Looking Back – Written Words, Stories Unshared

Writing and publishing during the Pandemic

A reflective session and readings with Antara Dev Sen, journalist, editor and translator, also working in the voluntary sector; Mandira Ghosh, poet, author and Treasurer, The Poetry Society (India); Radha Chakravarty, poet, critic and translator; Rachna Joshi, poet, reviewer and Senior Assistant Editor, IIC; Humra Quraishi, columnist and author; Saikat Majumdar, author and Professor of English and Creative Writing, Ashoka University; Reba Som, author and singer; Sukrita Paul Kumar, poet, literary theorist, academic, translator and Guest Editor, Sahitya Akademi’s Journal of Indian Literature; Abhilasha Kumari, Judicial Member, Lokpal of India, former Chief Justice, poet and author; and Malashri Lal, academic, author and critic, with a focus on women’s studies, Member, Sahitya Akademi Advisory Board for English

Coordinated and moderated by Jayshree Misra Tripathi, poet, author, former examiner in English and consultant for the International Baccalaureate Organisation

The programme will also include the reading of a poem from Jayshree Misra Tripathi’s commemorative book of poems, Uncertain Times in honour of the late Gayatri Manchanda