About us
Pune Writers' Group is an independent community of writers practising the craft of writing since 2014. We meet four times a week to write together and discuss literature, art, society, and science.
Our meetings are held both online and in person:
Online (via Google Meet):
- Sundays
- Mondays
- Every third, fourth, and fifth Saturday of the month
In person:
- Every Thursday at Pagdandi Books Chai Cafe, Baner
- Every second and fourth Saturday at Kitabi Chai, NIBM Road
Here are a few useful links about us:
https://linktr.ee/punewritersgroup
The common Google Meet link:
https://meet.google.com/tnt-fnkp-uhp
The PWG in the newspaper:
https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/pune/hidden-stories-pune-community-pagdandi-bookstore-cafe-quietly-weaving-stories-decade-9941452/
Upcoming events
79
Be Ignited or Be Gone: A Poetry Session with Shobhana Kumar
·OnlineOnlineThis is an online poetry session with poet and translator Shobhana Kumar.
Every third Saturday of the month, from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Join us on Google Meet: https://meet.google.com/tnt-fnkp-uhp*
Exploring States of Being with Poetry
The world is crumbling around us in more ways than before. For those of us who seek to find meaning from art and poetry, every day begins with a bleakness we have never known. And yet, the wise tell us that it has always been this way. How then do we find hope?
In this session, we explore the idea of Huzun, rooted in the Arabic idea of a deep, collective spiritual loss. The loss is important to look at because this kind of loss also inspires hope. It is a deep yearning, a spiritual anguish that results in a spirit that soars.
We will look at mysticism in poetry from the West and the East. We will look at verses that are sublime and starkly simple in their rendering. And from these readings, may we find pockets of hope!What to bring: An open mind, some blank sheets of paper, a pen/cil
The Host: Shobhana Kumar is a poet, translator and chronicler of regional histories. She also writes haibun, a haikai form of prose and haiku, and is the recipient of the Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize and The Touchstone Distinguished Books Award (HM), for her book, A Sky Full of Bucket Lists. She is working on a translation of Subramania Bharathi in collaboration with K. Srilata, and the Thiruvasakam by the ninth century mystic Manickavassagar, in collaboration with Priya Sarukkai Chabria.
5 attendees
Past events
1065
