14: Write What You Don't Yet Know – A Conversation with Abhishek Pandit

Abhishek Pandit is a jack of all trades: a coder, a novelist, a playwright, and a globetrotter with a passion for languages and cultural syncretism. In this episode, he joins us to discuss his musical Earth Icon, which braids together themes including climate change, emergent technologies, displacement, motherhood, and home in a dynamic portrait of a Puerto Rican family living in Missouri. Also mentioned are the tyranny of authenticity, Abhishek’s novel about Moroccan time travelers, and the opportunities for growth and connection made possible by multimedia and multicultural literature.