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P.Sivakami
P.Sivakami is a prolific and a well known Tamil writer. She has authored five novels , more than hundred short stories ,essays and poems. Several of her works have been translated into English and published by leading publishers. Formerly in the IAS, she took voluntary retirement in 2008 to work for the poor and disadvantaged sections of the society. She is an activist and her areas of activism are towards the upliftment and empowerment of dalits, women, tribes and transgender. She edits a literary magazine titled Pudhiya Kodangi from 1995 for the benefit of the subaltern and runs a political party by name Samuga Samatua Padai from 2009.
https://dalitskerala.wordpress.com/2010/03/05/most-gender-atrocities-against-dalit-women-p-sivakami/
http://www.siliconindia.com/shownews/Most_gender_atrocities_against_Dalit_women_P_Sivakami-nid-65931-cid-1.html
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2005/03/19/people/p-sivakami/#.WBnED_l97IU
Landeg White
Landeg White works in retirement in Portugal. His books range between literary criticism, history, ethography, fiction, and nine collections of poetry, most recently Living in the Delta: New & Collected Poems, 2015. His verse translation of The LusÃads (Oxford World's Classics) won the TLS translation prize for 1998. His verse translation of The Collected Lyric Poems of Camões (Princeton) appeared in 2008. (www. landegwhite.com)
http://landegwhite.com/
https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/185912.Landeg_White
Faisal Devji
Faisal Devji is Reader in Indian History at the University of Oxford and Fellow of St. Antony's College. He is the author of four books, Landscapes of the Jihad (2005), The Terrorist in Search of Humanity (2009), The Impossible Indian: Gandhi and the Temptation of Violence (2012) and Muslim Zion: Pakistan as a Political Idea (2013).
http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674066724
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2013/11/01/book-review-muslim-zion-pakistan-as-a-political-idea/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/oct/17/alqaida.academicexperts
http://www.syahee.com/page/faisal-devji
Nabina Das
Nabina Das has two poetry collections "Blue Vessel" and "Into the Migrant City", a short story collection "The House of Twining Roses: Stories of the Mapped and the Unmapped", and a novel "Footprints in the Bajra". She teaches creative writing. A 2015-16 Commonwealth Feature Writer, a 2012 Charles Wallace Fellow, and a 2012 Lavanya Sankaran Fellow at Sangam House. Nabina has dabbled in street theater and folk and Hindustani music, and most recently, is co-editor of "40 under 40: an anthology or Post-Globalisation Poetry".
https://northeastreview.wordpress.com/2014/04/15/nabina-interview/
http://openroadreview.com/interview-nabina-das-kulpreet-yadav/
http://www.sunday-guardian.com/bookbeat/at-home-in-the-world-the-many-lives-of-nabina-das
http://www.syahee.com/page/nabina-das
Paresh Tiwari
Paresh Tiwari likes to paint pictures with words and compose poetry with paint. His works which include haiku, haibun, tanka free form poetry and fiction have been published internationally in various reputed journals, and print anthologies. His first collection of poetry ‘An inch of sky’ was published in the winter of 2014 and is available on amazon.com
Jerry Pinto
Jerry Pinto is the author of Em and the Big Hoom (winner of the Hindu Lit for Life Prize, the Crossword Award for Fiction, and the Windham-Campbell Award administered by the Beinecke Library at Yale University) and Helen: the life and times of a Bollywood H-Bomb (winner of the National Award for the Best Book on Cinema). He teaches journalism at the Sophia Polytechnic's SCM post-graduate media course in Mumbai (scmsophia.com). (Photo credit : Ashima Narain)
https://thehungryreader.wordpress.com/2012/05/10/an-interview-with-jerry-pinto/
http://www.thehindu.com/books/books-authors/author-jerry-pinto-wins-windhamcampbell-prize/article8301430.ece
http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/21/a-conversation-with-author-jerry-pinto/?_r=0
http://theladiesfinger.com/malika-amar-shaikh-memoir/
Samhita Arni
Samhita Arni is the author and illustrator of The Mahabharata - A Child's View, Tara Books, 1996 and, in collaboration with Moyna Chitrakar, created the New York Times bestselling graphic novel Sita's Ramayana, Tara Books, 2011. Her third book, The Missing Queen, 2013, was published jointly by Zubaan and Penguin. Samhita was a screen writer on the feature film Good Morning Karachi and worked as the head scriptwriter on The Defenders, a TV show in Kabul, Afghanistan. She was the 2014 writer-in-residence at the FIND - India Europe Foundation for New Dialogues, and has been awarded the 2015 FIND Foundation grant. Earlier in 2015, Samhita was a British Council - Charles Wallace India Trust Writing Fellow at the University of Kent.
