Anjali Purohit will be discussing the history of reading circles and platforms for poetry at the Kala Ghoda Festival for its session THE LITERARY LIFE OF BOMBAY with Menka Shivdasani and Jane Bhandari @ the Artist’s Centre (Saturday, 7th Feb, 6.45 to 7.45pm). She will be speaking about the Cappuccino Readings initiative in a session dedicated to the history of reading circles and platforms for poetry in Bombay,  as part of the Literature section of the Kala Ghoda Arts Festival 2015.  This would be an occasion to discuss a major aspect of Bombay’s literary life and to voice a number of narratives that are usually confined to oral history but which deserve to be written about.