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Dark 'n' Light Zine
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 3 ต.ค. 2021
Chronicling the times we live in and reimagining futures with a focus on science, nature, social justice and culture.
Arcx: Usman T Malik
In episode seven, host Anjali Alappat chats with doctor and speculative fiction writer Usman T. Malik.
Usman’s work has been published extensively, and featured in platforms such as Strange Horizons, Tor.com, Black Static, and Nightmare.
In 2014, he became the first Pakistani to win the Bram Stoker Award for Short Fiction for his work The Vaporization Enthalpy of a Peculiar Pakistani Family. He also won a British Fantasy Award in 2016 for The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn. The story was also nominated for Nebula, Locus, and World Fantasy awards. He has also received Locus award nominations for his stories In the Ruins of Mohenjo-Daro and The Fortune of Sparrows. In 2018, he received another Stoker nomination for Dead Lovers on Each Blade, Hung.
In this episode, we discuss the importance of accurate history, authentic storytelling, the often missed nuances of desi stories, and the horror of everyday realities.
Usman’s work has been published extensively, and featured in platforms such as Strange Horizons, Tor.com, Black Static, and Nightmare.
In 2014, he became the first Pakistani to win the Bram Stoker Award for Short Fiction for his work The Vaporization Enthalpy of a Peculiar Pakistani Family. He also won a British Fantasy Award in 2016 for The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn. The story was also nominated for Nebula, Locus, and World Fantasy awards. He has also received Locus award nominations for his stories In the Ruins of Mohenjo-Daro and The Fortune of Sparrows. In 2018, he received another Stoker nomination for Dead Lovers on Each Blade, Hung.
In this episode, we discuss the importance of accurate history, authentic storytelling, the often missed nuances of desi stories, and the horror of everyday realities.
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Eri Hand Spinners
มุมมอง 637 หลายเดือนก่อน
In this short film, we travel to Assam and Meghalaya, capturing the revival of the tradition of hand spinning eri silk yarn (also known as ahimsa silk yarn). Historically, women in these agrarian communities have relied on hand spinning eri to supplement their incomes. But in recent years, mills and mechanised spinning have monopolised the textile market. These small scale revivals are slowly b...
Arcx - Vajra Chandrasekera
มุมมอง 408 หลายเดือนก่อน
In episode eight, host Anjali Alappat chats with short story writer, editor and novelist, Vajra Chandrasekera. Vajra’s work is largely in the realm of speculative fiction, and he has published over a hundred pieces since 2012 in various formats. Notably, his work has been featured in Analog, Clarkesworld, West Branch, and The Los Angeles Times. He has also been nominated for the Theodore Sturge...
Bhumika Saraswati on Intersecting Heat: Visual Journeys into Caste, Gender and Labour in India
มุมมอง 3078 หลายเดือนก่อน
In this episode, Susan Mathews is in conversation with Bhumika Saraswati, an independent photographer, journalist and filmmaker. In 2022, she was awarded a UNFPA-Laadli Media Award for Gender Sensitive Work and in 2023, she was awarded a Human Rights Press Award by Human Rights Watch (HRW) and the Journalism School of Arizona State University, United States of America for her short documentary ...
Acrx : Vajra Chandrasekera
มุมมอง 98 หลายเดือนก่อน
In episode eight, host Anjali Alappat chats with short story writer, editor and novelist, Vajra Chandrasekera. In this episode, we sit down to discuss some classic desi themes: colonialism, intergenerational trauma, and overblown family drama. We also touch on destiny, friendships, revolution, and terrible science fiction adaptations. Listen to the entire episode here: darknlight.com/podcast/ar...
Intersecting Heat Visual Journeys into Caste, Gender and Labour in India with Bhumika Saraswati
มุมมอง 148 หลายเดือนก่อน
In this episode, Susan Mathews is in conversation with Bhumika Saraswati, an independent photographer, journalist and filmmaker. In 2022, she was awarded a UNFPA-Laadli Media Award for Gender Sensitive Work and in 2023, she was awarded a Human Rights Press Award by Human Rights Watch (HRW) and the Journalism School of Arizona State University, United States of America for her short documentary ...
