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.

My Diwali gift this year is a review of Coins in Rivers by the accomplished and celebrated poet Amlanjyoti Goswami in Verseville. Gratitude! A special thank you to Sonnet Mondal for making space to publish this review in Verseville. Read it here.

Looking forward to our interactions at the Department of English, Pondicherry University. 24 October 2024 as part of Kurindan International Writer’s Residency with Claus Ankersen and Laerke Helene Askholm. Friends in Puducherry, do meet us!

In the latest issue of Viva Goa magazine. Thank you, Nicole Suares, for this book review. Appreciate all your questions around this book and your research before our conversation at Broadway.You might still find a few signed copies at Champaca (Anjuna), Broadway (Panjim) and The Dogear’s Bookshop (Margao).

The review of Coins in Rivers by reviewer and academician Mohammad Farhan appears in The Hindu. “Potkar’s latest collection of poems, Coins in Rivers, offers a pulsating visualisation of variegated modern realities with a tinge of dismay and defiance. And these modern realities turn into a rich tapestry of recurrent poetic themes that include the…

Looking forward to a wonderful discussion with the faculty members and students of St. Xavier’s College Mumbai at Ithaka. 30 Aug 2024.Thank you Dr. Rashmi Lee George for always being so appreciative and welcoming.