If you are at Hyderabad Literary Festival this January, don’t miss ‘Trans-Verse’ at Shaheen block, conceptualized and curated by Saima Afreen, showcasing works of eight poets from India, France, Portugal, Brazil, and Ireland. Yekta, Marcio Andre, Rochelle Potkar, Santasree Chaudhuri, Saima Afreen, Colm Scully, Mriganka Shekhar Ganguly, and Carolina Floare. “How does a poet’s mind…

Modeled after the Best American Poetry series, the Best India Poetry anthology is here! My poems ‘Willow Witching’ and ‘Key holes’ are included. You may order your copy by writing to: rlfpaeditions.biz@gmail.com.

It’s joyous to receive mail from Jayanta Mahapatra with a sweet note, and a copy of Chandrabhaga, which also has a short story ‘Mist’ by me, a review of ‘Four Degrees of Separation’ by Sukrita Paul Kumar, and my review essay on books by 10 poets. (ref pic 3). The volume had much more (picture…

Friends, watch me narrate ‘Noise’ – a short story soon to appear in the collection ‘Hangovers from a Bombay debacle’. Thank you, kalArt. Comments, most welcome. Click here to view.  

‘Life and death in an unequal world’ – as Shafey Kidwai contemplates on war and literature around it, he mentions my poem ‘War Specials’ too in The Hindu. You may read it here.

The new year brings a review of ‘Paper Asylum’ in the New Indian Express, by Kakoli Mukherjee. You can read it here.

Celebrating the launch of Sonnet Mondal’s Karmic Chanting  book launch. As I get ready for a poetry workshop for the 3-day Ahmedabad Design Fest (https://adf.glsid.org/) with Neha Bahuguna, here’s remembering the beautiful morning spent reading poems on Climate Change at Mahindra before a conference on Climate Change, ESG & Business Strategy. (Thank you Madhu for sharing…

‘To Daraza’ my poem – winner of the Norton Girault Literary Prize in Poetry 2018 is out at Barley South Review. For those of you who wanted it. Click to read.

My Australian visit for APWT, Griffith Uni., Gold Coast and the Federal Free Writer’s Festival was very fulfilling. A good laugh over my poem ‘Gathering’ (Four Degrees of Separation). Enriching panel discussions. My key note speech, well-received. Books sold out. What more to ask.

Come join us at Panel 21: Talking poetry: Our favourite and most inspiring poets with Ravi Shankar, Samuel Wagan Watson, and moderated by Jude Aquilina. 10-11:15 am Friday, 7th December 2018 Griffith University On Poetry – Our favourite and Inspiring poets