The reading will be followed by an interaction with Subashree.

Bright Pink Butterfly Clips was broadcast on BBC World Service on 4 January 2006. They story is about a young girl longing for hair clips she cannot afford. Things take a turn and she becomes the subject of a photograph.

Subashree Krishnaswamy is a writer, translator and editor. She is one of the five winners of the BBC World Service Short Story Competition 2005. She also writes for children.

She edited the Indian Review of Books, a monthly magazine devoted to review of books, for a number of years. She also edited books published under the imprint Manas. Subashree received support from the Charles Wallace India Trust to facilitate research and explore the possibility of putting together a guide to South Indian fiction in translation. The resultant Babel Guide to South Indian Fiction in Translation, published by Babel Books, UK, is currently in the press and will soon be published. She is also translating into English, fiction and poetry written in Tamil. She is the editor of www.womenswriting.com, a British Council site for South Asian women writers.

Bright Pink Butterfly Clips will be read by Sangeeta Iswaran. Sangeeta is a Bharatanatyam dancer. A graduate in Mathematics, Sangeeta is a gold medallist in performing arts masters from Central University, Hyderabad. Recipient of numerous awards for her dancing, Sangeeta has been an Asia fellow of the Institute for International Education in Cambodia, Thailand and Indonesia. She continues to do workshops in 'Creative Movement' with sex workers, transsexuals, destitute women, HIV-positive women around the world. She has taken part in several international seminars on dance and performing arts and presented papers. She has also choreographed dances for AIDS awareness and other social issues..