Golchakkar: Imagining Place in Literature
Golchakkar Series - The April panel of our virtual literary talk featured Anuradha Kumar and Rochelle Potkar: Imagining Place in Literature. Hosted by Kiran Bhat.
The Chakkar welcomes to our reading series, GOLCHAKKAR. Every month, we will host an online panel discussion of Indian artists in conversation with the world.
Imagining Place in Literature - Anuradha Kumar and Rochelle Potkar
This month on Golchakkar, we were joined by authors Anuradha Kumar and Rochelle Potkar to discuss the imagination of place in literature. How does does arrive at a mindset to imagine place and its dynamics—with research and experience—in fiction? The session was hosted as ever by world traveler, polyglot, and author Kiran Bhat.
Participants
ANURADHA KUMAR’s The Hottest Summer in Years was published by Yoda Press (2021). A collection of short stories, A Sense of Time and Other Stories also appeared simultaneously from Weavers' Press, US. Her historical fiction novels, as Adity Kay, have been published by Hachette India. She also writes regularly for Scroll.in.
ROCHELLE POTKAR is the author of Four Degrees of Separation and Paper Asylum, the latter shortlisted for the Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2020. Her poetry film Skirt was showcased on Shonda Rhimes’ Shondaland. Her recent book Bombay Hangovers is a collection of 16 stories around caste, class, and religion in Mumbai city
KIRAN BHAT is an Indian-American novelist, short-story writer, and educator. He is the author of We of the Forsaken World, Afora Adentro, Autobiografia, Kiran Speaks, Tirugaatha, and more. An avid world traveler, polyglot, and digital nomad, he has currently travelled to over 130 countries, lived in 18 different places, and speaks 12 languages. He currently lives in Melbourne.
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