If anyone tells you something vile, come and have a word with me. Meet me over coffee. Let’s see the sun go down in our mugs. This narrative that they created of me is to suit their versions of their truths. To appease in themselves… …their sentimentality, limitation, dusk fears. Come, ask me…
Posts from: November 2016
Sahitya Akademi invites me too…for A Festival of Readings…
To Agartala to breathe and read poetry in its air. At A Festival of Readings by Young Poets in English This is thanks to the noted and eminent poet Sudeep Sen. Much gratitude.
‘Fanny’ – my flash fiction in TellMeYourStory
Read the whole piece here: Fanny
Haibun workshop at The Piramal Art Foundation, November – 19th, morning
My last workshop for November — and I am guessing… – for this year will be at The Piramal Art Foundation on November – 19th, Saturday. 9:15 am – 1:30 pm. This is in celebration of Piramal Museum of Art’s current exhibition, ‘Discovering Japanese Art’. I wonder how we’ll etch haiku, conjure haibun in the…
At Dogears bookstore & The Barking Deer
My two workshops, one in Goa and one in Bombay were absolutely fulfilling. There were some exquisite prose and poetry read, discussed, written, and critiqued. It’s lovely to meet bright, brilliant thinkers, who may be acquainted with poetry for long… or who are just starting out – but what rapt attentiveness and inventiveness. Workshops these…
Poetry workshop at Barking Deer, 12th November 2016
The best part of this workshop is that you will be doing all the work. In the cozy space of Barking Deer on 12th November 2016, you will be challenged to write a free verse, a haiku, a haibun. Come, register at: https://insider.in/event/tall-tales-presents-build-a-relationship-with-words-nov12 And… meet me there. A few elements we’ll be concentrating on:…