I was delighted that the international ‘pre-launch’ of my new collection Sahara Rain was held at the Himalayan Literature Festival where I had the opportunity to participate in readings and discussion panel with well-known writers from around the world, including Tony Barnstone, Kavita Jindal, Ravi Shankar, Anne Casey, Peter Salisbury, Manjula Narayan, Krestina Prater, Inderjeet Mani, Edith Hakimian, Rajni Shankar Brown, Paul Muldoon, and Tina Chang, among many others.
An unexpected but thoroughly rewarding experience was being asked to present a workshop to students at a school called The White House, with Kathleen Willard and Shilpa Dikshit Thapliyal.
I had never been to Nepal before and Kathmandu was an amazing experience. It was deeply saddening to see news of the terrible landslides that happened in the mountains of Nepal only a few months later – another reminder that global warming must be addressed – a theme which I set out to explore in Sahara Rain.
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