6 - 8 December 2018 , Thu - Sat.
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Maithreyi Karnoor
Maithreyi Karnoor is a poet and a translator. A Handful of Sesame, her English translation of the Sahitya Akademi Award-winning Kannada novel, Halla Bantu Halla was published this year. Another translation – a Sahitya Akademi publication – of a collection of plays by H. S. Shivaprakash is forthcoming. She was shortlisted for the Montreal International Poetry Prize in 2017. Maithreyi’s works, including poetry, translations, literary and theatre reviews have appeared in The Hindu, The Wire, Indian Express, Daily O, Muse India, Indian Literature and elsewhere. She lives in Goa.
Mukul Kumar
Mukul Kumar is a civil servant, belonging to the 1997 batch of the Indian Civil Services. An Indian Railway Traffic Service officer, he is currently working in the Ministry of Railways, New Delhi. He has studied humanities from Delhi University, graduating from Kirori Mal College. He has studied Public Administration at the prestigious Indian Institute of Public Administration (IIPA), New Delhi. He has published an anthology of his English poems titled The Irrepressible Echoes (2012) and his debut novel As Boys Become Men was published by Rupa in 2016). Seduction by Truth (2018) is his second novel.
Max Rodenbeck
Max Rodenbeck is the South Asia Bureau Chief of The Economist. He was born in the US but has rarely lived there. He began writing for The Economist in 1989. He studied history in Egypt and previous to his current role he was a reporter in the Middle East and subsequently the Middle East Bureau Chief from 2000 to 2015, covering the region from Morocco to Iran, and topics ranging from wars and revolutions to radical Islam, Arabic pop culture and the ancient art of distilling arak. A frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, his own book Cairo: The City Victorious (2000) has been published in eight languages.
Jerry Pinto
Jerry Pinto is the author of Em and the Big Hoom (2012) which won the Hindu Lit for Life Prize; the Crossword Award for Fiction; the Windham-Campbell Prize administered by the Beinecke Library, Yale University; and the Sahitya Akademi Award for fiction in English. His other works include a novel Murder in Mahim (2017); Reflected in Water (2012), an anthology of writing from Goa; a graphic novel on which he worked with Garima Gupta, When Crows are White (2001); a book of poetry, Asylum (2011). He has translated Baluta (2015) by Daya Pawar; Cobalt Blue (2013) by Sachin Kundalkar; and most recently, Baburao Bagul's When I Hid My Caste: Stories (2018). He is on the board of MelJol, an NGO that works in the sphere of child rights and the People's Free Reading Room & Library, one of Mumbai's oldest libraries.
Sanjeeva Pandey
Sanjeeva Pandey is an officer of the Indian Forest Service (1982 batch) from Himachal Pradesh cadre. He served as Director of the Great Himalayan National Park (GHNP) from 1998 to 2006, a prime hotspot of biological diversity in the Western Himalayas, where he engaged himself in biodiversity conservation through livelihood based natural resource management. His efforts with Friends of GHNP have resulted in inscription of GHNP Conservation Area as a World Heritage Site in Doha, the State of Qatar, in June 2014. Originally trained in wildlife management at the Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun and in forestry management at the Indian Forest College, Dehradun, Sanjeeva also studied history at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has travelled to many countries and contributed to numerous training manuals, written papers, news and media articles and formulated project proposals throughout his professional career. His PhD is on livelihood aspects in support of biological diversity of GHNP.
Patricia Pereira-Sethi
Patricia Pereira-Sethi is an award-winning international journalist who worked for two decades as correspondent, editor and the United Nations Bureau Chief for Newsweek magazine in New York. She was the first Indian and youngest ever correspondent to be named the United Nations Bureau Chief of an American organisation. She has conducted one-on-one interviews with more than 45 heads of state during her career, including Indira Gandhi, Morarji Desai, Fidel Castro, George Bush Sr, Augusto Pinochet, Daniel Ortega, Olaf Palme, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Robert Mugabe, Pham Van Dong. And others. Patricia has been felicitated for her career by Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar and the Goa Union of Journalists after her return to Goa. She has authored the biography of industrialist Ramesh Chauhan Thunder Unbottled: From Thums Up to Bisleri (2013). She lives in Dona Paula and is a Special Columnist for the Sunday Panorama section of the Navhind Times as well as the magazine Viva Goa. Fluent in Spanish, she has lectured at Goa University’s Centre for Latin American Studies to PhD students.
Dattaprasad Shetkar
Dattaprasad Shetkar is Goan by birth and heart. He has travelled extensively as a market researcher and brand consultant across India. Since childhood he was drawn towards artistic expression and appreciation, often dabbling in poetry, theatre, debate, elocution, and singing. Through Exemplar Strategic Solutions, a firm he co-founded, he has developed strategy and design for many brands and managed events like ‘Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Little Champs’ and ‘Jitendra Abhisheki Sangeet Mahotsav’. He founded Susang, a not-for-profit dedicated to art, music, and culture, which has revived Konkani poetry and music from 1950s. He is the organiser and curator of TEDxPanaji, an independently-organised TED event in Goa.
David De Souza
David De Souza has been a proponent of ‘De-Schooling’ during the 10 years he taught photography in six colleges of Mumbai University. He believes that school kills creativity. He calls himself an anti-fashion, fashion photographer. He started life as a Biochemist but a second-hand camera in the 1970s was like a talisman and he obediently followed its diktat. His inspiration has been books, literary, and visual, and his lifelong obsession to be the creator of a few. He lives in Moira, Goa since the last four years.
Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
Victor Rangel-Ribeiro (b. in Goa, 1925), first broke into print in Mumbai in 1946. Having lived under and survived the British and the Portuguese colonial empires, the 92-year-old author regards himself as one of the last of a dying breed: a pre-postcolonial writer. Victor left his heart behind in India when he migrated to the US in 1956: his stories almost always include Indian characters, either here at home, or in the diaspora, with interracial preconceptions driving the plots.
Victor’s fiction and books on music can be found in some of the major libraries of the West, including Princeton, Yale, Harvard, Oxford and Cambridge. A career that began 71 years ago is still ongoing. His latest collection, The Miscreant: Selected Stories, 1949-2016, published this year, will be followed next April by his biography of the artist Francis Newton Souza; a second novel is nearing completion
Antara Dev Sen
Antara Dev Sen is the founder editor of The Little Magazine, an independent journal of ideas and letters, and the first Indian magazine to focus on contemporary South Asian literature and offer it in English translation. Sen is also a literary critic and translator, a newspaper columnist and commentator on the media, politics and culture. She has edited several books including the TLM Short Stories from South Asia series. Earlier, Sen was Senior Editor of the Hindustan Times and the Indian Express in Delhi. She has also been a Reuters Fellow at Oxford University. Sen is associated with other media, literary, educational, and voluntary organisations in India and overseas. She lives in Delhi.
