About
The Zhagaram Literary Magazine is a youth-led publication aimed at publishing culturally-rooted literature and art.
Founded in Bangalore, the Garden City of India, we are open to submissions from writers all around the world. Give us a glimpse of your heritage.
Zhagaram is the zh sound unique to Indian languages like Tamizh and Malayalam. It is a reflex approximant and is pronounced as É». It is not easy to capture the essence of an entire culture within a single sound. The Zhagaram, however, to us is a syllable that manages to encapsulate the soul of language within its intricate lines and curves.
We publish literature and art which, like the zhagaram, manage to capture the essence of its culture within its verses or colours.
We want your myths, your unwritten histories, the stories whispered under the glow of little flames for centuries. We want your grandmother's silence, your mother's rage and you breaking generational curses. Tell us what the word for love is in your language, then tell us why it's so difficult for you to say it. Or how love spills easily from your heart when in your native language.
​Tell us what it means to be human and how your culture weaves its way into how you experience the human condition.