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.
Three ways of paying attention
Writing / Music / Photography
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
Ishan Savio Kerketta
About
One person, several habits
I’ve been writing publicly since 2011 and haven’t yet found 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.
By profession
I work in government consulting on economic planning — building district-level data models, composite development indices and policy recommendations. Power BI, Python and SQL by day; a fairly analytical way of looking at everything else by night.
I’ve stopped treating these as separate lives. A dataset and a poem ask for the same thing: look closely, find the shape underneath, then say something honest about it.
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