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Menka Shivdasani is Indian poet. In 1986, she co-founded The Poetry Circle in Bombay, with Nitin Mukadam and Akil Contractor.

Bibliography

Poetry books

  • Nirvana at Ten Rupees published by XAL-Praxis Foundation, Mumbai .1990
  • Stet, first published in 2001 by Sampark
  • Safe House published by Paperwall (Poetrywala), Mumbai . 2015
  • Frazil published by Paperwall (Poetrywala), Mumbai . 2018

Editor

  • Anthology of Contemporary Indian Poetry (2004) ed. by Menka Shivdasani and published by Michael Rothenberg, Big Bridge United States.
  • Freedom and fissures (1998): an anthology of Sindhi partition poetry published by Sahitya Akademi, India.
  • If the Roof Leaks, Let it Leak, an anthology of writing by Indian women, Sound and Picture Archives for Research on Women, 2014

Interview

  • "A book must be a distillation of a lifetime’s worth of thought, feeling and experience"
  • "Proud of being a Woman, an Indian and a Sindhi" Menka Shivdasani
  • "Menka Shivdasani : Five Minutes With is a series of interviews with contemporary poets from India" Menka Shivdasani

See also

References

  1. "MENKA SHIVDASANI". sangamhouse.org. Retrieved 7 April 2019.
  2. "Menka Shivdasani". publishingnext.in. Retrieved 13 September 2019.
  3. "MENKA SHIVDASANI". publishingnext.in. Retrieved 7 April 2019.
  4. Chandran, K. Narayana (1992). "Reviewed Work: Nirvana at Ten Rupees by Menka Shivdasani". World Literature Today. 66 (3): 581. doi:10.2307/40148577. JSTOR 40148577.
  5. "Kitaab Review: Safe House by Menka Shivdasani". kitaab.org. 7 April 2016. Retrieved 13 September 2019.
  6. "Frazil by Menka Shivdasani". kitaab.org. 7 May 2018. Retrieved 7 April 2019.
  7. "Anthology of Contemporary Indian Poetry edited by Menka Shivdasani". bigbridge.org. Retrieved 7 April 2019.
  8. :Kitaab Interview with Menka Shivdasani
  9. Interview: Proud of being a Woman, an Indian and a Sindhi
  10. Interview: Menka Shivdasani : Five Minutes With is a series of interviews with contemporary poets from India

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