Celebrating Leela Soma and Murder at the Mela
Sunday 19 November, 2023, 2 p.m. – 3.30 p.m. Book Week Scotland 2023, Hillhead Library, 348 Byres Road, Glasgow G12 8AP Every November during Book Week Scotland we celebrate books and their talented authors, as well as the joy of reading for pleasure and writing creatively. This Book Week Scotland marks our first without Leela […]
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Wednesday, November 15, 2023 | Filed under: Book Week Scotland, Book Week Scotland=2023, Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Leela Soma writing and blogging
Flash Fiction for Valentine’s Day – Leela Soma
Love at First Sight? Smitten, I’ve been hit by the golden tip of Cupid’s arrow. Second date? See you tomorrow, same time, same place? Tom xxx He waited two hours wait. It was midnight, is she going to respond? He tossed and turned in bed. Let him wait a bit, play a little hard to get? […]
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Saturday, February 12, 2022 | Filed under: Leela Soma writing and blogging, Love Poems, Stories and Tales from Glasgow writers, Pat's Home Page Blog, Valentines Day Glasgow, Writing
Book Launch: Murder at the Mela, Leela Soma
Virtual Book Launch – Wednesday, 4 November, 2020 at 7 – 8.30 p.m. Virtual launch of Leela Soma’s highly anticipated new novel, Murder at the Mela. Glasgow’s first Asian DI joins the ranks of great fictional Scottish detectives adding to highly popular Tartan Noir. About Murder at the Mela Alok Patel is thrown in at […]
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Monday, November 2, 2020 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Leela Soma writing and blogging, Zoom and online events
Murder at the Mela by Leela Soma
Available to Pre-Order from Ringwood Publishing Newly appointed as Glasgow’s first Asian DI, Alok Patel’s first assignment is the investigation of the brutal murder of Nadia, an Asian woman. Her body was discovered in the aftermath of the Mela festival in Kelvingrove Park. During the Mela, a small fight erupted between a BNP group and […]
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Sunday, July 5, 2020 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Leela Soma writing and blogging, New Books by Scottish Writers
Corona Virus Stew – poem by Leela Soma
FiveRings at English Wikipedia / CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0) Recipe May 2020 Ingredients: Shopping list flour, toilet rolls, food, food, Stock pile, no space, greed, look after number 1 Stay home, save lives, save the NHS Watch TV, social distance at 2 metres, daily update Ventilators, nightingale hospital, PPE Care home deaths, scientists graphs, flatten the […]
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Saturday, May 23, 2020 | Filed under: Coronavirus, Coronavirus stories and poems, Leela Soma writing and blogging, Poetry, stories and poems, Writing
Baked With Love – a poem by Leela Soma
Baked with Love An eighteenth century recipe handed down with an intriguing tale of passion, incarceration in a tiger’s cage. A bloody vengeful murder of Khani Begum the fair young lover of Aga Bakar by Jainul. Devastated by her death the young master baker Came up with a recipe for Bakharkhani bread, a tribute to […]
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Wednesday, April 22, 2020 | Filed under: Leela Soma writing and blogging, stories and poems
International Women’s Day – #EachforEqual: What Difference Does a Decade Make?
8 March, 2020 – 5 p.m. Cafezique, 66 Hyndland St, Partick, Glasgow G11 5PT A Scottish PEN Women Writers Committee event for International Women’s Day 2020 Free Event This year marks the start of another decade. Looking back over the past ten years many women have raised their voices and risked their careers and sometimes […]
Tuesday, February 18, 2020 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Free Events, International Womens Day, Leela Soma writing and blogging, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Town Hall Meeting U.S.A. Leela Soma
Town Hall Meeting I attended my first Town Hall meeting in USA. As Boris Johnson is creating chaos in the ‘Mother of Parliaments’ I was curious to see how invested our cousins over the pond were in politics, especially in these politically polarised times. Well I was in for a treat. Not a Maga hat […]
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Friday, September 6, 2019 | Filed under: Leela Soma writing and blogging, stories and poems
Onion by Leela Soma – vegetable inspired poetry
Onion A perfect bulb of crystalline beauty growing in the darkness of the earth petal by petal, gentle stalks of green showing up in the sun, a promise of a taste to enhance cuisines around the world. A humble root vegetable makes us tear up with no hurt, reveals no core, layer upon layer peeled […]
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Tuesday, May 14, 2019 | Filed under: Leela Soma writing and blogging, Seasonal Stories and Poems by Glasgow Writers, Sweet or sharp summer stories and poems, Writing
Flowers – poems by Leela Soma
Jewels of summer A glance from the car at the traffic light My eyes widen at the jewel strewn scene Purple and white crocus, narcissi bright Like amethysts and diamonds that shine. Green grass with moist sun-touched dew Like glitter sparkling, under the bare tree. A north wind whips gusts strong The infant buds defiant, […]
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Tuesday, April 23, 2019 | Filed under: Leela Soma writing and blogging, stories and poems, Sweet or sharp summer stories and poems, Writing
Mackintosh at the Willow by Leela Soma
