[PHILOS-L] Prāśnika: Journal of Subcontinental Thought & Imagination and CfP for the Inaugural Issue
Himanshu H
It is with great pleasure that the team at Let’s Talk Tattva announces a call for papers for the inaugural issue of Prāśnika: Journal of Subcontinental Thought & Imagination, an open-access academic journal.
Although it might not be so obvious, it is impossible to deny that, within the subcontinental intellectual milieu, philosophical engagement remains fragmented across formal academic philosophy, Indological-historical scholarship, and literary-cultural discourse. These strands of scholarship are rarely brought into sustained conversation with one another. We at Let’s Talk Tattva have come to a realisation that there is a need to address this gap by creating a space where traditions, intellectual or otherwise, are taken on holistically as living sites of thought rather than isolated objects of study. Contributing towards that end, we are delighted to share the launch of Prāśnika: Journal of Subcontinental Thought & Imagination, a biannual open-access academic journal that will be published online by Let’s Talk Tattva.
We hope that Prāśnika will carve out a space for conversation that offers a rigorous yet more proximate enquiry, rooted in the specificity of the immediate hermeneutic concerns and academic responses.
Prāśnika will be publishing philosophical essays, translations, and reviews that think through the hermeneutic tapestry of the subcontinent, cutting across various linguistic boundaries. This journal engages with the subcontinental imagination gathered in and beyond the canonical intellectual traditions to articulate philosophical perspectives that deepen our affective entanglement with life in the present. We invite contributions that deliberate on inherited horizons of understanding and critique everyday transactions with our immediate hermeneutic topologies.
In addition to standard philosophy research articles, Prāśnika also publishes:
English translations of philosophy articles/essays, fiction, and poetry across linguistic traditions that are relevant to the theme being explored in the current issue of the journal.
Reviews of books relevant to the theme of the issue.
Conversations with the thinkers whose life-work has been devoted to churning our interpretative horizons.
Call for Submissions
For the inaugural issue of Prāśnika, to be published in Monsoon 2026, we invite abstracts exploring the theme: Philosophy and Poesy: Tracing the Lives of Imagination in the Subcontinent.
To learn more about the detailed CfP, editorial timeline, review process, and other details, please visit our website here. You can also download the CfP from this link.
Please send all abstracts for the inaugural issue via this Google Form by 20th May; selected abstracts will be communicated to submit the full manuscripts.
Please send your feedback and suggestions regarding our forum and Prāśnika to letstal...@gmail.com.
Regards,
Himanshu
Mumbai
(on behalf of)
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