Blog Posts

In her final blog post, Susan Mathews, founder of Dark ‘n’ Light, discusses our ‘changing of seasons’, the need for rest and hibernation, traversing and transcending boundaries, and journeys past and ahead

In this blog post, Anjali Alappat, the host of Arcx, reflects on four seasons of in-depth conversations with some of South Asia’s best known speculative fiction authors, the SFF landscape in the region, and where the podcast goes from here.

Last month, Dark ‘n’ Light hosted our first in person workshop, “Untethered Cities.” A futures literacy lab, the aim of the session was to explore audacious, weird, and wonderful possibilities for our collective futures. In this blog post, Siddhi and Kushal, our facilitators, talk about their experiences putting together the workshop, what they learnt from the gathering, and the radical possibilities of the future.

Marking the third anniversary of the magazine, founder Susan Mathews draws inspiration from Ouroboros, the mythical serpent or dragon.

Susan Mathews introduces Critical Zones, a spin off of our flagship podcast The Subverse with an identity of its own. Join Bhumika Saraswati and the rest of the Dark ‘n’ Light team as we explore the layers of Earth that hold all life.

In this blogpost, marking two years since Dark ‘n’ Light began, Susan Mathews takes a symbolic deep breath, and talks about what accompanies that respiration: cosmologies, histories, politics, and poetics, and more. Artwork credit: Vinayak Varma

In this blogpost, Susan Mathews closes out Season 2 of The Subverse by delving into what we’ve learnt from our watery preoccupations. Channelling Douglas Adams, we embrace some muddy logics, explore life at water’s edge, and water as passage and porous border. Artwork credit: Adrija Ghosh

The host of Arcx, Anjali Alappat, shares what we’ve learnt from season one, our hopes for season two, and what should be on your reading list regardless.