Dr Anannya Dasgupta, Director, Krea-CWP and Associate Professor, Literature, SIAS, and Sayantan Datta, Assistant Professor of Practice, Krea-CWP facilitated multiple sessions at the Alliance Literary Festival, organised by Alliance University, Bengaluru, on 19 and 20 February 2026.
Sayantan Datta moderated a conversation with Kalki Subramaniam, transgender-rights activist, writer, and member of the National Council for Transgender Persons, and also conducted a Science Writing workshop on 19 February 2026 introducing participants to communicating scientific findings to non-specialist audiences.
Dr Anannya led a workshop titled ‘The Long and Short of it: Writing Haiku’ on 20 February 2026 introducing participants to the rules of Haiku writing and how it invites play in its imagistic word formations.
