
INTERVIEWS, NEWS & EVENTS

Photo Credit: Goa Arts & Literary Festival 2014

Interviews on Saudade

Photo Credit: Anggara Mahendra
Ubud Writers and Readers Festival 2019
Photo Credit: Orient Blackswan, October 2018; with Drs Meenakshi Bharat and Dr Shweta Sachdeva Jha ,Miranda House, University of Delhi

Photo Credit: Public Program, Visions of Paradise, National Gallery of Victoria, January 2019

Photo Credit: 2018 Long Night of European Literatures, Cervantes Institute, New Delhi

Selected Speaking Engagements
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Tell Me Your Story, Stories of the Indian Diaspora Series, in conversation with Sanchaiyata Majumdar and Ilhana Katoch, 2 April, 2021;
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LIMINAL X Mapping Melbourne Launch 'Time Series' with Elizabeth Tan, Anupama Pilbrow, Shirley Le, et al., hosted by Leah Jing McIntosh , 28 January, 2021;
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Delegate, 10th Edition Goa Arts and Literature Festival December; 'Coconut Dreams', in conversation with Derek Mascarenhas; 'Goa Diaspora: Where Is Home', in conversation with Sujatha Fernandes, moderated by Jerry Pinto, 7 December, 2019;
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Fundação Oriente Chief Guest, Goan Short Stories Competition Award Ceremony, Goa, 29 November, 2019;
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Fundação Oriente 'In the Lands of Saudade: An Evening with Writer Suneeta Peres da Costa', in conversation with R. Benedito Ferrão, Goa, 28 November, 2019;
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Delegate, Asian-Australian Leadership Summit, State Library of Victoria, hosted by Asialink, The University of Melbourne, PwC and the Australian National University, 12-13 September, 2019;
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UNSWriting 'Writing Contemporary Australia', in conversation with Michelle de Kretser and Roanna Gonsalves, IO Myers Studio, UNSW, Sydney. March 28, 2019;
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Public Program of the Exhibition, Visions of Paradise: Indian Court Paintings, reading and discussion of ‘A Domestic Mishap’, NGV International, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 20 January, 2019;
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Carpe Diem Art & Learning Centre, co-convened with Jessica Faleiro and read at 'Poets & Writers Evening', with Savia Viegas, Salil Chaturvedi, Heta Pandit et al., Goa, December 9, 2018 (in support of ARZ Against Human Trafficking, Goa);
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Australian and New Zealand Studies Centre, Key Note Address, Writing Saudade, Writing Exile, at the Symposium: Weaving Stories and Telling Poetry, Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla, October 17, 2018;
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St Bede’s College, Guest Writer, reading and discussion of Saudade, post-colonial literature & 'How to Develop a Writing Practice’, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, October 10, 2018;
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Orient BlackSwan launch Of Indian Origin: Writings from Australia, reading from ‘Dreamless’ and panel discussion with Drs Meenakshi Bharat and Shweta Sachdeva Jha, Miranda House, Delhi University, 1 October 2018;
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The Giramondo Publishing Company launch of Saudade by Adam Aitken and reading, Gleebooks, March 24, 2018;
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Books & Arts interview with Sarah Kanowski, 'New Writing on Place in the Sydney Review of Books' with Vanessa Berry and Catriona Menzies-Pike, ABC Radio National, November 18, 2016;
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Sydney Writers’ Festival Launch of Contemporary Asian Australian Poets, published by Puncher & Wattmann; readings of ‘The Changed Woman’ and ‘The Mirror Man’, 24 May, 2013’;
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Delegate, Australia-India Literatures International Forum (an initiative of the Writing and Society Research Group, University of Western Sydney), 4-6 September, 2012; panellist, ‘Questions of Time and Travel’, with Michelle de Kretser, N S Madhavan & Uday Prakash, chaired by Vijay Mishra, State Library of NSW, 5 September, 2012.
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