I’m re-publishing this introduction post, because I have had a very recent and very pleasing influx of subscribers. Hello!
I’m Sagarika, and I can mostly be found on plane flights between Delhi and Hong Kong. In my second year of university, I had to write assignments called theory journals for a class. Each submission was required to reference a particular theorist in that week’s assigned reading, while offering critique and asking relevant sociological/ontological questions. Home for the summer, I missed writing those journals. So here’s barsaat, a kind of newsletter about my thoughts on media and culture, like every other 20-something on Substack. (I don’t write about pop culture for the sake of pop culture - I think microtrends are interesting, but I’m more focused on overarching social phenomena.)
I try to post at least once a month, if not more often.
I named it after the Urdu word for rain (I like bodies of water; I was named after one). Happy reading, and thank you for making it this far! ♡