[INDOLOGY] Prāśnika: Journal of Subcontinental Thought & Imagination and CfP for the Inaugral Issue

[Himanshu]

Philosophers, Indologists, cultural theorists, Historians of Philosophy,
and all others on this list are warmly invited to respond to this call for
papers before the deadline of May 20th.


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 <https://letstalktattva.in/> 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:

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   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.
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   Reviews of books relevant to the theme of the issue.
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   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
<https://letstalktattva.in/2025/12/08/prasnika/>. You can also download the
CfP from this link
<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fxY_E_U7sPp1ryR7WjLPMJbq1lhoo3oh/view?usp=sharing>
.

Please send all abstracts for the inaugural issue via this Google Form
<https://forms.gle/xJviHhz4XKKeF22i9> 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
letstalktattva at gmail.com.

Regards,

Himanshu
Doctoral Candidate
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay

Mumbai

(on behalf of)


Team Let's Talk Tattva

www.letstalktattva.in
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