Category: UPDATES
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Glorious, troubled, revived: 5 European cities where history was made
Europe has plenty of it and I start with where I live – Belfast.
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In defense of diversity
Only speaking from experience, and not generalising for anyone. Firms are increasingly hiring professionals from varied backgrounds, not just for diversity but for breaking down silos and assimilating a diversity of experiences and skills into the organisation to make it better.Law firms for instance. When graduating from the LSE seven years ago, I applied to […]
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Khalil Gibran on rivers
Just want to bookmark this that I found on Sushmita Sen’s Instagram feed and a note to self (I have entered the ocean, but haven’t become the ocean yet). Scroll down for a video I want to bookmark too (and come back to again and again). And here is the video that made me reflect, […]
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Reporting on UK politics
This was long in the making but what started the wave was resignations from two Asian ministers in Johnson’s cabinet, Sunak and Javid. Interesting given our shared history (India and Britain).
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Education in the UK: Don’t fret, plan
I wrote on education policy for India’s mainstream newspapers for many years so when I was commissioned to write this, I took it up.
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Meet them all the same..
my poetry earned an honorable mention from the judges at the Paul Muldoon workshop in Kinsella..
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An exhibition in Belfast with its roots in India
Photographer Michael Donald’s exhibition in Belfast captures the Beatles Bungalow in Rishikesh, once home to the iconic British band, before it gives way to the forest. Read the full story here.
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Too rich to be PM? Why Britons are unhappy with Rishi Sunak
In the din of British politics, it’s easy to forget important things about Sunak.
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Featured in ‘Breaking Ground Ireland’
Proud to be among the very talented list of writers and illustrators from Ireland …
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Poem in CAP Anthology ‘Threshold’
Finally in my hands, the anthology with my poem ‘Sarah Everard’ in it.
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Doire Press
Ireland’s reputed small press launched a wonderful mentoring program for emerging writers this year and I am happy …
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To be featured..
…in a booklet that will showcase 90 writers from Ireland at every stage of their careers from emerging and early-career to established voices.
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IWC artist grant again!
The two IWC grants I have received this year are short-term programmes and I am looking forward to both.
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Poetry in Motion Anthology, Threshold.
Community Arts Partnership’s 2021/2022 anthology will feature one of my poems.
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5 Hindi poems in Jankipul
Finally, five Hindi poems published for the first time. Guess, that makes me a bilingual poet.
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Irish Writers’ Centre bursary 2022
Another reason for joy this month: Irish Writers’ Centre writing bursary 2022
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Featured in Poetry Issue 2022, The Punch
My poems have featured in this special Issue of The Punch magazine, which features forty Indian poets.
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Poem in Madras Courier
One of my poems ‘The Frost Blue Coat’ was published in the Madras Courier today.
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Note to Self
Being quiet is being loud with your soul. Ask how worries become oceans and swallow the shanty towns of existence, as if all there was to life was a hopeless struggle to not drown. Imagine being quiet with a life like that. No, you can’t. There is no noise to this state of being.
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How to write meaningfully
You might want to check this video out, as recommended by Prof Michael Muthukrishna in his newsletter. It’s long (and yes, I went through all of it) to genuinely recommend it to you all. But of course, see if this works for you.
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Professor Sir John Hills
His influential body of work looked at issues of inequality, social inclusion, the welfare state and the role of social policy.
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