Friends, wish us luck with Hong Kong. This is exciting! https://www.screendaily.com/news/indias-nfdc-screenwriters-lab-set-to-pitch-in-hong-kong/5137499.article

Issue # 11 of the Joao-Roque Literary Journal is out! Homelands Far Away. This issue features moving poetry by Chandramohan Sathyanathan, Sonnet Mondal, Pitambar Naik, and Salil Chaturvedi. In the beautiful words of Editor Selma Carvalho… Dear readers, It is hard to believe that we are already into our third year of publishing the journal….

Delighted that ‘Four Degrees of Separation‘ has been reviewed at Wasafiri by the incisive and discerning Mohammad Farhan. He writes: “As an iconoclastic poet questioning the age-old illiberal cultural customs, she thus asks, ‘why should the world be telling us what is less and what is more? … why is the world telling us what…

Yesterday was an interesting Mumbai event. Unusual poets yoked together, a few who might never have read in the same space given the walls & lines (with no windows) drawn between them. FOR A WORLD WITHOUT WALLS A brave act of inclusiveness by Bina Sarkar Ellias who inhaled and implemented the truest spirit of poetry,…

Session on: Enhancing Reading and writing skills. The subject expert in Herat will speak on speaking skills. I will speak on writing skills. Participants will join in from Herat, Afghanistan and Dosti House, BKC and Ahmedabad Corner through virtual medium. College students, welcome. Meet you on February 26, 2019 2 – 4:30 pm Dosti House,…

In case you need a reminder for the 22nd February 2019 readings of The Mumbai chapter of World Poetry Movement curated by Bina Sarkar Ellias, here it is! See you 6:30 pm to 8 pm Alliance Francaise de Bombay, Theosophy Hall, Marine Lines. Mid-day covers.

You are gorgeously invited to this event. Details – 17th February 2019, 9:30 am. If you are in Thiruvananthapuram. If not, in spirit. With Chandramohan Sathyanathan and Dr. Sigma Satish.

You are graciously invited, dear friends, to ‘For a World Without Walls’ on 22 February, 6:30 p.m, Alliance Francaise De Bombay for a smörgåsbord of poetry.   See you there!

At the Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF) 2019. My poetry film ‘Skirt’ is to be streamed between sessions with other films by the Visible Poetry Project. My books ‘Paper Asylum’ and ‘Four Degrees of Separation’ – at the Full Circle bookshop. Pick your copies by 28th Jan.    

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…