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Jose Lourenco
Jose Lourenco's short fiction, poetry, translations and essays in Konkani and English have appeared in various publications. He is also the author of The Parish Churches of Goa, a study of façade architecture. His publishing firm Amazing Goa Publications experiments with innovative products for education and information. He is presently the Vice-President of Goa Konkani Akademi
Saima Afreen
Saima Afreen is a Features journalist with The New Indian Express. Her poems have been featured in The McNeese Review, The Nassau Review, The Foliate Oak Literary Magazine, Friends Journal, Shot Glass Journal, Visual Verse, Open Road Review and have been part of several prestigious anthologies. She received ‘The Nassau Review Writer Award in Poetry’, 2016 by Nassau Community College, USA. She’s an art and food critic. She’s currently working on the manuscript of her first poetry collection.
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
Fatima M Noronha
Fatima M Noronha’s work has featured in national and regional publications in India, as well as overseas, online and on air. Born in Lisbon, having called many places home, she has returned to her roots in Goa. Stray Mango Branches, a collection of vignettes of life in Goa, appeared in 2013.
http://tclj.toasted-cheese.com/tag/fatima-m-noronha/
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7123824.Fatima_M_Noronha
Ben Judah
Judah began his career in Russia as a reporter for Reuters in Moscow, travelling widely in Russia and the former Soviet Union. As a conflict reporter he covered the 2008 Russo-Georgian War, the 2010 Kyrgyz Revolution and the 2011 Tunisian Revolution. Since 2008 he has been a regular contributor to Standpoint (magazine) reporting extensively from the Caucasus, Siberia, Central Asia and Xinjiang.
In 2010 he joined the European Council on Foreign Relations, a think-tank, as a Policy Fellow researching Vladimir Putin and Russian politics. His report Dealing With A Post-BRIC Russia was reviewed in the Financial Times by John Lloyd, who summarized it as arguing "Russia is no longer to be counted with Brazil, India and China a rapidly growing state." In 2013 he was a Visiting Fellow at the European Stability Initiative in Istanbul, researching Russo-Turkish relations.
His first book Fragile Empire (2013), a study of Vladimir Putin's Russia, was published by Yale University Press. In a review the Economist said "he shuttles to and fro across Russia's vast terrain, finding criminals, liars, fascists and crooked politicians, as well as the occasional saintly figure." Fragile Empire was chosen by Gideon Rachman as one of the Financial Times summer books of the year 2013, who called it "a beautifully written and very lively study of Russia that argues that the political order created by Vladimir Putin is stagnating." John Browne, Baron Browne of Madingley, former chief executive of BP, told the Financial Times the book was top of his summer reading list. Perry Anderson praised the book as "a fine analysis of the nature and prospects of the Moscow opposition."
Judah has since become a regular columnist on Russian affairs and London's role as a money laundering centre, writing in frequently in The New York Times, the Financial Times and The Sunday Times. He is a regular guest on CNN, BBC NEWS and Channel 4 News and is a contributing writer for Politico Europe where he reports on Britain. In 2016 he was shortlisted for Feature Writer Of The Year at the British Press Awards.
His second book This Is London (2016) was published by Picador. The poet Blake Morrison, reviewing the book for The Guardian writes that this "epic account of contemporary London is ... motivated by a desire to show our capital in its true (new) colours: as a megacity of global migrants, some of them rich, most of them poor, few of them happy with their lot." John Gapper praised the book in the Financial Times saying "it recalls the journalism of Orwell," as did Rachel Cooke in the New Statesman who said "every MP should be given a copy immediately. On every page lies an uncomfortable truth, in every paragraph sheer horror. It is a book that demonstrably improves the eyesight. Read it, and the streets will look different: I guarantee it."
Nitin Sathe
Commissioned into the helicopter stream of the IAF in 1984, Nitin Sathe has flown extensively in India and abroad on various types of missions. Presently he is involved in selection of the future officers of the Armed Forces. Nitin Sathe is into adventure, sports and writing for leisure.
He has authored two books. In the first one titled “A few Good Men and the Angry Sea” he narrates the events during and post the Tsunami of December 2004 showcasing the Armed Forces capabilities in reviving the destroyed Air Base and the Island at Car Nicobar. His second book titled ‘Born to Fly’ has recently been released at the hands of the Defence Minister at Delhi on the 24th of October. In this biography, he has written about the life of a quadriplegic pilot of the IAF- Fg Offr MP Anil Kumar, who, with sheer determination, became an icon and inspiration for many.
http://www.lancerpublishers.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=1471
http://www.rediff.com/news/interview/a-few-good-men-and-the-angry-sea-how-the-iaf-regained-a-lost-paradise/20150527.htm
Jugneeta Sudan
Jugneeta Sudan has led a peripatetic life. Her rootlessness roots her. She keeps herself occupied with classical literature in dialogue with music, art, philosophy, theology, history and cinema. Her non-fiction writing stems from her preoccupations and book reading activity. She is learning to live a poetic life with a marvelous kind of negative capability.
http://www.navhindtimes.in/cruzos-homecoming/
http://www.navhindtimes.in/dalrymples-poetic-frames/
http://www.navhindtimes.in/the-impossible-indian-gandhi-and-the-temptation-of-violence/
Josh Steinbauer
Josh Steinbauer is an award-winning filmmaker living in New York City. He has three
films currently in festivals: Cap’n Flapjack, Paper Stars and Matter
Out Of Place. Many of his short films (including poetry videos with Abeer Hoque) can be seen
here: vimeo.com/joshs
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
Suresh Rituparna
Suresh Rituparna , born in 1949 is an M.A., M.litt. , Ph.D. in Hindi Literature from Delhi University, India . He has published about 20 books published including two collections of poetry.
He has worked as a lecturer in Hindu College ,Delhi University between 1971 to 2002. He also served as a diplomat in Trinidad; Professor in Mauritius on JawaharLal Nehru chair of Indian Studies; and Visiting Professor Of Hindi in Tokyo University of Foreign Studies , Japan, between 2002 to 2012. At present he is Director at K.K.Birla Foundation,New Delhi.
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.
