Meet the Mumbai-based poet whose piece on gender discrimination has gone viral
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Meet the Mumbai-based poet whose piece on gender discrimination has gone viral

Hindustan Times  

My mom telling me to wear skirts out less often. Don’t want to be mistaken for wanting it.,” thus goes Aranya Johar’s Women’s Day performance at a poetry night in Tuning Fork, Khar. Poet Aranya Johar Read: Poet Lang Leav talks about being an unlikely social media celebrity Johar has come a long way since her early days of poetry recitals. Unlike other gigs, the Blind Poetry night takes place in a dark room, and the poets are anonymous.“It’s a challenge to the artists because they cannot read from their notebooks here. Johar is also the co-curator of another poetry event in the city, titled Throwback Thursday, wherein she asks poets to read out their first work as well as their most recent writing.

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