Welcome to this sparsely populated corner of the Internet. My name is Kaushik, and I like dabbling in things.
This place is basically a collection of links to all my different highly online... things? The following are a few areas of dabblery
I enjoy speculative fiction and try to write some stories. Most never see the light of day on the Internet, but I will be happy to send you what I have written if you say hi at kazarelth+writing at gmail.
A friend and I have a Podcast of speculative fiction from South Asia up at Unseen Fiction- I do recommend that you give it a read/listen. Currently on a short semi-long hiatus
I have narrated speculative fiction for several SF/F podcasts on the Internet as well. (I have listed them below - constantly updated!)
I learnt the guitar due to the Greater Quarantine of mid 2020. This also came with the acquisition of the Teenage Engineering OP-Z, which is a bona-fide gateway drug to electronic music.
My work is up on Bandcamp- do give it a listen. Semi-regularly updated.
Currently working on an EP with samples from old Tamil movies, as well as a lush and dreamy vocal EP to sing and play and make a lot of music.
The goal this year is to do an Open Mic - let's see where we land!
EscapePod
A Little Bit of Kali (Part 1 of 2), by Yudhanjaya Wijeratne and R. R. Virdi
A Little Bit of Kali (Part 2 of 2), by Yudhanjaya Wijeratne and R. R. Virdi
Pseudopod
Laal Aandhi, by Usman T. Malik
The Fox, by Conrad Williams
PodCastle
Ravana's Children, by Ian Muneshwar
The Family Ghost, by Rati Mehrotra
Tiger in the BSE, by E. Lily Yu
Lavanya and Deepika, by Shveta Thakrar
Cast of Wonders
Indian Rope Trick, by James Fitzsimmons
The Last Auction, by Abhilash Jayachandra
Tales to Terrify
The River, by Nicole Steinmetz
83, by David Court
StarShipSofa
The Djinn's Wife, by Ian McDonald
A Human's Life, by George Nikolopoulos
Skins, by Rjurik Davidson and Sunil Patel