Personal
The work
I didn’t
get paid for.
Essays, screenplays and criticism, written because I wanted to. Start with these three.
Essay
If it’s never new and it never gets old, it’s capitalism.
Billboards in 1912 Calcutta, ads on a palace AC unit in Karnal, and an America tired of paying monthly for its life.
Read it →ScreenplaySiddhartha From The Bronx
An animated short I submitted to Netflix Animation, and a series I’d love to make.
Read it →DissertationTo Pimp A Butterfly: Towards New Literacy Studies & Rap As Oral Literature
My MA dissertation, on rap as oral literature.
Read it →Essays
AI & TeachingAI teaching might just be the saving grace of education.→I’ll Bet Even Leonardo Couldn’t Use DaVinciI got FOMO from a niche TikTok and wanted to learn how to video edit.→Fiction and screenplays
The ChameleonA short story about a boy and his first date.→Morticia the Mortician (Screenplay)A second animated short, with a neat premise.→Criticism
Thoughts from an Indian on ‘RRR’This very bizarre movie gave me much food for thought when it comes to language.→Class: American Modernism (Final)From my class at Exeter on transatlantic writers and thinkers.→Water & Mental HealthMy paper on water and mental health in Mrs. Dalloway and Ulysses.→© 2026 Rishu BhardwajCaliforniaReader’s Digest, Sort Of