№01Architecture
✦ Architecture
The pink walls of Charles Correa
How a Goa-born architect taught India to build for the monsoon, not against it.
Aanya Iyer · p. 14–28
✦MAYA — A Quarterly
Issue Twenty-Two · The Monsoon/lab✦Issue 22 · Monsoon MMXXVI✦
Maya.
On living slowly in a country that won't stop moving.
96 pages✦4 features✦2 poems✦1 photo essay✦printed in Bombay
Editor's note
⸺ Devika Rao
The monsoon doesn't end a year — it interrupts one. This issue asks what gets made in the interruption: a building, a script, a chair, an afternoon. The answers come from four cities, in five languages.
Features.
Four pieces · 76 pages№02Type
✦ Type
Devanagari, after Mahendra Patel
A new generation of Indian type designers, and the script they grew up illegible in.
Kabir Bose · p. 30–48
№03Photo essay
✦ Photo essay
Five afternoons in Bombay, in the rain
Photographs by Suchitra Naik, May through July 2025.
S. Naik · A. Mehta · p. 50–71
№04Profile
✦ Profile
Aman Khanna keeps making the same chair
Twelve years, one form. A conversation about repetition as discipline.
Devika Rao · p. 74–88
✦ iii — Poems
Two,
translated.
In English and Devanagari, set side by side. The translations are deliberately loose.
The mango tree outside the kitchen / drops one fruit each summer / on the same square of the courtyard.
रसोई के बाहर आम का पेड़ / हर गर्मी एक फल गिराता है / आँगन के उसी कोने पर।
— A. Iyer, after Vinod Kumar Shukla
I learned to fold the saree from my grandmother / who learned it standing / in a room with no mirror.
साड़ी की तह दादी से सीखी / जिन्होंने सीखी थी खड़े होकर / एक कमरे में जहाँ आइना नहीं था।
— Sangeeta D., 2026
✦ iv — Photo essay
Five afternoons in Bombay, in the rain.
Suchitra Naik, 2025
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