Looking forward to judging the Creative Writing Poetry contest and conducting a Haibun workshop at Saarang 2021 powered by the Writing Club Conveners 2020-21, IIT Madras. 5/6 February 2021. Very glad to be in touch with the talented writer and poet Cherene Aniyan Puthethu, alumna of Summer Institute Iowa 2019.

Dear Friends,I will be reading poems at the Prakriti Festival/Prakriti Foundation, and would love to meet you.Please keep your time free on 20th Feb 2021, 7 pm IST.There will be a Q&A at the end of the readings. Ask away! See you. Will share the Insider event link closer to date. Follow –https://www.facebook.com/prakritifoundhttps://www.instagram.com/theprakritifoundation/https://twitter.com/prakritif

Hi Friends, Just released! The Kali Project: Invoking the Goddess Within / Indian Women’s Voices [Poetry anthology]Editorial team – Candice Louisa Daquin, Megha Sood, Christine Elizabeth Kali represents the perfect metaphor of the great dissenter desperately needed in today’s times, to rise above subjugate society. Kali, a goddess of strength and destruction, represents energy in…

Welcoming you to the 7th Chandrabhaga Poetry Festival (CPF)- a metaphorical, metonymic experience of the poetic landscapes in Indian languages, also celebrating Jayanta Mahapatra’s iconic journal Chandrabhaga – mythic river of poetry! And our session ‘Dragons, Elephants & Butterflies’ at 5:15- 6:30 pm on 10 January 2021.Google meet link – https://meet.google.com/hpm-diqj-cnh See you, friends!

Sneha Bhura, in The Week, comprehensively reviews ‘Shimmer Spring’ – an anthology of prose and poetry (ed. Kiriti Sengupta/Hawakal Publishers). This lands on my e-desk on 1 Jan 2021. Read the review here.Order your copy here.