Sasha Parmasad
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Sasha Kamini Parmasad (MFA, Columbia University), author of the poetry collection No Poem (2017), began publicly/professionally engaging the space of Consciousness & Culture at age six, performing songs and poetry on a national scale in Trinidad and New Delhi, India. Sasha’s childhood poetry was published in Equality (All India Democratic Women’s Association Journal), and she has been giving public lectures/presentations since her teenage years to catalyze inner-outer transformation. Her first novel, Ink and Sugar, placed third in the First Words Literary Contest for South Asian Writers; her poetry placed first in the annual Poetry International competition and has appeared in online and print publications such as Muse India and Indivisible: An Anthology of Contemporary South Asian American Poetry. Her other projects include the chapbook, Bolo Bahen! Speak Sister!, which she co-edited and which emerged out of an Arts & Empowerment Program co-sponsored by Sakhi and Jahajee Sisters, and the screenplays for two short narrative films, Land of Nothing (director, Amine Kouider) and Navaswan: A Tale of Self, Loss, and Love (director and cowriter, Marc Baraka Strauch). Sasha has designed and taught academic and creative writing courses and led meditation/personal development projects in programs at Columbia University, UN Women, in leadership/government circles, underserved communities (NYC, Chicago, Washington D.C.), and internationally (Caribbean and UK). With more than 20 years of meditation experience, she is a Specialist Transcendental Meditation Teacher and a Director of Special Projects at the David Lynch Foundation (NYC).
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Interviews:
https://www.tm-women.org/a-writer-s-perspective-an-interview-with-sasha-parmasad/
Sasha Parmasad Interview - STAY HOME [produced by Gayelle Television; interview by Christopher Laird, fl. 1975 (Trinidad and Tobago: Banyan Archive, 2007), 57 mins]. LINK: https://search.alexanderstreet.com/preview/work/bibliographic_entity%7Cvideo_work%7C3275705
Sasha Parmasad Interview - STAY HOME [produced by Gayelle Television; interview by Christopher Laird, fl. 1975 (Trinidad and Tobago: Banyan Archive, 2007), 57 mins]. LINK: https://search.alexanderstreet.com/preview/work/bibliographic_entity%7Cvideo_work%7C3275705
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Other links:
Maatwala 2015 Presentation By Sasha Kamini Parmasad: "Nothing for Intellectuals" -- LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGiR3sNiFxs
Panel on Meditation at NYC Annual Supportive Housing Conference -- LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlLnRYQx7Ws
Panel on Meditation at NYC Annual Supportive Housing Conference -- LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlLnRYQx7Ws