https://venetiaansell.wordpress.com/2010/07/01/searching-for-sita/
http://www.thehindu.com/books/in-search-of-sita/article4435293.ece
http://www.saffrontree.org/2011/11/chat-with-samhita-arni.html
http://www.syahee.com/page/samhita-arni
Nirmala Govindarajan
Nirmala Govindarajan is the author of The Community Catalyst – a novel inspired by the life
experiences of a civil servant. She has earlier co-authored the book Mind Blogs 1.0. She worked as a
full time journalist with leading publications till she quit in 2013 to involve herself further in writing
books and documenting for the social sector. Presently a freelance journalist who writes for leading
publications on literature, art and culture, Nirmala dabbles in theatre and western piano/violin as well.
She has been involved in literary activities, has curated and co-directed the debut Times of India
Literary Carnival, Bangalore in January 2014. More recently, in 2016, Nirmala has debuted the
Literary Lounge sessions for British Council, opening up avenues for insights and discussions on the
Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction as well as the Man Booker titles for the year.
Mahabaleshwar Sail
Mahabaleshwar Sail is an eminent Konkani writer based in Goa. His stories successfully encapsulate experiences of living in various social strata through his novels Khol Khol Moolan, Adrista, Aranyakand, Hanvtthan, Yug Sanvar and more. Kali Ganga is one of his highly acclaimed novels, which has a river as its protagonist. Sail's novels consistently showcase a rare blend of the various dialects of Konkani used right from Pedne in North Goa, to Karwar to the South of Goa, and also the Konkani dialect found in Cochin, Kerala. He received the Sahitya Akademi award for his short story collection Tarangam in 1993, but his broad, sweeping style eddying into numerous subplots and drawing deeply from dialect and folklore and indigenous religious practices is better suited to the novels. Having travelled extensively in India and abroad, owing to his induction in the armed forces, Sails uses his experiences as inspiration for his books, which are quite unique to the genre of Konkani fiction. One of his short stories had been made into a film called Pelthadcho Manis by noted Director, Lakshmikant Motegaonkar. The film won the Critic's Award at the Toronto Film Festival. He has been conferred with Sahitya Academy award (1993), Dr. T.M.A. Pai Award (1997), Goa Kala Academy (1989 and 1996), Katha Award (2007), Cultural Award of Goa Government (2006) and Literary Award of Goa Government (2007). He also won the Vimla V. Pai Vishwa Konkani Sahitya Puraskar 2010 for his novel Hautan.
Rachna Chawla
Rachna Chawla is a management consultant and coach with a secret wish to spend life lying on a beach with a book in hand and my Labrador, Elmo, by her side, she instead spends her days at work. Her evenings and weekends are spent travelling, trying to write, and taking up women’s issues as a volunteer. Her two teenaged kids continually encourage her to face her fears and to try new things. They also appreciate her cooking skills and think her attempt at writing is ‘pretty cool’.
The International Centre Goa, Goa Writers Group and Goa 1556 co-organised the Book Release of "From Mind to Keyboard" A collection of essays by writers of their journey(s) edited by Sheela Jaywant on 9th July 2016.
The International Centre Goa and Goa Writers Group co - organised the Book Reading & Discussion of "Guru Nanak, the Thinker and the Poet" edited by Astri Ghosh on 13th August 2016.
Department of English, Goa University in collaboration with Institute Menezes Braganza and The International Centre Goa hosted Shakespeare Festival on 14th & 15th October 2016 at at Institute Menezes Braganza Hall, Panaji - Goa.
The International Centre Goa and Goa Writers Group in association with Goa University co-organised a lecture on "Rabindranath Tagore's Photographic Self Presentations and Imaging of the Body in his paintings" by Prof. Raman Siva Kumar, internationally noted contemporary Indian art historian, art critic and curator and Mario Miranda Chair Professor in Art, Painting and Illustrative Art and Cartooning Goa University on 15th October 2016.
