This is the second part of the conversation with Sophia Naz.Sophia Naz is a bilingual poet, artist, author, editor and translator. She has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize; in 2016 for creative nonfiction and in 2018 for poetry. Her

Sophia Naz - The Importance of Transitions (Part 1)

Apr 21st, 2024 37m 26s

I first met Sophia at the Delhi Poetry Festival last year. We were both in the same session, reading our poetry, and the session got delayed. We had a good time furiously cribbing about the delay. Of course, we finally got to our poetry, and I

Sukrita Paul Kumar - The Meaning of All Things

Aug 7th, 2022 1h 17m

Sukrita says - "Literary success lies in the joy I get while in the very process of writing and then the glee in actually being able to finish a poem. The rest of it is rather superficial and temporary."Welcome to Red River Sessions, which is

Shobhana Kumar - A Talk Full of Bucket Lists

Feb 13th, 2022 46m 41s

To know Shobhana is to know the essence of grace and gratefulness which suffuses her work. I have time and again, on reading her poems, kept the book down and held back my emotions. She gets to the heart of the matter with quick acuity, but an

Bina Sarkar Ellias - The Renaissance Rebel

Oct 31st, 2021 1h 8m

Bina stole my heart from the time I met her, a few years back, in a poetry extravaganza where I was the Master of Ceremonies and Bina headlined a stellar galaxy of poets. She was there with her husband, the renowned photographer Rafique Ellias,

Siddharth Dasgupta - Within the Algorithms of Desire

Sep 14th, 2021 57m 40s

"Ishq, the word reverberatesSending ripplesof erotic BlueAcross the naked promiseOf what her bodychooses to preserveAnd what her bodychooses to predictMizaaj, the moodReciprocatesIt hovers on the edgeof cliffs drawnfrom breathEach

Nabina Das - Of Love, Blood & Dissent

Aug 15th, 2021 1h 12m

Nabina Das is an iconoclast and one of the finest poets of our times.She has just released an incredible collection of poems - Witness: the Red River Book of Poetry of Dissent, with poems from 250 of the finest poets of our times. In this epi

Robert Wood - From the Thirst of the Earth

Jul 31st, 2021 58m 6s

Robert Wood's poetry is sonorous, uplifting and has embedded within it the smells, sounds, textures, bruises and memories of the ancient land he stays in. Robert lives in Boorloo on Noongar Country in the East Indian Ocean in Australia, but has

Soni Somarajan - On The Wings of Imagination

Jul 16th, 2021 50m 6s

Soni Somarajan says he has lived two different lives in a single lifetime.The first part is all memory and the second part is the world today. And he fears he might lose the first due to the enormity of the second. Because for the last 30 year

Madhu Raghavendra - A Life Worthy of Every Breath

Jun 30th, 2021 36m 25s

Madhu Raghavendra is nothing short of a magician. A product of many geographies, he is a polyglot, a poet, an activist, known as much for his poetry which shimmers with the aromas, dialects and sighs of the land he loves so much, as he is for h

Inaugural Episode with Dibyajyoti Sarma of Red River

Jun 17th, 2021 32m 54s

Today, in the introductory episode of Red River Sessions, we have Dibyajyoti Sarma. Dibyajyoti is a poet and the heart and spirit behind Red River publishing house.In three years, Dibyajyoti has published 50 poetry books and anthologies, each

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