— AG Gardiner, On Letter Writing.
Letter of Appreciation – A Digital Photography Magazine – জোনাকি (Jonaki)
Dear Readers This letter is an expression of camaraderie for another digital magazine which shares the same philosophy of independent art and artists. I hope you would support their work as well. A group of young photographers from Bengal, led by Koushiki Jana, initiated this remarkable endeavour, bringing together diverse yet harmonious perspectives on the…
Keep readingPeter Cordwell’s letter for the founder of DoubleSpeak Magazine
Dear Arpan, It could be said that I’ve written four books of varying sizes and descriptions over the past six years, partly owing to the strange times of Covid and, in no small part, thanks to someone I fondly refer to as the ‘Dean of Dean Street’—but more on him later. When you, my dear…
Keep readingDevi Gopinath’s creative piece (letter writing)
Editor’s Note: Letter writing is a form that is getting lost in our days of instagram stories and messenger chats. This letter is an academic exercise which the creator wishes to share with a wider audience to acknowledge the warmth and intimacy of words for the loved one. My dearest Allie, i will not lie to…
Keep readingLetter from the Founder of DoubleSpeak Magazine
Dear Comrades of DoubleSpeak, As I write to you today, it is with a heart that carries both the weight of our times and the hope that sustains us all. The world, as we know, is passing through a crucible of crises that test the very fabric of our shared humanity. Geopolitical wars rage on…
Keep readingPritha Banerjee Chattopadhyay’s letter
Dear Editor/s Many congratulations on completing four remarkable years of publishing your online magazine. It’s no small feat to sustain something with such consistency and grace, and I can only imagine the immense amount of hard work, commitment, and vision that has gone into maintaining the superlative quality the magazine is now known for. You…
Keep readingLetter from the founder of DoubleSpeak Magazine
Dear Comrades of DoubleSpeak Are you alarmed that I am calling you all my comrades? Well don’t be. May be because of the examples of tyrannical communist connotations attached to that word, we never get to see the unfathomable hope and joy that this word can bring to us. I am a school teacher by…
Keep readingAnindya Sundar Paul’s letter: Feedback For DoubleSpeak
Dare I say that these sentences are a culmination of a prolonged procrastination following a conversation with the editor of this magazine last summer, and here we are into another summer almost. A beautiful thing is worthy of appreciation. Therefore, when something wonderfully crafted doesn't catch the eye or doesn't get the appreciation it deserves,…
Keep readingPeter Appleton’s fictional letter: Re Applicaiton for Transfer
Editor’s Note: This is a work of fiction and yet this has been kept in the letter section for its format. To: hgreer@oxbridge.uni.net From: mgrey@oxbridge.uni.net Re: Application for transfer Cc Directorate for Personnel Directorate for Legal Conformity Dear Professor Greer, I write…
Keep readingPeter Cordwell’s letter
Letter to DoubleSpeak I’m sure I’m not the only person amazed to find DoubleSpeak and then have the joy of having something published in the magazine.I must have found it on Google. I’m always Googling about something or other. I’m a 76-year-old ‘semi-retired’ journalist in SE London. I write the Mercury Man column (https://greenwichwire.co.uk/author/mercuryman2000/) for…
Keep readingPurna Chakrovarty’s leisurely letter to a friend
Tower 12- 114 Supermax Noida-220304 8th Jan 2018. My dearest Nilofer, As I write, I know for sure that you are on your rooftop, basking on your vibrantly embroidered mat, a snug sprawl for your sunlit flirtations. It's two in the afternoon, reminiscent of those Sundays when we'd escape to our rooftop after tending to household…
Keep readingLetter from the founder of DoubleSpeak Magazine
Dear Readers A party is due. It’s DoubleSpeak’s birthday and it is three years old now. If only we could all meet up and celebrate. We do need to celebrate and here’s why. How many of you have I met ever? How many of you have I known even personally, albeit being on the other…
Keep readingPurna Chakrovarty’s letter to Santa Claus
Editor’s Note: A first, this is a creative piece exploring the art of letter writing. Thus far DoubleSpeak Magazine has published letters by readers critiquing others’ works, or Founder’s messages or even book reviews. This one though is an imaginative exploration of the form and hopefully will revive the lost yet intimate art of letter…
