Andal Srivatsan is a writer and poet based out of India, and the editor of Pena Lit Mag. Her work has been published in various places: TBLM, AThinSliceofAnxiety, The Sunflower Collective, Tarshi’s InPlainspeak, MeanPepperVine, Literary Yard. She can be found on Instagram @andalsrivatsan, where she frequently writes book reviews and poetry.
Personal Essay by Andal Srivatsan: ‘That air is now hardened, rancid, antediluvian. It permeates through the fabric of all communities today. It hovers, egomaniacally, over some of us who want nothing but love and harmony—both excruciatingly evasive.’