‘Some stories stay with you forever’: Indira Chandrasekhar
The Hindu
Indira Chandrasekhar, founder-editor of the online literary magazine Out of Print, says that the short story format enables the writer to explore themes with a sharp focus
Scientist and fiction-writer Indira Chandrasekhar is founder-editor of the online literary magazine Out of Print, which celebrated its tenth anniversary in December 2020. The occasion was marked with the publication of Out of Print — Ten Years: An Anthology of Stories, which showcased some of the best works of short fiction that have appeared in the magazine over the years. The book didn’t get the attention it deserved as the pandemic intervened. Chandrasekhar is the author of Polymorphism: Stories, published in 2017. She has been associated with the G5A Foundation for Contemporary Culture, a non-profit focusing on experimental contemporary art, since its inception. In this interview, she explains what Out of Print means to her. Excerpts:
At the time we started Out of Print, I was beginning to write fiction seriously myself and discovered that there were few spaces in India for publishing short stories, and almost no online platforms. The latter bring such immediacy and reach, which create a certain energy in itself. I felt a burst of conviction that we would be able to start and sustain an online magazine for short fiction and I just plunged in.