Would love to see you there
Toto Funds the Arts
is pleased to invite you
to the launch of Anindita Sengupta’s
first volume of poetry, City of Water, where she will be
‘in conversation’ with poet/writer Sridala Swami
Venue: Crossword Bookstore, ACR Towers, Ground Floor, 32 Residency Road, Bangalore – 1
Date and time: Friday, 7 May 2010 at 6.30 pm
Anindita Sengupta’s poetry has been published in several journals including Eclectica, Nth Position, Yellow Medicine Review, Origami Condom, Pratilipi, Cha: An Asian Journal, Kritya, and Muse India. It has also appeared in the anthologies Mosaic (Unisun, 2008), Not A Muse (Haven Books, 2009), and Poetry with Prakriti (Prakriti Foundation, 2010). In 2008, she received the Toto Funds the Arts Award for Creative Writing, annually given to two writers under thirty in India. In 2010, she was the Charles Wallace writer-in-residence at University of Kent in England. Sengupta, who lives in Bangalore, is also a freelance writer and journalist and has contributed articles to The Guardian (UK), The Hindu, Outlook Traveler and Bangalore Mirror. Her personal website is at http://aninditasengupta.com.
Sridala Swami’s poetry and fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in various journals including Chandrabhaga, Pratilipi, New Quest, Wasafiri, Asian Cha, Desilit and the Creative Writing Issue of The South Asian Review (28:3, 2007). Her work also features in The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poets (Bloodaxe, 2008); in the anthology, Not A Muse (Haven Books, 2009) and in First Proof: 4 (Penguin Books, 2009). Her book of poems The Reluctant Survivor was published in 2007.
“City of Water is remarkable for its supple language and tensile strength. Her images are sharp and there is integrity about the core of feeling that propels the poem. One cannot spot any weak moments either in terms of emotion or language….Anindita Sengupta never lets a poem run away with her. Like all good poets, she is original both in her way with words and her personal angle of vision.”
–– Keki Daruwalla in the Preface to City of Water
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Okay, I’ve been lazy and just pasted the official invite but really, would love to see you there. It’s more fun to be nervous in front of people one knows. Even if it’s online. Know what I mean?
April 30th, 2010 at 1:11 PM
yay! will post this also in a couple of days. but why the quotes around in conversation?!
April 30th, 2010 at 2:12 PM
@SB: I’m not sure either — just assumed that’s how TFA usually writes it. Now that you’ve pointed out, it does sound odd, like we’re being sarcastic and are going to be doing something other than conversing.
Yes yes, do post.
April 30th, 2010 at 9:05 PM
Congrats! And best wishes for the launch!
May 1st, 2010 at 10:43 AM
Best wishes…any new launch of poetry books excites..I am dying to read the poems..
Anindita is already a star in the horizon.Let’s hope this one will catapult her to further glory!
May 3rd, 2010 at 2:04 PM
Best Wishes for the event. Being an ex-Shaitya Akademi staff I understand that a book being published originally by Sahitya Akademi in itself is an achievement. May the poet Anindita scale new heights.