Published Works
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Food Republic: A Singapore Literary Banquet
Short Story | "The Panasonic"
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Mentioned in Esplanade Offstage's "Making a Scene: A Moveable Feast"
The Willowherb Review
Issue 3: Habitation
Short Story | "Rotten Perfection"
Mentioned in Seeding the Commons
Making Kin
Ecofeminist Essays from Singapore
Personal Essay | "The Spell of the Forest"
Mentioned in LSE Review of Books
Mentioned in No Readgrets Book Club
What We Inherit: Growing Up Indian
Personal Essay | "Huā by Any Other Name"
Reviewed in Singapore Unbound
Nine Yard Sarees
Ethos Books (2023)
Mentions: (1) The Straits Times, (2) Public Libraries Singapore, (3) Suspect Journal
Reviews: (1) The Straits Times, (2) Mekong Review, (3) Jom Media, (4) QLRS
Awards: English Fiction – Singapore Literature Prize 2024 (Straits Times Coverage)
Nominations: Best Literary Work – Singapore Book Awards 2024, Best Debut Work – Singapore Literature Prize 2024
Literary Reviews
Medium's Anomaly
Swiping Right on Arranged Marriage
Reviewing Balli Kaur Jaswal's Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows. Read here.
Singapore Unbound
Into the Heart of Not Whiteness
Reviewing Sharmila Sen's Not Quite Not White: Losing and Finding Race in America. Read here.
Singapore Unbound
The Ghosts that Haunt Us
Reviewing Myriam Gurba's Mean. Read here.
Singapore Unbound
Losing the Game of Racism
Reviewing Devi S. Laskar's The Atlas of Reds and Blues. Read here.
Singapore Unbound
Tiny Sparrows in a Dark Forest: The Voices of Assam
Reviewing How to Tell A Story of an Insurgency edited by Aruni Kashyap. Read here.
Singapore Unbound
Dancing between Saris and Sorrows
Reviewing This is One Way to Dance by Sejal Shah. Read here.
Other Writings
We Write to Find Ourselves (16 October 2021)
For Ethos Books' weekly newsletter.
We are born into this world steeped in stories (21 October 2023)
For Ethos Books' weekly newsletter.
Events
13 July 2019
Writing the City:
Worldbuilding in Fiction
A creative writing workshop conducted by Arin Alycia Fong and Prasanthi Ram at Toa Payoh Library
13 September 2019
Moonstruck: About Chandra, By Chandra
Script and brochure editor for a Bharatanatyam show performed by Nithiyasree Nadeson at Stanford Arts Centre Blackbox.
02 November 2019
You Can Learn That in School: Postgraduate Student Readings
A reading by Singaporean creative writing postgraduate students at Singapore Writers Festival 2019
15 May 2020
Unmasked: Online Open Mic Night
A first-of-its-kind online reading presented by NTU Creative Writing
17 June 2020
Other Tongues Presents: Mahogany Journal x Balli Kaur Jaswal
Speaker | A conversation organised by Other Tongues Festival between award-winning author Balli Kaur Jaswal and the co-editors of Mahogany Journal for the launch of the journal's first issue
20 June 2020
Chai Time with Mahogany Journal
Host | An online reading presented by Mahogany Journal for Issue 1: The +65 South Asian.
01 November 2020
The Literature of Social Pressure
Panelist | A featured panel as part of Singapore Writers Festival 2020 that looks at the challenges and triumphs in telling stories that lay bare hard truths or the intricacies of a community’s multifaceted experiences and identities.
20 March 2021
A Lighter Side of History: For the Love of Food and Words
Speaker | A live workshop held at Singapore National Museum with Daryl Lim Wei Jie, who co-edited the book Food Republic: A Singapore Literary Banquet (2020).
27 June 2021
Writing the City: Showcase
A reading with stories selected by Singapore Literature Prize winner Akshita Nanda and supported by the Speak Good English movement.
03 October 2021
Chai Time: AfterDark Remix by Mahogany Journal
Host | A paid online reading for the launch of Mahogany Journal's third issue, Soundscapes. A night of South Asian music, writers and readers all in one digital space, celebrating our shared soundscapes.
06 November 2021
How You Like That: Unpacking K-Pop
Panelist | A featured panel as part of Singapore Writers Festival 2021 under SWF Youth Fringe that looks at the intricate world-building that goes into creating the K-Pop lore that has enchanted billions. Mentioned in this Channel News Asia article.
