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Kavikala - Massive Preview!

The face of KaviKala

The cover for KaviKala is out, all 6 by 9 inches of it. Deleeshus no?

Oh Yeah!

How I Mate You Are Mandali

We at Madness Mandali keep getting asked how we came together, why we came together, why we came up with the idea of a visual poetry book and will the nanga naach ever stop?

Aavar pagal phellow Hari Chakyar a.k.a. Nature Baba a.k.a. the guy who drew and wrote this kaumik decided to answer these koschins once and for all.

First Look: KaviKala (Coming This November)

Ram Ram Mandali!

Firstly we are very very overjaaied with the love that Mandali has been receiving from you peepalz and even the media. If we could describe how much joy we have it would look something like this ossum dance routine from this video:

Pictured: Exact Reaction

As you also know, over the last couple of weeks we've been slowly but surely building up the momentum as we head closer and closer to the release of our first book of Visual Poetry titled KaviKala - (the name was suggested by our dear Maavshi, Mrs. Suranga Date)

What's that you say? You don't know we're coming out with a book this November? Seriously? You mean you didn't see it when Suresh 'Sir, I Made Lakhs' Kalmadi assured the world on Facebook and Twitter that this would be a World-Class book? Okay fine, we admit that may have not been the smartest decision on our part, but seeing how everyone started to say good things about the CWG village after a few pics 'showed up on FB' we thought it was worth a shot.

Accha chalo, did you saw when Genelia (who is also Kabhi Kabhi referred to as Aditi) said we're rare, na? Nahi?

That mince ke you are as oblivious to aavar book as an #Amit is about the South of India (See now we're even dropping them cool hashtags!)

Fikar not. The very ossum people from Afternoon Despatch & Courier (Not a courier service, as aavar middiya-parson Hari Chak(Norris)Yar would say!), have featured us in their newspaper today which you can read here

But since website links are web 1.0; we have for you an awesome Issuu version of the article complete with Topless Mermaids and a joke about that guy who burned copies of that novel which was on the syllabus of Mumbai University.

Now if that's not what you call SEO then Veena Malik and Ashmit Patel's upcoming affair on Bigg Boss 4 is totally not scripted!

Okay so it looks like we've covered every trending topic for today, so without further ado, here's the awesome article in Afternoon about our upcoming book KaviKala!

Okthnxbai!

Visual Poetry Project Final List

Artists

1. Aminath Shareehan Ibrahim
2. Anjora Noronha
3. Atul Paranjape
4. Deepak Sukrutaraj
5. Deepthi Radhakrishnan
6. Devdatt Manjrekar
7. Dhwani Shah
8. Dinesh Francis
9. George Supreeth
10. Jasjyot Singh Hans
11. Kanchan Dhankani
12. Kishore Mohan
13. Madhuri Maram a.k.a Iruhdam
    
14. Mira Malhotra
15. Mrinal Roy
16. Neha Saini
17. Ojasvi Mohanty
18. Poonam Athalye
19. Prabha Mallya
20. Priya Sebastian
21. Rakesh Baidya
22. Ranganath Krishnamani
23. Rohit Keluskar
24. Rosh
25. Saishraddha Malage
26. Samita Chatterjee
27. Sandhya Ramachandran
28. Santosh Pai
29. Sharon Jacob
30. Shilo Shiv Suleman
31. Sinu Chandrasen
32. Sonal Goyal

Poems

1. "_________" by Amit Charles aka Scribbler
2. Braille Rainbow by Annie Zaidi
3. Word Ogres by Anoopa Anand
4. Prayer by Asma Ladha
5. The Parting Shot by Avinash Subramaniam
6. Homes by Bhaskar Pitla
7. The Castle by Chaitali Kokate
8. If Your Desk is Blue Today by Dipalle Parmar-Haworth
9. For The Love of Me by Eroteme
10. Fabrications and Altercations by Himali Singh Soin
11. Abandoned Trains by Janice Pariat
12. Playing Lego With My Son by Kadambari Sen
13. Duniya Meri Nazar Se by Kaustubh Panat
14. Blue Whale in the Rain Speaks of No Trains by Kaveri G
15. Spring Cleaning by Menka Shivdasani
16. Burying Love by Monidipa Mondal
17. No Kissing Allowed Medem by Mrinalani Harchandrai
18. Thoughts at the Top by Suranga Date
19. Live On by Nickolai Kinny
20. Immutable by Paras Sharma
21. Mrs Aggarwal Forty-Fied by Payal Talreja
22. A Song of Spring by Raamesh Raghavan
23. Ripples by Roshni Devi
24. Droplet in the Sea by Runcil Rebello
25. Your Calculated Triumph by Sabina Yasmin Rahman
26. It Will Pass by Samir Alam
27. Mermaid by Sharanya Manivannan
28. Interlude by Siddharth Bhatt
29. Green Song by Sudipta Biswas
30. Spurts of Red by Sushrut Munje
31. Cantos for Breakfast by Trisha Bora
32. Entwine by Upasana Mukherjee
33. The Circus by Vaishnavi Prasad

