The Paper Planes Journal – Year 1, Issue 6 [Oct-Nov 2026]

What happens when people stop reading, stop thinking and stop asking questions? Ray Bradbury tried to answer that in Fahrenheit 451, and Issue 6 of The Paper Planes Journal answers back. It’s 64 pages of young writers and artists who keep asking questions.

The issue starts with memes. Three young writers look at how a joke with twelve words on it can mock, shape and even rally a movement. They follow it from this year’s CJP protests to Nepal’s 2025 uprising, and they’re honest about where memes fall short. Next you meet Kripa, the artist and author behind the award-winning Art is a Voice, a book that asks you to draw what you actually see, not what you’ve been told to see. Art Smart then looks back at the great masters who used their brushes as a form of protest.

You’ll also visit the forests of Great Nicobar, where giant leatherback turtles and a Shompen boy face the cost of a mega-project. There’s a stop at Jantar Mantar through a set of letters, and a review of The Sheep Detectives, a whodunnit where remembering quietly becomes a way to resist. In between are short stories, poems, a graphic narrative, book picks, a little Bahasa Indonesia, a profile of Delhi Public School Khanapara, music from Yaelokre to Olivia Rodrigo, sugar found in space, a piece on sibling rivalry, and puzzles to finish with.

It’s written for curious readers of every age, and especially for the ones who keep asking “why?”

“Stuff your eyes with wonder.”