The unapologetic feminist

Sravya Kothalanka, who has a social media account for each of her talents, motivates people to be themselves.
Sravya Kothalanka
Sravya Kothalanka

For Secunderabad girl Sravya Kothalanka, 2017 has been a chock-a-block year where she pursued three of her passions – art, music and writing in equal measure. The 21-year-old Instagram sensation (@thekothalanka) with 13K followers had a cracker of a Diwali as her band Adavi released its first independent single titled Dammu on YouTube and is already being hailed as a cool Telugu blues, rock and rock ‘n’ roll band. She just had an art show in a city gallery, and of course, the photographs where she dressed up as Kali and looked true blue like the fierce Goddess also went viral.

A geology major who is passionate about pursuing oceanography for her Masters, this tree-hugger and psychedelic artist says that she never thought her posts and pictures would get talked about this way. “I never worked towards increasing my followers or hashtagged for likes. When I started realising  that social media was helping me be me and that strangers draw motivation from me, that was when I started taking my posts seriously,” she says, adding that she began posting her art, performance clips and textgrams. “Empowering people started empowering me. That fills my heart with joy,” she explains. She has a social media page for each of her talents – art, music and writing.  A self-confessed ‘unapologetic feminist and a fan of Goddess Kali’, she says, “I am a feminist yes, but the focus isn’t to beat up the masculinity. It’s walking shoulder to shoulder with it.”

This multi-talented artist enjoys fans from art, music and photography as her timeline appeals to all three segments. “2018 is when the world is going to see our band come up with sensational singles,” she says. For now, she believes in French surrealist and poet Breton’s words that ‘life is a cryptogram that needs to be deciphered’.

–– kalanidhi@newindianexpress.com
@ mkalanidhi

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