Issue 04: Nature_Nurture

Our fourth issue goes deep into the green, in a reckoning with our city’s relationship with nature.

Our cover by LURU’s in-house design team reflects this close-up exploration by visually collaging textures from across the city and its surfaces.

And the pages of the mag are packed with exciting contributors: acclaimed environmental writer & photographer Arati Kumar Rao ponders the borders of the sky while observing “the Ooru skies...a many-splendoured thing”; artist Devika Sundar and writer-researcher Smruti Revati come together in a strange, hilarious critter-lit; poet Daniel Sukumar chronicles his family’s battered relationship with the land they laboured with through lyrical prose and poetry; science writer Rohini Subrahmanyam untangles the mystery of the Malabar civet; writer Zui Kumar-Reddy’s short story Yahvi about a girl who “smelled of burnt camphor and patchouli, LURU’s digital editor Joshua Muyiwa weaves together the secret life of Cubbon Park with whispered confessions, and theatre-maker Kirtana Kumar delivers her all-singing, all-dancing musical theatre rendition of Lalbagh Past. 

PLUS: We’ve partnered with MAP (Museum of Art & Photography) for four lyrical fictions in four languages, inspired by art featured in the exhibition, Beneath the Turning Sky. The series features the voices of Purnima Tammireddy, Dadapeer Jyman, Nadika Nadja, Pasha Bhai and Preeti Nagaraj.