At Edinburgh College of Art near the Fire Station this summer, there is a large hall that was dark, with limited, pale lighting. Once your eyes adjust to the darkness, you can see certain shapes – of erect nails standing firm, piercing through white sheets. You can imagine them as flags – white flags – but not of surrender, but of purity. There are words on those sheets. Words that survive. Read more
Thali Katori brings together two words that celebrate difference, acknowledge the need for the sensitive appreciation of difference, the virtues of complementarity and the nourishment that poetry and the arts, as vitally as savoury and sweet dishes, dal and other vegetables, gives us, to keep us alive, to refuse, in Hugh MacDiarmid’s phrase, ‘a life deprived of its salt.’ Read more
Thali Katori: An Anthology of Scottish and South Asian Poetry, is a feast of many flavours. Featuring poets from Sir Walter Scott’s time to Vikram Seth and others, Thali Katori celebrates the difference and diversity of the Indian sub-continent and Scotland. Read more
I have been nominated as a researcher in the UGC-UKIERI Project titled, “Scottish Orientalism and the Indian Renaissance, the Continuum of Ideas: Tagore and his Circle”, being jointly coordinated by Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland and Visva-Bharati Shantiniketan, India. While pursuing my Ph.D. at Visva-Bharati, I have been fortunate enough to pay an academic visit to Edinburgh, Scotland from 9 to 18 March, 2015. Read more
Conference: The Poet, Nation and Narration: Geo-Political Poetics – Scotland and the East-West Dimension. Conference co-convened by ScoTs and the Edinburgh International Centre of Peace and Spirituality. Read more