Usha Akella, Austin-based poet, has authored 11 books that include poetry and spiritual musical dramas. She has been invited to numerous international poetry festivals. She is the founder of the decade-old Matwaala (www.matwaala.com) that amplifies South Asian diasporic poets. Her editorial works include a ‘A House of Words’, a festschrift dedicated to Keki Daruwalla published by the Sahitya Akademi of India. Her travel articles have appeared in Indian Express, Swagat, etc., and she has also won acclaim for her astute interviews of various people in The Hindu, Parabola and on her own website of curated interviews www.the-pov.com.
“Mega events such as the Mahakumbh… bring upon us the realization that humankind has one unifying divine core,” writes Yakub Mathew in his recently released coffee table book, ‘Seeking the…
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