It's finally here! It lives! DREAM COME TRUE! 💖💖💖💖🤯🤯🤯💃💃🎺🎺🎺🎹🎹🎹 Operation Mincemeat SpitLip Sony Music UK

Thrilled to be bringing THE MARINER'S SONG back in front of #London and #Edinburgh Edinburgh Festival Fringe audiences again this summer! Prepare to embark on a lyrical voyage through the ages... Additional dates to be confirmed soon!

If you're partial to Anglo-Saxon #poetry and the #Norse myths, check out this little gem taking place in Canary Wharf's Jubilee Park over the next few nights

only 7 sleeps til I get to share THE MARINER'S SONG again, taking Edinburgh audiences on a lyrical voyage navigating ancient myth, family history + life at sea... 16-20 Aug, 7pm Scottish Storytelling Centre bit.ly/3WUUiBA #edfringe #SouthAsianHeritageMonth

Adventurers! Brave the #Edinburgh elements and join me Scottish Storytelling Centre over the next 5 nights as we navigate ancient myth, family history and life at sea... 7pm, 16 > 20 Aug Tix: bit.ly/3WUUiBA Edinburgh Festival Fringe #edfringe @kinkyfish_drama South Asian Heritage Month

I really enjoyed The Mariner's Song tonight! Edinburgh Festival Fringe Scottish Storytelling Centre @kinkyfish_drama A personal odyssey, but also looking at our relationship with the sea at a worldly level. Beautifully told by Rajan Sharma. I definitely drifted off into a happy place with the script.

🛗Elevator Pitch: The Mariner’s Song 🌊All aboard for this award-winning narrative odyssey navigating ancient myth, family history, and writer-performer Rajan Sharma’s own unique experience crewing on a Deep Sea Challenge. Wed 16 - Sun 20 Aug @ 7pm 🎟️…storytellingcentre.online.red61.co.uk/event/913:4954/

2 shows left! Will you answer the Mariner's call?! 🌊 🌊 ⛵️ 🛟 🌊 🌊

Just to extend my own personal thanks to Scottish Storytelling Centre for being incredible hosts this past week! You guys are the best! And of course, to #edfringe audiences who have accompanied me on this fleeting voyage... together weathering the storms that pass... thank you x ☀️🌙🌟🌊

Don't miss The Mariner’s Song at Chelsea Theatre on 30 Aug - an award-winning ‘round the campfire’ verse storytelling experience from Rajan Sharma taking audiences on a lyrical voyage navigating ancient myth, family history and life at sea bit.ly/44G1sN5 Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Young K&C

The Mariner's Song summer tour concludes this coming week, closing out Chelsea Theatre 18 SHOWS event programme as part of Kensington and Chelsea Festival 2023 Wed 30 Aug, 7.30pm @ Chelsea Theatre, London, SW10 0DR Tix: Pay What You Want Book: bit.ly/44eAWKu Will you answer the call? 🌊

Thank you Why Not Theatre for bringing new life to this ancient tale...a sublime, stunning piece of theatre Barbican Centre last night. Epic ensemble storytelling at its very best #MahabharataPlay

We're THRILLED to announce our 2025 Mo Siewcharran Prize Longlist! Congrats to the longlistees Brina B Cher ! Sara Hussain Yin F Lim Zahrah Nesbitt-Ahmed Rukiya Shanthi Rajan Sharma Shortlist soon! Orion Publishing

With 15th August being the anniversary of both the end of WW2 following Japan’s surrender in 1945, and of India’s Independence in 1947, I’d like to take this opportunity to remember the contribution of the Indian National Army [INA] Tokyo Cadets, a.k.a. the Tokyo Boys (1/6)

Recruited from across SE Asia, these young Indian officer-cadets were sent for military training in Japan by INA Supreme Commander Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, tapped as future leaders of India’s armed liberation struggle against two hundred years of British colonial rule (2/6)

These young patriots were in Tokyo when Imperial Japanese forces surrendered - bringing their training to an abrupt end - and they attended Netaji’s memorial ceremony at Renkoji Temple in Sept 1945, after he died from injuries sustained in a plane crash in Taiwan on Aug 18 (3/6)

I’m proud to say that my grandfather Satya Prakash was a Tokyo Boy - he is sat second-from-right in front of a garlanded Bose in the next photo, taken on Oct 21, 1943, when Bose proclaimed the Provisional Government of Azad Hind (Free India) in Singapore (4/6)

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Though the Tokyo Boys did not see active operations, theirs is a unique and extraordinary story in extraordinary times; a story I am excited to bring further to light in the months to come... (6/6)

Thrilled to be amongst the six writers shortlisted for Mo Siewcharran Prize 2025...can't wait to meet the other finalists to learn more about what #stories they are also bringing into the world :) Orion Publishing Trapeze Books The Future Bookshelf