Aim and Scope

Intesab Aalami aims to promote literary excellence, critical inquiry, and cultural understanding by providing a credible, peer-reviewed platform for creative and scholarly expression. Established with a commitment to nurturing original voices, the journal seeks to encourage both emerging and established writers, researchers, and artists to engage meaningfully with literature, society, and the arts. Operating on a non-profit basis, the journal aspires to build an inclusive literary community that values originality, depth of insight, and intellectual integrity across languages and disciplines.

The scope of Intesab Aalami is multidisciplinary and multilingual, publishing contributions in Urdu, Hindi and English. The journal welcomes a wide range of creative, critical, and research-based works, including fiction, non-fiction, poetry, essays and literary criticism, interviews, book reviews, biographical profiles of authors, travelogues, translations, art and photography, as well as research articles and review articles. 

List of Subjects Covered by the Intesab Aalami

Intesab Aalami follows a multidisciplinary and multilingual approach and welcomes submissions from all major academic, literary, artistic, and social domains. The indicative list of subjects includes, but is not limited to, the following broad areas:

  • Languages and Literature: Urdu, Hindi, English, Marathi literature; world literature; comparative literature; classical and modern literature; folklore and oral traditions.

  • Creative Writing and Arts: Fiction, short stories, novels, non-fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry, prose, drama, screenwriting, experimental and hybrid literary forms.

  • Literary Criticism and Theory: Literary theory, criticism, textual analysis, narratology, stylistics, postcolonial studies, feminist criticism, cultural criticism, reader-response studies.

  • Translation and Linguistics: Translation studies, comparative translation, linguistics, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, language studies, multilingual studies.

  • Humanities and Social Sciences: History, philosophy, sociology, anthropology, psychology, political science, economics, human geography, ethics, religion and theology.

  • Cultural and Media Studies: Cultural studies, media studies, communication studies, journalism, film studies, theatre studies, performance studies, popular culture.

  • Education and Pedagogy: Educational studies, curriculum studies, language education, literary pedagogy, higher education studies.

  • Gender and Identity Studies: Gender studies, women’s studies, masculinity studies, LGBTQ+ studies, identity and marginality studies.

  • Art, Design, and Visual Studies: Fine arts, visual arts, painting, sculpture, photography, digital art, art criticism, aesthetics.

  • Interdisciplinary and Applied Studies: Environmental studies, sustainability studies, development studies, globalization studies, urban and rural studies, peace and conflict studies.

  • Science, Technology, and Society (STS): Science and society, technology and culture, digital humanities, artificial intelligence and humanities, ethics of technology.

  • Law, Governance, and Public Policy: Legal studies, constitutional studies, human rights, public policy, governance and ethics.

  • Business, Management, and Economics (Humanities-oriented studies): Management studies, organizational culture, business ethics, economic thought, social entrepreneurship.

  • Health, Society, and Ethics: Public health (social perspectives), psychology and mental health, medical humanities, health ethics.

  • Regional, Area, and Global Studies: Indian studies, South Asian studies, Asian studies, African studies, Middle Eastern studies, European and American studies.

  • Biographical and Documentary Studies: Biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, life writing, archival studies, oral histories.

  • Reviews and Scholarly Communication: Book reviews, review articles, critical surveys, interviews with scholars, writers, artists, and thinkers.