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Poetry@PEN – New!

This month, we launch a new feature, 'Poetry@PEN'. This will be a monthly platform where we will present emerging voices, host debates on craft and concept, and create spaces of encounter that are part reading, part workshop and part masterclass.

The first event in the Poetry@PEN series is a reading by four poets: Malavika Sangghvi, Mustansir Dalvi, Peter Griffin and Rohinton Daruwala.

Date: 13 August 2007 (Monday)
Time: 6.15 pm
Place: Theosophy Hall (3rd floor), 40 New Marine Lines, Churchgate, Mumbai

We have absolutely no clue what we'll be reading, but do come if you're in the neighbourhood.

Tomorrow we drone

Tomorrow, around 10:15am US East Coast Time, 7:45pm IST, we shall be making a 'remote presentation' to a bunch of US Government folks.

We shall be talking about our TsunamiHelp experience, as part of Collaborative Expedition Workshop #63. Our bit lasts about 45 minutes, and is part of a session called "Potentials and Realities: Opportunities and Challenges of Virtual Organizing for Humanitarian Response."

The page linked to has the schedule, and other speakers, as well as instructions on how to access the conference. We shall mainly riff on the stuff we covered in our Sarai essay (PDF), and answer questions the other participants may have.

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100

Yesterday marked the 100th edition of our TOI column, Mousetrap. Next week will make two years since the first one. A sense of satisfaction pervades. That's a longer stay than with any of our SOs, and more time spent than in all but one job (and that one was eight years).

Housekeeping

Over the last few months, blogging took second place—well, actually it was much further down in the queue—to a bunch of more important stuff. (Yes, Virginia, there are more important things.)

We did religiously file our columns, though, except that we didn't update the online archive. That, we have been doing over the last few days. Mousetrap is now up to date. And Your Cheque Is In The Mail, which has all the released press work, has had the gaps filled up too. And, what's more, it's all labelled (that's what the new Blogger calls tags), nice and pretty like, so you can find stuff by publication, subject, genre, etcetera. (And, by the way, this is one area where the new Blogger kicks Wordpress's butt: you can select a bunch of posts and tag, er, label, 'em all at the same time, unlike bleddy WP which makes you edit each post, tag one by one, gnash teeth..)

Yennyway. For the two of you who do read them things, go, knock yerself out. May your tribe increase. (But work on that after you're done catching up, hm?

SSP

Our essay in the Sarai Reader 06: Turbulence is out.

(Hit the link for the table of contents. All essays are avaiable as free PDFs, as per Sarai tradition, and the 608 page book can be purchased from Sarai at the modest price Rs 350, US$ 20 or € 20.

And while we procrastinate about posting our HTMLised version, the PDF is here.