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Iowa: day 1 25 Aug 2013 | 06:54 pm
So I'm here, in Iowa City, with the river flowing right by the hotel where all of us are being put up. Everything begins tomorrow, so today we get to hang out, say hello to each other before we're swa...
CIty of Asylum Pittsburgh: Jazz Poetry Concert 19 Aug 2013 | 09:12 am
I will be at this event on the 7th of September, reading with other awesome poets including *gasp* Joy Harjo. Naturally, the excitement is uncontrollable. On the off-chance that some of you live in ...
Subashini on Americanah 16 Aug 2013 | 09:18 am
Subashini has written an essay on Adichie's Americanah on Pop Matters. I have been reading this piece for the last fifteen minutes, pausing after nearly every papargraph to re-read and savour it, to a...
Reading promiscuously 14 Aug 2013 | 07:40 am
I was visiting Rishi Valley over the weekend and was invited to speak at the Junior School assembly about anything I wanted to. I elected to talk about SFF, because I figured this was something that w...
The Doctor is [expletive deleted] 6 Aug 2013 | 07:24 am
So they've announced the 12th Doctor and I am trying to figure out how to explain to my son how much I love the news. Not that he loved Matt Smith or anything - for him The Doctor is David Tennant, th...
Word Loss of the Day: Quotient 2 Aug 2013 | 04:45 pm
I have words of the day, I even have words of the quarter, but I have recently realised that I need a whole new category for what's happening to me. You know when you say a word but all of a sudden i...
Announcement: 5th Srinivas Rayaprol Poetry Prize - Call for Entries 29 Jul 2013 | 11:04 am
I had meant to post this earlier; my apologies to everyone who's come to the blog in recent days looking for announcements. Here it is in full: Entries are invited from young poets in India writing i...
Sundara Ramaswamy: No Longer At Ease 19 Jul 2013 | 10:08 am
My essay on Sundara Ramaswamy appeared in Mint last week. All through the time I was reading Waves and Children, Women, Men, I made copious notes and wanted to include so much more than I was able to ...
5. 3 Jul 2013 | 07:03 am
A decade is such a comforting packet of time - so metric, so metronomic; it passes on, no matter what the everyday messes and triumphs. A decade since this. And a half decade? It's equally neat: half...
Review: Anand Thakore's books of poetry 29 Jun 2013 | 10:28 am
A couple of months ago I'd review Anand Thakore's books of poems, Elephant Bathing and Mughal Sequence, in Biblio. Since it wasn't available to read online, I didn't post the review here. But since th...
