The Bengaluru Poetry Festival 2022 brings to you the opportunity to learn 1-1 from masters of Indian Poetry

Home is a powerful metaphor of our roots, language, and memories. Search for one's home also makes us confront the larger horrors of today: displacement, refugee crisis, and climate change. With home as the central idea, Uday Prakash will discuss the role of poetry and the poet. The workshop will include writing activities and feedback sessions.

Uday Prakash is a Hindi poet, scholar, journalist, translator, short story writer, and novelist. His work has been translated into German, English, Spanish, and several Indian languages. He received the Sahitya Akademi award for his novel Mohandas in 2010, which he returned in 2015, to protest the murder of rationalist academic M. M. Kalburgi. Prakash’s career as a writer, educator, administrator, editor, researcher, and TV director spans several decades. It includes roles such as Assistant Professor at JNU, Assistant Editor of the Hindi literary journal Poorvagraha, Subeditor of the Hindi news weekly Dinmaan, Assistant Editor of the Sunday Mail, Assistant Professor at the School of Social Journalism, and head of the PTI TV Concept and Script Department. Since 1993, he has been a full-time freelance writer.