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Dhruti Shah @dhrutishah.bsky.social · 1d

Tentatively planning Season Six of my Have You Thought About podcast... and now to go through the list of hopeful guests and make sure it's evenly spread... podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/h...

Have You Thought About

Society & Culture Podcast · Updated weekly · Have You Thought About is for those at a reckoning. Join us as host Dhruti Shah, a writer and poet, speaks to inspiring guests about how they use their pas...

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Dhruti Shah @dhrutishah.bsky.social · 3d

An absolute win to get my first book review in the @newscientist.com and it's for @anjanakhatwa.bsky.social's The Whispers of Rock!

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The Whispers of Rock is a personal journey through aeons of geology

In her new book, earth scientist Anjana Khatwa writes a love letter to Earth's rocks and mountains, offering a passionate blend of science and spirituality

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Dhruti Shah @dhrutishah.bsky.social · 8d

I went to review Scenes from The Climate Era this week and also grew a lot of tomatoes... haveyouthoughtabout.substack.com/p/getting-cl...

Getting Closer to Nature....

A Review of Scenes from The Climate Era and other environmental touchpoints

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Dhruti Shah @dhrutishah.bsky.social · Jul 2

In print and online but a first person from me in The Guardian on learning to trust strangers (and also travel)

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A moment that changed me: An accident left me terrified of risk. Then I joined a stranger on a motorbike adventure

We rode through the dark, through winding mountain roads to reach scenic nooks I otherwise would never have seen. From then, I had the confidence to make friends and travel more

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Dhruti Shah @dhrutishah.bsky.social · May 24

Finally found some time to write about how nature seeps into everything. I guess you just have to tell the universe about the path you are on sometimes.

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Nature books, finding faith in a museum and the power of sound

When everything comes in all at once.

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Dhruti Shah @dhrutishah.bsky.social · May 21

Putting it out there

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Dhruti Shah @dhrutishah.bsky.social · May 8

Was inspired by all the conversations happening at the Truth Tellers Summit organised by @sirharrysummit.bsky.social that I finally got round to this month's Substack newsletter! haveyouthoughtabout.substack.com/p/immersed-i...

Immersed in Truth and Understanding 'Meaning Making'.

Building bridges and communities

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Dhruti Shah @dhrutishah.bsky.social · May 3

I put a note out saying that I needed more paid work and fewer offers to work for free. And I still got messages asking me to work for free for exposure.

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Dhruti Shah @dhrutishah.bsky.social · Apr 19

Oopsie to being an autistic poet. haveyouthoughtabout.substack.com/p/my-autisti...

My 'autistic' poetry apparently shouldn't exist. Ooops.

Some thoughts on stereotypes

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Dhruti Shah @dhrutishah.bsky.social · Apr 7

Philippa Larbi is a cake designer but how does her past career in opera and law help her with her entrepreneur journey?

Philippa is the final guest on Season Five of my Have You Thought About podcast focusing on those with interdisciplinary lives.

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Have You Thought About: Cake Designs, Opera Singing, and the Art of Mediation

Philippa Larbi has built up a reputation as a classy cake designer but how does her legal career and a passion for singing opera fit into her life?

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Dhruti Shah @dhrutishah.bsky.social · Apr 1

New newsletter focuses on the idea of being in a betwixt space

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Betwixt - a space of belonging in the unbelonging

Trying to figure out gaps and watching art mimic life

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Dhruti Shah @dhrutishah.bsky.social · Mar 31

Dr Alina Patelli is a responsible AI enthusiast who grew up in post-Communist Romania. She is also a member of the @ukyoungacademy.bsky.social and here we discuss how she is she taking her data and using it in health and other spheres.

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Dhruti Shah @dhrutishah.bsky.social · Mar 24

Poet and brand strategist @betarish.bsky.social is skilled at playing with words but influences his creativity?

Listen to our conversation with top takeaways at Have You Thought About. Available wherever you listen to podcasts.

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Have You Thought About: Poetry, Committees, and Attracting Attention in A Crowded Market

Rishi Dastidar is a poet, brand strategist and copywriter but how did he find the confidence to find his voice in what can be a competitive sphere?

