At the Cambridge Library - a Poem by Yogesh Patel
One Ocean
Tell the ocean
Not to be fooled by a man
Holding a broken mirror
Peddling a lie
That it shows an ocean divided
Whales will tell you
There is only one ocean
There are two points
A place to feed
A place to breed
The rest is the abracadabra
Of a migration
Politicians will never tell you
Why there is no one nation
Why they are holding a mirror
©Yogesh Patel
At the Royal Society of Literature with Dr Debjani Chatterjee and Stephen Fry
At Nassau Community College, NY
At the New York University with Salman Rushdie
The event presented by Yogesh Patel and Lord Parekh at the House of Lords in 2016, packed with readings, projects, awards and book launches.
From left:Bobby Nayyar, Usha Akella, Divya Mathur, Zata Banks, Baroness Prashar, Lord Parekh, Yogesh Patel (introducing Word Masala Foundation), Debjani Chatterjee, Priya Patel, Daljit Nagra, Shanta Acharya, Reginald Massey, Usha Kishore and Emma Wright.
At the House of Lords, Yogesh Patel was honoured with the Vatayan International Trophy & Citation for Excellence in Poetry by Baroness Flather, Divya Mathur, and C B Patel.