Visual Poetry Project Long List

These are the artists and poets who have been chosen for the next round of selection.

Our art and poetry editors will now go through these works and choose the final 31 artists and 31 poets.   If you make the final cut, you will be featured in our book. The decision of our editors regarding selection will be final.

NOTE* If you had received an email from us stating that you have been longlisted and your name is somehow not here on the longlist please contact us.

Since we have a lot of entries to go through, this is going to take some time. We will be publish an update regarding the selection process by 10th September, 2010  Stay tuned!

    POETS

   Aayushi Mehta
Amit Charles aka Scribbler
Anita Satyajit
Annie Zaidi
Anoopa Anand
Arkasha Bhairavi
Asma Ladha
Avinash Subramaniam
Azmat Amanullah
Bhaskar Pitla
Brandt D’Mello
Chaitali Kokate
Christine Johny
Diana Romany
Dipalle Parmar
Divya Manjunath
Eroteme
Harneet Singh
Harshad Shinde
Harsimran Kapoor
Himali Singh Soin
Janice Pariat
Kadambari Sen
Kalpana RJ
Kasturi Jadhav
Kaustubh Painat
Kaveri Gopalakrishnan
Kishore Mohan/ Rosh
Konika Sharma
Maithili Desai
Menka Shivdasani
Monidipa Mondal
Mrinalini Harchandrai
Mukta Patil
Nickolai Kinny
Nikhil Mane
Paras Sharma
Payal Talreja
Prabha Mallya
Preeti Singh
Priya Shah
Priyal Dedhia
Raamesh Raghavan
Ramya Thomas
Renuka Rane
Riya Sharma
Roshni Devi
Runcil Rebello
Rutu Ladage
Sabina Yasmin Rahman
Sagar Patil
Samir Alam
Sandhya Ramachandran
Shankari Murali
Sharanya Manivannan
Shigufta Uzma
Siddarth Bhatt
Sudipta Biswas
Suneetha B
Suranga Date
Sushrut Munje
Tanvi Mallya
Trisha Bora
Upasana Mukherjee
Vaishnavi Prasad
Vallari Shah
Violet Pereira
Viraj Muthye

ARTISTS
Ahmed Afazil 
Aminath Shareehan Ibrahim
      Anjora Noronha
      Deepak Sukrutaraj 
Deepthi Radhakrishnan
Devdatt Manjrekar
Dhwani Shah
Dinesh Francis 
George Supreeth
Irudham Maram
Jai Ranjit 
Jasjyot Singh Hans 
Kanchan Dhankani
Kaveri Gopalakrishnan 
Kishore Mohan 
Lavanya Karthik
Matthew Jacob
Mira Malhotra 
Mrinal Roy 
Neha Saini
Ojasvi Mohanty 
Poonam Athalye
Prabha Mallya 
Priya Sebastian
Proxy Joy 
Radha Pandey
      Rakesh Baidya
Ranganath Krishnamani 
Rohit Keluskar
Rosh 
Saishraddha Malage 
Samita Chatterjee 
Sandhya Ramachandran
Santosh Pai 
Sharon Jacob 
Shesh Kiran 
Shilo Shiv Suleman 
Sinu Chandrasen 
Suvajeet Duttagupta 
Sonal Goyal

Nutty No-Rhymes by Suranga Date

Here's a little poem sent to us by Suranga Date on the Madness Mandali Visual Poetry Project Poster designed by our very own Mira Malhotra.

Sensational
in orange,
Tickled pink,
Ideas just bubble forth,
like milk
boiling on simmer.....

Add some
squishy raisins,
stiff upper lip
cashews,
alliterative almonds,
preening pistachios,
supercilious kanjoos
saffron strands,
sit in a
Padmaasan,
enjoying
the Mad book,
like a
perfect payasam....
but Aiyyo !
Padmavati,
where the hell are my glasses ?