Beginning on April 23rd, 2024, the fourth edition of Ananke’s Women in Literature Festival will welcome a distinguished array of speakers including poets, authors, filmmakers, critics and other eminent creatives. Joining this distinguished group is the illustrious fictionist, poet, critic, curator, editor, translator and screenwriter Rochelle Potkar.
Rochelle Potkar’s immense body of work include her poetry film Skirt being featured on Shonda Rhimes’ Shondaland.While Paper Asylum was shortlisted for the Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2020, her short story collectionBombay Hangovers, has recently been released and is available via Amazon worldwide. Moreover, Rochelle’s screenplay A Brown coat was shortlisted at the Atlanta Film Festival Screenwriting competition 2020. She has also co-authored cross-translations of English/Marathi poetry, The Coordinates of Us/ सर्व अंशांतून आपण.
“Peace is sustainability. Glad when a safe space such as this festival is created in the crook of technology to share ideas, exchange experiences and break barriers and bread across boundaries. In an age of hate and hostility, it is heartening when assimilation and unification are given a chance. The world then, even for two or three days becomes more breathable, more bridgeable,”reflected Rochelle.
Ananke’s Women in Literature Festival 2024 aims to mobilize change by initiating conversations and dialogue across language, politics and socio-cultural boundaries. Over the past decade, humanity has seen the world grapple with increasing division, de-sensitization, and lack of compassion. Traditional and new media has played a pivotal role in amplifying such polarization through its use of propaganda, warped and divisive optics, and manipulative messaging.
At Ananke and by extension the Women in Literature Festival, the vision is to create a space for imagination, creativity and dialogue as fundamental values upon which just, and equitable societies are built and sustained. Artists, poets, writers, painters, filmmakers, journalists, photographers, musicians, and audiences– all have a role to play as catalysts of change.
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