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The Subverse
The Subverse, presented by Dark ‘n’ Light is a podcast that uncovers the hidden and marginal in stories about nature, culture and social justice. From the cosmic to the quantum, from cells to cities and from colonial histories to reimagining futures. Join Susan Mathews every fortnight on a Thursday...
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Floating on an Ocean of Air: Exploring the intersections of art, activism and science
In episode four of The Subverse, host Susan Mathews talks with Joaquin Ezcurra, an intrepid and adventurous cartographer, marine technician and web de...
Configurations of Air: Matter, Traces and Making a Landscape
In episode three, Susan Mathews continues her conversation with Mădălina Diaconu, a researcher at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Vi...
Under the Weather: Atmospherics, Aesthetics, and Thermic Subjects
In episode two, Susan Mathews speaks to Mădălina Diaconu, a researcher at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Vienna, Austria and author...
Currents of Change
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, a climate...
Sami Ahmad Khan
In episode three of season four, host Anjali Alappat sits down with writer, academic and documentary producer, Sami Ahmad Khan.
He is the autho...
The Amazing Morphs of the Golden Cat
In this final instalment of Cataplisms, we join conservation anthropologist Sahil Nijhawan and his collaborator Iho Mitapo in the Dibang Valley on a j...
Rashmi Devadasan, Rakesh Khanna & R.T. Samuel
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...
Gautam Bhatia
In episode two of season four, lawyer, author, and editor Gautam Bhatia returns!
When we last spoke to Gautam, he had just published The Horizo...
Arcx - Gigi Ganguly
In the first episode of season four, host Anjali Alappat sits down with Gigi Ganguly, to discuss her debut collection of short stories, Biopeculiar: S...
Crooked Cats: The Truth Behind Beastly Encounters
In this episode of Stories from the Subverse, Nayanika Mathur, Professor of Anthropology and South Asian Studies at the University of Oxford, delves i...
Fragmented Forests: Raza Kazmi Talks Capitalism, Conservation, and Charismatic Wildlife
In this episode of Stories from the Subverse, we present our first Cataplisms audio story. The Cataplisms project examines our multispecies entangleme...
Botanical Reckonings: Reclaiming the Embrangled Vegetal from Colonial Bonds
In this episode, we're discussing plants, their exuberant multispecies sexualities and what we can learn from them, how botany is always interlinked w...
History, Naturally: Earth, Climate and Human Cycles
In the eighth episode of the season, host Susan Mathews talks to Pranay Lal, a
natural history writer and climate change advocate about the dea...
Plastic Worlds: From Synthetic Universality to Queer Kin
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 w...
A Creature Called Earth: Movers, Shakers, and Rainmakers
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 co...
Earthly Matters: An Ecosophical Approach
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 cur...
Arcx - Vajra Chandrasekera
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...
Arcx - Vandana Singh
This week, host Anjali Alappat chats with SF author, physicist, and transdisciplinary scholar of climate change, Vandana Singh. A professor of physics...
Arcx - RR Virdi
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, a...
Arcx - Kritika H.Rao
Kritika H. Rao, speculative fiction and children’s book author, joins us to discuss her critically acclaimed novel, The Surviving Sky, and its recentl...
Arcx - Gourav Mohanty
In this episode, host Anjali Alappat sits down with Gourav Mohanty, lawyer, writer, and stand up comedian. Born in Bhubaneshwar, the City of Temples,...
Arcx - Bina Shah
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 the seque...
Arcx - Manjula Padmanabhan
Arcx is all about literary inspiration. In epiode two of this season, host Anjali Alappat speaks to Indian sci-fi legend, Manjula Padmanabhan. A proli...
Arcx - Prashanth Srivatsa
Arcx is all about literary inspiration. We’re kicking off this season with debut novelist Prashanth Srivatsa to discuss his debut epic fantasy novel,...
Seeding Life on Earth: Cosmic Gifts, Ultimate Outsiders and Bringers of Light
In this episode, we are in conversation with Dr. Craig Walton, a planetary scientist based at ETH Zürich and the University of Cambridge. Craig’s work...
Broken Grounds: Geology, Race and Counter-Gravities
In this episode, host Susan Mathews is in conversation with Kathryn Yusoff, Professor of
Inhuman Geography at Queen Mary University of London....
Fractured Ecologies: Caste, Indigeneity and Nature in India
In this episode, host Susan Mathews is in conversation with Dr. Ambika Aiyadurai, an anthropologist studying wildlife conservation with an interest in...
Sonic Earth: Life, Loss and Listening
We start Season 4 of The Subverse, which will focus on “Earth”, with a conversation with David George Haskell, a writer and biologist. We focus on his...
Movement, Mountains, Metamorphosis and Music
In today's episode, we bring you Stories from the Subverse. Siddharth Pandey, a writer, artist, and historian, extols the wonders of moving, and allow...
Fire Changes Everything
In this episode, Susan Mathews narrates an eccentric story of fire, an intangible and odd element. She begins with lines from William Blake’s “The Tyg...
Good Wife, Bad Witch: Incendiary Crossings and Theatres of Violence
In this episode, host Susan Mathews has a revealing conversation with Professor Pompa Banerjee on fire and gendered and ritualised violence in histori...
Intersecting Heat: Visual Journeys into Caste, Gender and Labour in India
Dear listeners, this week we return to The Subverse. In this episode, Susan Mathews is in conversation with Bhumika Saraswati, an independent photogra...
Acrx - Vajra Chandrasekera
Arcx is all about literary inspiration. In this episode, we speak to short story writer, editor and novelist, Vajra Chandrasekera.
Vajra’s work...
Arcx - Usman T. Malik
Arcx is all about literary inspiration. In this episode, we speak to doctor and speculative fiction writer Usman T. Malik. Usman’s work has be...
Arcx - Payal Dhar
Arcx is all about literary inspiration. In the sixth episode of this season, host Anjali Alappat talks to journalist, editor, and author Payal Dhar. <...
Arcx - Saad Z. Hossain
Arcx is all about literary inspiration. In the fifth episode of this season, host Anjali Alappat speaks with Saad Z. Hossain, the author of the best-s...
Arcx - Shweta Taneja
Arcx is all about literary inspiration. In episode four, host Anjali Alappat chats with author and editor, Shweta Taneja. Shweta is best known for her...
Arcx - Yudhanjaya Wijeratne
Arcx is all about literary inspiration. In episode three, host Anjali Alappat talks to Yudhanjaya Wijeratne, science fiction author, data scientist, a...
Arcx - Tashan Mehta
Arcx is all about literary inspiration. In Season 2, we continue our conversations with South Asian sci-fi, fantasy and speculative fiction writers, t...
Arcx - Gautam Bhatia
Arcx is all about literary inspiration. In Season 2, we continue our conversations with South Asian sci-fi, fantasy and speculative fiction writers, t...