Country Drive

Country Drive is a poetic meditation, a journey and a dialogue across time and space between Sukrita and Yasmin Ladha. Their differences are undercut by their familiarity, their love for the country they were born in, Kenya, and their travels to each others’ homelands, India and Canada. The result is a unique collection of poems, at once, illuminating, life-affirming and provocative.SUKRITA is an honorary fellow of the International Writing Programme at the University of Iowa. A recipient of the Indo-Canadian Shastri Fellowship, in addition to many other fellowships and residencies, she has published extensively on Partition literature, cultural diversity and women’s literature. Her latest collection of poems is Dream Catcher (2015). Her poetry has been widely translated and she is herself a known translator. YASMIN LADHA is a poet, novelist and an essayist from Alberta, Canada. Blue Sunflower Startle, a novel, her most recent work, was published by Freehand Books, in 2010. ANANDANA KAPUR is founder-director, CINEMAD India and an award-winning filmmaker. Her films and writing focus on oral cultures, gender, human rights, technology and social innovation. She is also a recipient of the FULBRIGHT and Indo-Canadian Shastri fellowships.