6 - 8 December 2018 , Thu - Sat.
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Amita Kanekar
Amita Kanekar is a novelist, columnist, and an independent writer and researcher in architectural history. Her novel about the Buddha, A Spoke in the Wheel, was published by HarperCollins (2005) and republished by Navayana (2014). She has also written an architectural guidebook, The Portuguese Sea Forts of Goa, Vasai and Chaul (Deccan Heritage Foundation, 2015) and has published papers on architectural history. She also writes newspaper columns on issues of history, politics, and architecture. Amita teaches architectural history and theory at the Goa College of Architecture. Her second novel, Fear of Lions, about a rebellion during the late Mughal period, is to be published by Hachette.
David Gilmour
David Gilmour is a writer and historian. His books include prize-winning biographies of Rudyard Kipling, Lord Curzon and the Italian writer, Giuseppe di Lampedusa. He is also the author of The Ruling Caste: Imperial Loves in the Victorian Raj (2005), a study of the Indian Civil Service in the Victorian era, and, most recently. The British in India: Three Centuries of Ambition and Experience (2018). Curzon: Imperial Statesman (1994) won the Duff Cooper Prize; The Long Recessional: The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling (2002) won the Elizabeth Longford Prize; and The Last Leopard: A Life of Giuseppe di Lampedusa (1988) was the winner of the Marsh Biography Award. He has also written The Pursuit of Italy: A History of a Land, its Regions and their Peoples (2011), and several other books on Spain and the Middle East. David is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and lives in Oxfordshire.
Paro Anand
Paro Anand was the recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Bal Sahitya Puruskar Award 2017 for her book Wild Child, now published as Like Smoke with additional content. She has written books for children, young adults and adults. Recognized internationally and nationally, she headed the National Centre for Children’s Literature, has interacted with over three lakh people, primarily children in difficult circumstances, and runs a programme, Literature in Action. Paro holds a world record for helping over three thousand children make the world’s longest newspaper. Her book, No Guns at my Son’s Funeral (2005) was on the International Board on Books for Young People Honour List and is translated into German and Spanish. The Little Bird who held the Sky up with his Feet (2013) was on ‘1001 Books to Read Before You Grow Up’, an international gold standard of the world’s best children’s literature. BBC Hindi selected her on their 100 Women #100Women Project – a project highlighting the challenges and achievements of women in India. Her book Wingless has been performed nationally and internationally. She is also the co-author of Two (2017) with Swedish writer, Orjan Perrson​.Her latest book, The Other: Stories of Difference (2018), is a ground-breaking collection of stories dealing with sensitive issues. She has been awarded for her contribution to children’s literature by The Russian Centre for Science and Culture.
Salil Tripathi
Salil Tripathi is an award-winning journalist and writer whose books include Offence: The Hindu Case (Seagull), The Colonel Who Would Not Repent (Aleph), and Detours: Songs of the Open Road (Tranquebar). He is chair, Writers-in-Prison Committee at PEN International. Born in Bombay and educated at New Era School, Sydenham College, and later, Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth College in the US, Salil has been a correspondent in India and Singapore, and now lives in London. His awards include the Red Ink Award for human rights journalism from the Mumbai Press Club, Bastiat Award in the United States, and the Citibank Pan Asian Journalism Award in Hong Kong. His articles have appeared in publications around the world. He is working on a book on Gujaratis.
Ganesh Saili
Ganesh Saili was born and schooled in Mussoorie, Uttarakhand. He also taught English at the Post Graduate College. Folks say: ‘What he doesn’t know about Mussoorie isn’t worth knowing!’ His books are a record of the goings-on in the pleasure capital of the Raj. Having grown up in the hills, from an impressionable age, he has trekked the high mountains recording in words and pictures the magic of the mountains. His work has been published in periodicals, columns and journals; and translated into two-dozen languages. His latest book, Wanderings in the Garhwal Himalaya (2017) takes the reader to the hills in a clutch of twenty-two essays and two hundred pictures. Other books include Icing on the Landour Cake (2000); Ruskin: Our Enduring Bond (2004); Mussoorie Medley: Tales of Yesteryear (2010); The Doon Valley across the Years (2012); Ruskin Bond: The Mussoorie Years (2013); and Gupp and Gossip from the Hills (2013). Many accolades have come his way. In 1994, his tale of travel to the mystery lake of Roopkund won the Panorama Film Festival Award in Houston. He won the Sanghi Trophy in 1995 and the National Award in 1996.
