Anindita Sengupta

The next TFA reading is tomorrow: Deepika Arwind and Biswamit Dwibedy will be reading from their work at Crossword, Bookstore, ACR Towers, Ground Floor, 32 Residency Road, at 6.30 pm. Arwind writes poetry and fiction. Her work has appeared in various journals and magazines, and she’s been doing theatre since she was in school. Dwibedy is a poet/artist. He has an MFA in Writing from Bard College, New York. His first volume of poetry, Ozalid, was published by 1913 Press in 2010.

The next Toto Funds the Arts (TFA) event: Sampurna Chattarji will read from her first novel Rupture on Wednesday, October 28, at Crossword on Residency Road, at 6.30 pm. She’ll be talking to Arul Mani about the book. Don’t miss.

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The next Sunday Night Slam at Bacchus is on Sunday, October 25. Here is the link in case you want to sign up to perform. And the Facebook page is here.

The next Toto Funds the Arts reading is on Friday, 5 June 2009 at 6.30 pm . The venue is  Crossword Bookstore on Residency Road. Sriya Narayanan and Joshua Muyiwa will be reading. From the invitation:

Sriya Narayanan, 26, graduated from the Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad (MICA) and works in the marketing division of The Hindu, Chennai. She also writes for them part-time. She is passionate about animal welfare and volunteers with Blue Cross, while trying to raise awareness through her columns ‘Four Legs Good’ and ‘Pet Pals’. She plays the violin and performed at her first classical music concert last month. Sriya writes slice-of-life fiction and blank verse, and tries to keep at it despite the steady flow of generic rejection letters.

Joshua Muyiwa, 23, started writing because he was told, ‘it is time to stop seeming arty and pretentious and actually earn the tags by doing something’. He is queer: in writing because line breaks, strophes and rhyming are strangers to him, in eating because he likes tomato sauce with coconut chutney, jam with spicy boondi. If he’s not at Koshy’s attempting to read poems over the quavering voice of Whitney Houston or smoking and discussing Alexander McQueen like he was his brother on the steps near Arya Bhavan, he’s at Jal Bhavan, Bannerghatta Road working as a dance writer at TimeOut Bengaluru.

Hmm, promises to be interesting.