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

[Himanshu]

Please ignore the typo in the subject line; it is "Prāśnika: Journal of
Subcontinental Thought & Imagination and CfP for the Inaugural Issue."

On Sat, May 2, 2026 at 2:55 PM Himanshu <hn2001himanshu at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> 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.
>    -
>
>    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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