Author

Narayan, Gautham Varada

Malaysia

Gautham Varada Narayan is a sustainability practitioner, activist and writer from India. Based in Malaysia, he works with the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network and co-founded an organisation focused on migrant and refugee education called Bus Ya Furaha. A graduate of the University of Geneva with a Master of Science in Innovation, Human Development and Sustainability, his interests span social justice, anthropology and decolonial literature.

Publications in The Rang Yan Review

Essays and Philosophy

My home, Your home, Our home: Malaysian Longhouses and privacy (un)defined contemporary

Gautham Varada Narayan

What we call privacy is itself a cultural construction, shaped by the material organisation of everyday life; through the Iban longhouse and its contrast with domestic architecture in Kerala and urban Malaysia, this reflection exposes the ideological assumptions embedded in private property, individual autonomy, and the spatial boundaries separating personal life from the collective conditions of human existence.

  • essay
  • politics
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