Namrata Poddar 🧿🌀

@namratapoddar.bsky.social

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Author of BORDER LESS | Faculty at UCLA | Essays/nonfiction at Poets & Writers, Literary Hub, Longreads, LA Times, etc. Interests include Decolonial —> storytelling, parenting, yoga, healing. Desi everything. Writing 2nd book. Intermittently here.

a pic of me sitting in my office

Me performing 4 asanas in 4 photos.

Stack of papers on a desk

Bookstack

Bookstack

Author photo & kid against a Californian beach—blue sky and sands

Honors seminar & title description at UCLA.

Course details and author photo against a black backdrop

Saraswati with veena and swans seated in a river.

My selfie as a reader and fan holding a copy of Arundhati Roy’s latest book.

My thoughts on the MFA in black font against a beige background.

Comment on Mamdani’s education against blue background.