7 - 10 December 2017 , Thu - Sun.
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Jessica Faleiro
Jessica Faleiro is a Goa-based, adult third culture kid who writes fiction, poetry, essays and travel pieces.
Her poems, stories and non-fiction have appeared in Asia Literary Review, Indian Quarterly, IndiaCurrents, Coldnoon, Joao Roque Literary Journal, Rockland Lit, Mascara Literary Review, Muse India and the Times of India. She published her first novel ‘Afterlife: Ghost stories from Goa’ about the gothic, against a Goan backdrop, in 2012.
Jessica has an MA in Creative Writing from Kingston University, UK. She gives talks on creativity, and writing workshops to help improve craft. For more info, please visit her website: https://jessicafaleiro.wordpress.com/about/
Jason Keith Fernandes
Jason Keith Fernandes is a Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) post-doctoral scholar at the Centre for Research in Anthropology, Lisbon. Jason brings his diverse training in Law, the Sociology of Law, Culture Studies and Anthropology to bear on his study of the post-colonial condition, especially in Goa, and citizenship. His current interests include the Catholic engagement with modernity. Jason has been writing in various media ranging from the Goa to the international since 2006 for both popular and scholarly audiences. His writings are archived at www.dervishnotes.blogspot.com. He is also a member of the Al-Zulaij Collective.
Chitra Viraraghavan
Chitra Viraraghavan has worked in academic publishing, taught English, and is a book editor, school textbook writer, author of The Americans: A Novel (Fourth Estate, 2014), and co-editor of Madras On My Mind: A City in Stories (HarperCollins India, 2017). Delhi Thaatha: A Great Grand Story, a children’s book about a philosopher, is forthcoming from Seagull Books (2018). She is working on her second novel, a work of historical fiction.
Amita Kanekar
Amita Kanekar is an independent writer and researcher in architectural history, a novelist and columnist, and a member of The Al-Zulaij Collective. She is the author of a novel on the Buddha, A Spoke in the Wheel (2005, 2014). Kanekar has also written an architectural guidebook, The Portuguese Sea Forts of Goa, Vasai and Chaul (2015) and published papers on architectural history. She writes newspaper columns on issues of history, politics, and architecture. She is currently working on a novel set in the late Mughal period. Kanekar is also a member of the Social Justice Action Committee–Goa.
M Asaduddin
Mohd Asaduddin is an author, critic and translator in several languages. He is the former chair, Department of English, and Dean, Faculty of Humanities, Jamia Millia Islamia; and Director, Jamia Centenary History Project. He has been a Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence at Rutgers University; a Charles Wallace Trust Fellow at the University of East Anglia; and Vice Chair, Indian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (IACLALS). Among his many books are Premchand in World Languages (2016) and Filming Fiction: Tagore, Premchand and Ray (2012). Asaduddin has edited and substantially translated the entire corpus of Premchand’s short fiction into English in four volumes, which are being published by Penguin-Random House, India. He has received the Katha Award, Dr A K Ramanujan Award, Sahitya Akademi Award and Crossword Book Award for his translations.
Jayanta Kalita
Jayanta Kalita is a Delhi-based journalist and currently Associate Editor with ThePrint.in, a digital media start-up. He has been associated with a number of media organisations in the past, including The Times of India, Mail Today and Hindustan Times as well as the wire agency IANS. An MA in English literature from the University of Delhi, Kalita is an alumnus of the prestigious Asian College of Journalism, Chennai. He has varied interests ranging from peace and conflict studies, environment and health to politics and literature. His next project, a work of fiction, will be centred around the complex socio-political dynamics of India’s Northeast. A connoisseur of ethnic food and beverages, Kalita loves to explore new places.
Pankaj Sekhsaria
Pankaj Sekhsaria is the author of four books on the islands, the most recent of which include Islands in Flux: The Andaman and Nicobar Story (2017), a collection of two decades of his journalistic writings on the environment, wildlife conservation, development and indigenous communities. His debut novel The Last Wave (2014) is deeply embedded in the history, ecology and people of the islands. Sekhsaria is a member of the environmental action group Kalpavriksh where he works on issues of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and also edits the bi-monthly newsletter - the Protected Area Update. Sekhsaria has degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Mass Communication and recently earned a PhD in Science and Technology Studies (STS), Maastricht University. He is currently Senior Project Scientist at the DST-Centre for Policy Research, Department of Humanities and Social Science, IIT-Delhi.
Anthony Gomes
Anthony Gomes (also known as Antonio Gomes), MD, FACC, FAHA, is a native of Goa. He is a Professor of Cardiology and Director of the Cardiac Electrophysiology Consultative Service, and Senior Consultant, The Mount Sinai Medical Center, NYC. Gomes has authored more than 170 original scientific publications, more than 10 chapters in national/international textbooks of Cardiology, and a textbook in Cardiology, Signal Averaged Electrocardiography (1993). He has also published articles in the humanities and is the author of two books of poetry: Visions from Grymes Hill (1994); and Mirrored Reflections: A Collection of Poems (2013); and a novel, The Sting of Peppercorns (2010).
Ashley D'Mello
Ashley D'Mello spent over 30 years in daily journalism, 25 of them with the Times of India. He has been a media fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge University (2003); and a visiting scholar at the School of Journalism, University of California at Berkeley (2012-2014). In recent years, D’Mello has written primarily on city and community issues. He has been especially interested in writing on the urban transformations in Mumbai. He has also been a Times correspondent for Goa (1992-1994) and written at length on coalition politics and political instability, as also environmental problems thrown up by the construction of the Konkan Railway and tourism. He was the first to draw attention to the anti-Semitic tone of the feast of St Joao.
Anthony M Barreto
Anthony M Barreto aka Tony Martin, holds post graduate degrees in English literature and Philosophy, and teaches English at SS Angle Higher Secondary School (1999- ). He has written extensively for local dailies for over 15 years and was a Sub-Editor with The Navhind Times, where he also wrote regular columns KrackShots and Off Course. His co-authored book, Canacona: The Last Frontier (with F N Nadaf), was published by the Department of Official Languages, Government of Goa, in 2012. His compilation Life is Beautiful (2006) has sold over 30,000 copies. Barreto’s other publications are It’s A Funny World (1994); Naked Goa (2003); The Practical English Teacher (2001); and Sinful Goa: Paradise in Peril (2013). He initiated the turtle conservation project at Galgibaga Beach along with Harvey D’Souza of Southern Bird Wing in 1998.
