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An Announcement!

An Announcement!

A new newsletter and some changes

Sachi Mavinkurve
July 06, 2023

Hello, everyone! We are back with our semi-regular monthly dispatch.

🌊 Hi, I’m Sachi and this is Currents. This newsletter has undergone a few makeovers, in case it’s been a while since you subscribed and have forgotten why you subscribed to begin with, you came here for essays + book , movie, design, art, and other miscellaneous recommendations. If you no longer want to receive Currents, the link to unsubscribe is right at the bottom. It’s a pleasure having you folks on board, as always.

⭐️ An Announcement

Hello everyone, I have an announcement to make. As a lot of you have seen, I have been irregular with writing this newsletter which once used to be an extremely rare occurrence. You would get an email from me once a month without fail from 2019 to 2022. I got busier last year but I also had the niggling feeling of wanting to experiment with what I write. The current format wasn’t supporting that. I want to write about a show/ book/ movie/ story in depth instead of a collection of what I like with short descriptions. I also want to write essays of different kinds as well. In short, I want to take this in directions that diverge from where we are right now.
The question is how one chooses to resolve this.

I attempted to combine everything I wanted to say in one email but it got painfully long. I instantly knew that almost nobody, including myself, would have the patience to read it. More people than ever read newsletters on their phone and massive emails have the slimmest chances of being read.

So I’ll do the inevitable and split this.

Replay - a new newsletter about stories.
I have a hunger for interesting stories. As many of you who know me personally would know, I consume stories at a stupidly rapid pace. Every once in a while something I encounter makes me stop and think about everything I know. I want to ruminate about it for days and talk about it. I replay it in my mind. I want to break it down and analyse it. In a world where we are constantly consuming content, I want to write about stories I care about. (I also want to explore why I don’t like something, especially when those stories don’t leave my head) I want to go slower and deeper than I usually do. The range of things that I like are vast enough that I know this pursuit will be interesting and worth undertaking.
I’ll break the essays down into parts if it’s a long book or a series or multiple movies. I also plan to share a short story or two of my own over time. I don’t know if the writing will be great (I hope it is) but the exploration will be interesting. Subscribe if you’re interested.
(If there are enough of you we could have monthly discussions too)
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A newsletter with essays. I love writing essays. The essays started as an experiment in 2021 and have stuck around since. I am at a point where I can continue writing my stream of consciousness essays or structure them with more care. I want to improve their quality, length, and the regularity with which they are written.
Currents will continue to publish essays. If you enjoy the first part of my newsletter, stay subscribed for more of that
Recommendations - This newsletter started as a way to share recommendations but I have seen engagement with this part of the newsletter go down over the past few years. I don’t feel like removing this aspect entirely so I’ll shorten it instead.