# Writing

> Creative writing and popular science: literary fiction, screenplays, and Marathi science articles.

Source: [https://www.indrapatil.com/writing/](https://www.indrapatil.com/writing/)

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

## Creative Writing

Unpublished manuscript

### Distorted Mirrors

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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The collection is unpublished; the running order is still being decided.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](mailto:patilindrajeet.science@gmail.com) if you have any leads.

Screenplay

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](mailto:patilindrajeet.science@gmail.com).

Marathi

## Popular Science

Marathi · 10 articles · 2011

### विज्ञान कुतूहल

Science Curiosity

[Download विज्ञान कुतूहल e-book (PDF)](/pdfs/writing/science-curiosity.pdf)

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A collection of Marathi popular-science articles exploring how animals recognise themselves, whether computers can think, and what the chemistry of space might tell us about the spread of life.

The articles range from immunity and organ regeneration to Moore's Law, lie detection, and materials that bend light, examining both the possibilities of science and the limits behind promises such as perpetual motion.

Table of Contents10 articles

1.  प्राण्यांमधील स्वत्वाची जाणीव – Self-awareness in animals
2.  अवकाशातील बकिबॉल्स आणि जीवनसृष्टीचा प्रसार – Buckyballs in space and the spread of life
3.  रोगप्रतिकारक शक्ती आणि प्रजननक्षमतेचे व्यस्त प्रमाण! – The trade-off between immunity and fertility
4.  मूरचा नियम आणि संगणकाची प्रगती – Moore's Law and the advance of computing
5.  संगणक मानवासारखा विचार करू शकेल काय? – Can computers think like humans?
6.  असत्यशोधनाचे तंत्रज्ञान – The technology of lie detection
7.  चिरंतन कार्यशील यंत्रांचे मायाजाळ – The myth of perpetual-motion machines
8.  प्राण्यांमधील तापमान-नियंत्रण व्यवस्था – Temperature regulation in animals
9.  अदृश्य होणारे पदार्थ: मेटामटेरिअल्स – Materials that vanish: metamaterials
10.  मानवी अवयवांची पुनर्वाढ होऊ शकते का? – Can human organs regenerate?

[PDF](/pdfs/writing/science-curiosity.pdf)

Originally published as a series of articles in 2011 in [Loksatta](https://www.loksatta.com/), a Marathi-language daily of the Indian Express Group, with an estimated 3.8 million monthly readers.