Chutney #04

Chutney is an independent magazine of everyday stories on cultures and identities from voices of the Global Majority and its diasporas. Each issue explores aspects of homeland, colonial history, nostalgia, migration and more, in hopes of challenging the idea of communities as monoliths and enriching our understanding of, and solidarity with, one another.

Split into the familiar three sections that reflect the process of making chutney—Chop, Mix and Preserve—this issue carries a collection of 21 stories on culture and identity.

In this issue: Gaza’s sea, cosmic liberation, migrant massage workers, friendship in six pieces, Bosnian tombstones, an erotic manifesto, bodily posturing, cactus paddles, joss paper shirts, homeland dysphoria, tent diplomacy, cultural cannibalism, apples, Yuwaalaraay ancestors, drawing home, past lives, Pustaha rematriation, stitching a landscape, bulldozer violence, Palestine on film, and Pacific Islands ads.

"If previous issues took a more celebratory approach to our many cultures and identities, much of the writing that follows feels more like a reckoning, or perhaps an attempt to reconcile multiple ways of being. Pain, grief, absence, and loss, sit alongside small joys, fond memories, and dreams." 

- Osman Bari, Editor & Art Director

 London, UK; 128x202 mm; 234 pages