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DoubleSpeak is three years old now. We haven't made any money since, neither have we paid to any of our authors or artists, well that was the idea and we have survived being true to our promise. I believe DoubleSpeak is a testimony to the fact that a space which is meant to become a home for a variety of forms in words and images might not need money to survive, but the love and trust of the partners. Instead what remains important is our collaborative journey, in which we all are trying to find a meaning through these creative pieces. As we bring our thirteenth issue online we look back and count, not what we have spent, but the number of creative minds that we could bring together on this platform for the world to read and share. DoubleSpeak's success is as much ours as it is for our authors and artists. Without their trust in our idea and vision DoubleSpeak could not have come this far. As we bring to you, again, a host of interesting poems, stories, essays, mini-albums, photo-stories, translations and letters, we look back and celebrate the power that creative expression can give us. Poets, authors and fine artists from all around the world have given their works for this issue. We have poems from USA, UK, Australia, India, Nepal and parts of Europe. We have translations from Hindi, Latin. German and Persian. We have digital art, photographs and handmade mosaics in the visual sections. We have stories written by seasoned writers and even a middle-schooler. We have essays about motherhood, teaching and even love for a quaint bookstore. For the first time we have a letter written in its most imaginative form. I remain grateful to all the contributors for their trust and I am also thankful to my readers without whose encouragement we wouldn't have reached this far. I hope you'd enjoy reading this issue. Please write to us about your views on the published pieces, we are keen to publish your views as letters in the next issue. Happy reading.   

List of Contributors for March 2024 issue

Poetry	Alshaad Kara (2) Ann Privateer Bobbi Sinha-Morey Brittany Anne Forster Bruce McRae (2) Hanzala Mojibi (2) Ishita Das Jake Sheff John Grey (2) Kumar Ghimire Rajshree Rathore (2) Shafkat Aziz Hajam Shikha S Lamba (2) Shiva Neupane Somali Mukherjee (2) Stephen Mead (2) Sushant Thapa Tracy Dickerhoff (2)
Fiction	Cathy LaForge Tonkin Charmila M Sankar Declan Geraghty Eric Lande Gary Beck Ian C Smith (2) Julian Gallo Mitalee Sagar Gathe Mrigakshi Mazumder Narelle Noppert (2) Peace Nkeiruka Maduako
Essay	Indranil Banerjee Paromita Goswami Pritha Banerjee Chattopadhyay Ujjaini Roy
Photography	llfa Ijlal Saranya Ganguly Subha Bhadra
Photo-Stories	Binod Dawadi Narelle Noppert Sanjukta Chatterjee
Translation	Ali Osat Mirzahossein / Hale Zare Neirizi Jake Sheff (2) Supurna Dasgupta Pritha Banerjee Chattopadhyay/Anish Ghosh Shubha Dwivedi (2) (3)
Collaboration	Issy Jinarmo  (Jill Baggett, Narelle Noppert and Maureen Kelly) Shikha S Lamba and Koushik Saha
Letters	Purna Chakrovarty Arpan Krishna Deb

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