She is a freelance journalist, and her work has appeared in newspapers and journals such as the Guardian, the National, and the Hindu. She writes a regular column for New Indian Express and was a finalist in the Outlook/Picador India Non-Fiction Competition. Tishani Doshi is a Gujarati-Welsh writer, who grew up in Madras (now Chennai), India. She publishes poetry, fiction, and essays, and for fifteen years was the lead dancer with the legendary Indian choreographer Chandralekha. Meet Tishani in a place between her playful disposition and our exigent reality. She puts god in the middle of our chaos, our storming contradictions, our cosmos. As a rare treat, here are three poems from her collection: ‘A God at the Door’ Tishani Doshi is a tempest of talents. Tishani Doshi is an Indian poet, journalist and dancer based in Chennai. She has won the Forward Poetry Prize for best first collection and was long-listed for the Orange Prize for her novel The Pleasure Seekers. Read her poems, biography and blog on cricket.
