Chitra Ramaswamy
@Chitgrrl
don't conclude anything without cheese. author. journalist. restaurant critic.
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Was thrilled to be asked to write an essay responding to the current VISUAL Carlow exhibition. I wrote about the genius British Palestinian artist Mona Hatoum and specifically her 1980s video work Eyes Skinned. Read it here: visualcarlow.ie/art-ideas/what…
Last week we launched The Review w/ Jhalak Prize a new literary magazine focusing on writers of the global majority giving a platform to an exciting plurality of innovative voices, editor Guy Gunaratne design by MichaelSalu in The Bookseller & online here bit.ly/3xRosgB
This by the brilliant colin grant is bang on. And I say this as one of very few brown arts journalists for a UK national newspaper for decades. The Review is a brilliant idea Jhalak Prize BRAVO!
Been to the Society of Authors EGM and I’m disgusted, angry, disillusioned … the resolution wasn’t even demanding anything radical; just a statement of solidarity with Palestinian writers and literary institutions/orgs. What’s the point in a Trade Union that is so conservative?