Hey! Welcome To Siddakk Singh Chatrath's Mind.
I'm a Sikh American college student simply looking to use my desire for personal creative output as a host for originality, making what I wish existed on a variety of topics a reality, and using my background and experiences to provide fresh perspectives. I write for myself and others out there that want to see a voice like their's but that tries to stand out as well. When I'm not delusional enough to believe people want to read my thoughts, I enjoy basketball, Bhangra, martial arts, filmmaking, reading, producing, and traveling.
I actually have a short piece giving an introduction to this site and the journey of how I got here that I highly encourage you guys to read, but I'll include some excerpts here (because why make things simple, right?). The website exists as a constantly changing representation of my thoughts and a creative outlet. I want to use it as a place to express myself regarding the variety of things I’m passionate about or interested in, but also using it to hopefully provoke and foster further thought and discussion, and be able to put out on the internet what I would want to read when I search something up (although this is of course not that near to the expectations I would have for it). It’s for me and my friends, and hopefully the rest of y’all come along. This means engaging with music, film, books, art, pop culture, writing personal pieces about socio-political issues around the world, especially concerning American, Punjabi, and Sikh issues, general creative narratives, and the intersections of all this. In the most ideal future, the website could become a hub within itself. Over a year after sitting on all this I decided to just go for it, hopefully in the process getting better, growing, and finding parts of my identity while presenting what I've created surrounding what I'm passionate about.
Originality is vague and sometimes circumstantial, but in this situation all The Voices Unchained centers around is “create what you wish existed” by building upon what is already there in other ways. In other words, unchaining voices to… voice unchaining… damn. I was tryna have my “oh look they said the title of the movie in the movie” moment. This is going to be harder than it looks.