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Ayush Mukherjee

@ayushsplaining.bsky.social
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A little of too many different things. Prefers being called a philosopher-in-making.

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State of Matter @stateofmatter.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Find our editor, @ayushsplaining.bsky.social, writing about why Editing is akin to art-ing, and why readers must, in proper terms, be considered as aesthetic actors. Tell us your thoughts below. Find the article here: stateofmatter.in/blog/selecti... #readingcommunity #EditorsTake
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State of Matter @stateofmatter.bsky.social · 09/06/2024
🇱 is for… luxurious animation! We love the #fantasy entries in Love, Death + Robots. Allow us to recommend a few. Good Hunting, Bad Travelling, and Jibaro are bound to transport you elsewhere. ✨ We’re binge-watching the show this week 👀 What about you?
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State of Matter @stateofmatter.bsky.social · 09/06/2024
#WritingCommunity This is Week 12 of our exclusive hashtag#speculativefiction dictionary📔, a curated relic that features works of dubious reality. Calibrating plasma beams. We are rocketing through new wor(l)ds alphabetically. 52 weeks of 2024 with 26 speculative works… 👀🧵
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State of Matter @stateofmatter.bsky.social · 11/06/2024
Read “Family Business” by Yara Beshket now, among other pieces in our current issue. stateofmatter.in/issue/curren... #speculativefiction #scifi #fantasy #horror #WritingCommunity #IndianSFF
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State of Matter @stateofmatter.bsky.social · 11/06/2024
We love the mythology of the piece, and the gradual pacing that befits how the setting and the tone of the piece. Yara’s work is horrifying in that strange way that does not allow you to stop reading even as you know that something worse, much worse, is coming.
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State of Matter @stateofmatter.bsky.social · 11/06/2024
What secrets does your community hold? Yara’s dark #fantasy story talks about the darkness that lurks behind our windows, and how secrets can lie buried in ways that come back to haunt you. When that happens, what do you do? Read this one under the covers.
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State of Matter @stateofmatter.bsky.social · 11/06/2024
“That was why no one wanted the newcomers in the village: they lacked the guts to sprout here, and their trees were weak too.” - Yara Beshket, “Family Business” stateofmatter.in/fiction/fami...
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State of Matter @stateofmatter.bsky.social · 23/06/2024
🇲 is for…mechanized symphonies! One of the pinnacles of 70s rock music, The Man-Machine delivers a #scifi punch 🎵 Tracks like The Robots and The Model paint a dystopian picture with synthetic melodies. We’re listening to the album this week. Let us know what you think?
A summary of The Man-Machine, an album by Kraftwerk
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State of Matter @stateofmatter.bsky.social · 23/06/2024
#WritingCommunity This is Week 13 of our exclusive #speculativefiction dictionary📔, a curated relic that features works of dubious reality. Refuelling power cores. We are rocketing through new wor(l)ds alphabetically. 52 weeks of 2024 with 26 speculative works… 👀🧵
The Man-Machine, an album by Kraftwerk
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State of Matter @stateofmatter.bsky.social · 26/06/2024
Read “Black and White” by Nandini Tripathy now, among other pieces in our current issue. stateofmatter.in/issue/curren... #speculativefiction #scifi #fantasy #horror #WritingCommunity #IndianSFF
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State of Matter @stateofmatter.bsky.social · 26/06/2024
We love the sensitive, yet forceful, rendering of the protagonist in the piece, someone torn between remembering and its horror, and the perils of forgetting and what that entails. And yes, add to that some poetry too.
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State of Matter @stateofmatter.bsky.social · 26/06/2024
Isn’t it odd that in loss, we feel proliferation… of grief? Nandini’s #horror story accounts for such loss with the powerful symbol of finding the absent person everywhere, so that an easy domesticity becomes transformed into confinement. Read this one in the present.
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State of Matter @stateofmatter.bsky.social · 26/06/2024
“There are too many of him, blighting the house, crowding every room but one, against whose door she now stands clutching her dohar.” - Nandini Devdutt Tripathy, “Black and White” stateofmatter.in/fiction/blac...
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State of Matter @stateofmatter.bsky.social · 13/04/2024
Our next soul was Ayush: @ayushsplaining.bsky.social, part-time philosopher, full-time café enthusiast. He likes #horror like he likes his politics: caffeinated. ☕ His editorials are here: stateofmatter.in/creator/ayus... And his recent fiction: tasavvurnama.com/the-temporal...
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The Temporal Distinctions of Living - Tasavvur
But it was more than what it was then; it was perhaps the integral consequence of years of scurrying around, of making do with life with less than a whole of one’s heart, the calculus of one’s life up...
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State of Matter @stateofmatter.bsky.social · 11/04/2024
“Instead I tried reciting the principles of surface tension. Tried listing the conditions which allowed liquids to oppose great forces, including the force of gravity.” - Fred Nolan, Reserves
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State of Matter @stateofmatter.bsky.social · 28/03/2024
#Bangalore, We are back with our 2nd #Editorial! Did you catch Tahatto Bangalore's, "Love in the Cholera of Time" recently? @ayushsplaining.bsky.social writes about the experience of watching "a play as play, whoever could think of that!" Read his review in here: stateofmatter.in/blog/and-the...
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State of Matter @stateofmatter.bsky.social · 18/02/2024
🇩 is for… droll dimensions! Balanced on the backs of elephants and turtles, this #fantasy tells the legend of a flat world 🐢, with all the #humour that only Terry Pratchett can bring. Of course it’s Discworld! Let us know what you think about it?
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State of Matter @stateofmatter.bsky.social · 18/02/2024
#WritingCommunity This is Week 4 of our exclusive #speculativefiction dictionary📔, a curated relic that features works of dubious reality. Caution! Activating warp drive. We are rocketing through new wor(l)ds alphabetically. 52 weeks of 2024 with 26 speculative works… 👀🧵
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State of Matter @stateofmatter.bsky.social · 11/02/2024
Caution⚠️We are now crossing the language barrier! Calling out for original translations of #scifi, #fantasy, #horror, and #speculative #poetry from South Asian languages. Send us your best translations📫 Submission Guidelines: stateofmatter.in/submissions/
Call for Translations

We are looking for original translations of science fiction, fantasy and horror short fiction and poetry from South Asian languages.

From State of Matter, a South Asian Speculative Fiction Magazine.
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