Notes After Rain is a quiet literary podcast on writing, cinema, atmosphere, memory, and the slow formation of stories. Moving between novels, films, rehearsal spaces, landscapes, and artistic practice, the series reflects on how stories take shape long before they are written or filmed.
Notes After Rain is a quiet literary podcast on writing, cinema, memory, atmosphere, and the slow formation of stories. Moving through novels, films, rehearsal spaces, landscapes, and artistic practice, the series reflects on how stories take shape long before they are written or filmed.
The concluding episode of Notes After Rain reflects on intimacy, emotional distance, and the quiet ways relationships change over time. Through literature, cinema, and memory, the episode explores why some relationships collapse suddenly while others survive despite unhappiness, and how the deepest human need may simply be to feel fully seen by another person.
16 May 2026
Episode 4: The Fear of Falling Behind
A reflection on time, comparison, ageing, and the modern anxiety of feeling late to one’s own life. Episode 4 explores why visibility has become confused with progress, why society romanticises early success, and how experience often acquires meaning only in retrospect. Through literature, cinema, and personal transitions between artistic worlds, this episode examines the unsettling feeling that everyone else seems to have arrived earlier.
15 May 2026
Episode 3: The Books We Grow Into
In this episode of Notes After Rain, AK Srikanth speaks about the strange way books become attached to different periods of our lives. Moving through rereading, underlined passages, forgotten annotations, and novels that reveal themselves differently over time, The Books We Grow Into explores how literature quietly accompanies people through loneliness, uncertainty, and becoming.
15 May 2026
Episode 2: The need to make something
In this episode of Notes After Rain, AK Srikanth reflects on the quiet human urge to create — to write, compose, record, sketch, and begin again even in a world overflowing with noise and distraction.
Why do people continue making things without certainty, recognition, or guarantees of being understood? What keeps unfinished notebooks alive beside beds, or thoughts returning late at night demanding to be written down?
Moving through books, solitude, memory, and the emotional need to leave something behind, The Need to Make Something is a quiet conversation about creativity not as performance, but as a way of remaining connected to ourselves.
A reflective audio essay on art, inner life, and the small reasons people continue creating in silence.
14 May 2026
Episode 1: Before the Story
In the first episode of Notes After Rain, AK Srikanth reflects on the atmospheres, landscapes, and institutions that slowly shaped A Song for Eresha long before it became a novel or film. Moving through mangroves, rehearsal halls, artistic hierarchies, and the emotional ecosystems surrounding classical art, Before the Story is a quiet exploration of how certain places continue influencing us long after we leave them.
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