractured times.

List of Contributors for December 2025 issue

Poetry	Aakash Sagar Chouhan Addison Richards (2) (3) Ahmed Farooq Baidoon Diane Bier Fizza Shuaib (2) Hafsa Ali (2) Ishana Roy J. Agombar Jahnavi Gogoi (2) Jake Sheff (2) John Grey (2) Jon Summers (2) Kayla Flowers Linda M. Crate (2) Linette Rabsatt Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozábal (2) Lucas Zulu Lynn White (2) Maitreyee Kulkarni Martha Ellen (2) (3) (4) Nikollë Loka Pawel Markiewicz (2) Pritha Banerjee Chattopadhyay (2) Renz Chester R. Gumaru Richard Oyama Somali Mukherjee (2) Usaini Abubakar Uyirin Jhini Viviana De Cecco
Fiction	Arjun Razdan Declan Geraghty Gary Beck Huina Zheng Jonathan Pett Pranati Diana Arun Rathin Bhattacharjee Surya Narayan V Viviana De Cecco
Essay	Abhipsa Munsi Anindya Sundar Paul Debaleena Mukherjee Debika Banerji Don Henning Fernando Gros Nahar Trina Peter Cordwell (2) Renz Chester R. Gumaru
Photography	Koushiki Jana Linette Rabsatt Nabendu Jyoti Nihar Sapre Shamashish Sengupta
Photo-Stories	Angel Singhal (2) Archit Jain Khushi Puranik Nasta Martyn Neradhi Prakash Prachi Jog Shashwat Naik Shelly Singh Siya Gupta Susan L. Pollet Vivian De Cecco
Translation	Kamola Zayniddinova Viviana De Cecco (2) (3) Walid Abdallah
Collaboration	Ameirah Varughese and Koushik Saha Diane Bier and Tanish Dhawan Issy Jinarmo Koushik Saha and Aniket Banerjee
Letters	Arpan Krishna Deb

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