When Varada Sethu was studying veterinary medicine, she spent a lot of time distracting herself with sci-fi.
“I was miserable and I wanted to be an actor [and] I would doodle a cartoon me holding a lightsaber and wearing a space suit,” she tells me over Zoom. Years passed, and when she was moving house, she found the doodle again. “That was really powerful. Oh god, I actually got to do it. Seven years later.”
