What are you currently working on?
For a few months now, I have been mulling over the lines to a sequel for my poem ‘Alibaug’ first written in 2019 and published in my chapbook Light of The Sabbath in 2021. The lines for my poem, Alibaug Village Well kept coming to me in bits and pieces in Marathi. For me, when this happens, I find it most rewarding as all my poems are normally in English. I wrote a few lines and a few more are finding their way onto the page.

Kavita Ezekiel Mendonca’s recent jottings in Marathi from her notebook

Could you tell us about the Marathi connection?
Marathi is the language of the Bene Israel Indian Jews along with English. My gratitude to my mother for keeping Marathi alive in my childhood home, and to my husband for learning it so we can now speak it at home together. He is from Mangalore, and his native language is Konkani.