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Interview about With The Tiger in The Hindu
May 16, 2009
http://www.hinduonnet.com/mp/2009/05/16/stories/2009051650800700.htm
literary social events in Antwerp
May 16, 2009
Monday 11 May I attended a dinner for 24 people from Belgium’s literary scene at Villa Hellebosch, in the countryside
http://www.beschrijf.be/index.php?q=beschrijf/residents_writings/
Wednesday 13 May I was invited to lunch with scholars from the Peter Gilles Centre at the University of Antwerp where they research world views, pluralism and tolerance.
Antwerp, Belgium
April 28, 2009
I am staying at the PEN-Flanders flat in Antwerp Belgium until the end of June. Am most grateful for this opportunity; it’s a perfect writing space. Here:
http://www.penvlaanderen.be/cms/default2.asp?active_page_id=53
Antwerp, Belgium
April 25, 2009
I am staying at the PEN-Flanders flat in Antwerp Belgium until the end of June. Am most grateful for this opportunity; it’s a perfect writing space. Here:
http://www.penvlaanderen.be/cms/default2.asp?active_page_id=53
Press On Publishing
April 22, 2009
A new publishing venture in Australia. Press On will publish an Australian edition of With The Tiger next year. Have a look at the site … and subscribe. Support independent publishing.
http://www.press-on-publishing.net/
Dehra Dun, Delhi
April 16, 2009
I stayed on in Rajpur near Dehra Dun to do a second three week yoga course at the Yog-Gangga Centre for Yoga Studies (March 28-April 15).
Now in Delhi again for a few days.
On to Belgium on the 20th; more on that soon.
Delhi, Dehra Dun
March 3, 2009
Spending four days in Delhi, seeing friends and my publisher, doing the odd interview for With The Tiger.
On to Dehra Dun for three weeks yoga course at the Yog-Ganga Centre for Yoga Studies, from March 5
launch of Fiction as Window by V Padma
February 22, 2009
On 18 February I spoke a the launch of V Padma’s brilliant book Fiction as Window: critiquing the Indian literary cultural ethos since the 1980s (Orient Black Swan) held in Chennai and hosted by the Centre for Australian Studies of the University of Madras. The book was launched by Paul Sharrad of the University of Wollongong in Australia.
Readings at Sangam House 6 February
February 22, 2009
I joined the resident writers and a few other writers at the end of the writers’ season at Sangam House in Adi Shakti near Aruoville to read from current and published works. Live music afterwards from Adki Shakti musicians. http://www.sangamhouse.org
Sangam House reading in Chennai, January 29
January 31, 2009
On Thursday (Jan 29) I was invited to join the international writers group from nearby Sangam House to read at the new Taj Mount Road hotel in Chennai. Here’s the link to see what a range of writers there are, and to learn about Sangam House:
http://www.sangamhouse.org/press.htm