— AG Gardiner, On Letter Writing.
Letter 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…
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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…
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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…
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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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