Everything Begins Elsewhere
Tishani Doshi is a rising literary star in the UK and India, and her debut novel was enthusiastically supported by Salman Rushdie. She has a very rich author website: www.tishanidoshi.com In addition to writing poetry, Tishani Doshi is a columnist for The Hindo, as well as a professional dancer with the Chandralehka group. Tishani Doshi's TED talk on «Slowness and Creativity» can be found here: http://tedxpalermo.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=110 Tishani Doshi was India's participant during the «Poetry Parnassus» event during the London Olympics. Here she reads one of her poems:http://ticketing.southbankcentre.co.uk/poetry-parnassus/poets/doshi-tishani Tishani Doshi loves cricket and writes a blog entitled “Hit or Miss” on Cricinfo, a cricket-related website. Tishani is half Welsh and half Gujarati; she describes her family as a “hybrid” and writes often about the experience growing up in a multicultural household.
