The Art
of Storytelling, Shaped by Place, Memory, and Longing

Welcome to House of Blue Lotus — a creative studio where memory breathes, stories bloom, and heritage finds voice.

Rooted in the soil of India and shaped by cities across the world, this is a space for those who remember, imagine, and resist forgetting.

We craft stories at the intersection of literature, history, culture, and migration — through podcasts, essays, zines, and slow art. From Montréal to Mumbai, from silence to speech, House of Blue Lotus is where fragments become narrative, and memory becomes meaning.

Vision & Philosophy

Preserving Memory. Living Culture. Celebrating Heritage.

At House of Blue Lotus, we believe storytelling is a sacred act — not just of narration, but of return. Our work honours what’s been carried, buried, and broken along the way. It’s a form of cultural continuity through creative resistance.

Whether it’s tracing recipes across borders or books across centuries, we create from a place of tenderness, ferocity, and truth. Here, rivers are metaphors. Cities are mirrors. The past is alive.

Studio & Storyteller

House of Blue Lotus was born of longing — for language unspoken, for lands left behind, for a lineage interrupted. Its name carries both myth and memory: the blue lotus, a symbol of resilience and quiet wisdom, blooming through the mud.

This studio is a home for stories that meander like rivers — tracing migration, memory, ritual, and rootlessness. From podcasting to poetic nonfiction, every piece is stitched with care, cultural nuance, and emotional truth.

Founded by Puja Roy — a Montréal-based writer shaped by many cities and seasons — House of Blue Lotus is both a creative offering and a personal act of remembering. It is where fragments find form, and silence turns to song.

Founder & Creative Director

Projects

Sacred Ink Podcast

Sacred Ink is a storytelling podcast tracing the journeys of books and memory across borders. From Montréal to Mumbai via the Levant and the Silk Road and beyond, each episode explores culture, migration, and ritual — one story, one city, one page at a time.
East of Somewhere

East of Somewhere is a hybrid narrative project — part essay, part memory work, part quiet reckoning. It traces the fault lines between class and culture, labour and longing, home and elsewhere. Through a series of lyrical, nonlinear pieces, it reflects on invisible work, diasporic inheritance, and the emotional terrain of cities lived in, imagined, and left behind. This is not a memoir in the traditional sense, but something more fractured — an archive of stories that refuse neat endings, stitched together with tenderness, irony, and the quiet exhale of something unshaken.
The Blue Lotus Journal (Substack)

Our digital publishing platform. This is where serialised essays, behind-the-scenes dispatches, and narrative experiments come to life. Currently home to:
East of Somewhere — unfolding in essays
Sacred Ink Dispatches — reflections from the podcast journey