Through Hakara, which means 'a call' in Marathi, playwright Ashutosh Potdar and art critic Noopur Desai have found their calling. Both have big careers: four of Potdar's plays, including Marathi heavyweights F-1/105 and Anand Bhog Mall, have been published, and he teaches literature, culture studies and drama at Flame University in Pune. Desai, who has done her master's in art history from MS University of Baroda, is currently pursuing her PhD from TISS.

Yet, they somehow found the time to launch Hakara, an online art journal in Marathi and English, which publishes unpublished plays, short stories, poetry, art and photographic projects. When we ask Desai what they get out of it, she says, "In any art form, it is always difficult to have a tangible outcome. [But], it's important to create a dialogue. And today, it is important to have such open spaces, where artists can express themselves about the concerns they have, not only political and social, but also concerns about art, such as medium and material. That is what the potential of Hakara
is today."