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Ivan Arthur
Ivan Arthur is a former National Creative Director of Hindustan Thompson Associates (HTA), now J Walter Thomson (JWT) India. He is the author of A Village Dies: Your Invitation to a Memorable Funeral (2016); Brands Under Fire (with Kurien Mathews) (2009), a book of case studies in marketing; Pavement Prayers: Book of Prayers (2008), a work of theological fiction, a novel in the form of prayers; Once More Upon a Time (1998), a biography of industrialist P J Menezes; Jossie (2013); and The Fourteen Stations (1986), monologues on the visit of Pope John Paul II to India. Arthur is a three-time awardee of the Global WPP Atticus Awards for original writing and was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the Communication Arts Guild of India.
Wendell Rodricks
Wendell Rodricks is an internationally-acclaimed designer and author. His first collection from Goa earned him the title ‘Guru of Minimalism’. His unique garments have been displayed at major fashion events. In 2010, he revived the weaving of the traditional Goan Kunbi Sari and identified and trained weavers in the use of sari looms. Rodricks is the author of Moda Goa: History and Style (2012); The Green Room (2012); and Poskem (2017). He has been honoured by the All India Konkani Parishad; bestowed the Rainbow Warrior Award by Kashish Film Festival; and conferred the distinction of Knight in the Order of Arts and Letters (Chevalier de l'Ordre National des Arts et Lettres) by The Ministry of Culture and Communication of France. In 2014, Rodricks was awarded the Padma Shri.
Mustansir Dalvi
Mustansir Dalvi is a poet and translator, and teaches architecture. Brouhahas of Cocks (2013) is his first book of poems in English. Dalvi's poems are translated into French, Croatian, and Marathi. His 2012 English translation of Muhammad Iqbal's Shikwa and Jawaab-e-Shikwa from the Urdu, Taking Issue and Allah's Answer, is described as 'insolent and heretical'. The book was Runner-Up for Best Translation for 2012 at the Muse India National Literary Awards. His translations of the Sufi mystic poet Rahim are included in Arundhati Subramanium edited Eating God: An Anthology of Bhakti Poetry (2014). In Struggles with Imagined Gods (2014), Dalvi translated poems of the noted Marathi poet Hemant Divate. He is currently editing (with Sampurna Chattarji) a book of the collected translations (by Dilip Chitre, Sarabjeet Garcha and Mustansir Dalvi) of Hemant Divate’s Marathi poetry.
Ankita Verma Datta
Ankita Verma Datta is an Economics graduate from Mumbai University and is trained in advertising communication and marketing at the Xavier Institute of Management/Communication. She spent more than a decade in the advertising industry, handling a wide range of clients from finance, insurance, education, food industry, and also government sector and political campaigns, before starting her own communications consultancy in 2003. Apart from marketing and advertising, Datta has interests in various other fields, including curating antique Portuguese houses in Goa and ‘hobby-breeding’ the exotic dog breed of Tibetan Mastiffs. An ardent nature and animal lover, she spends her time between Mumbai, Lonavala, and Goa. Her debut novel Trust Me Not was published recently.
Prasenjit K Basu
Prasenjit K Basu is the author of Asia Reborn: A Continent’s Rise from the Ravages of Colonialism and War to a New Dynamism (2017). He runs REAL-Economics, a Singapore-based economic consultancy and has held senior research economist positions with Credit Suisse First Boston, Daiwa Securities and elsewhere. Prasenjit has appeared regularly as an independent commentator on the BBC, Channel News Asia, CNBC, Zee Business and NDTV-Profit, and written op-eds for Financial Times, International New York Times, New Straits Times, The Statesman, India Today and others. He studied economics at St Stephen’s College, Delhi, after which he obtained a dual Master’s degree in International Relations and Public Administration, University of Pennsylvania. He is the president of Singapore's India Club and Tagore Society.
Edwin Thumboo
Emeritus Professor and Professorial Fellow (National University of Singapore), Edwin Thumboo has been involved in Singapore’s literary developments since 1951 as poet, critic, anthologiser, and arts administrator. His initiatives include the Creative Arts Programme, National Poetry Festival, and what has become the Singapore Writers Festival. Word-Gate, his seventh book of poems, was published in 2013.
http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/poetry/words.html
http://shop.epigrambooks.sg/blogs/news/18436355-interview-with-prof-edwin-thumboo
https://kitaab.org/2014/02/09/interview-edwin-thumboo-in-conversation-with-g-s-p-rao/
Neeta Raghunath Torne
Neeta Raghunath Torne is a well-known poet and writer. She has excelled in the field of literature through her poems, articles, and other writings. An Associate Professor at SSA, Government College, Pernem (Goa), her published work includes Ek Oll Kavitechi (2011) and Jagtana… (2013) while leaving (a multilingual way of expression), a collection of multilingual poems translated in three different languages Konkani, Hindi and English (also translated into Kannada by Mohan Habbu in 2016). She won the Kavi B Award (2012); the Kavi Narendra Bodke Smruti Puraskar (2012); and the Kavita Shree Award (2014) by Ankur Sahitya Akola. She has presented several research papers at various seminars and conferences in Goa and elsewhere in the country.
Samar Halarnkar
Samar Halarnkar is the editor of Indiaspend.org, a data-driven, public-interest journalism non-profit. He is the author of Nirvana Under the Rain Tree (2002), an early chronicle of India’s internet revolution, and A Married Man’s Guide to Creative Cooking: And Other Dubious Adventures (2013). Halarnkar has been a visiting lecturer at the University of California-Berkeley and a fellow at the Nieman Foundation, Harvard University. A journalist for 27 years, his last full-time job was Managing Editor of the Hindustan Times. He also writes for Scroll, the Hindustan Times and the New York Times. Halarnkar is an enthusiastic cook, and the fallout of his culinary experiences find their way into a cooking column for Mint Lounge.
Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
Victor Rangel-Ribeiro (b. in Goa, 1925), first broke into print in Mumbai in 1946. Having lived under and survived the British and the Portuguese colonial empires, the 92-year-old author regards himself as one of the last of a dying breed: a pre-postcolonial writer. Victor left his heart behind in India when he migrated to the US in 1956: his stories almost always include Indian characters, either here at home, or in the diaspora, with interracial preconceptions driving the plots.
Victor’s fiction and books on music can be found in some of the major libraries of the West, including Princeton, Yale, Harvard, Oxford and Cambridge. A career that began 71 years ago is still ongoing. His latest collection, The Miscreant: Selected Stories, 1949-2016, published this year, will be followed next April by his biography of the artist Francis Newton Souza; a second novel is nearing completion
Shelly Bhoil
Shelly Bhoil lives in India and Brazil. In addition to her debut poetry book An Ember from Her Pyre (2016), she has published academic papers and poetry in over two dozen books and journals. Bhoil brought out, with Tsering Shakya, the Muse India Edition of Tibetan Writings in English (2014). Her forthcoming publications include two co-edited volumes: Resistant Hybridities: Tibetan Narratives in Exile (2018) and Negotiating Dispossession: Tibetan Subjectivties on a Global Stage (2018). Bhoil has received Commendation Prize in All India Poetry Competition 2016, Third Prize in Rabindranath Tagore International Poetry Prize 2016, first place in Tahoe Safe Alliance Writing Contest 2011, and honourable mention in FLEFF Checkpoint Story Contest 2011, Ithaca University.
