Word Masala Awards

Word Masala Awards Ceremony and Readings (By Invitation Only) 22 June 2016 6 pm The House of Lords Committee Room 4A, St Stephen’s Hall, London SW1A 0PW Readings by: Debjani Chatterjee, Daljit Nagra, Meena Alexander, Reginald Massey, Shanta Acharya, Usha Kishore,...

A Tapestry of Dreams

Readings by Indian Women Diaspora Poets 23 June 2016 / 6.30 pm The Nehru Centre / 8 South Audley Street, London W1K 1HF This is a free event and all are welcome. I will be reading recent poems along with Meena Alexander, Shanta Acharya, Mona Dash and Usha Akella. Full...

The Whole Kahani

Short Stories from The Whole Kahani Readings at the Nehru Centre, London on 26 May 2016 From London to Goa, Manchester to Mumbai, this anthology includes tales that span virtual gigolos, start-ups, girl crushes, obsessive fans and astrological mishaps. An eclectic mix...

Experiencing Elsewhere

SOAS, London  /  Tuesday 10th November 2015  / 3-5 pm  Russell Room, SOAS, University of London, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H OXG What does it mean to inherit different cultures and social spaces, and how does poetry articulate or translate the...

Poem:Films for National Poetry Day

‘Poem:Films’ For National Poetry Day  –  8 October 2015 Caroline Areskog Jones has created two shorts using words from my poems. ‘Parakeet’ and ‘Chaining the Ecstatic’ View the ‘Poem:Films’ on youtube: Parakeet...

Poems On Buses

            One of my poems was selected to be a ‘poem-on-the-move’, in a bus in Guernsey, from May to September 2014. The poem was originally titled ‘March Misery Poem’. Kudos to the judge; that was my reaction....