Celebrating the launch of Sonnet Mondal’s Karmic Chanting  book launch. As I get ready for a poetry workshop for the 3-day Ahmedabad Design Fest (https://adf.glsid.org/) with Neha Bahuguna, here’s remembering the beautiful morning spent reading poems on Climate Change at Mahindra before a conference on Climate Change, ESG & Business Strategy. (Thank you Madhu for sharing…

‘To Daraza’ my poem – winner of the Norton Girault Literary Prize in Poetry 2018 is out at Barley South Review. For those of you who wanted it. Click to read.

My Australian visit for APWT, Griffith Uni., Gold Coast and the Federal Free Writer’s Festival was very fulfilling. A good laugh over my poem ‘Gathering’ (Four Degrees of Separation). Enriching panel discussions. My key note speech, well-received. Books sold out. What more to ask.

Come join us at Panel 21: Talking poetry: Our favourite and most inspiring poets with Ravi Shankar, Samuel Wagan Watson, and moderated by Jude Aquilina. 10-11:15 am Friday, 7th December 2018 Griffith University On Poetry – Our favourite and Inspiring poets

Just arrived into Gold Coast. * You are invited to APWT, Panel 26 / Friday, 7th December, 3:45 – 5:00 Griffith University, Australia Capturing the conundrum: Gender politics in the contemporary literary climate, with Sreedhevi Iyer, Tim Tomlinson, moderated by Lucy Neave. We go! For more, click here.

A view on the ban on nighties (7 am to 7 pm) in Tokalapalli. In the Asian Age and Deccan Chronicle.

If you are in the Gold Coast, Brisbane, Australia you are invited! Special Session // Rochelle Potkar: Brave or Necessary? The Battles that choose us. 5th December 2018. 10-11 am. Griffith University, Gold Coast Campus. Tickets available. Click for more: https://www.facebook.com/events/204318827162396/