Shikha Malaviya

Shikha Malaviya, poet, founder of The Great Indian Poetry Project, TEDx speaker, and creator of Monsoon Magazine, champions Indian poetry in Bangalore, India.

on Jul 17, 2024

Shikha Malaviya considers herself a morpher, having been born in the U.K. and raised in the U.S. and India. She is the founder of The (Great) Indian Poetry Project, an initiative to document, preserve and promote the legacy of modern Indian poetry. Her book of poems, Geography of Tongues, was launched in December 2013 by The (Great) Indian Poetry Collective. Shikha is deeply involved in the poetry community through events/initiatives such as organizing ‘100 Thousand Poets for Change—Bangalore’ in 2012 and 2013; co-founding ‘Poetry in Public India,’ a movement to bring powerful verse by Indian women to public places across India; and giving a TEDx talk on ‘Poetry in Daily Life’ at TEDx Golf Links Park, Bangalore, 2013. Shikha’s poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She also founded Monsoon Magazine, the first South Asian literary magazine on the web. Shikha graduated from the University of Minnesota with BA and MA degrees in creative writing, mass communications and liberal studies. She currently lives in Bangalore, India, with her husband and two children.