5 November 2022
Breaking the Colonial Gaze
Moderator | A featured panel as part of Singapore Writers Festival 2022 about decentering our art, stories and histories from the colonial gaze. Mentioned in the Straits Times.
12 November 2022
Romance and Bad Boys
Panelist | A featured panel as part of Singapore Writers Festival 2022 about the fictional boyfriends we encounter in books, TV shows, games and K-pop music videos and whether they are true to our own notions of true love. Reviewed by The Straits Times.
17 November 2022
In The Next Issue
Moderator | A featured panel as part of Singapore Writers Festival 2022 that brings editors of different Singaporean literary journals in conversation with each other to discuss their bold plans for their corners of the literary ecosystem.
May 2023
Rediscovering the Personal
Instructor | A 4-week creative nonfiction writing workshop series where participants learn various approaches to the flexible and often enigmatic form that is the personal essay.
14 May 2023
An Evening with Claire Keegan
Moderator | An evening with Booker Prize shortlisted writer, Claire Keegan, where Claire read from her fiction and answered questions about her work and writing life. Organised by Asia Creative Writing Programme.
13 July 2023
Finding Meaning in a Changing World
Moderator | A panel discussion on award-winning Tamil author Jeyamohan's Stories of the True. Panelists will read selections from the book and reflect on its exploration of social class, gender, and oppression, grounded in the author’s intimate understanding of human nature.
18 Nov 2023
Unexpected Pairings #3: K-Pop Prac Crit
Speaker | A discussion between Prasanthi Ram and Zeha that takes the audience through a lyrical tour of the genre, with critical analyses of K-Pop song lyrics, while deconstructing idol narratives.
19 Nov 2023
In A Tiny Room With: Viet Thanh Nguyen
Moderator | A literary gathering in one of Singapore's hidden spots where viewers can enjoy an intimate conversation with some of the Festival's most loved writers.
30 Dec 2023
Centrepieces: A reading & open mic night
Featured writer | Five Ethos Books authors come together for a reading & open mic night in Thryft's beautiful space at the iconic Peace Centre – soon to be closed in February 2024 for redevelopment.
06 Mar 2024
Home/land: A Dramatic Reading of Nine Yard Sarees
Performer | Join author Prasanthi Ram at Esplanade Foreword for a dramatic reading of select excerpts from her debut fiction Nine Yard Sarees, with playwright Jaryl George Solomon.
16 May 2024
Nine Yard Sarees by Prasanthi Ram | Singapore Literature Book Club
Featured Guest | Join us at Singapore Literature Book Club as we discuss Nine Yard Sarees: a short story cycle. As this will be an interactive session, please come prepared to discuss the book and share your thoughts!
15 June 2024
In Their Domain: Carving a Niche through Online Literary Journals
Panelist } Join us as we discuss their literary labour of love, and how they sought to carve a niche in Singapore's literary landscape.
17 July 2024
The Comeback of Literary Classics: K-Pop Edition
Moderator | Join us as we delve into the stories behind K-Pop’s iconic choreographies, addictive hooks and impressive group concepts that range from storytelling in music videos to expansive multiverses.
17 August 2024
Chai Time: Issue 5, Rojak
Host | Join us and our thirteen writers at Sing Lit Station to celebrate the launch of Mahogany Journal's fifth issue, Rojak!
In the Capacity of an Editor
Fiction Editor for Mahogany Journal
Issue 1: The +65 South Asian
Mahogany Journal
The inaugural issue of Mahogany Journal that contains 13 works, poetry and fiction, about what it means to be a +65 South Asian. Read here.
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Issue 2: Retellings
Mahogany Journal
The second issue of Mahogany Journal containing 9 works, poetry and fiction, that are modern +65 South Asian retellings of cultural myths and legends. Read here.
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Issue 3: Soundscapes
Mahogany Journal
The third issue of Mahogany Journal, containing eight works of poetry, fiction and prose that creatively reflect on South Asian music in order to define what a +65 South Asian soundscape really is. Read here.
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Issue 4: Wildcard
Mahogany Journal
The fourth issue of Mahogany Journal that contains 8 works. Read here.
Issue 5: Rojak
Mahogany Journal
The fifth issue of Mahogany Journal contains 14 works, including our first featured writer. Read here.