Arcx: Shweta Taneja
มุมมอง 59 หลายเดือนก่อน
Author and editor, Shweta Taneja is best known for her #urbanfantasy Innate Tantrist series, but has also received recognition for her work in #childrensbooks. Her #nonfictionbook-They Found What?/ They Made What?- was a national best-seller. She also recently published a new sci-fi novel for kids called Kungfu Aunty vs Garbage Monsters. Additionally, Shweta’s short story, The Daughter That Ble...
Arcx: Payal Dhar
มุมมอง 269 หลายเดือนก่อน
#Writer, #editor and #journalist Payal Dhar primarily writes for middle grade and young adult audiences, and her extensive catalogue of work includes Satin: A Stitch in Time, Slightly Burnt, Hit for a Six, There’s a Ghost in My PC, and It Has No Name. More recently, Payal has published two books in the Sands of Time series: The Prophecy and The Key. Payal’s work has also been featured in anthol...
Arcx: Saad Z. Hossain
มุมมอง 159 หลายเดือนก่อน
Saad Z. Hossain, is the #bestsellingauthor of the #Djinn series, which includes Djinn City, The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday, Kundo Wakes Up and Cyber Mage. His debut novel, Escape from Baghdad! was a finalist at the Grand Prix de L’imaginaire in 2018. The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday also received critical acclaim and was a finalist at the Locus Awards and the IGNYTE awards in 2020. Kundo ...
Gautam Bhatia
มุมมอง 269 หลายเดือนก่อน
In the first episode of season two of Arcx, host Anjali Alappat chats with author, editor, lawyer and critic Gautam Bhatia. Gautam’s debut novel, The Wall (2020), and its sequel, The Horizon (2021), are filled with fascinating world building, complex characters, and fabulously convoluted plotlines. If you love twists and turns, beautiful prose, and some good old fashioned anti-establishment thi...
Tashan Mehta
มุมมอง 889 หลายเดือนก่อน
In episode two, host Anjali Alappat speaks with author and editor Tashan Mehta. Her debut novel, The Liar’s Weave, is a wonderful mix of myth and magic, chronicling the exploits of a teenage boy in 1920s India who has tremendous power and poor judgement - a potent mix. We discuss relearning how to write, plurality in storytelling, astrology taken very seriously, the desire to shape your own des...
Yudhanjaya Wijeratne
มุมมอง 139 หลายเดือนก่อน
In episode three, host Anjali Alappat talks to Yudhanjaya Wijeratne, Science Fiction author, data scientist, and researcher. Yudhanjaya is the author of The Slow Sad Suicide of Rohan Wijeratne, Numbercaste, The Inhuman Peace, The Inhuman Race, and The Salvage Crew. More recently he was awarded the Gratiaen Prize for Literature for his yet-to-be published book The Wretched and the Damned. Yudhan...
Tracing the Pyrocene: an ecological three-body problem with Stephen J. Pyne
มุมมอง 339 หลายเดือนก่อน
In this opening episode, we speak with Prof. Stephen J. Pyne, a fire historian, urban farmer, and emeritus professor at Arizona State University, U.S.A. Pyne has written over 40 books, most of which are centred around fire. In this conversation, we focus on his book The Pyrocene: How we Created an Age of Fire, and What Happens Next, published in 2021. The discussion began with how fire is, for ...
Unequal Heat: Race, Bodies and Thermal Histories with Dr. Bharat Venkat
มุมมอง 969 หลายเดือนก่อน
In this episode, Susan Mathews is in conversation with Dr. Bharat Jayram Venkat, an associate professor at #UCLA’s Institute for Society & Genetics with joint appointments in the Departments of #History and #Anthropology. His first book, At the Limits of Cure (Duke University Press, 2021), was the winner of the Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences. His current work focuses on the...
