Please keep 11 Nov, 4:30 pm free.I will be in conversation with Uma Narain and Sujata Jadhav over Bombay Hangovers, at NCPA’s Stuart-Liff Collection Library in the NCPA precincts.If you would like to dramatically read 2-paragraph-excerpts from Bombay Hangovers, drop me a line.
Me and WE in a poetic conversation on journeys.
Here’s the recording of my conversation with Smeetha Bhoumik of WE over life, literature, and journeys. (I was pretty unfiltered.) If you are on FB you can access the recording here.
Disco-balling with Poetry, Smee and WE.
Gladly looking forward to meeting Smee (Smeetha Bhoumik) at WE. At the glitzy disco-talk of poetry. Oct 13, 5:20 pm. Register in advance for this meeting at the zoom link here. Be there! 🙂 So just like jigging on the dance floor, we are planning to have no plan but go impromptu. I will read randomly…
My Story set in a chittmahal, enclave will have new interpretation.
I was absolutely amused to receive a note from Amrita Ghosh, an academic, teacher, writer, and editor | Assistant Professor of South Asian Literatures at the University of Central Florida. When she mentioned my short story on Chitmahal (The Enclave) it took me down a forgotten memory path of this story being published in The…
‘Mumbai@75’, on a panel at the Prince of Wales Museum, Fort.
Mumbaikars, join us for this in-person panel discussion ‘Mumbai @75’ organized by Mumbai First reminiscing on the art, culture, and architecture of our city of dreams. @mumbaifirst Moderated by Naresh Fernandes. 20th October 2022, 6 pm | Visitors Center,Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya,erstwhile Prince of Wales Museum, Fort Mumbai
Poetry readings for IPPL and 75 Ys of Indian Independence
Dr. Paramita Mullick curates the Mumbai Chapter of IPPL for the 75th Year of Independence on 30 Aug, at 6 pm with readings by Menka Shivdasani, Anju Makhija, Rochelle Potkar, Meher Pestonji, Mihir Chitre, and Prof.Sanjukta Dasgupta. You are welcome to the readings, dear friends!
My short story ‘Women’ in the EKL Review.
My short story ‘Women’ that I wrote quite a while ago, finds a place in EKL Review. Thanking editors Sufia Khatoon and Anindita Bose.Read it, if time, weather, mood, climate, and interest permit 😀
Charles Wallace fellows+wordsmiths read.
Scherezade Sioban, the present Charles Wallace fellow is conducting “Near & Far” – an online poetry event for the University of Stirling with two former Charles Wallace fellows+wordsmiths – Mihir Vatsa & Rochelle Potkar. Join us as we read from our work on the 20th of August at 3:00 PM (if you are in the…
Poecation – Poetry Masterclass in the Himalayas
26-30th September 2022. Elope to the mountains. Learn haiku, haibun, and free verse. Discover #PoetryFilms and make one of your own in this 3-day masterclass at our retreat. Rochelle Potkar is back with her Poetry Masterclass – this time at the mountains and with a twist to her usual workshops. Click here to register. Only…
‘Women & the City’ @Hyderabad Literary Festival online 2022.
Mark your calendar! On Friday, August 12 at 7 pm IST, we’ll be discussing Anju Makhija’s fascinating book Mumbai Traps: Collected Plays in ‘Women & the City’ – a discussion around the plays in the book at the Hyderabad Literary Festival 2022 online.Streaming on – www.youtube.com/c/hlf-india.You are welcome to a Q&A interaction immediately after the…