A growing collection of podcast series featuring stories, observations and conversations from different corners of life. From life in the Nilgiris to reflections on creativity, work and the human condition, each series is guided by curiosity, humour and a willingness to pay attention.
Dispatches from the Nilgiris is a five-part podcast series about a city-dweller learning that life in the hills follows a very different set of rules.
From unhurried notions of time and astonishingly efficient gossip networks to tea estates, military communities and old-world clubs where cricket whites and "just a spot of milk" remain perfectly normal, the series explores the people and peculiarities that make the Nilgiris unique.
Told with humour, curiosity and affection, these dispatches are ultimately about belonging, and the unexpected moment when a place stops feeling like somewhere you've moved to and starts feeling like home.
Observations. Reflections. The occasional rant.
I started Notes After Rain because I realised most of my thoughts seem to arrive at inconvenient hours, usually late at night, with rain somewhere outside the window, a neglected glass of scotch beside a stack of books, and the growing awareness that sleep has once again become secondary to thinking.
The series grew out of those hours. The interior hours where memory becomes unusually active, where certain passages from books return unexpectedly, where unfinished conversations, old ambitions, films, music, solitude, and small observations begin drifting slowly to the surface.
These episodes are reflections on books, creativity, art, ageing, emotional restraint, and the strange ways people continue negotiating with themselves internally long after the rest of the world appears asleep.
There are no grand conclusions here, unfortunately. Just conversations, observations, occasional existential drift, and the comforting possibility that perhaps none of us are quite as alone in our thoughts as we imagine.