When Anusua Mukherjee, Sr. Asst. Editor of The Hindu invited me to write a piece, I wondered if I could synopsize such a great, wide, and deep life of Nissim Ezekiel in just 700 words. Read here. I tried.@TheHinduBooks, @the_hindu
Posts from: March 2022
5 Indian Feminist Poets on World Poetry Day 2022
5 Indian Feminist Poets Whose Work Will Inspire You This World Poetry Day (got this via googlealerts) “We all have music in us, we have words in us, and we have drama in us. And poetry is just that, rhythm, drama, and words. As women poets, you have to remember that there’s no one on…
The Punch Magazine anthology review in the Deccan Herald.
The Punch Magazine anthology is doing very well thanks to Editor Shireen Quadri, Niyogi Books, Trisha Niyogi, my fellow writers in the book, all the readers and reviewers. One of the latest reviews by Sucheta Dasgupta/Deccan Chronicle is here. (Just sometimes, randomly and out-of-the-blue, you receive such a shot in the arm that you go…
Pratilipi (English) awaits your stories.
I have always enjoyed both posting and reading fiction on Pratilipi. So now when they invited me to collaborate over a competition to encourage budding writers, I was delighted.‘WOW – Women of Wonders is a two-month-long event open for entries on womanhood.To take part in the competition, all you have to do is log in…
International Women’s Day + poetry in an anthology!
For International Women’s Day, the University of Mumbai will release, ‘Women Empowerment Through Poetry’ – an anthology of poems, edited by Arushi Sharma, Aishe Debnath, Manisha Karne, Aparna Phadke, Satishchandra Kumar, and Rajesh Kharat. Glad to be reading my poems at this august gathering on Tuesday, 8th March 2022, 5 pm. “Over the past few…
Review of Bombay Hangovers in The Compulsive Reader
In which the discerning literary pundit (Ra Sh) Ravi Shanker N reviews Bombay Hangovers, featured in The Compulsive Reader. Click here for the whole review.You can grab a copy via Amazon or at the Kolkata Book Fair 2022.
Bombay Hangovers @Kolkata’s Book Fair 2022.
Copies of Bombay Hangovers will be available at the 45th International Kolkata Book Fair in Central Park, Karunamayee, Saltlake, Kolkata from 28 Feb – 13 March 2022. Visit Eastern Book House, Hall 2, Stall # 846. Thank you, Vishwakarma Publications. KolkataBookFair #KolkataBookFair2022 #bombayhangovers #rochellepotkar #kolkata #books #reading #bookclub #internationalkolkatabookfair2022 #BOOKFAIR2022