Poetry, English, Hindi, Oriya
Kasturika Mishra belongs to Odisha and the beach town of Puri and is a trained classical singer. She has also trained in Odissi and gazal style of singing. She worked as a senior cataloging Librarian at the US Embassy New Delhi for the past twenty years.
She writes and recites her poetry in English, Oriya, Hindi and Urdu mostly on social media especially Facebook and has performed live sessions on almost all leading Hindi and Urdu literary platforms and festivals. She was featured in Amar Ujala kavya cafe most recently. Her new book also featured in Jaipur Literary Festival, London chapter in September 2021.
She writes for web magazine Saadaneera. She has been part of the Kalinga Literary Festival.
She is empanelled as book reviewer for The Book Review and her reviews of Arundhati Subramaniam and Shubha Mudgal ji has been published. She also writes on dance, music and theatre for www.classicalclaps.com and www.narthaki.com.
She has adopted a baby girl fifteen years back from an adivasi region of Odisha and is a unmarried single mom along with her childhood friend minati mishra and has been advocating adoption since she adopted one child.
"After a warm welcome by the anchor, Ms Kasturika Mishra talks about how she plans to conduct the session, which was evident to the viewers. In a very humble tone, Ms Mishra talks about why stories about women must be told in one way or another to contribute to the cause of women empowerment. On the same note, Ms Mishra starts reading mesmerising poetry focused on women to the viewers one after the other. As Ms Mishra goes on, a sense of empowering aura among the women who specially tuned in for the session must have emerged. Ms Mishra is known for her work as a single mother who adopted an Adivasi girl child. She lives up to the expectations as the session comes to a close with her final poetry."