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हाक २३ / Call 23

Call 23: Flow

The gentle rhythm of a stream through rocks, the ease of friendly conversation, and the pervasive flow of emotions and thoughts. It’s the flow — to move forward with ideas and actions and flowness — that has been part of our lives marking the passage of time, space and people. 

हाकारा | hākārā’s 23rd call aims at reflecting upon the idea of ‘flow’ and ‘flowness’ through visual and narrative forms, artistic and reflective practices.

In our lives, flow is natural and change is constant. At its best, flow is release. It softens grief, nourishes spirit, and reminds us that we belong to time. However, flow isn’t always gentle. It can be uncontainable — the flood, the storm, the ocean, a rumour and an anger — wild and ruthless, changing the course of the action. Life is not and cannot be seen as an unbroken, linear flow of events and actions. Aberrations and disruptions are part of every journey, sometimes forcing us to pause, reflect, and reinvent in the face of changing times and contexts. 

At times, certain individuals and communities are denied to be part of the flow within the hierarchical power structure. They are stunted, silenced, and left unseen. Social, cultural, and economic hierarchies often determine the flow available to various individuals and communities. Through revolutionary changes; dreamers and visionary-activists protest and break the flow that is stagnant and manipulative. They show new ways and vision to humanity.

What does flow mean to you? How are you excited by the flowness in life? Do you feel the persistent, relentless, and omnipresent existence of flow? How have individuals and societies responded to established movements and countermovements? How do you document and reflect on flow through your creative and critical practices?

Accepting Submissions for: Essays, Fiction, Poetry, Visual Narratives, Art Criticism, Book Reviews, Cultural Criticism or Translations.

Submission Deadline: July 15, 2025.

Publication: August 2025.

Please use the Google form linked here to send us your work. 

We are not accepting email submissions.

Ashutosh Potdar
Editor, हाकारा | hākārā

Purvi Rajpuria
Associate Editor,हाकारा | hākārā

Editorial Support: Anagha Mandavkar and Pallavi Singh 

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/essays(2500-3000 words), 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
  15. हाकारा । hākārā: ISSN 2581-9976: Included in the University Grants Commission (UGC) CARE-LIST.
  16. We don’t charge any fees to get the literature/art published in हाकारा । hākārā.