Five Desi Faves podcast

Here are the five dog-eared books I mention in my podcast for DesiBooks hosted by Jenny Bhatt. My selections are very different from each other but I learnt something from all. Episode 19 features Shubhanga Pandey talking about the importance and ethos of Himal South...

Manual For A Decent Life

UK edition released 1 November 2020 Intelligent and Perceptive Reviews are rolling in! Published by Linen Press in the U.K & Brighthorse Books in the U.S. Available globally in print or e-book. Get your copy now. ‘This ambitious novel is both epic and...

Recordings of Poems on Lyrikline.org

Feels strange to listen to myself, perhaps because I write in silent mode. Here are some of my recorded poems on the amazing archive of international poetry lyrikline.org. Many thanks to VerseVille magazine and Sonnet Mondal for inviting me to contribute. And a shout...

Lockdown Writing Space

  View this post on Instagram   🌸 Today we uncover Kavita A. Jindal’s writing habits and peek inside her #ARoomOfOnesOwn! 🖊 The author of Manual for a Decent Life and Whole Kahani co-founder tells us about her writing room and the other places she likes to...

Tremendous Reviews for PATINA

Witty & Wry with a Steely Heart*   Patina, launched in New York at the Matwaala festival in April 2019 has received tremendous reviews, excerpted below. Jindal’s capacity for hard beauty and pride in her own unsentimentality…along with an irreverent playfulness...

OPTIMISM

One of the ‘firsts’ for me this year was the commercial installation of my short poem Optimism. It has had the most amazing reactions. That’s made me look at the poem in a new light and read it to boost myself after disappointments. Considering I’d ignored this poem...