Barnestorm 4
The Poetry Society's London South West Stanza read from their recent work on a cold winter's evening.
Poets include: Lara Charles, Chris Hardy, Vicki Stannard, Dino Mahoney, Lawrence Rich, Michael Weightman and Kavita Jindal. MC Steve Halliwell. Music performed by Little Machine.
Friday, 20 January 2012 | The Poetry Café | 7.30 pm | Free Entry
Betterton Street, Convent Garden, London WC2H 9BX
Atmosphere: Warm
 "Special Delivery" New Short Story
The anthology Too Asian, Not Asian Enough published by Tindal Street Press in October 2011 is a startlingly diverse collection of stories by British Asian writers. The brief was to 'write what you like' – a freedom relished by the twenty-one authors included in this anthology.
My short story is called Special Delivery. It was featured in the October/November issue New Books magazine, as part of an article on the anthology.
Read the story here ›
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The other contributors to Too Asian, Not Asian Enough are: NSR Khan, Gautam Malkani, Divya Ghelani, Niven Govinden, Rajorshi Chakraborti, Rajeev Balasubramanyam, Madhvi Ramani, Bobby Nayyar, Nikesh Shukla, Ishani Kar-Purkayastha, Harpreet Singh Soorae, Reshma Ruia, Suhayl Saadi, Dimmi Khan, Azmeena Ladha, Anoushka Beazley, Amina Zia, Kavita Bhanot (also the Editor), Bidisha, Rohan Kar
Lauderdale House, London
Poets from Three Continents
Readings from Alfredo Cordal, Kavita Jindal, N.S. Thompson and Heidi Williamson
18th August | 8pm | Standard Price £5
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Not Austen, Not Bollywood
My most-recent feature for Writers' Hub. As the editor explains: 'The Hub's specialist in Indian Writing in English reviews the work of Manju Kapur, "the Jane Austen of India", a writer who has been able to examine Indian women's lives without being bound by either the strictures of Austen's age, or the fashionable tropes of contemporary popular culture.'
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 The Group Online Magazine: FUTURE–ISM
Ruminations on our weird and wonderful near-future are collected in Issue 7 of this brainy webzine.
It includes my short story Preludes & Elusions.
Readings at The Poetry Café
From members of the Poetry Society's Barnes Stanza + Waltham Forest Stanza
30 March 2011 | 7.30 pm | Free Entry
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Cubicles of Consciousness
A selection of Indian Contemporary Poetry and an
accompanying feature article on Birkbeck Writers' Hub
The Poetry ›
The Feature ›
Poem "Chaining the Ecstatic"
As featured in "Eyewear" ›
Barnestorm 3
An evening of music, poetry and conviviality
23 September, 2010 | The Poetry Cafe
Covent Garden, London
7.30 pm
(click on the thumbnail for the flyer in pdf format)
Raincheck Renewed translated into Romanian
Under the aegis of The MA Programme for the Translation of the Contemporary Literary Text – English | Bucharest University
Translation Cafe No 116
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poetry tREnD Munich Festival
1st & 2nd July, 2010 | Ludwig-Maximilians-University
Programme (in German) ›
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The Asia House Festival of Asian Literature
Poetry Evening: Friday, 14 May 2010, 6.45 - 8.30 pm
Daljit Nagra, Moniza Alvi, Imtiaz Dharker, Kavita Jindal
Asia House
63 New Cavendish Street
London, W1G 7LP
www.asiahouse.org
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Can a short story excite the lawyers?
I don't mean in a litigious manner but in an anticipatory sense. With 'Preludes and Elusions', my short story set in the near future, about a family lawyer in London who specializes in pre-conception contracts, I think I have come close. Last November following my reading at an event in the City, I spied a certain gleam in the eyes of a few forward-thinking lawyers. read more ›
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