Saturday, 7th March 2009, 3.30 pm – 4.30 pm
Meet Director General of Police for Karnataka, Ajay Kumar Singh: A crowd will gather outside the DGP’s office while a delegation goes to in to present him with a memorandum. More details at Bangalore Aware.
Sunday, 8th March 2009, 6 pm onwards
Take Back the Night Walk: The main event will bring people together in different locations across the city between 6 pm and 9 pm. All groups will meet at Majestic at 9 pm where there will be a small performance and much boisterousness. More details at Blank Noise Project.
Anindita Sengupta is a poet, writer, journalist and consultant. She has been published in The Guardian (UK), The Hindu, Bangalore Mirror and Outlook Traveller Guides. Her first collection of poems,
City of Water, was published by Sahitya Akademi in February 2010. Her work has appeared in several journals and anthologies and she has performed at several national and international poetry festivals. In 2008, she received the Toto Funds the Arts award for creative writing and in 2010, she was a Charles Wallace fellow at University of Kent in England. In 2012, she received the Muse India Young Writer award for
City of Water. She is preoccupied with gender, poetry, art, pop culture, media and new media. She lives in Mumbai.
