Hi. I’m Suneel (middle name ‘Sim’, meaning Tiger in Sanskrit). I have a PhD in English Literature and Law (doctorate published as a monograph and in over 100 university libraries world-wide) and have been widely published as an academic, book reviewer and a poet. I have also made it as a paid artist with a commission. Topics here include all types of anthropology, psychology, sociology and film, art and literature studies – and more recently my diary (which is the most popular thing).
The main things you need to know about me: I’m British, Punjabi (Hindu, Guru Ravidasia and Sikh background), super-fit, an ANARCHIST, insatiably curious, obsessed with the people and things that interest me and I love and I always try to do my bit to contribute to the world (although we all sometimes fail and make mistakes. We are human).
Contact me: suneelpubliccontact@yahoo.com
THE MEHMI PRESS
Titles in the Mehmi Press – Free Download
The Mehmi Press is an online Open Access publishing company which I founded in 2023. It is completely free to download, read and share my creative work. I hope you enjoy reading these titles which include microfiction and an artbook. Self-publishing gives you a freedom you cannot enjoy anywhere else and a sense of achievement which is hard to find in this world.
Stay on the lookout for more titles in the future!
By Dr Suneel Mehmi
HOLIDAY DIARIES
PUBLISHED 2024
Along with the photographs, I kept these diaries every day on my holidays. I originally planned to make some of them into novels, a series of adventures on holiday. Perhaps one day. I have never shared these diaries with anyone before. Why not? If people want to read them, they can.
Nepal 2016
Abu Dhabi 2015
Wales 2017
DISH OF FLOWERING SCENTS
PUBLISHED 2024
A historic collection of my poetry. Here is a sample:
12.04.15
Inspired by a phrase from a Hindi Song
When I wander in the city of your eyes
I take the main road
but all the while I wonder what happens
in the back streets and side alleys
when I wander in the city of your eyes
SELECTED NOTES ON RACISM
PUBLISHED 2024
With a focus on the British Asian or Anglo-Indian experience, these are writings about the subtle strategies of racism in western culture which shape everyday life and also the cultural imagination through fiction and films. The aim of the book is to expose what is concealed but which orders life in Western culture for the ethnic minority and the majority culture.
SEVEN DAYDREAMS
PUBLISHED 2023
Seven daydreams which I have been immersed in constantly. From dreams of freedom, to dreams of imprisonment, from dreams of knowledge to dreams of the body beautiful.
STORIES FOR MY CHILDREN
Published 2024
These stories are lessons, adventures, a means to share life and my experience with the little ones. An attempt to replicate the wonder of stories which my grandfather introduced me to, the ultimate storyteller. Written in 2015. The first collection of many to come!
MICROFICTION 2022
Published 2023
Microfiction self-published on social media amidst the Covid pandemic, job search status after a PhD and the onset of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
JUVENALIA: Stories for the University Newspaper
Published 2023
Microfiction published in various student newspapers with a twist in the tail – sometimes quite nastily.
PAISLEY ART BOOK
Published 2023
An exploration of what the Paisley symbol means to me as a digital artist and how it signifies the tears of India for me as they are appropriated by the West.
POETRY TO THE IMPOSSIBLE WOMAN
Published 2023
Poetry sent in an Impossible Way to the Impossible Woman.
MEHMI’S Introduction to Hindi Film (10 Favourites)
Published 2023
An introduction to some of the most iconic, historically significant and popular Hindi films through an exploration of ten of my most favourite films.
diary of a lone man 