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Armoured with the Battle Scars of Patriarchy

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Tishani Doshi has quite an impressive oeuvre as a poet, author, journalist, and dancer. The Madras-born Tishani has written essays, poems and short stories that are part of anthologies. Her first novel, titled The Pleasure Seekers , was shortlisted for The Hindu Literary Prize. She has a Masters in Creative Writing from the Johns Hopkins University, USA. Countries of the Body , her maiden collection of poems, won the Forward Prize (Best First Collection) in 2006, while ‘The Day we went to the Sea’ from the same book won the 2005 British Council-supported All India Poetry Competition. As a dancer, Tishani was mentored by the late, famed choreographer Chandralekha and was part of her dancing troupe till her death in 2006. The release of Tishani’s new collection of poems Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods will be held at The Cube Gallery in Moira, Goa, at 7pm, with a reading of her poems and a performance of experimental dance by Tishani. It was at the age of twenty that Tishani became en

Catharsis through the Kali Writes Project

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Priyanka Borpujari has had an eventful and laudable journalistic career. Beginning with a Bachelors of Mass Media in Journalism, she has been a research scholar at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) as a result of being awarded the IWMF (International Women's Media Foundation) Elizabeth Neuffer Fellowship (2012-2013) for journalism in human rights and justice. She co-founded the youth magazine Yuvaniya for the Bareli tribe in western Madhya Pradesh, in alliance with the Adharshila Learning Centre. The Asian Age and the Mumbai Mirror are two newspapers that Priyanka has worked for, besides being a guest columnist for The Boston Globe . Reporting human rights violations in Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Odisha, Assam and Gujarat as an independent journalist since 2009, she has contributed to Al Jazeera , The Hindu , Tehelka , Down To Earth and many more prestigious news publications. Having donned many hats as a journalist, photographer, and researcher, Priyanka founded the Ka

Cyprian’s Kenya

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Yesterday in Paradise , published by Goa, 1556, brings us the memoirs of Cyprian Fernandes, a journalist of note who is of Goan origin. The book opens to us the world that Cyprian was witness to from 1950 to 1974 in Kenya. He was born in Nairobi in 1943 into a family that was far from being an ideal one. This novel gives rich insight into the cultural attributes of the Goan diaspora in East Africa, and Kenya in particular. The political history of Kenya as retold by Cyprian Fernandes is gripping and extremely informative. Cyprian Fernandes is an anomaly in that his professional career began on the premise of a lie, but it was completely justified by proven merit. A graduate of the school of hard knocks, Cyprian, although a bright student with immense potential, left school at thirteen after a row with Fr Hannan, the headmaster. Ensuing a trail of jobs (once as a probation officer), Cyprian landed his first job as a reporter with the Nation at the age of sixteen. Gumption and his skill