Organised in tandem with the annual global event, 100 Thousand Poets For Change (100TPC), the Mumbai chapter will have live music performances and readings on the first three days followed by a special performance and reading by children from Mumbai schools on the fourth day. The global event was started in 2011, to create awareness about social, political and environmental issues via poetry, and is currently in its fourth year.

(Left to right) School children playing at the last edition of 100 Thousand Poets For Change at Kitab Khana; a poetry session in progress

“We keep telling people that nobody reads poetry. But I don’t think that’s true. People are interested in it. The fact that 100TPC has entered its fourth year, with people from across the world interpreting environmental, political and social issues, is proof that there’s interest about poetry,” says Menka Shivdasani, the curator of the Mumbai-chapter of 100TPC.