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Poets from The Whole Kahani
Event hosted by Vic Pickup and Katherine Meehan
Poets from The Whole Kahani reading on this evening:
Kavita A. Jindal, Khadija Rouf, Mona Dash and Reshma Ruia

Followed by open mic.

Friday 14 November 2025 | Doors open 8.00 pm
Poets’ Cafe, 21 South Street, Reading, Berks RG1 4QU

​Join us for an enjoyable evening of readings and conversation in London on Thursday 3rd August 2023. Details below.

Sunday 11 June 2023 | 3:00 – 4:00 pm
Catch our co-founder Reshma Ruia at the 2023 Jaipur Literature Festival in London on Sunday 11 June held at the British Library. She will be talking about The Whole Kahani and the ideas behind identity and belonging in South Asian writing.
https://jlflitfest.org/london/schedule

Wednesday 25 January 2023 | 7:30 – 8:30 pm
Join Linen Press and The Whole Kahani for the second author event in our series of online talks, Inside the Linen Cupboard.
Members of The Whole Kahani collective will talk about their experiences of writing within a supportive framework and give tips on workshopping. They will read from their third anthology Tongues and Bellies, with time for Q&A.
Members participating in this discussion are: Kavita A. Jindal, Reshma Ruia, Mona Dash, Nadia Kabir Barb and Deblina Chakrabarty.

Monday 13 June 2022 | 6:00 – 8:30 pm
The Nehru Centre | 8 South Audley Street, London W1K 1HF
Free to attend.
Programme: Doors opened at 6 pm, followed by readings and discussion in the auditorium 6:30-8 pm. Event ended at 8:30 pm.

The online launch of Tongues and Bellies took place on Tuesday December 14th 2021 from 7.30-8.30pm.
Attendees joined members of The Whole Kahani and Lynn Michell of Linen Press for a fabulous evening, discussing our latest anthology.
We had a great discussion, as well as readings and questions from the audience.

We were delighted to be part of the prestigious Durham Book Festival this year! Attendees joined us for readings from May We Borrow Your Country on the 13th of October 2019 from 2.30-3.30pm at Durham Town Hall, and dipped into stories and poems about displacement, disquiet and desire, as characters cross borders and assimilate new cultures.

Last gig of the year at the fabulous Yurt Cafe in London on the 21st of November 2018. Reshma Ruia, Kavita Jindal, Mona Dash, Catherine Menon and Alex Caan will read excerpts of their stories from ‘Love Across a Broken Map.’ Join us for this wonderful winter warmer. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/winter-warmers-stories-about-love-imperfect-by-the-whole-kahani-tickets-38622140863

Heading North please join The Whole Kahani for an event at the Rochdale Literature Festival on the 21st October 2017, where you can hear members read their work and answer any questions you may have about the collective and their writing experiences.

Join The Whole Kahani for another exciting event at the prestigious Durham Book Festival on the 14th October 2017, to hear readings and find out more about the group and its members.
​https://durhambookfestival.com/