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Repetition

Repetition is an inescapable reality of our lives. It is the means through which we structure time and action. The repetitive pattern of the Earth’s movements gives rise to the routine of day and night, and the cycles of summer, spring, monsoon, and winter. The human instinct to categorise, classify, and organise latches on to these repetitive movements to bring order to the free flowing stream of time.  

For our 17th edition, we are interested in exploring the theme of ‘repetition’. 

We repeat the same tasks at regular intervals of time: we brush our teeth, bathe, pack our lunches, and leave for work on a daily basis; we pay our household bills every month; we keep annual reminders to file our taxes. For an artist or a working professional, the act of repetition is an attempt to discipline their instincts and maintain a consistent practice. In poetry or music, repetition can create emphasis, pattern and rhythm; in performance, it is a tool used to train the body and voice. Repetition can also be an exercise in memorisation, and a step toward learning, and the creation of a form of knowledge.

For some, repetition can be a source of drudgery, boredom, and frustration. It can lead to a feeling of being stuck in a time, place, or a situation. A housewife caught in the cycle of daily chores, a manual labourer bogged down by the need to earn her daily bread, an accountant with a desk job that is stable, but fails to stimulate. 

What does a repetitive act mean to a society and an individual where progress is measured in continual production? What role does the act of repetition play in your physical, intellectual, creative, and social life? In what ways does it structure your daily lives, and the world at large? How does it feature in your art practice? How do you negotiate with the sameness of repetition along with the burden of creating something new? 

You may be a musician, dancer, performance artist, fiction writer, social scientist, poet, social/political activist, visual artist, cartoonist, critic, photographer, translator, or curator; we invite you to reflect on the theme of ‘repetition’ and contribute to Hakara’s seventeenth edition. Send us your work in Marathi and/or English or in an audio-visual form by October 8, 2022 to info@hakara.in. For submission guidelines, please click here. 

Ashutosh Potdar
Editor, हाकारा । hākārā
(Purvi Rajpuria will be Guest Editor for the 17th Hakara edition.)

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Submission Guidelines

1. In response to the primary focus of the upcoming edition of हाकारा । hākārā, we welcome contributions that take on new and innovative forms and new ideas not previously analyzed or that extend beyond an older conversation in the field of creative expression and/or enquiry.
2. हाकारा | hākārā is a peer-reviewed journal. Being an online journal, we accept only electronic submissions.
3. The written work has to be submitted as a Microsoft Word document (as .doc and Not PDF or any other format), and be double-spaced text in 12 pt Times New Roman font as an attachment. For the text in Marathi, please follow Unicode format. If the contributor wants to maintain a certain style in presenting work, please inform Hakara Editors while submitting the work.
4. The image size has to be 150 dpi or more in resolution for visual work submission. Additionally, If you wish to submit your work to the ‘Panorama’ section, images must be at least 1000×600 pixels. Please share details of artworks including title, medium, size and year. In case, the images included do not belong to the contributor, the contributor should provide a source of the images.
5. Please don’t send video files to be included in the submitted narrative. We can provide links to the video work uploaded on Vimeo, YouTube or other platforms that can be openly accessed.
6. We require a title page with the contributor’s contact information, a short abstract and a contributor’s bio as part of the submission process.
7. Submissions must not be previously published nor should they be submitted for publication elsewhere while being reviewed by हाकारा । hākārā’s Editorial Board or outside reviewers.
8. For the submission of research articles, please follow the Modern Language Association (MLA) style. The contributors are requested to verify facts, names of people, places, and dates, and double-check all direct quotations and entries, and images in the Works Cited list.
9. We request the contributor to obtain permission for illustrations, and images from the concerned to be used in submission. Also, translators submitting their work should seek necessary permission from the original writer/publisher if the work will be accepted by हाकारा । hākārā for the publication.
10. Contributors would hear from the हाकारा । hākārā team a month after the submission regarding the decision on consideration of the work.
11. For accepted contributions, हाकारा । hākārā Editors would be happy to work with contributors, if required, in finalising the work before its publication.
12. Copyright remains with the contributor. However, if work on हाकारा । hākārā has been published elsewhere again in print or electronic format, we request the acknowledgement stating that the work was first published in हाकारा । hākārā, an online bilingual journal of creative expression published in English and Marathi. Visit www.hakara.in.
13. At this stage, हाकारा । hākārā cannot pay contributors. But, we are seeking financial support that may help us pay our contributors in future.
14. For any queries and submissions, please e-mail us: info@hakara.in