Chattri Writing Group
I first wrote about the Chattri in 2018 but it has been on my mind for much longer. My first piece about the place, One Lesson, was published in Hidden Sussex (Writing Our Legacy, 2019).
I later worked with Brighton Dome to create a workshop to explore the history of the Chattri and its links to Brighton’s most famous landmark, the Royal Pavilion estate, which served as a military hospital for Indian soldiers wounded in France during the first year of World War I.
Participants from the first workshop make up an ongoing, occasional writing group. We are women of South Asian heritage writing together to explore the weave of personal and family stories with the many legacies of empire.
We See You Now
We See You Now is a collective of writers and creatives from the Global Majority nurtured by Alinah Azadeh since 2020. My involvement has blessed me with creative contact with many extraordinary human beings.
We See You Now Sept 2021 Writer Retreat, Seven Sisters Country Park. Writers pictured left to right: Josephine Hall, Akila Richards, Pauline Rutter, Amy Zamarripa Solis, Olufemi Hughes, Georgina Parke, Dulani Kulasinghe, Sheila Auguste, Jenny Arrach, Alinah Azadeh, Naluwembe Binaisa, Nina Thaddeus, Adriana Lord