A Very Happy, Joyous, Peaceful, Fulfilling 2024, my dear friends. Joining the bandwagon of good wishes and warmest vibes a day late having just returned from Paris.May the World be a peaceful place.Here’s to inner and outer peace.Also, to the good news of two of my pieces featuring in Verseville, Issue XXXVI edited by Sarabjeet…

So, the recordings of the Play: 3 Tales from Bombay Hangovers at NCPA, Mumbai is finally here. For all those who couldn’t visit NCPA on 23rd Nov 2023. Why, even I missed witnessing this magic because I was at the NFDC Film Bazaar Goa. I wish I could bi-locate, be wave and particle, but until…

So gleeful to learn that my short film script ‘Catharsis’ has been shortlisted at the 2023 International Literary Prize, Hammond House, UK. Stories and extracts from scripts will be published in the 2024 Short Story anthology. Prizes will be awarded at the International Literary Festival in February 2024. https://www.hammondhouse.org.uk/literary-prize-shortlist and then I got news it…

Some things that I need to cherish and hold dear.

Dear Friends, Do join us on Zoom on December 1 and December 6, 2023, 11 am EST. Hosted by Dr Nishi Chawla – Poetry Readings around “Greening the Earth” (A Penguin Random House Publication, edited by K. Satchidanandan, Nishi Chawla). This makes it 9:30 pm IST. Where poetry anthologies (unless of a blind jury) have…

So the Goa NFDC Film Bazaar was an overwhelming maiden experience with 2 of my projects selected in the Top 30 of the Book-to-Box Office vertical (BTBO). I remember going to HAF Hong Kong after my 2018 NFDC Screenwriter’s Lab, so I had missed Goa then. I met too many interesting new people and old…

Dear writers in Mumbai, see you on Saturday 4th November at Avid Learning @AvidLearning for an intriguing whole-day workshop on ‘Writing with AI’ by the co-founder of The Himalayan Writing Retreat – Chetan Mahajan (@chetanauthor), (@HimalayanWrite). [I too will give a small guest talk on AI + poetry.] Register soon. Limited seats. https://insider.in/writing-in-the-age-of-ai-where-text-meets-tech-nov4-2023/event

Basudhara Roy Chatterjee’s comprehensive and poignant review in Borderless Journal of ‘Greening the Earth: A Global Anthology of Poetry’ (ed.: K. Satchidanandan and Nishi Chawla), published by Penguin Random House also makes mention of my poem ‘Confluence’ that she reads so resonantly. “Rochelle Potkar’s ‘Confluence’ raises concern regarding the legal personhood and rights of our…

En voyage to the Festival of Libraries | Ministry of Culture | Delhi 4-7 Aug & to speak on Day 2 on the importance of residencies & retreats for authors, translators, poets with Saudamini Deo, Chetan Mahajan, Shabnam Samuel, Victoria Dobritz, &Tara Khandelwal. #WritingCommunity

Faculty readings for Between The Lines program, International Writing Program, Iowa’s summer program for young writers. Oh, what a joy it has been to teach them haiku, haibun, free verse (Indian English Poetry), magic realism, short fiction, flash fiction, and screenwriting.What a pleasure to read alongside my fellow-faculty members. Between the Lines 2023 Virtual Faculty…