Join author Tansy Troy for an immersive reading  of her new children’s novel, The Great Nicobar Journey!  Explore endangered  species of Great  Nicobar and paint your  own favourite creature  from the Emerald isle!

 

About Tansy Troy

Tansy Troy is an educationalist, performer, maker of bird and animal masks and writer/composer of musical-eco dramas which she tours around theatres and festivals of India. In 2021, she conceived The Apple Press, a young people’s journal including work by both students and household names in literature. Tansy publishes poetry, articles, reviews and illustrations in The Hindustan Times, The Hindu, Scroll India, Open Magazine, The Chakkar, Sanctury Asia and Frontline. Her poetry Ratnakosha and With Earth as My Witness (Red River 2023 & 2025) is anthologised in The Yearbooks of Indian Poetry in English 2023, 2024 and 2025 (Pippa Rann, London) and her young people’s novel, The Great Nicobar Journey (Talking Cub/Speaking Tiger 2026) was co created with the many species of Great Nicobar. Usually roaming the forests in search of a story, Tansy sometimes stops to rest with her family of birds and animals in a treehouse high in the Himalayas.

 

Workshop Details

Date: Sunday, 25 Oct 2026 

Time: 2:00pm to 3:30pm 

At Triveni Kala Sangam