…each time the world she paints is new (Excerpted from So Long, Tom; The Poetly Newsletter)My encounter with visual art grew from an affinity with sound – the deep more-than-human alāp of dhrupad music gave birth to ways of apprehending and finding resonance with the...
Aranya Padil
Aranya Padil is a poet, and writer-curator currently based in Delhi, a place to which he doesn't belong. His debut collection of poetry “the map is not the territory” was launched, with Copper Coin, in October 2025. He is the editor of Poetly, a newsletter that curates Indian and international poetry, along with commentaries that contextualise the works within contemporary socio-cultural discourses and artistic practice.
He is the founding editor of ArteSpace, an E-Journal of the Arts, set up in partnership with Gallery Espace.
