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வணக்கம். Welcome.

வணக்கம். Welcome.

a space for severely subjective (and slightly lost) souls

trying to make sense of dystopian realities. 

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  P O D C A S T  

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EPISODE 1 Nilakantan RS

On Fact, Federalism & Gamifying Democracy

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EPISODE 5 Maria Sledmere

On AI, Poetry & Mythoscapes

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EPISODE 9 Sameer Somal

On Profit with Purpose

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EPISODE 13 Munni Trivedi & Mark Hannant

On Creative Outsourcing, AI & Communications

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EPISODE 2 Mirri Glasson-Darling

On Surreality, Landscape & Literary Fiction

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EPISODE 6 Caitlynn Bailey-Cummings

On Italy, Dolce Far Niente & Thoughtful Travel

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EPISODE 10 Inés G. Labarta

On Creative Writing

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EPISODE 14 Aakash Singh Rathore

On Politics, Plato, Nietzsche & Nihilism

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EPISODE 3 Prachi Gangwani

On Men, Masculinity & Relationships

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EPISODE 7 Sharif D. Rangnekar

On Queer Lit, Pasts & Futures

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EPISODE 11 Living Smile Vidya

On Gender Fluidity &

Performance

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EPISODE 15 Yvette Taylor

On Working Class Queers - Time, Place & Politics

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EPISODE 4 Lauren Humphries-Brooks

On Filmdom & Feminism

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EPISODE 8 Jhani Randhawa

On Time, Language &

The Body

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EPISODE 12 Dr. Catriona Ellis

On The Madras Presidency

  IN CONVERSATION  

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I deeply admire writers – Lidia Yuknavitch, Rebecca Solnit – who hand you their experience in a way that feels unfiltered, like their heart is an egg cracked into your hand, their hope and their fury: of course, this is a craft in itself.

 

A lot of my writing, I think, is an attempt to engage with the aspects of being in the world that are hard for me to articulate, to engage with the questions I don’t have answers to. I keep gravitating to questions of home and belonging, with occasionally contradictory answers, or no answers at all: just a desire to keep questioning. Giving shape to the felt, the unknown.

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Writer & Artist

ELODIE OLSON-COONS

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I will say, finding the way back has required reflection and asking:

What do I keep focusing on, really?

Where am I spending my time, really?

Why am I moving in this direction?

Sometimes you wake up, unaware you’ve been riding passenger side in a car you’ve been meant to be driving this whole time. And no one’s in that seat, just air through the window. The accompanying adrenaline shot is vivifying.
Also: Do I care, really? [About [writing]]? Why?
Also: What else matters?
Also: tick tick tick

SABRINA USWAK

AUTHOR

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There’s Kazuo Ishiguro’s Nobel quote where he says that instead of ‘write what you know’, the thing he wants his fiction to ask is ‘This is the way it feels to me… Does it also feel this way to you?’ I think that’s true for all fiction anyway, but it’s perhaps even more obvious when you’re dealing with horror or apocalyptic and dystopian lit, things that are born out of anxiety or depression or fear. With something like ‘Jellyfish’, the lighter jokes are just essentially that most employment is absurd and essentially abstract – but it’s something we’re doing in the midst of absolute insanity. The poles are melting and the bees are dying but you better justify your job daily to a clade of middle managers. The 24hr access to news doesn’t help – that’s a lot of dead bodies you’re being told to ignore. Maybe that’s useful for writing, but I think I’d feel a lot better without all of it.

Writer

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RACHELLEBHARTHICHANDRAN

Writer & Researcher

I’m neurodivergent, queer, non-binary and Dalit. Out of all these identities, I can remember every identity except Dalit being an affirming identity in public. When a Dalit stands in protest with .jpg

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PRASHANTH VENKATARAMANA

CEO & Co-founder, Essmart

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I don't think rural populations in India have the same access to either the quality of education, knowledge, technology, different aspects of life that urban citizens are taking for granted. I thought of this as a problem, not as an opportunity. I felt that I was empowered enough to try and not solve, but at least try and contribute to the solution in some way.

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RAJITA TIPPAVAJHALA

ARTIST

anything handmade is about to become even more valuable

(Thanks to *cough cough* AI) and I love the tactile feel of the thick buttery paint on my brush as I take it to my canvas.  It feels like delicate sensory play. You won’t find that richness anywhere in hue, chroma and texture like you would with oil painting. 

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JACK RYAN SMITH

Music Producer, A & R

There is no music without experimentation. A purist approach is death. To all things, not just music. The moment one takes such an approach, the art form is placed in formaldehyde and locked away in a cabinet, a curiosity, a holy relic that has some vague interest only in that it was once living and breathing, once of some importance.

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SEMANTIC BANTER

Dr. Kwasu D. Tembo

Academic & Author

ART/LIT

RAINA PAHADE

Interdisciplinary Artist

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Sindhu 
Rajasekaran

Curatrix

Sindhu Rajasekaran (she/her) is an author, filmmaker & academic. Her debut novel Kaleidoscopic Reflections was nominated for the Crossword Book Award, while her latest book of nonfiction is the best-selling Smashing the Patriarchy - A Guide for the 21st century Indian Woman. Sindhu's fiction, poetry & essays have been published internationally by literary magazines, leading platforms, and academic journals. She has produced an award-winning Indo-British feature film, Ramanujan, and has written for the screen. Worked for years as a communications consultant. Done a bunch of disparate things. Thought of starting a theory podcast for ages (and finally has through The Subjective Space). 

She's currently pursuing her PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Strathclyde, where she's a recipient of the Dean's Global Research Award. She's exploring queer South Asian pasts, creative epistemologies & queer decolonial storytelling.

So I Let It Be
Kaleidoscopic Reflections Novel
Sindhu Rajasekaran
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