Last Night

What she said.  You’re dangerous.
What I said.  I am. But mostly just to myself.

Sangam House Reading On The 29th

Aren’t you lucky — one more Sangam House reading for this season, and this time with an exhibition too.
I will be reading from new work, from the collection of poems I began while at Sangam House.

The Venus Flytrap: Hunger

I recently met with a dear friend I hadn’t seen in a year and a half because we had both left the city in which we’d lived. Prior to his arrival, he got in touch to ask if there was anything I wanted from his part of the world. I didn’t miss a beat. “Guarana [...]

Slow Surfacing

The truth is, I have been back in Chennai, back from the Sangam House residency, for over a week. And it’s staggering to realise just how short the experience actually was, in perspective. Suffice to say that I still have the red soil of Adishakti tinting my slippers. I have never in my life been [...]

Tehelka Review of Witchcraft

Read it here.

The Venus Flytrap: Die Laughing

The funniest story I have heard in weeks is a tragedy. It’s presented as a true story (but repeated so often and to such effect that it has surely taken on some less than fact-faithful colouring). The storyteller, a magical man named Rane who summons strange things out of drums, knew someone who had an [...]

Metroplus Chennai On The Sangam House Reading

The Hindu has a write-up today on Sangam House’s recent event in Chennai. It’s a good article, but I wish my name was spelt correctly. Read it here.

Sangam House Reading in Chennai

The second of our two public readings for the inaugural season of the Sangam House writers’ residency will take place today in Chennai at Pasha, The Park Hotel at 7.30pm. Special guest Tom Alter joins Salma, Joshua Furst, N. S. Koenings, Mridula Koshy and Sharanya Manivannan. Writer bios are here.

Shuttered

I was thrilled to find out that a photograph I took has made it to Shutter Sisters, as today’s featured Daily Click!