Uncut Poetry presents Red River Sessions
Episodes
Shobhana Kumar & K Srilata - Two Voices. One Echo.
04 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is a conversation about translation — but also about voice, memory, the body, and the extraordinary journey of carrying one poet’s in...
Sucharita Dutta-Asane - Sculpting Stories, Growing Roots
09 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Stories have their own quiet revolutions.Some are whispered in small rooms, some are sculpted in solitude — and a few are nurtured into existence by...
Priya Sarukkai Chabria - Between the Story and the Silence
09 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I spoke to Priya Sarukkai Chabria for more than an hour. Time literally flew. And though my cache of questions was largely over, when do we ever want ...
Gayatri Majumdar - Remembering by Not Holding On
03 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How often would you meet a poet who stays in a town steeped in the calm of spirituality but whose shoreline is sprayed with the spume of a restless se...
Basudhara Roy - Writing from the Body
16 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Basudhara and I finished our conversation at 10 pm. One hour forty-three minutes. And my heart was full. We'd started off thinking we should aim f...
Sophia Naz - The Importance of Transitions (Part 2)
22 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is the second part of the conversation with Sophia Naz. Sophia Naz is a bilingual poet, artist, author, editor and translator. She has been nomi...
Sophia Naz - The Importance of Transitions (Part 1)
21 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I first met Sophia at the Delhi Poetry Festival last year. We were both in the same session, reading our poetry, and the session got delayed. We had a...
Sukrita Paul Kumar - The Meaning of All Things
07 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Sukrita says - "Literary success lies in the joy I get while in the very process of writing and then the glee in actually being able to finish a poem....
Shobhana Kumar - A Talk Full of Bucket Lists
13 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
To know Shobhana is to know the essence of grace and gratefulness which suffuses her work. I have time and again, on reading her poems, kept the book ...
Bina Sarkar Ellias - The Renaissance Rebel
31 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Bina stole my heart from the time I met her, a few years back, in a poetry extravaganza where I was the Master of Ceremonies and Bina headlined a stel...
Siddharth Dasgupta - Within the Algorithms of Desire
14 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"Ishq, the word reverberates Sending ripples of erotic Blue Across the naked promise Of what her body chooses to preserve And what her body chooses to...
Nabina Das - Of Love, Blood & Dissent
15 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Nabina Das is an iconoclast and one of the finest poets of our times. She has just released an incredible collection of poems - Witness: the Red River...
Robert Wood - From the Thirst of the Earth
31 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Robert Wood's poetry is sonorous, uplifting and has embedded within it the smells, sounds, textures, bruises and memories of the ancient land he stays...
Soni Somarajan - On The Wings of Imagination
16 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Soni Somarajan says he has lived two different lives in a single lifetime. The first part is all memory and the second part is the world today. And he...
Madhu Raghavendra - A Life Worthy of Every Breath
30 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Madhu Raghavendra is nothing short of a magician. A product of many geographies, he is a polyglot, a poet, an activist, known as much for his poetry w...
Inaugural Episode with Dibyajyoti Sarma of Red River
17 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today, in the introductory episode of Red River Sessions, we have Dibyajyoti Sarma. Dibyajyoti is a poet and the heart and spirit behind Red River pub...