Menka Shivdasani

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Menka Shivdasani is Indian poet.^[1][2] In 1986, she co-founded The Poetry Circle in Bombay, with Nitin Mukadam and Akil Contractor.^[3]

• Nirvana at Ten Rupees published by XAL-Praxis Foundation, Mumbai .1990^[4]
• Stet, first published in 2001 by Sampark
• Safe House published by Paperwall (Poetrywala), Mumbai . 2015^[5]
• Frazil published by Paperwall (Poetrywala), Mumbai . 2018^[6]

• Anthology of Contemporary Indian Poetry (2004) ed. by Menka Shivdasani and published by Michael Rothenberg, Big Bridge United States.^[7]
• Freedom and fissures (1998): an anthology of Sindhi partition poetry published by Sahitya Akademi, India.^{[citation needed]}
• If the Roof Leaks, Let it Leak, an anthology of writing by Indian women, Sound and Picture Archives for Research on Women, 2014^{[citation needed]}

• "A book must be a distillation of a lifetime’s worth of thought, feeling and experience"^[8]
• "Proud of being a Woman, an Indian and a Sindhi" Menka Shivdasani^[9]
• "Menka Shivdasani : Five Minutes With is a series of interviews with contemporary poets from India" Menka Shivdasani^[10]

• Indian English Poetry
• Indian poetry in English

• Menka Shivdasani's : For Many Poets in Mega City like Mumbai...