Pragya Bhagat: Living Limitlessly

The episode opens with Pragya talking about what writing & creativity mean to her. We chat about how she got into writing professionally and her earliest memories of being creative. She shares her take on belonging & identity. We delve into how she wrote both her memoirs and get an insight to her writing process. Later, she opens up about her relationship with body image and mental health. The episode ends with Pragya reading an excerpt from her memoir, 'Swimming In Our Oceans'.

Pragya Bhagat is an award-winning essayist and spoken word poet. Her work has been featured in BBC, The Wire, Muse India, the Huffington Post, Helter Skelter, and many more publications. She is the author of two memoirs: Yarn and Swimming In Our Oceans. Before all this, Pragya was a Biology major at the University of Texas, Austin and she went on to do a Master’s in Dalit and Tribal Social Work from Tata Institute of Social Sciences. You can find her on Instagram @bhagatpragya

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