Dear friends,Welcoming you to PAGE to STAGE on 3 July, Wednesday at 6:30 pm at@ncpamumbai Godrej Dance Theatre, with Sonu Anand @sonuanand17, Mudit Singhal @singhal_mudit, Tarab Kureishy @tarabkureishy, Rutuja Awaghad, Richa Shukla, and Vaibhavi Mungle; Scherezade Siobhan @zaharaesque, and Sujata Jadhav. Book your (free) tickets now: https://in.bookmyshow.com/events/page-to-stage-coins-in-rivers/ET00400723

I have been archiving my conversations over my latest poetry book ‘Coins in Rivers’ at Rochelle’s Verandah – my tiny little podcast station. It’s a very on-and-off activity with only 2 free uploads in the basic monthly plan. So I have to wait a whole month to upload two more. But it works! Check it…

After my stage performance at Chitkara University, I am glad (and amused) that I am on the roster of Triniti under the ‘Artists’ instead of the ‘Authors’ tab. It means I must concentrate more on what I’ve come to enjoy: performing my poetry.https://triniti.org.in/speakers/

Thank you Govind Potekar for this writeup in O Herald, Goa.Thank you, Nicole Suares for being in conversation with me at Broadway Book Centre, Panjim. What a well-researched conversation was that! You even went through my most recent podcasts on Rochelle’s Verandah!But my most stunning moment was to see Manohar Shetty and Devika Sequeira at…

In The Daily Guardian | 6 June 2024 | Page 8 Thank you Dr. Shalini Yadav for encapsulating this book in your own interpretation.‘Rochelle Potkar effortlessly reigns over the vast spectrum of Philosophy to Psychology, Mythology to Technology, Marine Biology to Astronomy, and all Sciences to Arts and Humanities as an ace of intellectual domains….

Thank you, Christine Machado for this thought-provoking interview that appears in Navhind Times, Goa. I will be in Goa soon to launch my book Coins in Rivers at 3 bookstores: Champaca, The Dogears Bookshop, and Broadway Book Centre.https://epaper.navhindtimes.in/NewsDetail.aspx?storyid=508976&date=2024-05-28&pageid=1

There was a lot of online ananda at Anantha Festival online this summer, May 2024. Two sessions I attended while in Nepal and one is happening today 29th May 2024 at 6:30 pm where I will be in conversation with Basudhara Roy and Sonia Nair over my poetry book Coins in Rivers. This will live-stream…

For all those who kept asking about my book of haibun: ‘Paper Asylum’. Yes, it was out of stock and is now back in fresh mint, print, stocked with the distributors. Online, you will find it here.

Thank you Bharati Pawaskar for featuring me on Brand Goa, where my right and left brain synchronize just a bit. For more a dreamer and poet am I, but sometimes I wake up to the bazaar.You can read the whole piece, zooming in here –

The Hindu’s Browser covers Coins in Rivers. O Herald mentions my book launch at Champaca, Anjun, Goa on the 31st of May. Friends have received the book and are sharing pictures of receipts. By poet Teji Sethi – By novelist Anees Salim –