6 - 8 December 2018 , Thu - Sat.
GALF 2018 : Speakers | Programme | Partners | Performances | Workshops | Exhibitions | Artwork | Press Release | Videos
Photo Gallery: Inaugural Day | Day 1 | Day 2
Sharmila Ribeiro
Sharmila Ribeiro is the author of Everyday Love: A Mother’s Guide to Healthy Cooking for Kids, winner of the World Gourmand Cookbook Awards for the Best Family Cookbook of 2018. It is a must-have book for parents of school-going children as well as for beginner cooks and families in general. Sharmila is an agricultural economist and mother of three growing boys. She is also the co-founder of 2 NGOs in the Himalayas that work with local producers on organic honey, silk and spices. She has spent the last few years evolving a range of tasty, healthy, easy-to-cook Indian and international recipes that have changed the way families eat and hopes that her book and website (www.sharmilacooksforkids.com) help other families begin the journey of making healthy, delicious meals too.
Chinmay Tumbe
Chinmay Tumbe is faculty member at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad and the 2018 Alfred D. Chandler Jr International Visiting Scholar in Business History at Harvard Business School. He works on migration, cities, firms and history. An alumnus of the London School of Economics and Political Science and the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, he has been a faculty member at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Hyderabad and was the 2013 Jean Monnet Fellow at the Migration Policy Centre, European University Institute, Florence, Italy. He has published widely on migration for a decade and has served on policymaking groups. India Moving is his first book.
Vasudhendra
Vasudhendra is a Kannada author and lives in Bangalore. He worked as a software professional for more than 20 years and now runs his own publication house, Chanda Pustaka, which publishes and encourages new writing in Kannada. He has also instituted the Chanda Pustaka Award which recognizes young short story writers. Vasudhendra is also associated with local support groups for LGBT individuals. The author of 15 books in Kannada that have sold over one lakh copies, he has won many literary awards, including the Kannada Sahitya Academy Book Prize. His award winning nammamma andre nangishta (I like my mother) has been reprinted 20 times. His book Mohanaswamy chronicles the life of a young queer man. The book has been translated into English, Spanish, Telugu, Malayalam and the Tamil, Marathi, and Hindi translations are in progress. Being a passionate hiker, he has climbed Mount Kilimanjaro of Tanzania and trekked to Kailash & Mansarovar of Tibet. World Cinema and Mahabharata are his other passions. He vouched not to watch television 18 years back and walks his words!
Asiya Zahoor
Asiya Zahoor teachers at a college in Kashmir. Asiya has studied Psycholinguistics and Literature at Oxford University and the University of Kashmir. Her area of interest and scholarship is the Diaspora, South-Asian mainly Kashmiri Literature, Psycholinguistics, and film. Asiya writes poetry and has curated a website Bol Bosh (www.bolbosh.net)
Pantaleão Fernandes
Pantaleão Fernandes is a Goa-based writer, photographer and ethnographer. His books include 100 Goan Experiences (2006); Goa Remembered (2011); Traditional Occupations of Goa (2015); and a children’s book Once Upon a Time in Goa (2015). His latest book Goa: Rare Portraits (2018) is a pictorial depiction of the tribal life of Goa. Pantaleão scours Goan villages, for hidden cultural stories which he tells with his short documentary films entitled ‘Untold stories from Goa’. He was recently conferred with an international award by the Instituto Felga I Gracias in Brazil for excellence for his contribution using photography towards the cause of preserving Goa’s art and culture. His photographs have been displayed at an exhibition ‘Goa – Fusao de Culturas’ at Lisbon.
Ramrao Wagh
Ramrao Wagh is a faculty member at the Department of Computer Science & Technology, Goa University. Well known in the field of computer science education through his contribution as a teacher, researcher and policy maker, he has contributed to curriculum design and modernization of teaching–learning methods. He is also the Director of Digital learning & Initiatives, Goa University and the UGC Swayam Coordinator for Goa University. He was until recently the Director of prestigious Visiting Research Professor Programme (VRPP) of Goa University. Ramrao has served on several high-level committees of the government and is active in professional, social and cultural fields. He is currently the chair of ACM Goa Professional Chapter. He has handled various issues related to grassroots development, prominent among them the movement for revival of Khazan (saline) land farming in Goa as the Convener of Khazan Action.
Albertina Almeida
Albertina Almeida is a lawyer, human rights activist, independent researcher and rights sensitiser. She holds a doctorate in law and teaches ‘Gender, Human Rights and Law’ for the MA in Women’s Studies programme at Goa University. She is also a member of the Board of Studies, Department of Women’s Studies, Goa University. Albertina engages and addresses meetings, symposia and workshops on social justice and rights issues. Among others, she is a Focal Point of the Feminist Law Programme of the Asia-Pacific Forum on Women Law and Development. She writes regularly for local periodicals and occasionally for the national media. Her writings can be accessed on the website of The Alzulaij Collective. She is the author of Tug and Tear: Dealing with Child Sexual Abuse (2008). Albertina has co-founded several rights initiatives and groups interrogating ‘development’, including Bailancho Saad, Citizens’ Initiatives for Communal Harmony, Saad Aangan, and SEZ Watch. She is also a legal consultant to various organizations working on gender and child rights issues, migrant concerns, transgender rights, and human rights. She has also been a part of official and civil society committees for advocacy and drafting of laws for women and children.
Chador Wangmo
Chador Wangmo is the celebrated author of Dema, the first superhero character in Bhutan. She has written ten illustrated books for children,  including The Flea and The Louse; Abhi, Memey and The Mosquito; Abhi, Memey and The Monkey, and The Three Friends; two novels for adults; and two chapter books for intermediate level. Although Chador’s work is mostly prose, she likes writing poems which have been well received in literary festivals conducted by FOSWAL at Delhi and Jaipur in India. Her poems have been translated into Nepali and published in various papers in Nepal. She has been awarded an honorary Doctorate in Literature by the Vikram Sheela Vidyapeeth, Sidharth Nagar, UP. She has also been awarded Sidhartha Tathagat Sansthan Sahitya award in recognition of her love for literature.
Mangala Anavekar
Mangala Anavekar (Dange) was born in Satara (Maharashtra) and later studied at Grant Medical Collage, Mumbai for a medical degree. She taught in medical collages in Pune University for five years, first at the Armed Forces Medical College (AFMC) and then at Pravara Medical College. She worked with the Krishnamurti Foundation India in Banaras for four years where she came in contact with several eminent people like the quantum physicist David Bhom whom Albert Einstein considered his ‘intellectual son’. The discussions between him and Jiddu Krishnamurti made her views completely rational and scientific. Her close contact with Achyut Patwardhan, the scholars from Kashi Sanskrit Vidyapeeth, and Professor Venerable Samdhong Rinpoche, the former prime minister of the Tibetan government-in-exile, and then the Director of Central University of Tibetan Studies, helped her study the ancient wisdom of the Vedas and Buddhism. She has wandered in Himalayas many times.
Shruti Debi
Shruti Debi is a literary agent based in New Delhi. The Debi Agency represents writers of literary fiction and quality non-fiction with an emphasis on transitioning their works across languages and mediums. Among her clients are Vivek Shanbhag (with Srinath Perur), whose internationally-acclaimed novel Ghachar Ghocharhas been translated into several languages around the world and in India; and Prayaag Akbar, whose debut novel Leila was acquired by streaming giant Netflix.
