The (Great) Indian Poetry Collective – Are You Joining?

To be very honest, I hadn’t quite understood what The (Great) Indian Poetry Collective was really all about, despite Shikha’s clear explanation  during The Prakriti Foundation’s Poetry festival last year, when I’d met her, Ellen and Minal (All three by the way, are accomplished poets) there. I listened to their wonderful poetry and when they spoke about this new venture, I came away thinking, “ok, so they are going to publish poetry books; that’s marvellous. “

Of course, I was off the mark. The (Great) Indian Poetry Collective is a lot more than just publishing poetry books. It’s a movement, a dialogue about poetry with society, a communion among poets and poetry lovers, a commitment, and a great new poetic adventure that invites everyone to join in. But let me not try to explain. Listen to Shikha Malaviya, Minal Hajratwala and Ellen Kombiyil talk about the collective : https://greatindianpoetrycollective.wordpress.com/

And read about it in their blogs/sites.

Shikha – http://shikhamalaviya.wordpress.com/tgipp/

Minal –  http://minalhajratwala.com/wp-content/uploads/BountifulPressRelease.pdf

And, in Jaggery – http://jaggerylit.com/2014/11/14/the-great-indian-poetry-collective-indiegogo-campaign/

Their Facebook Page too! – https://www.facebook.com/indianpoetrycollective – go “like” it, join in the support!

It is an ambitious project and certainly will impact the  Indian poetry scene. But for all good things to flower and flourish, one needs to be supportive. You can do just that by joining in, even if it’s in a small way, to help them give Indian poetry a boost.  In order to realise their goals, Shikha, Minal and Ellen are running an Indigogo campaign . There are twelve more days to go. So do help see this project through.

Details are in the site: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-great-indian-poetry-collective

Remember there are just twelve more days to go, so hurry!