My haibun ‘Retake 1’ and ‘Retake 2’ find their voice here. Check it out. This weekend (29th-30th July, 4 pm). Radio City Freedom. Tune in, at: http://bit.ly/rcfreedom

I will be conducting a poetry workshop at VG Vaze College, Mulund on 27th August, 10 am to 2 pm. The forms taught in this workshop: free verse, haiku, haibun. For updates: https://www.facebook.com/ELA-584188865074856/   It’s always electrifying meeting students. The students of VG Vaze college are bright and full of creative energy. My day is already…

If there is a circus, there will be clowns. If there are clowns, there will be circuses (sooner or later).   If there is boredom in the non-clowns, there will have to be circuses and clowns. If there is ignorance  in the non-clowns, there will have to be circuses and clowns.   Every non-clown is a clown…

And here is a small book with a LOT to read over any weekend. This book is from and by the INhaiku group Mumbai. the taste of sea breeze: An anthology of haiku, senryu, haibun, renku, tanka and renbun https://www.amazon.in/taste-sea-breeze-anthology-senryu-ebook/dp/B01IHJUR3A

So this haibun ‘Samsara’ appears in March ’16 in A Hundred Gourds and I fail to keep track! I was about to send this off to another publication when I just check. Am i losing track of my own life… or what?! [Early signs of something.] http://www.ahundredgourds.com/ahg52/haibun09.html

If you are in Goa, you are invited to the Book Launch of ‘Mind to Keyboard’, Edited by Sheela Jaywant, Published by Goa 1556. This book is a collection of essays by writers of their journey(s). My essay too appears in it. 9th July, 10:30-12:30 pm. ICG. And here is one review of the book: http://www.pruthagoa.com/from-mind-to-keyboard-a-rev

     Coverage in the media: http://www.mid-day.com/articles/poetry-of-global-india/17391157 http://www.firstpost.com/living/40-under-40-an-anthology-of-post-globalisation-poetry-is-more-than-a-must-read-2826992.html http://www.firstpost.com/tag/40-under-40-an-anthology-of-post-globalisation-poetry http://www.firstpost.com/living/listen-from-mihir-vatsa-to-linda-ashok-six-poets-under-40-recite-their-poems-on-post-globalisation-2815276.html Buying links: https://paperwall.in/books/85/40-Under-40 Reviews: (to come…)

Our haibun-writing workshop at the British Council Library was a satisfying one and there are more planned. Meanwhile, my article in the Scroll. http://scroll.in/article/810957/you-know-the-haiku-now-meet-the-haibun-the-other-japanese-form

*(categorized under waste-management) Off late, many have asked me if I am going to a certain poetry festival and I say I did not receive an email invite. I think nothing much of it, and move on. Then more friends ask. Again the same answer resurfaces through my mind… but now I am thinking.  Should I…