l to r: TM Management founder & CEO, Tarsame Mittal – India’s leading artist & personal management company; the great Roshan Abbas, the creative visionary who invented, created & produces the remarkable “Spoken Fest”; TED India & TEDx India curator, visioneer & organiser, Yashraj Akashi ; & long-time India-phile, Mobilium Global Chief Executive Ralph Simon – diggin’ the scene & taking in top storytellers, musicians & poets. This, India’s 4th annual “Spoken” Fest puts Indian storytelling & spoken word on the global map at the big annual open-air festival at Jio Garden in BKC – it’s a great cultural melee of poetry, music, dance drama, writers & words, which has built a huge niche audience for itself over the last three years. The exciting 2022 line-up included talents like When Chai Met Toast, Mithila Palkar, Babil Khan, Shayan Roy, Sumukhi Suresh, Vir Das, Anup Soni & more. “Spoken Fest” gives opportunities to young, budding authors, artists, poets, musicians & great creative talent to showcase their artistic work.