Kitaab authors at Jaipur Literary Festival Colorado, October 2021

Tonight (October 10) at the Jaipur Literary Festival (JLF) in Colorado, Camera & Quill, a collaborative work of photography and poetry by Anita Thomas (artist) and Neil Daswani (poet) will be showcased at 10:50 a.m.- 11:00 a.m. (MT)/10:20 PM-10:30 PM IST.

For our SIngapore based viewers the corresponding time will be 12:50 a.m. to 1:00 a.m. on Monday October the 11th. 

This session follows on from their recent successes in February 2021 at the flagship JLF event in Jaipur, where Camera & Quill as well as Neil Daswani’s debut collection of poetry, Why Now? were chosen to feature in the ‘Writer’s Shorts’ section of the Festival.

Kitaab is proud of both Anita and Neil who have published quite regularly with Kitaab over the past few years. Neil Daswani has had a prolific debut year in 2020, publishing three volumes of poetry: Seen & Felt, Redshift and Why Now?

Anita Thomas is an author in her own right. Her book Senserly Amako was published in 2018.

Their partnership for Camera & Quill evolved through ekphrastic poems written in response to photo prompts. The images triggered emotional responses; poetry that explored symbolic meaning and imagined stories.

Further details can be found in Kitaab’s previous story on JLF Jaipur 2021 published on the Kitaab website. 

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Namrata is a published author who enjoys writing stories and think pieces on travel, relationships, and gender. She is a UEA alumnus and has studied travel writing at the University of Sydney.

She is also an independent editor and a book reviewer. Her writings can be found on various sites and magazines like the Asian Review of Books, Contemporary South Asia Journal of King’s College-London, Mad in Asia, The Friday Times, Daily Star, The Scroll, Feminism in India, The Brown Orient Journal, Inkspire Journal, Moonlight Journal, The Same, Chronic Pain India and Cafe Dissensus.

Her short stories have been a part of various anthologies . She has also published two short story collections of her own along with two solo titles as well. She is currently working on her debut novel. She loves travelling the length and breadth of the world and enjoys capturing the magic of life in her words. She is always in pursuit of a new country and a new story.

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