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by Kavita A. Jindal Glass Scissors is a debut poetry book with a purpose, and although the purpose is ‘reflection’, in both senses of the word, the poems it offers are political, confessional, tense and temperamental. Bobby Nayyar as a poet is strikingly frank about himself, his pain and his desires. This acutely personal and …
Poet and fiction writer Kavita Jindal has won this year’s Haruki Murakami short story competition. Organised by Foyles, and judged by Haruki Murakami’s publisher, Liz Foley of Harvill Secker. Haruki picked a line from his latest work, 1Q84 and writers were invited to write a short story of no more than 1500 words with the …
1) Have you always been comfortable with the idea that you were a writer? If not when did you accept yourself to be one? I started writing poems when I was six and my first publications were in school magazines from the age of eight and then in my teens I had humorous articles published …