Golchakkar: Experiments in Indian Flash Fiction
The latest panel of Golchakkar Series with Abha Iyengar, Gaurav Monga, and Jose Varghese: Experiments in Indian Flash Fiction. Hosted by Kiran Bhat.
The Chakkar welcomes to our reading series, GOLCHAKKAR. Every month, we will host an online panel discussion of Indian artists in conversation with the world.
Experiments in Indian Flash Fiction - Kiran Bhat in Conversation with Abha Iyengar, Gaurav Monga, and Jose Varghese.
Join world traveller, polyglot, and author Kiran Bhat as he interviews various Indian writers who want to take that question in mind: how do we write without borders? How do we write for the sake of the world? This month, we invited writers Abha Iyengar, Gaurav Monga, and Jose Varghese to provide an Indian perspective on flash fiction, condensing the weight of our worlds in the shortest forms of storytelling.
Participants
ABHA IYENGAR is an award winning, internationally published poet, author, essayist and a British Council certified creative writing mentor. She has published the following books: Yearnings (Serene Woods, India, 2010), Shrayan (Blue Pumpkin, India, 2012), Flash Bites (AuthorsPress, India, 2013), Many Fish to Fry (Pure Slush, Australia, 2014), The Gourd Seller and Other Stories (Kitaab, Singapore, 2015), and The Tattoo at Her Throat (2019, Kindle e-book). She has co-edited an anthology of 33 short stories, titled The Other (Storymirror, India, 2018). Her work has also appeared in Lakeview International Journal of Literature and Arts, Cha—An Asian Literary Journal, Arabesques Review, and others. Abha’s flash fiction has appeared in Vestal Review, Jellyfish Review, Flash Frontier, and more. Flash Bites is a collection of her flash fiction which has received mention in The Journal of Commonwealth Literature (Sage, UK, 2015). Many Fish to Fry (Pure Slush, Australia, 2014) is a flash novella.
GAURAV MONGA is the author of Tears for Rahul Dutta (Philistine Press), Family Matters (Eibonvale Press), Costumes of the Living (Snuggly Books) and Ruins (Desirepaths Publishers). His work has appeared in numerous literary magazines, including Fanzine, Tammy Journal, Queen Mobs Teahouse, and B O D Y. He teaches creative writing and German at schools and colleges. He is a member of an international art and lifestyle movement called Neo-Decadence. To read more about the author visit: www.gauravmon.ga.
JOSE VARGHESE is a bilingual writer/editor/translator from India. He is the founder and chief editor of Lakeview International Journal of Literature and Arts. He is the author of Silver Painted Gandhi and Other Poems (2008) and a new collection of poems is scheduled for publication by The Black Spring Press Group in 2021. His poems and short stories have appeared or are forthcoming in journals/anthologies like Meridian: The APWT Drunken Boat Anthology of New Writing, The Best Asian Short Story Anthology 2019, Step Outside the Frame, Dreich, The Salt Anthology of New Writing 2013, and more. He is a contributing editor and writer for Panorama: The Journal of Intelligent Travel. He was a finalist in the 2020 London Independent Story Prize for his story “Contretemps” and in the Beverly International Prize 2018 for his short story manuscript “In/Sane”.
KIRAN BHAT is a global citizen formed in a suburb of Atlanta, Georgia, to parents from Southern Karnataka, in India. An avid world traveler, polyglot, and digital nomad, he has currently travelled to over 130 countries, lived in 18 different places, and speaks 12 languages. His list of homes is vast, but his heart and spirit always remains in Mumbai, somehow. He currently lives in Melbourne.
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