Pratima Balabhadrapathruni
About
Pratima is a homemaker and many other small and big things.
She writes and engages in visual art. Her works have been published and displayed. She was on a long hiatus because life took over the living. It has made her a seasoned creative-interactive-agency.
Coming back to school to pursue creative writing has honed her skills.
Any Ordinary Day I feel these things
The thesis titled: "Any Ordinary Day I feel these things" is a collection of poems about family histories and personal histories centred around the places the poet has lived in and is living in. It is a collection of the ordinary lives, lived in ordinary ways.
The poems in the collection, do not use punctuation. Instead, the poet uses white space and indentation to punctuate.
The poet has produced this collection by studying the combined techniques of poets W. S. Merwin, the Ukrainian poet Ilya Kaminsky, Frank O'Hara, Anne Sexton, Jayne Cortez and the artistic style of Jackson Pollock abetted by her own training in computer sciences to refine the absence of formal punctuation in her poems.
On Any Ordinary Day. I Feel Vulnerable—the artwork matches with the thesis: On Any Ordinary Day. I feel These Things
Any Ordinary Day I Feel the burn
Artwork by Pratima, acrylic on canvas. Displayed at the Kyoto Link22 in 2025. The work is an abstraction of what it is like to endure the struggles and soar higher
On Any ordinary day. I feel the options burn my core and I choose to rise
Professional practice
Pratima has upgraded her skills in writing and poetry by taking online classes and then applied for the MA Creative Writing at LASALLE in 2025. The course has inculcated a writing discipline in her.
She is also a visual artist and her work has been displayed in the Link22 exhibition held in Kyoto every year.
Life being what it is, her priorities changed and she has been on a pause for several years now, but has kept reading and observing the changing styles in writing. She is aware that AI is being used widely in writing and while she is aware that it makes editing easier, AI cannot get creative, it is a software that collects massive data and does not create anything but an amalgamation of available data that is presented as visual art or poetry or prose.
She uses AI to create artwork to cheer others or express her own emotional reflections, through artwork that is cheerful enough and lends depth to what she writes.
She believes that writing needs a diversion that visual art provides and strengthens the thought flow that writing spurs. She is good at both.
Exhibits – Visual Art @ Kyoto Link 10 exhibitions 2022, 2021 April 2024, 2023,
As a visual artist, Pratima likes the energy of group participation with some of the best artists in Japan.
Pratima Balabhadrapathruni , “Angus Dei”, Usawa Literary Review November 2021
Agnus Dei is a poem showcasing the socio-cultural life of a married woman in India
Balabhadrapathruni, Pratima, “A Tale of Two Kitchens.”, Haibun Today Haibun / prose embedded with Haiku in it, offering a nostalgic twist. December 2016
Haibun, which is prose and haiku
bala, anna, “Opening Haiku.”, Otata November 2016 A series of haiku and senryu that arose out of everyday tantrums
Haiku
Annapurna-Balabhadrapathruni, Pratima, “Echolocation.”, The Criterion Experimenting with prose poetry and punctuation - October 2014
Experimenting with the rhythm and the punctuation style of Hindustani Classical Music in an English poem
Ianna Flores
Jacqueline Chang
Leon Oh Jun Cheng
He Jia Wen
Dan Wong
Ang Fonteyn
