Issue 12 of Usawa is special in more ways than one. Read it to find out. Your recommended December must-read. Besides it also features ‘Catharsis’, my play, shortlisted at the 2023 International Literary Prize, Hammond House, UK, & Shortlisted at the Short + Sweet South India 2024 Theatre Festival for staging in Tamil in September at Prakriti Foundation, Chennai…

Thank you Saumya Jain for the invitation.

Reposted from: @thukralandtagra Serendipity is delighted to announce an all-new project “Poems on the Move” co-curated by Salil Chaturvedi @salilwheels + @thukralandtagra as a part of @Multiplay_safAn intimate and experimental poetic encounter that turns a quintessentially mundane urban experience—a cab ride—into a journey of poetic discovery. Live poetry readings and immersive recitations within moving shuttles…

Bookended by Goa, this November – December 2024.November: NFDC Film Bazaar (@filmbazaarindia)December: Serendipity Arts Festival | Poets on the Move(@serendipityartsfestival)At the wonderful Goa Film Bazaar, running through back-to-back meetings I am glad the ace photographer Assavri Kulkarni spotted me and captured me into her lovely page in Peacock – the  official newspaper for International Film Festival…

Thanking the participants who paused amid their busy schedules to share their feedback, and very grateful to Shabnam Samuel, Director of Panchgani Writers’ Retreat @panchganiwrites for inviting me as an instructor.