Parallel practice

Fiction · science

Writing

Fiction, screenplays, and popular science, mostly about technology, scientific ideas, and the human mess around both.

Leaves 01–02

Creative Writing

Manuscript · 01

Draft · Book

Distorted Mirrors · a collection in progress

Distorted Mirrors

A literary-fiction collection about ordinary people in present-day India and its near-futures, living with technologies that arrive before anyone has agreed what they are for. The stories are less interested in spectacle than in the smaller moral injuries of progress: attention traded for convenience, intimacy mediated by systems, and lives reduced to data that can be optimised away.

Table of Contents14 stories

The collection is unpublished; the running order is still being decided.

  • Syntheia
  • Under the Same Sun
  • Foreign Debris
  • Citation Needed
  • The Tawaif’s Daughter
  • 30,000 Years of Forgetting
  • Customer Satisfaction
  • A Flexible Spine
  • Confessions of a Machine
  • Through the Smoke and Screens
  • Code of Beauty
  • Desirable End
  • Tower of AI Babel
  • LoadSharing

Currently looking for a literary agent. Get in touch if you have any leads.

Screenplay · 02

Draft

Freezer

A science fiction screenplay for a short film that interweaves first contact, climate catastrophe, and an intimate love story across three timelines. Adapted from Sheetkapat by Subodh P. Javadekar.

Logline

When the solar system drifts into a molecular cloud and plunges Earth into a thousand-year ice age, two lovers in a freezing near-future Pune gamble on being frozen alive — hoping to wake, centuries later, to a world worth living in.

Interested in adaptation? Get in touch.