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Prerna Singh Bindra
Prerna Singh Bindra has been at the forefront of the battle to conserve India’s wildlife for over a decade. She was a member of India’s National Board for Wildlife and its core Standing Committee (2010-13). She has also served on Uttarakhand’s State Board for Wildlife. Prerna’s primary focus is protecting wildlife habitats and critically endangered species. She is a widely published author with over 1,500 pieces on nature and wildlife. Prerna’s book The Vanishing: India’s Wildlife Crisis published by Penguin India was released in June 2017. Her other release this year is a gorgeously illustrated book for children When I Grow up I Want to be a Tiger. Prerna is a Chevening Gurukul Fellow and was awarded the International Visitor Leadership Programme. Prerna lives in Gurgaon but her heart, she says, resides in the forest.
Sathya Saran
Sathya Saran has been a journalist for over three decades. She edited Femina for 12 years during which time the magazine became a Superbrand. She was also part of the core team of the Femina Miss India Contest which saw two Miss Universe and four Miss World winners from India during her tenure.
After leaving Femina, Sathya Saran started the path breaking Me magazine for DNA.
Author of many books Sathya has a book of short stories titled The Dark Side as well as the best-selling and critically acclaimed biographies on Guru Dutt, and SD Burman.
Baat Niklegi toh Phir The Life and Music of Jagjit Singh is her latest published biography.
As interesting is the fact that all three books have been adapted by the author into hour long multi-media presentations.
Her next book How to look like Miss India is due for release in January 2018.
Mathew Staunton
Mathew Staunton is a printing historian, printmaker, teacher, and publisher. Originally from Coolock in Dublin, he divides his time between research in Irish history, teaching in a design school in Paris, printing on a small press at the bottom of his garden, and running The Onslaught Press in Oxford, UK. He has edited, designed or illustrated more than 50 books, mostly in the fields of poetry and haiku.
Shazia Omar
Shazia Omar is a yogini, an activist and a writer. She completed her Masters in Social Psychology at LSE, UK, and her undergrad at Dartmouth College, USA. She is dedicated to empowering destitute women and currently works at UNDP on the social protection policy of Bangladesh. She has written two novels, Like a Diamond in the Sky and Dark Diamond, a mind-body- spirit book, Intentional Smile, and a play, Karma Coffee. She writes a column, Kundalini Rising, in the Daily Star. www.shaziaomar.com
Anuradha Roy
Anuradha Roy's latest book, Sleeping on Jupiter, won the DSC Prize for Fiction 2016 and was nominated for the Man Booker prize 2015. She won the Economist Crossword Prize for her second novel, The Folded Earth. Her first novel, An Atlas of Impossible Longing, has been widely translated and was picked as one of the Best Books of the Year by the Washington Post and the Seattle Times. She works as a designer at Permanent Black, an independent press which she runs with her husband, Rukun Advani. She lives in Ranikhet, Uttarakhand.
Sumana Roy
Sumana Roy's first book, How I Became a Tree, a work of non-fiction, was published in India in February. Her poems and essays have appeared in Granta, Guernica, LARB, Drunken Boat, the Prairie Schooner, Berfrois, and other journals. She lives in Siliguri in India.
Utpal Baruah
Utpal Baruah is a popular writer in Assamese language. He began his amateur writing with short stories and subsequently diversified his interest into creative and informative literature. He earned a reputation as a writer of the popular fortnightly Assamese magazine “Prantik” on contemporary issues. His first book “Suryo Uthaa Deshor Poraa Suryo Dubaa Desholoi”, an anthology of articles and essays published in 2012 where he included eleven articles written on Goa. He translated several Konkani stories written by Mr. Damodar Mouzo into Assamese Language. His short story collection “Prabhatdar Viswaprem” is getting published in December, 2017. A comic character “Chandrapeha” he created, a village folk with a great sense of humor received wide acceptance in social media.
Bama Susairaj
Bama is a Dalit writer was born in 1957, at Puthupatty, Tamilnadu, India. Fighting impossible odds she went through school and college and trained as a teacher who imparts values aimed at building self- esteem, and social consciousness. Besides KARUKKU(1992), her first novel, she has published SANGATHI(1994), KISUMBUKKARAN (1996), VANMAM (2002), ORU THATHAVUM ERUMAYUM (2004), KONDATTAM (2009), and MANUSHI (2011) in Tamil. Both novels and through her several articles she hopes to focus on themes related to caste domination and social discrimination. Her works have been translated into English, French Telugu, Kannada Malayalam and Gujarathi. Bama’s significant contribution is that through the act of writing , she not only transgresses caste boundaries, she also demolishes the conventional exclusions of language and genre.
Bama who spent some years in a convent as a nun, is the most celebrated contemporary Dalit woman writer. She has been at the forefront of Dalit literary activism and has given Dalit aesthetics a visibility it had previously lacked in the literary campus of India. In 2001, the English translation of KARUKKU,( translated by Lakshmi Holmstrong ) won the Cross word prize establishing her as a distinct voice in Dalit literature.
G. N. Devy
G. N. Devy, Chair, People's Linguistic Survey of India
Founder of Bhasha Research and Publication Centre , Baroda and Adivasi Academy, Tejgadh
Writes in three languages-- English, Marathi and Gujarati.
Has received several awards and fellowships.
Padmashri (2014)
Major Books: The Crisis Within (Aleph, 2017), G N Devy Reader ( Orient Blackswan, 2008), Nomad Called Thief ( Orient Blackswan, 2006), After Amnesia (Orient Longman, 1992), Painted Words ( Penguin, 2002), Knowling Differently ( Routledge, 2010)
Chief Editor, 50 Volumes of The People's Linguistic Survey of India
Vanaprastha (in Marathi, Padmagandha)
Supriya Nair
Supriya Nair is a journalist from Bombay. She is a sports columnist for Mumbai Mirror and editor of the anthology The Caravan Book Of Profiles. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Nhew Republic, Vogue and Wisden.
