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In the final episode of the season, Susan Mathews speaks with Antone Martinho-Truswell, a fascinating behavioural ecologist, Operations Mana...

In episode four of The Subverse , host Susan Mathews talks with Joaquin Ezcurra, an intrepid and adventurous cartographer, marine technician...

In episode three, Susan Mathews continues her conversation with Mădălina Diaconu, a researcher at the Department of Philosophy at the Univer...

In episode two, Susan Mathews speaks to Mădălina Diaconu, a researcher at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Vienna, Austria...

We kick off season five of The Subverse , focused on the element of 'air', with host Susan Mathews in conversation with Dr. Roxy Mathew Koll...

In episode three of season four, host Anjali Alappat sits down with writer, academic and documentary producer, Sami Ahmad Khan. He is the au...

In this final instalment of Cataplisms, we join conservation anthropologist Sahil Nijhawan and his collaborator Iho Mitapo in the Dibang Val...

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...

In episode two of season four, lawyer, author, and editor Gautam Bhatia returns! When we last spoke to Gautam, he had just published The Hor...

In the first episode of season four, host Anjali Alappat sits down with Gigi Ganguly, to discuss her debut collection of short stories, Biop...

In this episode of Stories from the Subverse , Nayanika Mathur, Professor of Anthropology and South Asian Studies at the University of Oxfor...

In this episode of Stories from the Subverse , we present our first Cataplisms audio story. The Cataplisms project examines our multispecies...

In this episode, we're discussing plants, their exuberant multispecies sexualities and what we can learn from them, how botany is always int...

In the eighth episode of the season, host Susan Mathews talks to Pranay Lal, a natural history writer and climate change advocate about the...

In this episode host Susan Mathews talks to Heather Davis, the author of Plastic Matter (2022) about plastic and how it has completely perme...

In this episode, host Susan Mathews is in conversation with Ferris Jabr, author of Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life (2024), and a...

We're back with The Subverse. In this episode of the season, host Susan Mathews talks to writer and ecological thinker Aseem Shrivastava abo...

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...

This week, host Anjali Alappat chats with SF author, physicist, and transdisciplinary scholar of climate change, Vandana Singh. A professor...

In today's episode of Arcx, we're in conversation with sci-fi and fantasy author, R.R. Virdi. Virdi published his first book, Dangerous Ways...

Kritika H. Rao, speculative fiction and children's book author, joins us to discuss her critically acclaimed novel, The Surviving Sky, and i...

In this episode, host Anjali Alappat sits down with Gourav Mohanty, lawyer, writer, and stand up comedian. Born in Bhubaneshwar, the City of...

Today's guest is award winning author and journalist, Bina Shah. Her first sci-fi novel Before She Sleeps was published in 2018, followed by...

Arcx is all about literary inspiration. In epiode two of this season, host Anjali Alappat speaks to Indian sci-fi legend, Manjula Padmanabha...

Arcx is all about literary inspiration. We're kicking off this season with debut novelist Prashanth Srivatsa to discuss his debut epic fanta...

In this episode, we are in conversation with Dr. Craig Walton , a planetary scientist based at ETH Zürich and the University of Cambridge. C...

In this episode, host Susan Mathews is in conversation with Kathryn Yusoff , Professor of Inhuman Geography at Queen Mary University of Lond...

In this episode, host Susan Mathews is in conversation with Dr. Ambika Aiyadurai, an anthropologist studying wildlife conservation with an i...

We start Season 4 of The Subverse, which will focus on "Earth", with a conversation with David George Haskell , a writer and biologist. We f...

In today's episode, we bring you Stories from the Subverse. Siddharth Pandey, a writer, artist, and historian, extols the wonders of moving,...

In this episode, Susan Mathews narrates an eccentric story of fire, an intangible and odd element. She begins with lines from William Blake'...

In this episode, host Susan Mathews has a revealing conversation with Professor Pompa Banerjee on fire and gendered and ritualised violence...

Dear listeners, this week we return to The Subverse. In this episode, Susan Mathews is in conversation with Bhumika Saraswati, an independen...

Arcx is all about literary inspiration. In this episode, we speak to short story writer, editor and novelist, Vajra Chandrasekera. Vajra's w...

Arcx is all about literary inspiration. In this episode, we speak to doctor and speculative fiction writer Usman T. Malik. Usman's work has...

Arcx is all about literary inspiration. In the sixth episode of this season, host Anjali Alappat talks to journalist, editor, and author Pay...

Arcx is all about literary inspiration. In the fifth episode of this season, host Anjali Alappat speaks with Saad Z. Hossain, the author of...

Arcx is all about literary inspiration. In episode four, host Anjali Alappat chats with author and editor, Shweta Taneja. Shweta is best kno...

Arcx is all about literary inspiration. In episode three, host Anjali Alappat talks to Yudhanjaya Wijeratne , science fiction author, data s...

Arcx is all about literary inspiration. In Season 2, we continue our conversations with South Asian sci-fi, fantasy and speculative fiction...

Arcx is all about literary inspiration. In Season 2, we continue our conversations with South Asian sci-fi, fantasy and speculative fiction...

In this episode, The Subverse explores the progression in the use of metals and its impact on the trajectory of human evolution,the role of...

In this episode, Susan Mathews speaks with Dr. Bharat Jayram Venkat about the unequal distribution of the effects of heat. For this, we trav...

In this episode, Susan Mathews is in conversation with Prof. Robert Romanyshyn—an Emeritus Professor of Psychology at Pacifica Graduate Inst...

In Season 3 of The Subverse, we are journeying into 'fire'. In this opening episode, we speak with Prof. Stephen J. Pyne , a fire historian,...

In part two of our Water and Caste series within the Stories from the Subverse, anti-caste intersectional feminist researcher-activist Swati...

Stories from the Subverse, where we uncover hidden and marginalized stories through a more personal storytelling lens, returns with a two pa...

Susan Mathews speaks with architect and planner Dilip Da Cunha . He is an Adjunct Professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Ar...

We continue to explore relationality when it comes to water, and learn more from three women who have made water, and bodies of water, their...

Water has played a central role as a resource and property in our dominant worldviews. It has made and unmade empires. In our nation-buildin...
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