January 2007

The first Almost Island Dialogues was held in December 2006, at New Delhi's India International Centre. The writers were George Szirtes, Allan Sealy, Vinod Kumar Shukla, K. Satchidanandan, Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, Vivek Narayanan, Sharmistha Mohanty, and the filmmaker Mani Kaul. Discussions included the interaction of poetry and fiction, and the idea of narrative and perspective. In one session the writers spoke about work had that has been seminal in their own practice.