Keep readingMy Review of Saikat Bakshi’s novel: Almost Love
Editor’s Note: This letter is from me for the readers of DoubleSpeak. So far I have only written letters to talk about how DoubleSpeak has come this far. This time I thought I will do something else. Dear readers, Saikat Bakshi is a seasoned old timer, when it comes to writing novels. He already has…
Keep readingMy Review of Bhumika R’s book of poems: The Language of Unhealed Wounds
Editor’s Note: This letter is from me for the readers of DoubleSpeak. So far I have only written letters to talk about how DoubleSpeak has come this far. This time I thought I will do something else. Dear readers It is neither easy nor fair to write a review of a book of poem. Poetry,…
Keep readingLetter from the editor of DoubleSpeak Magazine
Dear Readers This issue is quite a mixed bag and I believe it’s because of the theme that I chose. Identity and Perception is a complex thing and vast as well. People have different ideas about identity, how they understand the word, how they live the word and how they explain it to others. Perception…
Keep readingLetter from the founder of DoubleSpeak Magazine
Dear Readers 10 is a good number, because it is the first of a repeating pattern in the decimal number system, and also because it has been the jersey number of the iconic football players over the years. But I guess I am just making this up. We have these ways of identifying milestones in…
Keep readingLetter from the founder of DoubleSpeak Magazine
Dear friends of DoubleSpeak, Thank you. This could have been all and yet I find myself writing much more to you. Yes, we are still up and running, not making any money, but making new friends in every single issue of DoubleSpeak. We can take pride in saying that DoubleSpeak is one magazine which has…
Keep readingLetter from the founder of DoubleSpeak Magazine
Dear Authors, Artists and Readers It is utterly surreal to acknowledge even that I haven’t met most of you in person, or even talked with you over a telephone, and yet feel a strange kinship, one that is of sharing a space that hosts words and images for all of us. I started this space…
Keep readingUjjaini Roy‘s letter.
Dear Editor As an avid reader of poetry, I have taken myself through all the poems featured in the June issue of Double Speak. And yes, I enjoyed reading them all. However, just the way some people stay and grow on us, some poems do too. There is one specific poem (I take the liberty…
Keep readingPritha Banerjee Chattopadhyay‘s letter.
Dear Team Doublespeak Thank you for coming up with the idea of the magazine for what it is and congratulations for not giving up on the ideals that you must have commenced the journey with. Readers today have a plethora of digital work to read from and I personally think that gives us the opportunity…
Keep readingLetter from the Founder of DoubleSpeak Magazine
Dear Readers At the onset, I need to thank you for supporting a free online magazine like DoubleSpeak. We have a very limited set of readers but somehow we have been able to reach out to many aspiring, amateur, established and professional artists from across the world. Their contributions to this magazine make it the…
Keep readingLetter from the Founder of DoubleSpeak Magazine
Dear readers, Thank you. And that could well be all what I had to say to you. But how much is the gratitude that I carry for you, perhaps, is not expressible through those two words – ‘thank you’. When we thought of bringing out this free online magazine, we never thought that we would…
Keep readingGokulananda Nandan‘s letter: Worry, Worrier and Warrior – The burden of worry in parenthood
Dear Editor, Shefali Chowdhary’s essay “When to stop worrying”, published on 28th September 2021, reminds me of my fatherhood. However, the tide of personal worry for my three-and-a-half-year-old daughter flows rather inversely – from being worrier to worried – as compared to the mental schema of Chowdhary. Undoubtedly there is a difference between being a parent of…
Keep readingSoumen Mandal’s letter: After reading Debbie Ghosh’s poem.
Dear Editor, Congratulations on your wonderful magazine DoubleSpeak. I find the name of the magazine quite hilarious. If you google (apparently this is a verb now) the word “doublespeak” and ask for an example this comes up. “Doublespeak is the complete opposite of plain and simple truth. … For example, if a pharmaceutical company said…
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