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Shruti Ravindran

Freelance, Brooklyn, NY

Shruti Ravindran is a writer and producer. Her work has been published in the Believer magazine, Al Jazeera and elsewhere. She is based in Brooklyn, New York.

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Mental health

The company you keep

Hallucinated voices can be helpful life guides, muses of creativity, and powerful agents for healing the fractured self

Shruti Ravindran

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Beauty and aesthetics

A circus of the senses

It makes letters colourised and numbers pulsate with cosmic time: a rare gift, or are we all on the synaesthetic spectrum?

Shruti Ravindran

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Human rights and justice

Twilight in the Box

The suicide statistics, squalor and recidivism haven’t ended solitary confinement. Maybe the brain studies will

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