{"id":14344,"date":"2025-10-02T12:26:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T11:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/applesandsnakes.org\/?p=14344"},"modified":"2025-10-02T12:26:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T11:26:01","slug":"roshni-marath-jairaj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/applesandsnakes.org\/2025\/10\/02\/roshni-marath-jairaj\/","title":{"rendered":"Roshni Marath Jairaj"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Describe yourself in 3 words\u2026<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Curious, Honest, Unpredictable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What inspires you?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>As clich\u00e9 as it sounds, my experiences in life really do inspire me. Also, there are these times<br>in the day when the red leaves sparkle under the sunlight or when it rains and the skies are<br>grey, it reminds me of home. So, nostalgia also inspires me quite a lot and movies as well! I<br>love watching movies especially slice of life films because it helps captures the mundane and<br>I love exploring the mundane moments in life and writing about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Tell us about your worst ever gig?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>My worst gig was at this competition, and I was testing out this new piece by heart. I forgot<br>the lines midway and froze for a minute or two, but it honestly felt like the longest minute of<br>my life, and I just kept going. From that moment onwards, I have always read out from a<br>paper but now I am trying to get back my confidence on not relying on the paper as much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What\u2019s your number one poetry pet peeve?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Hmmmm, I think when the poet uses too much complicated words or the way the sentence is<br>done. For example, if the flow of the piece is too fast, I can\u2019t understand the meaning of the<br>piece and I zone out because it goes too fast in my mind. Personally, I like poems with<br>structure and story, so sometimes I also struggle to understand very conceptual pieces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Whose words do you love at the moment?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Right now, I am bit out of touch with poetry, but I am liking Fariha Roisin and Sophie<br>Chauhan\u2019s works right now. I have gotten back into reading fiction lately because for the past<br>few years, I have been reading nonfiction. So, right now I am loving fictional works which I<br>am taking inspiration from. Right now, I am hooked on <em>Katabasis<\/em> by R.F. Kuang and loved<br>reading <em>The Clothesline Swing<\/em> by Ahmad Danny Ramdan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What piece of advice would you give to your younger self?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The piece of advice I would give is never stop grabbing for the mic on the stage. Whatever<br>opportunity you get, always grab the mic and make your voice heard because your voice<br>matters and people like your work, if not all, even some will like it. Do it for yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Who would play you in a movie about your life?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>When I was young, I always imagined Emma Stone playing me if there were ever a movie to be made about my life but now, the answer if Nazriya Nazim. She is one of my favourite Malayalam actors in the Malayalam film industry and ever since I saw her in Bangalore Days, one of my favourite movies of all time, I knew she would be the one I want to play me.<\/p>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-14344_9497ec-a4 .kt-block-spacer{height:60px;}.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-14344_9497ec-a4 .kt-divider{border-top-width:1px;height:1px;border-top-color:#eee;width:80%;border-top-style:solid;}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-spacer aligncenter kt-block-spacer-14344_9497ec-a4\"><div class=\"kt-block-spacer kt-block-spacer-halign-center\"><hr class=\"kt-divider\"\/><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/applesandsnakes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ARVON-X-AS-91-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/applesandsnakes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ARVON-X-AS-91-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/applesandsnakes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ARVON-X-AS-91-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/applesandsnakes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ARVON-X-AS-91-768x1151.jpg 768w, https:\/\/applesandsnakes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ARVON-X-AS-91-1025x1536.jpg 1025w, https:\/\/applesandsnakes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ARVON-X-AS-91-1366x2048.jpg 1366w, https:\/\/applesandsnakes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ARVON-X-AS-91-scaled.jpg 1708w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Roshni Marath Jairaj<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Roshni Marath Jairaj is a writer of prose, prose poetry, and creative non-fiction. Her work explores the everyday rhythms of life, paying attention to the small, fleeting moments that often go unnoticed. She is drawn to writing that lingers on the mundane, finding meaning in ordinary gestures and encounters. Alongside this, her work engages with themes of identity, migration, and belonging, reflecting the layered experiences of moving across places and cultures. Roshni\u2019s writing moves between intimacy and reflection, capturing both the delicacy of personal memory and the wider emotional landscapes of diasporic life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Insta: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/its.poetcat\/\">@its.poetcat<\/a><br>Website: <a href=\"https:\/\/itsroshni.substack.com\">https:\/\/itsroshni.substack.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roshni Marath Jairaj is a writer of prose, prose poetry, and creative non-fiction. 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