Noor is an independent literary & arts magazine celebrating thrumming poetry, prose, & art.
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Named after the word Noor—Armenian for pomegranate, and serendipitously, Arabic for light—our mission is everything bright.
issue 2 at a glance
issue 2 at a glance
“everything seemed to fit on a picnic blanket and you had a chance of turning sixteen
that night, did you smell the same smoke every candle now finds me with?”
“After all, even the unmarried Indian woman is married. And even in this stanza, the streets of Meerut are synonymous with chudiya and payals, and smell of more than incense, and the national anthem is the sound of prophecy in chai leaves.”
“What happens to the land that has experienced a horrific and catastrophic event? The people who once lived there, now vanished. The culture and liveliness that once stepped foot on the land now leaves an empty void that can never be replaced.”
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