March 13th, 2022

It was a great honour for me to be invited to the 2022 Jaipur Literature Festival as a Speaker/Author. My event featured 4 other poets – all extremely accomplished and well known. I spoke about the importance of personal history and read several poems. The audience was largely young and the engagement was palpable.

My participation also garnered good press coverage :

Indian Express – https://indianexpress.com/article/books-and-literature/two-indian-origin-retired-bankers-singapore-present-literary-work-jlf-7801262/

Tabla – article attached

Namita Lal (Bollywood producer/director/actor) was featured in Times Of India holding my book!!

April 2nd, 2022

I gave a talk to National Library Volunteers. Subject was “Notes For Aspiring Poets And photographers”. First time speaking about both art forms. Showed some of my photographs and read a few poems and covered the basics of [self] publishing. Conducting a short poem writing exercise elicited good response!

It was a packed house and a healthy Q&A vat the end!

December 3rd, 2021

I was invited as a Speaker to the NUS 2021 annual Evening of PoetryAnd Music, organised by the Literary Society of the Arts and Social Sciences Faculty. I spoke about the creative process and the book. The young audience was fully engaged as I described my own writing process during my own student days and its continuing relevance to them.  The organising committee’s hospitality was outstanding and it was altogether a fun evening. Several copies of ‘You, And Others’ were sold!

November 9th, 2021

‘You, and Others’ was formally launched at the Singapore Writers Festival 2021 on 9th of November. Given the Covid related restrictions, it was a subdued affair, although a full house within the allowed number. The audience enjoyed the conversation between the Moderator, Neil Daswani, and myself which ranged from forms of poetry to the history of the book and interspersed with readings from the book.