Writing since 2011
Ishan Savio
Words remain.
Writer, composer, photographer. Policy by profession, stories by instinct.
Dear Reader,
A note
This is where I keep the things I make. Articles and short stories, prose poetry and poems — some written last month, some written when I was still in school and too sure of myself. I’ve left them all up. They’re a record of how I got here.
There are photographs too, the frames I keep coming back to. And music: songs I’ve written, composed, played and sung. Somewhere in the middle of all of it sits a novella about a boy who inherits a kingdom he never asked for.
Take your time. Wander in whatever order suits you.
Four ways of paying attention
Writing / Music / Photography / Building
01 / Writing · 45 pieces since 2011
The written work
Fifteen years of it. Essays that argue, stories that don’t resolve neatly, and poems I wrote quickly and then couldn’t change.
The King Without a Crown
Sam Foster grows up in Glacies, a cold and heavily engineered realm where children are trained to hold frost in their hands. When his grandfather dies, the leadership falls to him — and the story becomes a question about what it actually costs to lead.
02 / Music · Written, played, sung
Songs, start to finish
I write the words, work out the music, play the guitar and sing it. Original compositions — no covers, no session players.
Years of open mics across Bengaluru — The Humming Tree, Church Street Social, B Flat — and a solo set at META Literature Fest 2016. My EP Freedom of Emotions (2012, Studio Dreamcatcher) lives on Spotify, Apple Music, and most places songs do.
Run your cursor across the strings
03 / Photography · A slow collection
What the light did
Not a commercial portfolio. Just the frames I keep returning to — the ones where the light arrived before I did.
Run your cursor across the frames — the light returns
04 / Building · Diverion
Things I’m building
I founded Diverion to build digital products and to help businesses with websites, apps and clear, practical consulting. Mickle is the first product to ship under it.
Diverion
Digital and business consulting, plus the products we build ourselves. Websites, apps and strategy for people making something of their own.
Mickle
A budgeting app for iPhone and Android, built under Diverion. On Google Play since 30 September 2026 and the App Store since 13 October 2026.
Ishan Savio Kerketta
About
One person, several habits
I’m the founder of Diverion and the creator of Mickle, and I’ve been writing publicly since 2011 without finding a good reason to stop.
The writing came first — articles, short stories, prose poetry, poems, and eventually The King Without a Crown, a fantasy novella about inheriting a role you haven’t earned yet. The music came alongside it: I write lyrics, compose, play guitar and sing. Photography came last and is the quietest of the three. I shoot mostly for myself, and I keep the frames that surprise me.
Now
I founded Diverion in 2026 to build digital products and to consult for businesses on websites, apps and strategy. Mickle, a budgeting app for iPhone and Android, is the first product I’ve built under it. It went live on Google Play on 30 September 2026 and on the App Store on 13 October 2026.
Before Diverion I spent about four years in data science, economic advisory and government consulting — district-level data models, composite development indices and policy recommendations, in Power BI, Python and SQL. It left me with a fairly analytical way of looking at everything.
I’ve stopped treating these as separate lives. A dataset, a poem and a product ask for the same thing: look closely, find the shape underneath, then make something honest out of it.