Menka Shivdasani Explained

Menka Shivdasani is Indian poet.^{[1] [2]} In 1986, she co-founded The Poetry Circle in Bombay, with Nitin Mukadam and Akil Contractor.^[3]

Bibliography

Poetry books

• Nirvana at Ten Rupees published by XAL-Praxis Foundation, Mumbai .1990^[4]
• Stet, first published in 2001 by Sampark
• Safe House published by Paperwall (Poetrywala), Mumbai . 2015^[5]
• Frazil published by Paperwall (Poetrywala), Mumbai . 2018^[6]

Editor

• Anthology of Contemporary Indian Poetry (2004) ed. by Menka Shivdasani and published by Michael Rothenberg, Big Bridge United States.^[7]
• 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"^[8]
• "Proud of being a Woman, an Indian and a Sindhi" Menka Shivdasani^[9]
• "Menka Shivdasani : Five Minutes With is a series of interviews with contemporary poets from India" Menka Shivdasani^[10]

See also

• Indian English Poetry
• Indian poetry in English

External links

• Menka Shivdasani's : For Many Poets in Mega City like Mumbai...

Notes and References

1. Web site: MENKA SHIVDASANI . sangamhouse.org . 7 April 2019.
2. Web site: Menka Shivdasani . publishingnext.in . 13 September 2019.
3. Web site: MENKA SHIVDASANI . publishingnext.in . 7 April 2019.
4. Reviewed Work: Nirvana at Ten Rupees by Menka Shivdasani . World Literature Today . 66 . 3 . 581 . 40148577 . Chandran . K. Narayana . 1992 . 10.2307/40148577 .
5. Web site: Kitaab Review: Safe House by Menka Shivdasani . kitaab.org . 13 September 2019. 2016-04-07 .
6. Web site: Frazil by Menka Shivdasani . kitaab.org . 7 April 2019. 2018-05-07 .
7. Web site: Anthology of Contemporary Indian Poetry edited by Menka Shivdasani . bigbridge.org . 7 April 2019.
8. https://kitaab.org/2016/04/07/kitaab-interview-with-menka-shivdasani-a-book-must-be-a-distillation-of-a-lifetimes-worth-of-thought-feeling-and-experience

   Kitaab Interview with Menka Shivdasani

9. https://www.poetryinternationalweb.net/pi/site/cou_article/item/18463 Interview: Proud of being a Woman, an Indian and a Sindhi
10. https://centreforstories.com/story/menka-shivdasani/ Interview: Menka Shivdasani : Five Minutes With is a series of interviews with contemporary poets from India