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A space for severely subjective (and slightly lost) souls trying to make sense of dystopian realities.
Hostess @sindhurajasekaran.bsky.social discusses Anglophone Indian writing, readership & the mechanics of publishing w/ the Editorial Director of Pan Macmillan India, Pujitha Krishnan.

Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/3s84...
November 13, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Engraving of the first printing press, invented by Johannes Gutenberg.

Image source: Getty Images
November 4, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Do you? Or do you listen to books being read?

Ever gotten AI to read a book & summarize it for you?
November 3, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Fake Lines: Sono Levant.

Krank by @jaramachtsachen.bsky.social.

fakelines.studio
October 22, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Special episode on the pod. Dr Jaime M. Grant [author of Polyamory for Dummies & Great Sex: Mapping Your Desire] and Arundhati Ghosh [author of All Our Loves: Journeys with Polyamory in India] talk to hostess @sindhurajasekaran.bsky.social.

Listen here: spotify.link/uja3n9lKBXb
October 20, 2025 at 2:04 AM
On the pod this week: French-Moroccan essayist & poet Jamal Ouazzani talks to hostess Sindhu Rajasekaran about his latest book Amour.

You can listen to Ep. 37 (wow, we've come far) - On Amour, Queer Futurism & the Power of Poetry, here:

open.spotify.com/episode/2sxP...
October 11, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Apples on a Table, Green Background. Henri Matisse. 1916.

Source: Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk.
October 11, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Read award-winning playwright & novelist Armin Wühle's conversation w/ @sindhurajasekaran.bsky.social on The Subjective Space.

www.thesubjectivespace.com/arminw%C3%BC...
October 4, 2025 at 7:49 PM
On the pod this week: Researcher, writer & archivist Christina Chatzitheodorou talks to @sindhurajasekaran.bsky.social about memory, translation, political struggles, organising, women's movements & archiving.

Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/6kN3...
May 22, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Greek: ΕΠΟΝ propaganda leaflet containing an engraving of Tassos disseminated by Greek partisans during the Axis Occupation (1940–1944).

PC: Wikipedia Commons
May 19, 2025 at 5:25 PM
In Conversation: Dr Sarah Shamash speaks to
@sindhurajasekaran.bsky.social about the ongoing genocide in Gaza, abolition geography & "the importance of international solidarity as part of a consciousness that understands our interconnectedness."

Read: www.thesubjectivespace.com/sarahshamash
May 3, 2025 at 8:42 PM
When the world sleeps, I; Malak Mattar; 2022.
April 24, 2025 at 2:13 PM
In this wide-ranging episode, @saliltripathi.bsky.social discusses human rights, contemporary America, and his latest book: The Gujaratis - A Portrait of a Community with hostess @sindhurajasekaran.bsky.social.

Listen on Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/7leT...
April 15, 2025 at 11:14 PM
April 8, 2025 at 4:55 PM
On the pod this week: Arundhati Ghosh discusses polyamorous love, desire, queer pasts & futures, and decolonizing love with hostess @sindhurajasekaran.bsky.social.

Listen on Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/7yUt...
April 3, 2025 at 8:34 PM
In this fun episode, hostess @sindhurajasekaran.bsky.social chats with actor-writer-performer Lizzie Bourne about all things theatre, performing in North America & the UK, writing poetry, disagreeing better, and other interesting things. Listen in!

On Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0rvd...
March 25, 2025 at 1:15 AM
March 23, 2025 at 2:39 AM
On this thrilling episode, @sindhurajasekaran.bsky.social talks to @rosiewalkerauthor.bsky.social abt. writing psychological thrillers - Rosie's inspirations, writing praxis, the genre, how she constructs her characters, builds narrative, and the like.

Listen: open.spotify.com/episode/251b...
March 13, 2025 at 11:49 PM
On the pod this week: @jordankistler.bsky.social talks to hostess @sindhurajasekaran.bsky.social about Victorian gothic lit, female vampires, fin de siècle decadent lit, museums, Victorian slang, and a bunch of other interesting things.

Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/1Vww...
March 8, 2025 at 4:15 AM
This Victorian girl likes drama and to be the source of it. Wikimedia, CC BY.

From @jordankistler.bsky.social's piece for The Conversation: 'Gen Z’s language might seem incomprehensible but slang has always sounded that way – just look at these five Victorian sayings.'
March 8, 2025 at 3:55 AM
The Nightmare, Henry Fuseli, 1781.
March 4, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Original Australian movie poster from 1980 for The Shining.

PC: Original Film Art - ca.originalfilmart.com
March 2, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Umm... thanks Google AI. This is such an honour!

The Subjective Space appreciates this, with some reservations. We do have editorial suggestions for you, give us a shout if you're interested.
March 1, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Listen to hostess @sindhurajasekaran.bsky.social & @qmanivannan.bsky.social talk about the quintessence of care, of grief as political action, and writing with honesty, in this brilliant episode of the The Subjective Space podcast.

Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/4yjv...
February 26, 2025 at 8:09 AM
PC: Alia Sinha
February 20, 2025 at 1:36 AM