Stories of cross-border love and bonding by authors such as Selina Hossain (Bangladesh), Taha Kehar (Pakistan), Aditha Dissanayake and Daya Dissanayake (both Sri Lanka), Balraj Khanna (India) and Paola Martani (Italy) are included in the fifth anniversary edition of the quarterly The Equator Line magazine.
The first issue of The Equator Line (TEL) in 2012 titled "India: Waiting for a New Helmsman" had on its cover a caparisoned elephant, its howdah empty, outside a red- sandstone fort.
"The response was mixed - the younger the reader the stronger the approval. The older ones, more used to the conventional format, wondered whether TEL was indeed a magazine or a book," recalls TEL editor-in-chief Bhaskar Roy.
The subsequent issues touched upon a myriad of topics like stories from India and Pakistan, leadership question, the tinsel world of Bombay talkies, diaspora, war, the new woman, faith, rivers and football.
Veteran journalist Mark Tully called TEL a "deeply thoughtful magazine" which "challenges me to think and always learn from its editions".
"We remain relevant so long as we continue to surprise our audiences remaining within the liberal parameter. Five years the first important landmark, but the journey has just begun," says Roy.
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