On Keeping an Archive
Why this exists, who it is for, and how it is made.
This archive is an evolving intellectual home. It is set in Yeseva One and Alice on lavender, with Oxford-blue accent for active states, plum-mauve for status markers, and Scholar's Red for archival depth. Hairline rules substitute for shadows; metadata sits in the margins; questions sit alongside answers. It is composed in the spirit of a commonplace book.
It is not a portfolio. It is not a resume. It is not a personal brand. It is an attempt to keep a record of the questions that drive the inquiry, the books that shaped the reading, the projects that emerged from the questions, and the poems and music that emerged from the rest.
It will change. The questions on the index page will multiply; the bibliography will grow; the constellation will gain new nodes and new edges. What is here now is the present state of the archive as of mid-2026.
If you are a reader who has spent an hour here, that is the only success metric that matters.
For research correspondence, mentorship, or collaboration:
Replies are not guaranteed; reading them is.
Ishanya Srikanth is the author of everything on this archive except where noted. The neurodiversity of the author is not a marketing angle but a quiet explanation of why the inquiry moves slowly, deeply, and at length. The site is intended to read like a commonplace book; the design choices are intended to last thirty years.