DNA Feature: From Business Consultancy To Performance Poetry, This Woman Manages It All
Anvi Mehta ran a feature on me for DNA, focusing on my work on stage as a Spoken Word artist.
Poetry
Tuning Up The Poetry At Tuning Fork
So Karthik showed up at the Open Mic earlier this week. I was running late and we barely had a few minutes to catch up and sync up. There was a super ANNOYING couple at the table next to us talking LOUDLY during a performance and saying things like “He’s…
The Mother Box – Poetry & Acid
I wore a saree to a poetry event today. Unlike the last time, it was a rushed drape of an unstarched cotton. I look like an amma. But I was on my way to a new poetry event. And I thought it would be nice to do gentle romantic piece….
Faking It Because I Don’t Think I’m Making It: Two Poems
Two poems and some insights through the breathing. The poems are called ‘Patchwork Relationship’ and ‘Wrong Time’
On Motherhood, Discomfort & Poetry
Here’s my scathing tribute to motherhood.
Canvas Kavita: A Collaboration Of Spoken Word, Poetry & Music
I collaborated with musician Karthik Rao to interpret Soghra Khursani’s painting exhibit in words & music. Art, words & music – this is a collaboration I’ll always be proud to have been in.
Hyderabad Girls
A poem to a late night Twitter prompt – for a friend from the city of nawabs and biryani, Hyderabad.
Escape
In narrow escape routesInside games of shameYou hidBreathing unabashedAnd that’s where I found youDefiant refugees together,We loved. *Read my other Love Poetry. Or listen to it.
The Vigilante Poet
Time zoomed byleft behind a smoking trailand skidmarks only I could see Nobody cared when I saidI’d been a victim of a drive-by shooting,Love in the driver’s seat So I stemmed my bleeding with paperTurned poetry into paper planesAnd sent them flying everywhere I saw the rogues appear One of…
“Goddess” — A Navratri poem opening at Poetry Couture’s Poetic Adda
“Goddess” — A Navratri poem opening at Poetry Couture’s Poetic Adda Poetry Couture invited me to a feature performer at their Poetic Adda event yesterday. I’d been working on a special piece around Navratri so I chose to open it here. I had originally planned for this to be accompanied by music…