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Dhruti Shah @dhrutishah.bsky.social · Mar 20

Finland's the happiest country in the world. Again. It's not that surprising that it's now hitting the upcoming destination lists for travellers. I went not so long ago and wrote about how my mood was lifted for @theipaper.com
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I've found my perfect mood-lifting city break, in the world's 'happiest' country

Oulu, a European Capital of Culture for 2026, may be just 60 miles south of Arctic Circle – but it offers a warm welcome

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Dhruti Shah @dhrutishah.bsky.social · Mar 17

First episode of Season Five of my Have You Thought About podcast involves a conversation with spatial enthusiast and academic Tina Samie. We discuss growing up in Iran, her passion for architecture, connected environments and the internet of things and much more.

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Illustration of Dhruti Shah - South Asian woman wearing a wolf jumper next to a lightbulb.

Quote from Tina Samie: "I take a little bit of this; a little bit of that and mix them together and make another thing that did not exist before."

Tina Samie
Academic and Spatial Enthusiast

Podcast available globally and at www.dhrutishah.com

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Dhruti Shah @dhrutishah.bsky.social · Mar 16

Dropped the trailer for Season Five of Have You Thought About. Have listen and subscribe for the upcoming episodes podfollow.com/have-you-tho...

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · Mar 10

There’s an Urdu name for a “Jack of all trades” that translates to “every talent Lord.” A Korean version is “eight direction beauty.” But my favourite name for someone who tries their hand at lots of different things is the Lithuanian Barbė devyndarbė. It means “Barbie nine jobs”

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Dhruti Shah @dhrutishah.bsky.social · Mar 9

Thinking a lot about life shifts and taking ownership of stories. A few jottings. But the pandemic was a life-shifter. I interviewed so many people whose loved ones died and those legacies, those conversations have never left me.

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How did the pandemic change your life?

It was a catalyst and involved taking risks but it's been a slow journey to rebuilding a community

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Dhruti Shah @dhrutishah.bsky.social · Mar 3

It feels good when you've had eight people ask where they can buy your poetry book. Now to make sure I have enough poems to submit to call outs and publishers..

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Feb 28

GLENN: Why don't you wear a suit? You're at the highest level in this country's office & you refuse to wear a suit. A lot of Americans have problems with you not respecting the office.

ZELENSKYY: I will wear a costume after this war will finish. Maybe something like yours. Maybe something better.

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Dhruti Shah @dhrutishah.bsky.social · Feb 28

What a mess. International relations?

Dhruti Shah @dhrutishah.bsky.social · Feb 28

Kept a lot of my spoken word secret for a while as I used to be in spaces where the poetry I was surrounded by filled conventional rules and I never felt quite good enough. But now am sharing in spaces where people have diverse histories and the reception has been so positive.

Dhruti Shah @dhrutishah.bsky.social · Feb 27

Adventures in science for the @ukyoungacademy.bsky.social when we took part in the @sciencecouncil.bsky.social Annual General Assembly. ukyoungacademy.org/blog/buildin...

Building Relationships in Global Science | UK Young Academy

Our members, Sandeep Sandhu and Dhruti Shah, share key takeaways from the recent International Science Council (ISC) General Assembly and Muscat Global Knowledge Dialogue in Oman

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Dhruti Shah @dhrutishah.bsky.social · Feb 23

It's been a tough start to the year work-wise. More rejections than successes so far. I'm always happy to show up and keep going. If people like what I do, then I also have a Ko-Fi patron account which does help me keep going in what's been a colder climate than I had hoped. ko-fi.com/dhrutishah

Support Dhruti Shah on Ko-fi! ❤️. ko-fi.com/dhrutishah

Support Dhruti Shah On Ko-fi. Ko-fi lets you support the people and causes you love with small donations

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Dhruti Shah @dhrutishah.bsky.social · Feb 23

What is Englishness?

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Can a brown Hindu be English? English people say yes. Why do so many on the right say no? | Kenan Malik

An argument about Rishi Sunak’s identity reveals how ideas of ethnicity and race have become conflated

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