12th Poetry Open Mic
Event Name: 12th Poetry Open Mic Location: Qtube Cafe, Mumbai Dates: April 7, 2018, 4 pm to 9 pm Source: https://www.facebook.com/events/172408866718572/ Tickets: Entry is free. Focus: Poetry enthusiasts
The Shadow of Darkness by Priyanka Baranwal
There is a lot that goes into getting a story in the form of a book. For someone looking to self-publish, after your first draft is ready, think about these things: a book cover, a well-written dedication page, an index of contents with relevant, interesting chapter names, a back blurb that draws potential readers in, […]
Litventure 2017
Event Name: Litventure Location: Children’s Academy, Malad East, Mumbai Dates: November 18, 2017, 9 am to 2 pm Line-up: Utkarsh Patel and Shatrujeet Nath, Shyam Bhimsaria, Piorre Hart. Source: https://www.facebook.com/Litventure/ Tickets: Entry is free. Registration online. Focus: Students
Dhaka Literature Festival
Event Name: Dhaka Literature Festival Location: Top floor, House 66, Road 8, Block C, Niketan, Gulshan 1, Dhaka. Dates: November 16-18, 2017 Line-up: Ben Okri, Jerry Pinto, Shuprova Tasneem, Syed Shehzar M Doja Source: http://dhakalitfest.com/ Tickets: Register here.
Tata Literature Live
Event Name: TATA Literature Live! Location: National Centre for Performing Arts and Prithvi Theatre, Mumbai Dates: November 16 – 19, 2017 Line-up: Shashi Tharoor, Thomas Friedman, Ajit Ranade, Anil Dharker, Girish Karnad, among others. Source: http://www.tatalitlive.in/ Tickets: Entry is free. Registrations online and at venue.
National Novel Writing Month
In a couple of hours from now, the National Novel Writing Month or the NaNoWriMo will begin in India. For a whole month, aspiring writers across the globe dedicate their time to writing: some setting targets as high as one million words. And achieving them. The goal is to give yourself that extra push, to […]
Before, and Then After by Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan
Pablo Neruda, that famed poet of love, has a lesser-known collection titled ‘Ode to Common Things’. Here, he takes commonplace objects like onions or spectacles and elevates them to the proverbial grecian urns of old. Consider this line from Ode to an Onion: You make us cry without hurting us.I have praised everything that exists,but […]
Maps for a Mortal Moon by Adil Jussawalla
Maps for a Mortal Moon is a collection of journalistic writings by Adil Jussawalla on a sprawling range of subjects – from the importance of literary agents and the Salman Rushdie fatwa controversy to the death of Marilyn Monroe and the ambience of shady desi bars in Bombay. Indeed I had to re-consult the article […]
Rishika Aggarwal: on poetry and being a self-published poet
I think we’re beginning to remember that the first poets didn’t come out of a classroom, that poetry began when somebody walked off of a savannah or out of a cave and looked up at the sky with wonder and said, “Ahhh.” That was the first poem. –Lucille Clifton I stumbled into poetry by accident. […]
Vidya Premkumar: on teaching literature
Literature today presents itself as that elusive, satisfying, cool profession. “You’re an author? That’s cool.” “I want to do something creative, like write,” have become cool catchphrases with a generation saturated with their mundane corporate jobs. But what most people fail to notice is that the world of literature is so much like a job […]
