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Transcribing music, leopard tattoos, meal sharing.
Syed Faizan Raza
August 05, 2025 • Est. Reading Time: 4 minutes
Helloo! We’ll do things a little differently now. Instead of trying to make every issue the perfect issue, I’ll try for consistency. So I might not always sound the smartest, there won’t always be enough to share, but there will always be something in your inbox on Tuesdays.
This issue of Jungle Mein Mangal covers an artist turning nature into digital interfaces; a zine collecting pieces on the joy of cooking together; tattoo artistry from 500 BCE; and a little more to fill your week.
Read time: Half a play of Gat Still Chases Cady by Michael Suby. Chalo let's scroll 🌱🎼🍳
// Come fangirl with me
Dunya Kisi Ke Pyar Mein by Daniyal & Zaryab // This is the only way casual cover songs should be sung and filmed. HASEEN. Also listen to the others they’ve done.
// Events, opportunities, and more on my radar
Blue Orange Zine // Blue Orange Project is accepting submissions for their second issue. The theme is celebrating the care and love found in shared meals and cooking together. It’s open to multiple forms of media, so hit them up. Deadline is 10th September.
// This deserves some love
Gaana Mangwao // This newly launched tool transcribes audio from Urdu songs into captions in multiple scripts to improve accessibility. They’re also aiming to expand to regional languages like Punjabi, Sindhi, Pashto, and Balochi. Reach out to them if you want to be part of their user testing with musicians.
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// Favs from the design multiverse
TerraSynthesis // Miraal Habib is a visual artist experimenting at the intersection of tech and nature. With this project, she turns plants into digital interfaces through a lot of brain and effort in ways that appear to be magic. Take a look at some of her other work here.
// The fascinating and the bizarre
An anthropologist, a tattoo artist, and a Siberian mummy walk into a bar // Researchers collaborated with an artist to reconstruct tattoos on a 2,500 year old mummy found in the Siberian Altai mountains. The designs include a stag surrounded by leopards on the left forearm, and a griffin battling a deer on the right.
// Things so far unsaid
Nothing else for today. Until the next one, shaam bakhair 🌅🤍
If you want to talk about my work, bounce some ideas, or just have a casual chat fangirling over a film, feel free to schedule a jam session with me here.