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 –

The Interviews Editor Kabir Deb throws unpredictable questions at me during this interview. Thank you, Kabir for your most unusual questions. Kabir says, “On a breezy evening, I interviewed Rochelle Potkar regarding her latest collection of poetry (which also happens to be her fourth book after Four Degrees of Separation, Paper Asylum, and Bombay Hangovers)…

And…. my book of poetry ‘Coins in Rivers’ is finally out today by @HachetteIndia! It’s all yours to read. Thank you for all your warmth and good wishes.The quick link on Amazon is here. [Click]I was talking about the ‘Forest of Birdsong’ on my Acknowledgement Page and it was You.

Look what I found – an old note by my beloved mentor Jayanta M. #jayantamahapatra In my old scribbly notebook. Handwritten notes are so precious in the day of the Digital. This is for my book ‘Coins in Rivers’. But finding this now … I take as a blessing and a good omen. Thank you!

Gearing up for the Glass House Poetry Festival Bangalore. Co-curating this was super fun!To meet all the poets, and associates, but mostly the feisty fiery Artmantram team.Coverage in The Hindu.

I always wanted to do something about this cute term ‘galley proof’. With a few ARCs (Advanced Review Copies) sent to early reviewers had that wish fulfilled too. Picture cred: Kabir Deb.Thank you team Hachette India. ‘Coins in Rivers’ releases on 18th April.

Dear Friends,My new book of poetry ‘Coins in Rivers’ goes to print on Women’s Day.Coming soon by mid-April 2024.Meet you over it for gupp and shupp. In print. Over chai. In person. Online. Over laughs and cries.Thanking the whole team of Hachette India @HachetteIndia.