The Subverse

<p>In episode three of season four, host Anjali Alappat sits down with writer, academic and documentary producer, Sami Ahmad Khan. </p> <p>He is the author of Red Jihad: Battle for South Asia (2012), Aliens in Delhi...

<p >In this final instalment of Cataplisms, we join conservation anthropologist Sahil Nijhawan and his collaborator Iho Mitapo in the Dibang Valley on a journey that is both spiritual and scientific. Iho and Sahil are...

<p >In episode three, we chat with Rashmi Devadasan, Rakesh Khanna, and R.T. Samuel, the brilliant minds behind The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF, which has been making waves in the Indian speculative fiction scene. </p>...

<p >In episode two of season four, lawyer, author, and editor Gautam Bhatia returns! </p> <p >When we last spoke to Gautam, he had just published The Horizon, the much-anticipated sequel to The Wall. Since then, he’s...

<p >In the first episode of season four, host Anjali Alappat sits down with Gigi Ganguly, to discuss her debut collection of short stories, Biopeculiar: Stories of an Uncertain World (Westland Books, 2024).</p> <p >Gigi...

<p >In this episode of Stories from the Subverse, Nayanika Mathur, Professor of Anthropology and South Asian Studies at the University of Oxford, delves into the conflict between big cats and humans. Nayanika’s book...

<p>In this episode of Stories from the Subverse, we present our first Cataplisms audio story. The Cataplisms project examines our multispecies entanglements, critiques capitalism, and acknowledges the cataclysms at our...

<p>In this episode, we're discussing plants, their exuberant multispecies sexualities and what we can learn from them, how botany is always interlinked with its cultural and historic context including colonialism, and...

<p>In the eighth episode of the season, host Susan Mathews talks to Pranay Lal, a<br /> natural history writer and climate change advocate about the dearth of interest in publishing books on natural history, the climate...

<p>In this episode host Susan Mathews talks to Heather Davis, the author of Plastic Matter (2022) about plastic and how it has completely permeated our world. They cover a wide range of topics from synthetic...

<p>In this episode, host Susan Mathews is in conversation with Ferris Jabr, author of Becoming<br /> Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life (2024), and a contributing writer for The New York<br /> Times Magazine and...

<p>We're back with The Subverse. In this episode of the season, host Susan Mathews talks to writer and ecological thinker Aseem Shrivastava about the current crises in modern cosmology. Ecosophy, which acknowledges the...

<p >Vajra Chandrasekera returns to Arcx for our season finale. Since we last spoke, Vajra has won a Nebula award, as well as Crawford and Locus awards for his debut novel, The Saint of Bright Doors. He has also been...

<p >This week, host Anjali Alappat chats with SF author, physicist, and transdisciplinary scholar of climate change, Vandana Singh. A professor of physics, Vandana’s writing combines science and social issues in...

<p>In today's episode of Arcx, we're in conversation with sci-fi and fantasy author, R.R. Virdi. </p> <p >Virdi published his first book, Dangerous Ways, an urban fantasy novel, in 2016. He is also the author of the...