Unearthing fire: metallurgy, artefacts, and symbolism with Sharda Srinivasan
มุมมอง 219 หลายเดือนก่อน
Unearthing fire: metallurgy, artefacts, and symbolism with Sharda Srinivasan
Robert Romanyshyn on Frankenstein and Fire: Reading from the Margins
มุมมอง 819 หลายเดือนก่อน
Robert Romanyshyn on Frankenstein and Fire: Reading from the Margins
Sustainability Event at Literati Cafe, Calangute Goa
มุมมอง 33ปีที่แล้ว
Sustainability Event at Literati Cafe, Calangute Goa
Of Relationality and Water: Stories of Kinship, Care and Belonging Part 2
มุมมอง 2ปีที่แล้ว
Of Relationality and Water: Stories of Kinship, Care and Belonging Part 2
Drawing the Line: Inventing Rivers, the Dissent of Rain and Embracing Wetness with Dilip da Cunha
มุมมอง 56ปีที่แล้ว
Drawing the Line: Inventing Rivers, the Dissent of Rain and Embracing Wetness with Dilip da Cunha
Land, lyrics and the Poromboke commons with Nityanand Jayaraman
มุมมอง 31ปีที่แล้ว
Land, lyrics and the Poromboke commons with Nityanand Jayaraman
Of Relationality and Water: Stories of Kinship, Care and Belonging
มุมมอง 13ปีที่แล้ว
Of Relationality and Water: Stories of Kinship, Care and Belonging
Sea turtles, Island fever and Magical mysteries: the adventures of an evolutionary ecologist
มุมมอง 8ปีที่แล้ว
Sea turtles, Island fever and Magical mysteries: the adventures of an evolutionary ecologist
How to Breathe, and Other Survival Lessons From Marine Mammals with Alexis Pauline Gumbs
มุมมอง 125ปีที่แล้ว
How to Breathe, and Other Survival Lessons From Marine Mammals with Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Floating on a Bed of Rights: Water, Sanitation, and Legal Currents with Catarina de Albuquerque
มุมมอง 2ปีที่แล้ว
Floating on a Bed of Rights: Water, Sanitation, and Legal Currents with Catarina de Albuquerque
Subduing Unruly Waters: Learning from South Asia’s Environmental History with Sunil Amrith
มุมมอง 130ปีที่แล้ว
Subduing Unruly Waters: Learning from South Asia’s Environmental History with Sunil Amrith
A story made of water: of incantations, mermaids, and moonlight with Sharanya Manivannan
มุมมอง 62ปีที่แล้ว
A story made of water: of incantations, mermaids, and moonlight with Sharanya Manivannan
A River Dammed: Oral Histories from the Narmada River Valley with Nandini K. Oza
มุมมอง 64ปีที่แล้ว
A River Dammed: Oral Histories from the Narmada River Valley with Nandini K. Oza
Art as resistance: the future of activism in a changing climate with Kumi Naidoo
มุมมอง 10ปีที่แล้ว
Art as resistance: the future of activism in a changing climate with Kumi Naidoo
From the stars to the tidepool: water as the matrix of life
มุมมอง 10ปีที่แล้ว
From the stars to the tidepool: water as the matrix of life
The Sami are part of my heritage on both sides of the family. Thank you for sharing!
Sapmi are a mix of Scandinavian asiatics
They are who they are; their own people, their own culture.
@drfred1203 yes they are after several thousand yrs Sammi developed. No culture is born out of thin it is a product of bits of pieces that gives it birth. I'm culturally lebanese but I have recent ancestors who are Semitic, indo-eueopean
Mon rávnne lea nu aiddo viggáid! Mon lean Anár sámegiela guovllu ja mon olbmá vajálda mielde, maid don jietnadit earáide mielas eará sámi kultuvra birra! Buorre dáhttu!
Proud to be of Sami blood!
May this pride that burns like a fire in your heart never go out ❤💚💛💙
I love how he dissolves the construct of the line, making the world almost magical. Thank you for the interview!
Thanks so much for listening!
Why, now days, our Indian authors has been writing in present tense? I've seen three other authors by now, only this year.
Hello, my dear friend, I liked your video and also the song is beautiful, but can you please give me the name of the song “Yoik” in the video? I loved it very much, thank you. ترجمة مباشرة
Love this!
Thank you so much for watching!
We are not in a climate crisis. The Earth was warmer in the recent and distant past. It also warmed faster in the past.
Brilliant Composition, refreshing and worth experiencing... The music and the visuals are simply enchanting
Thank you for watching our film, and so glad that you enjoyed it!
Fantastic.
Thank you for watching!
What an absolutely fabulous piece!
Thank you so much!