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Meena is an Indo-Canadian poet, visual-artist, designer, curator, and poetry-film maker. Writing in English and Hindi, her work appears widely in international journals and anthologies, with translations into Urdu, German, and Punjabi. She is the author of several poetry–art books. Her latest collection, Charismatic Chiaroscuro, is an experimental multimedia work that weaves poetry, visual art, and moving image into an immersive, layered experience. Meena’s practice seamlessly fuses literary and visual expression, creating a dynamic dialogue between forms. Her contributions have been recognized with numerous honors, including the Nalanda Award (2023), Civic Award of Recognition (2022), and the Community Heritage Award (2025), among other distinctions.
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When the Infinite Becomes a Circle – by Meena Chopra

 Reflections from a Mahā Kumbh Discussion

(Seeking The Infinite: A Spiritual Journey through the *Maha Kumbh)

Meena At the Gala Opening Event of the 2nd edition of Canada Literature Festival in Mississauga on 14th May, there was a discussion on USA-based Yakub Matthew’s newly published book Seeking the Infinite. It was convened by UK-based noted literary thinker Prabhu Guptara, where I found myself entering not merely a literary conversation, but a strangely layered inner journey. The subject itself, the infinite, already carries a destabilizing quality. It invites thought, yet resists containment within thought. And perhaps that was precisely what made the experience of the discussion both engaging and quietly unsettling.

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Valuing Human Creativity in the Age of AI – By Meena Chopra

In 2026, the boundary between human creativity and digital intelligence has finally started evaporating into the shadows. We are weaving high contrasts with abstract AI textures to bring timeless art into a new dimension of sight and sound.

There are moments in history when language begins to shift under our feet. Words that once felt stable, art, creation, authorship, originality, begin to blur as new tools enter the landscape of making. Artificial intelligence is one such threshold. This is not a question of acceptance or rejection; it is a question of clarity: what remains essentially human in the act of creation, and where does technology genuinely belong without displacing that essence?

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Evolving Ethnic Literature – by Meena Chopra

Language and culture are inter-woven in our normal lives, but the depth or the centre point, from where all the imagination and creativity originates in the form of art and literature, is obscured in the hidden layers of the unconscious self. It is from the deepest layer of the self where all the diversity of life springs. At the same time, it is the focal point, or an ultimate abode, for diverseness becoming oneness of being.

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