Menka Shivdasani

Menka Shivdasani is Indian poet. In 1986, she co-founded The Poetry Circle in Bombay, with Nitin Mukadam and Akil Contractor.

Poetry books

 * Nirvana at Ten Rupees published by XAL-Praxis Foundation, Mumbai .1990
 * Stet, first published in 2001 by Sampark
 * Safe House published by Paperwall (Poetrywala), Mumbai . 2015
 * Frazil published by Paperwall (Poetrywala), Mumbai . 2018

Editor

 * Anthology of Contemporary Indian Poetry (2004) ed. by Menka Shivdasani and published by Michael Rothenberg, Big Bridge United States.
 * Freedom and fissures (1998): an anthology of Sindhi partition poetry published by Sahitya Akademi, India.
 * If the Roof Leaks, Let it Leak, an anthology of writing by Indian women, Sound and Picture Archives for Research on Women, 2014

Interview

 * "A book must be a distillation of a lifetime’s worth of thought, feeling and experience"
 * "Proud of being a Woman, an Indian and a Sindhi" Menka Shivdasani
 * "Menka Shivdasani : Five Minutes With is a series of interviews with contemporary poets from India" Menka Shivdasani ''