In this episode, the conversation with Sumitra Selvaraj is all about Instagram and the stories and sarees she shares using the social media platform. Throughout the interview, Sumitra also talks about her unique documentation and writing process. Towards the end of the episode, she reads a snippet of her story “Appa’s Mutton Curry” which was the runner up for the 2016 D.K. Dutt Memorial Prize for Literary Excellence and was subsequently published in Bitter Root, Sweet Fruit. 

Sumitra Selvaraj is a Malaysian writer and broadcaster who produces her best work under the influence of chicken varuval. When not obsessively reading food labels in grocery stores, she is likely to be in her kitchen, planning meals and avoiding her unfinished novel. Sumitra began writing creative fiction in 2016; her first short story, The Starlight Studio, was published by a South East Asian online literary journal, while ‘Appa’s Mutton Curry’ was awarded runners-up at the 2016 DK Dutt Memorial Prize for Literary Excellence. In 2018 she won the Short Story Prize at the Asian Women Writers Festival in Singapore.