I often engage writers/poets/translators in long-form conversations about their craft for culture magazines. Here are some of those conversations.
Bora Chung on going to protests, translating Russian literature, and the question of audience / Reading Asia column / 2024
Norman Erikson Pasaribu on postcolonial Indonesia, queer liberation, writing and translation / Reading Asia column / 2024
Yoko Tawada on disappearing nations, animals, poetry / Reading Asia column / 2024
Seni Seneviratne, Shash Trevett, Vidyan Ravinthiran on the editing an anthology of Sri Lankan poetry / Words Without Borders / 2023
Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi on first novels, the translator as a protagonist, Partition, and putting romance to the margins / Vogue India / 2023.
Cristina Rivera Garza and Sarah Booker on crossing borders, genres, and the myth of an ending / Wasafiri / 2023.
Khadija Abdalla Bajaber on winning the inaugural Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction / Scroll.in / 2023.
Sueyeun Juliette Lee / on light, grief, difficult poetry, heritage, and landscape / The Willowherb Review / 2022.
Aditi Machado on mulberry, the silkiness of languages, and reorienting hierarchies / Honey Literary / 2021.
Jennifer Croft on childhood, photography, and multilingual projects / the Asymptote blog /2019.
Susanna Nied on translating and working with Inger Christensen / the Asymptote blog / 2018.
Ghayath Almadhoun on writing about war and losing a homeland/ the Asymptote blog / 2018.
Ursula Andkjær Olsen & Katrine Øgaard Jensen on motherhood, capitalism, and translating punctuation / the Asymptote blog, / 2017.
Ida Börjel on conceptual poetry, Gertrude Stein, resistance, language, baby pandas / the Asymptote blog / 2017.
Sometimes, I read and/or present my poetry at literary festivals, bookstores, and gatherings. Hope to see you there!
- Verse Warriors: Jeet Thayil and Sohini Basak / Bangalore Literature Festival / 2022
- Video poem ‘Future Libraries’ / Audiatur Festival for Ny Poesi Norway / 2022
- Poems on the Road by Walking Book Fair / Jaipur Literary Festival / 2019
- Summer Book Launch / London Review of Books / 2018
- The New Poet in the City: IIHS City Scripts / New Delhi Max Mueller Bhavan / 2017
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