On Motherhood, Discomfort & Poetry
Here’s my scathing tribute to motherhood.
Performance
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.
“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…
“My Feminism Is Someone You Haven’t Met Before” – Feature At TPC #UndoingGender
The Poetry Club, Airplane Poetry Movement and The Hive came together to pull off an event on #UndoingGender. They had asked for submissions and this piece was one that they picked for a feature performance. I performed it last evening with Karthik Rao on the guitar. This piece would go…
City | Map Of Emotion | Poetry
With Love From The City Of Flamingos
I found my way into healing and love, helped by words and more recently the arclights of the stage.
Books | Map Of Emotion | Poetry | Pop Culture
My First Publisher: Performing at LitCon 2015, Mithibai college
Tuesday was really special. I had a chance to perform at Mithibai college’s LitCon festival. The alma mater makes everything a magical experience. Even though the building has changed beyond recognition, it has echoes of my adolescent self, climbing out of windows, sneaking vada-paos into chemistry labs, reading books hidden…
The Month Of Endings
It’s been hard surviving other people’s depression & betrayals. March brought an end to all of that. It was a month of endings.
The Dating Thing: A Performance
I’ve started to figure that Performance Poetry or Spoken Word does not have to conform to specific rules. I’m choosing to interpret the form as an oral sharing of an idea, an emotion or a story. This could rhyme or not, it could involve gestures or not, could include voice…
Old Healed Wounds That Ache In Bad Weather
At the Performance Poetry workshop I attended yesterday, we looked at some videos of performers. One of them had a few notes playing in the background and the performer speaking in a characteristic singsong, often-rhyming style. I blurted out, “But that’s rap!” The others smiled and told me that rap…
Baby Invisible: On Sex, Emotional boundaries & Identity
A poem about emotional boundaries and sex