So how is Celia Sinclair’s £10 million restoration of the iconic Mackintosh at the Willow and the Salon Deluxe in particular? To find out we had to treat ourselves to an afternoon tea. The restoration of Mrs. Cranston’s tearoom by the business woman Celia Sinclair intrigued me after seeing the BBC documentary The documentary showed the […]
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Thursday, December 27, 2018 | Filed under: Cafes and Bistros, Eating and drinking Glasgow West End, Leela Soma writing and blogging
Autumn Visit to USA by Leela Soma
Fall in Washington DC As my friends in Glasgow are getting into their Autumn woolies, here in the Fall in DC it is still 90 degrees during the day and humid. Shorts and flimsy tops are de riguer. My summer has been extended by a few more weeks and I am relishing it, in air […]
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Friday, September 14, 2018 | Filed under: Leela Soma writing and blogging, stories and poems
Silence a poem inspired by snow by Leela Soma
Silence And still it snows Gently fall the snowflakes Stars of crystalline perfection Earth yielding to soft abundance Enveloped in a cocooning white silence Leela Soma, March, 2018
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Wednesday, March 7, 2018 | Filed under: Leela Soma writing and blogging, Poetry
Valentine Haiku by Leela Soma
Haiku The gurgling feadan beside us We watch the landskein paint the sky Last kiss shared, she left. Leela Soma, Glasgow Writer
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Monday, February 12, 2018 | Filed under: Leela Soma writing and blogging, Love Poems, Stories and Tales from Glasgow writers, Poetry, Valentines Day Glasgow
Write Now Live Initiative by Penguin Random House for BAME, LGBTQ and Disabled Writers
Report from Leela Soma October 1st 2016 I was privileged to be selected by Write Now, one of the world’s largest publishing houses, for their mentorship programme for BAME, LGBTQ and Disabled Writers. Fifty people were selected out of a thousand applicants for their London event. They have two more days in Birmingham and Manchester. […]
A Summer Story – Full Circle by Leela Soma
Full Circle Saturday 23 rd. August 1969, a day to remember, forever. They waved me off to my new life in Glasgow. My mum and the whole family. Tears glistened in their eyes, mine filled with tears and a nervous chill spread across my spine as I settled into the Air – India seat. The […]
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Friday, July 22, 2016 | Filed under: Leela Soma writing and blogging, Seasonal Stories and Poems by Glasgow Writers
First Love – a poem by Leela Soma for Valentine’s Day
First Love My first love, teen fresh, skin aglow A pearly sunny summer, so, so slow, Kisses rich, fondles and caresses mellow Our hearts and minds entwined, not low. Your breath on my skin, touch so soft That summer blue, the azure sky, the lot Laughter and love, like a cloying sweet Wonder now, […]
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Diverse Communities with Leela Soma CCA Tue 4 August 2015
Scottish Writers’ Centre Diverse Communities with Leela Soma CCA Tue 4 August 2015 7pm, Free and unticketed, Clubroom Ages 18+ The SWC is proud to present a ‘Diverse Communities’ open reading event, hosted by Leela Soma. This will be an evening of poetry recitals and short story readings, from members of Scotland’s diverse ethnic communities. […]
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Wednesday, July 29, 2015 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Leela Soma writing and blogging
The American Dream? – poem by Leela Soma
Tribes that stayed true to nature, Cherokee, ApacheSioux overpowered decimated and sent to reservationsThe red of their veins in the soil of the nation The blue of the settler’s eyes reflected in the skyThe white of foaming rivers trailing in the shipsOf enslaved men, women and children from Africa They built this nation forged in red, white […]
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Saturday, June 20, 2015 | Filed under: Leela Soma writing and blogging, stories and poems, Writing
Scottish Festival in Buffalo NY – Leela Soma
Where ever I go to in the world I’m looking for connections. Anything that connects Scotland to the place I am visiting or any connections to India, the land of my birth. Each time I came to Buffalo I tried to find something that reflects that. It makes any travel more interesting, the personal within […]
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Saturday, June 6, 2015 | Filed under: Leela Soma writing and blogging
The American Association of University Women Book Sale, Buffalo, New York
I’ve been to a few book sales in Glasgow, ( even one in my school days, bought Anna Karenina to impress all, never got beyond page 20!) especially ones for charity, but this was astonishingly huge in scale in every way. The number of books, two halls, and number of donations, the volunteers and the […]
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Monday, June 1, 2015 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Leela Soma writing and blogging
Leela Soma: Trip to Canada
Canada! What excites me about Canada is the familiar yet different feel of the country. Coming from Glasgow, Scotland, I am reminded by every street name, town name of the origins of this country. Wiki: “Scottish Canadians are people of Scottish descent or heritage living in Canada. As the third-largest ethnic group in Canada and among the first to settle in Canada, Scottish […]
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Saturday, May 30, 2015 | Filed under: Leela Soma writing and blogging
