Sneha Subramanian Kanta
Sneha Subramanian Kanta is the recipient of the inaugural Vijay Nambisan Fellowship 2019. She was the Charles Wallace Fellow writer-in-residence (2018-2019) at the University of Stirling. An awardee of the GREAT scholarship, she has earned a second postgraduate degree in literature from the University of Plymouth. Her dissertation concentrated on a comparative literature study exploring postcolonial ecocriticism in the works of Arundhati Roy and Amitav Ghosh. She is the founding editor of Parentheses Journal.
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When a Familiar City Becomes a Eulogy of Loss
Being born in Mumbai, I inherited the syntax of its distinct vocabulary. The undulant range of people as vibrant as the thrum of the Arabian Sea, smells of mogra, gulab, and champa from Dadar market, and songs of fishermen as Marine Drive gleams with the first light of dawning. I lived in the city for […]
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Recollections then-and-now: Bones of a city
Sneha Subramanian Kanta and her father, Mr. Subramanian Swaminathan reflect on the changes they have witnessed in Mumbai that inspired Sneha’s “When a Familiar City Becomes a Eulogy of Loss.”