India’s got a history with board games. Saap-seedi, Pachisi, Chowka Bara (made infamous by the Mahabharata) and many more games were invented in the subcontinent and played by our ancestors all over. And this month, we are shining the spotlight on someone who carries on this great tradition - Sidhant Chand, founder and lead designer at Zenwood Games, who just released their very first board game Parikrama this year. Read on to know more about the game, the human behind it and maybe get some key pointers on how to get involved with making board games. And of course, to get an exciting offer specially for Probably Relevant readers on the purchase of the game.

Cultural Futurism is a special interest of mine. And in this month's feature, I do a deep-dive into the world of sci-fi, speculative fiction, cyberpunk and a bunch of related things through the lens of queer, indigenous, localized cultural futurisms. We discuss books, games, webtoons, art and so much more to understand how diverse people people and collectives use current understandings of sociopolitical realities to imagine what culture and human behaviour will look like - ten, twenty, hundred, even a thousand years into the future.