{"id":72006,"date":"2025-05-28T01:45:38","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T16:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2025\/may\/27\/jai-verma-obituary"},"modified":"2025-05-28T01:45:38","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T16:45:38","slug":"jai-verma-obituary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=72006","title":{"rendered":"Jai Verma obituary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My friend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jaiverma.co.uk\/\">Jai Verma<\/a>, who has died aged 75, was a poet, a writer and cross-cultural organiser who served as a bridge between her country of origin \u2013 India \u2013 and Nottingham, her chosen home.<\/p>\n<p>In 2003, Jai co-founded Kavya Rang (Colours of Poetry), a multilingual poetry group with a focus on south Asian languages. Kavya Rang hosted several events each year, including a Grand Kavi Sammelan, which featured English-language poets alongside Hindi voices: you were just as likely to hear Keshari Nath Tripathi, the governor of West Bengal (a keen poet), recite as you were to see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/stage\/2021\/sep\/01\/henry-normal-interview-escape-plan\">Henry Normal<\/a>. Poetry, to Jai, knew no national boundaries.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2025\/may\/27\/jai-verma-obituary\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Jai Verma, who has died aged 75, was a poet, a writer and cross-cultural organiser who served as a bridge between her country of origin \u2013 India \u2013 and Nottingham, her chosen home.In 2003, Jai co-founded Kavya Rang (Colours of Poetry), a multil&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4773,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[511,71,62,1773,1397,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-culture","category-india","category-nottingham","category-poetry","category-south-and-central-asia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4773"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72007,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72006\/revisions\/72007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}