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Rochelle Potkar

About the Author – Rochelle Potkar is a prize-winning poet, author, playwright, and screenwriter based in Mumbai. Her books in poetry include Four Degrees of Separation, Paper Asylum - shortlisted for the Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2020, and Coins in Rivers – shortlisted at The Wise Owl Literary Award 2025 and longlisted for the Sarojini Naidu Poetry Award 2026. Her books in fiction include Bombay Hangovers (also now in Hindi) with her latest novels being The D’Costa Family – a black comedic debut around Goans, greed, and gangsters; and The Fabric Goddesses about three women around the global fashion and garment industry. Alumna of the prestigious Iowa’s International Writing Program, USA and a Charles Wallace Writer’s fellow, University of Stirling, she was invited four time over as a creative-writing mentor to Iowa’s International Writing Programs - Summer Institute 2019 and Between the Lines 2022, 2023, and 2024. She also teaches poetry online at the Himalayan Writing Retreat.

The Room with a Sea view

Kohl-eyes, lush-hair, skin bathed in glean and two chandelier earrings – those were the remains of her on this wide, soft morning by the looming sea. Jaganlal felt he was on a high ship and soon his building, this bay
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Confluence

Waters when they evaporate, meet… at a global conference, to speak of fish dropouts, obscura of clouds, near-deaths, hydrological dynamics, monocultures, and metals: nickel, lead, chromium, at their beds. The bend is notional: water for coffee, cane, banana, paddy, mills, distilleries, fertilizer
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