Thanks C :) Yes, we will be reading her poems and my short fiction. The debate over my stuff continues to rage (spotted bananas are winning over squishy tomatoes owing to inflation), but you must experience Sharanya's poems. They are meant to be performed, no one better than Sharanya to do the honours.
And this will be my first reading in Bangalore, so familiar faces (or faces with familiar names) would help. A lot. Do come, it'll be fun. :) Tuesday, September 7th, Crossword, Residency Road, 6.30 pm. Best, Sruthi On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 12:30 AM, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan < [email protected]> wrote: > Hello folks, > > Silklister Sruthi and friend Sharanya are performing in Bangalore, as part > of the Toto Funds the Arts programme. > I've been to a few readings by Sharanya, as well as organised a couple with > her in Chennai. I can honestly say she is a superb performer, and her poetry > is fantastic (in the true sense of that word.) > > Sruthi is a writer I like, and have heard her perform before in a small > event Sharanya and I organised, and it was superb. On top of it, she is a > Silklister, so some meandering-ly, driftingly, interesting stuff. > > If you folks have the time (or even if not, make some) and don't mind going > to the city centre on a weekday night, attend the show. > Details below. > > C > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Sharanya Manivannan <[email protected]> > Date: Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 2:11 PM > Subject: Fwd: reading in Bangalore - tues Sept 7 > To: Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan <[email protected]> > > > > Hi Chandroo, > > To circulate among your Bangalore friends. Thanks! > > Warmly, > Sharanya > > > *Toto Funds the Arts* is pleased to invite you to a reading of short > fiction and poetry by* * > > *Sharanya Manivannan * > > *& * > > *Sruthi Krishnan * > > *Venue: Crossword Bookstore, ACR Towers, Ground Floor, 32 Residency Road, > Bangalore - 1* > > *Date and time: Tuesday, 7 September 2010 at 6.30 pm * > > > *Sharanya Manivannan's * first book of poems, *Witchcraft*, was described > in *The Straits Times* as "sensuous and spiritual, delicate and dangerous > and as full as the moon reflected in a knife". Her poetry and fiction have > also been published in *Drunken Boat*, *Ghoti*, *Softblow*, * Pratilipi*and > elsewhere, and a personal column, "The Venus Flytrap", appears in > *The New Indian Express*. Sharanya lives in Chennai. * > www.sharanyamanivannan.com* <http://www.sharanyamanivannan.com/> > > *Sruthi Krishnan * is a Chennai-based journalist. Previously, she reported > on technology at *The Hindu* after graduating from the Asian College of > Journalism. She was a software engineer in a previous lifetime, with around > five years of experience in an IT major. She writes short stories and hopes > to write longer ones. > > <http://www.sharanyamanivannan.com> > > > > -- > “I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.” -- Carson > McCullers > > Web: www.sharanyamanivannan.com > > > > -- > http://www.uk.linkedin.com/in/chandrachoodan > http://www.flickr.com/photos/ravages > http://www.selectiveamnesia.org/ > > +447940289855 > -- For the spirit is as ancient as the mud our feet danced on. But now we drag our soles on concrete. Our feet, swaddled in shoes and socks, have long forgotten the taste of that mud. Yet, memories remain. And when someone raises her hand and stops midway, we look at that sweat-stained limb and we remember.
