There are some books that immediately strike our minds when we talk about fantasy: Harry Potter Series, Lord of the Rings, ever favorite Game of Thrones, etc. We all know these books are entirely fictional and have like no chance of occurring in real life. They are the innovations of the authors, something that is confined to just those pages. 
And moreover, people disregard fantasy nowadays. ‘It’s too childish!’ ‘You know that is never happening!’ ‘That is so stupid, what was the author doing?’ And if by chance they stumble upon creations like GOT, ‘Wait, isn’t that too dark for its genre?’ In fact, half of my family is considering the theory that my cousin’s introverted and absentmindedness has been born from reading too many novels! 
But I will proudly say fantasy is a genre that will never ever get outdated (20 years of Harry Potter and it’s still alive and kicking, isn’t it?), and in fact with time, fantasy makes even more sense! (Archie comics predicted online schooling, didn’t they?) I personally began my venture into the reading realm with this genre, and let me say it, I fell in love. As a fantasy author, I can also feel how exciting it is to write such books, to have the power to do anything on those pages. Fiction is integral to our lives, and fantasy is one of the most important categories of fiction.​

The Cliché and the Coveted:
In a survey done by yours truly, I have compiled from a range of groups their favorite (and least favorite) tropes in literature. A fair bit of it depends on personal preference, as indicated by the romantics making grabby hands at the newest heart-throbbing drama, and the academics picking apart every nook and cranny of their fiercely wordy novels. That preference can spring from a plethora of options, be it life experience, culture, or the urge to slap a band-aid over our own healing wounds via reading the stories we love. ​

Calling all avid readers and literati: submit a guest column about literature, and we'll publish it. 

The youth's disillusionment with reading is, in most respects, a universal and relentless state of mind. We begin in a puddle of words and numbers—we learn to read them and write them to the most fundamental point of our education. And as we become older, or what we think is older, a great spell falls upon us like an invisible mist: unsuspecting, unbothered. It seems, now, that even a name as resonant as Jane Austen holds the same power, or even more, in the balance of disinterest than the mother of a friend of a friend from down the road. But who's to blame? And, of course, so what?

Below are the wonderful minds who were published in the first issue of our journal.