Hello everyone! It's been ages since I posted here. Truthfully I had forgotten a little bit about this space. I don't know why... Goodreads helps unites readers across the globe.

I thought I'd talk about a project that I am publishing that I think people here might be interested in. It's called Girar.

Girar ('to turn' in Spanish) aspires to capture the flow and feel of daily life across 365 different places on our planet. The stories involve an archetypal Mother and Father, living a content and settled life all the while trying to make sense of Son, proudly gay, living far from them in a foreign country. Each instalment reimagines the essences of Mother or Father or Son into a new cultural context and nationality. By reading all of the instalments at once, Girar not only gives the reader a unique and intimate portrait of all of our Earth’s imagined countries; it tells the tale of a family coming to love each other despite their disagreements, over the slow burn of a decade.


Girar publishes through a website called www.girar.world. Subscribers pay a nominal fee of 1.5 USD a month or 10USD a year to gain access to the stories. People who subscribe are then sent emails when each installation comes out. An installation is time-stamped, to come out on a certain day of the 2020s in a certain location of Planet Earth. For example, if a story is told on March 23rd in Mariupol at 10:32 Ukrainian time, imagining Mother making porridge as she awaits a phone call from Father to know when it is safe to evacuate her house, readers get emailed that story at that exact time and date no matter where they are on the planet, as if they are directly receiving a piece of life unfolding in that part of the world at that very moment to Mother or Father or Son. The pieces are fiction, but are written and published in real time as if they are in fact happening. The goal is to capture real life as it is happening to us in the 2020s from each culture of the planet. Whether it is by capturing major international conflicts as they are happening to us or giving narratives to cultures that people on a global scale rarely think about, I aspire to make Girar something of a live journal of this decade in the very direct way we are experiencing it, so that people centuries later can have a recording of everything that occurred in the 2020s in all the corners of Planet Earth.

If you are interested in checking out this project, please do head over to www.girar.world. I will try to start sharing more and more about this project and what it means to write it, as well as samples of the writing.

I look forward to sharing to you all my version of Planet Earht.

Kiran