Hanuman Kambli
Hanuman Kambli teaches art at the Goa College of Art. He is one of India’s foremost print makers and widely regarded as an outstanding artist, painter, and teacher. His works address his personal experiences of Indian mythology and philosophy. Hanuman enjoys an international reputation, and his works have been exhibited in major centres in India and abroad. He is the recipient of several awards and honours. He was a Fulbright Scholar at Western Michigan University (1999); an Artist-in-Residence at the Wimbledon School of Art (1994-95); Lincoln University (2003); and the Central TAFE, Western Australia (2005); and an International Visiting Scholar at the Montclair State University (2009). In 2012, he was conferred with the Rashtriya Swasti Samman (Ujjain, M.P.) for his consistent contributions in the field of visual art form; the Goan Achievers Awards by Navhind Times and Viva Goa for his contributions in the field of art and culture; and in 2013, the Government of Goa conferred its highest award for cultural excellence in the field of fine art. He was a juror for the Seventh Bharat Bhavan International Print-Art Biennial (2006) at Bhopal; and for the 53rd National Exhibition of Art organised by Lalit Kala Academy. Hanuman prepared the original artwork for the eighth edition of the Goa Arts & Literature Festival (GALF).
A. J. Thomas
A. J. Thomas is an Indian English poet, fiction writer and translator. He translates poetry, fiction, drama and non-fiction prose from Malayalam to English, and has more than 20 titles to his credit. He has M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees in English Literature (Translation Studies) from the School of Letters, M. G. University, Kottayam and earlier taught English in Benghazi University, Ajdabiya Branch, Libya. He is a Senior Fellow, Department of Culture, Govt. of India and Honorary Fellow, Department of Culture, Government of South Korea. His books include This Ancient Lyre (2005), The End of the Day (2011), Keshavan’s Lamentations, a translation of M. Mukundan’s master-novel Keshavante Vilapangal (2006). Other publications include Best of Indian Literature (2013) a four volume anthology of Indian literatures in 1600 pages, crown size, which he co-edited; and Like A Psalm....(2017), English translation of Perumpadavam Sreedharan’s iconic novel Oru Sankeertanam Pole which sold more than 300,000 copies over the last 25 years. His writings have appeared in several anthologies in international publications. A. J. Thomas is a recipient of the Katha Award, the AKMG Prize, and the Vodafone Crossword Award (2007). He has read his poems and made presentations in Biennial Symposia of Asia-Pacific Writers in Australia and Hong Kong and also in conferences in Thailand and Nepal.
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). Samar 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. Samar is an enthusiastic cook, and the fallout of his culinary experiences find their way into a cooking column for Mint Lounge.
Hune Margulies
Hune Margulies is an author, poet and university professor. Dr. Hune Margulies is the founder and director of The Martin Buber Institute for Dialogical Ecology. Margulies completed his Doctoral studies at Columbia University in New York. He holds a Masters Degree in Philosophy from Fordham University, as well as a Masters degree in Urbanism from Hunter College of the City University of New York. Dr. Margulies taught at various universities in New York and lectured at different universities and cultural institutions around the world. Margulies is the author of the book "will and grace: meditations on the dialogical philosophy of martin buber", published by Sense/Brill Publishers in October 2017. This book in the Philosophy of Religion and in Religious Philosophy, focuses on a critical observation of theological principles, beliefs and institutions through a perspective that combines insights from Dialogical Philosophy and some aspects of Zen Buddhism. The link to the book is: http://tinyurl.com/
Shreevatsa Nevatia
Shreevatsa Nevatia is the author of How to Travel Light: My Memories of Madness and Melancholia (2017) and works as an independent journalist. He was the editor of National Geographic Traveller India and has also worked for publications like Hindustan Times, Outlook and Mumbai Mirror. He lives in Mumbai and Kolkata.
