Episode 1: The Magic Pod with Suma Subramaniam: The Stories we Carry Across Generations

In honor of South Asian Heritage Month, welcome to The Magic Pod — the first podcast fully dedicated to South Asian and diaspora kid lit creators. In our very first episode, we sit down with Suma Subramaniam — author of Namaste is a Greeting, She Sang for India, The Runaway Dosa, and the V. Malar series.Suma takes us back to moonlit terraces in India, a grandmother who told stories from memory, and a bicycle ride to the library that changed everything. We talk about writing from longing, using your voice for change, and why 12 minutes a day is all it takes to become a storyteller.This episode is for every child who has ever found a safe haven in a book — and every grown-up who remembers what that felt like. Namaste.