A New House for Mr. Abbas: Short Fiction
My short story “A New House for Mr. Abbas” is pasted below. Featured on LANGUAGE>PLACE>BLOG CARNIVAL # 15 — Encountering the Other — hosted by writer-editor ABHA IYENGAR. There’s a pic to … Continue reading
Sunday for Elegy 4: It’s All About “that, which betrayed me to my enemy”!
Elegy was never really my preferred mode in poetry. I read a whole bagful of them in school and college. However, having attended two well expounded lectures by two professors … Continue reading
Rain. Linnets. Photo-memories.
Something about the rain in Scotland can make one a little low, in a beautiful way. My nomad heart stops for a split second, just a split second, mind you … Continue reading
Work Forthcoming in Irish Anthology of Indian Poets
Some of my poems would be out soon in “THE YELLOW NIB”, an Irish anthology of Modern English Poetry by Indians from The Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry, Queen’s University, … Continue reading
The Four Quarters Magazine: the Secret Delights of Being a Guest Editor
Why secret delights? Because while I actively guest edited the April issue of The Four Quarters Magazine (TFQM), I appeared a little tense on the outside. Not quite what you think. … Continue reading
Part II on “The Right Kind of Dog”: Jussawalla’s New Work
Here’s Part II of my commentary on eminent poet ADIL JUSSAWALLA‘s forthcoming young readers’ collection The Right Kind of Dog, published on the Prairie Schooner website. An extract for your sampling: … Continue reading
First Trip in Bonnie Scotland: Glasgow
Being a Charles Wallace Fellow at University of Stirling has been quite wonderful. So far it’s been walks to town and around campus when I’m not writing or revising. So, … Continue reading
“The Right Kind of Dog”: On Jussawalla’s Forthcoming Collection
So, write-up number 2 comes out on Prairie Schooner website. Based on my paper presented at the Pondicherry University conference on “Literature for the Youth”, I talk about poet Adil … Continue reading
Poems, Poems, Poems: Old and New
It just occurred to me that recently (last six months or so) I’ve had a few poems published in Muse India and Pratilipi. Both are solid places. Muse India was … Continue reading
SANGAM HOUSE: A Writing Residency Where I Learnt to Dance!
Three weeks in January 2012 had gone by in a whirr. That’s right. Whirr is the only way to put it. I arrived in Bangalore from Hyderabad early morning and got … Continue reading
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