KAANI, literary magazine, helmed by Michelle D’costa features my fiction too ‘Our Lovers’ and ‘Slice’ in its 5th issue of the Goan and Mangalorean experience. Sunday readings. Issue 5

A moment to celebrate. My first screenplay ‘A Brown Coat’ moves from quarter-finalist top 20% to semi-finalist top 10% from 1300 entries at the ATLANTA FILM FESTIVAL SCREENWRITING COMPETITION 2020. The road ahead has to be sketched, of course. But time for glee. Click here.

Welcoming you, dear friends, to #APWT2020 Bengaluru India ‘Step Outside the Frame’ 24-26th November 2020 run in conjunction with host partner the National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT), and the Bangalore Literature Festival. For further updates, click. Come join in the fiesta of perspectives and panel discussions, networking and partnerships.  

Last year I was mentor at the Summer Institute, Iowa city and it was such fun with the young and the supremely talented! Apply this year, if you are between 18-22 years old, from the U.S., India, and Pakistan for an immersive 2-week creative writing and cultural exchange program. The IWP Summer Institute – for…

Submissions are now open for Meridian: The APWT Drunken Boat Anthology of New Writing until March 1st 2020. Asia Pacific Writers and Translators (APWT) – the premiere literary organisation in the Asia Pacific region and Drunken Boat, one of the world’s first online literary journals announce a call for new work from all current or…

An insightful and incisive review of Paper Asylum, by Dr. Pallavi Narayan appears in the Commonwealth Business News. My book is, meanwhile, Out of Stock. Do inbox me if you wish a copy. Hushed Lushness The book should soon be available here: Amazon.in

Announcement #2: Dear Friends, You are welcome to a haibun poetry workshop conducted by me, that will begin with a walkthrough of the ongoing exhibition ‘The Witness’ showcasing works by artist Nalini Malani at the Bhau Daji Lad Mumbai City Museum. The walkthrough will be led by the Museum’s Education Team and explore how Nalini…

Announcement #1: Dear Friends, You are invited to participate in the Joao Roque Literary Journal Short Story Contest 2020! Deadline: 30 April 2020. Guidelines, listed here.  Click to read.

After years, again, I read poetry at my city Mumbai’s very own KGAF thanks to the book launch of ‘Sahitya Akademi’s Modern English Poetry by Young Indians’, edited by Sudeep Sen. A soulful event it was! Immersive imagery-filled, the tone and context setup by Jennifer Robertson and Sudeep Sen’s discussion, and each poet opening up…