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Rana Ayyub
Rana Ayyub, 33 is a political affairs and investigative journalist and has recently self published her best selling book Gujarat Files. Rana in her decade long career in journalism has worked with top news channels in the country and is a former editor with Tehelka.
She lives between Mumbai and Delhi and is now an independent journalist who is a regular contributor to NDTV , Huffington Post and Outlook besides appearing on various international shows as a current affairs analyst. Her investigation on the fake encounters in Gujarat not just sent the first serving home minister of a state behind bars but also got her the coveted Sanskriti award for excellence in journalism in 2010.In the year 2011 she was named as the 50 most influential Muslims in post independent India by a leading tabloid.
Vivek Shanbhag
Vivek Shanbhag writes in Kannada. He has published five short story collections, three novels and two plays, and has edited two anthologies, one of them in English. For 7 years from 2005 to 2012, he published and edited the literary journal Desha Kaala. His acclaimed novel Ghachar Ghochar was published in English translation in 2015. He was a Fall 2016 resident at the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. An engineer by training, Vivek Shanbhag lives in Bangalore.
Avijit Mukul Kishore
Avijit Mukul Kishore is a film-maker and cinematographer based in Mumbai. He works in various genres of film and video making, is actively involved in art, cinema and cultural pedagogy and works as a curator of film programmes. He also works with visual artists as a collaborator on installation art projects. His films include 'Nostalgia for the Future', 'Electric Shadows - Journeys in Image-making', 'To Let the World In', 'Vertical City', 'Certified Universal' and 'Snapshots from a Family Album'.
Ryan Lobo
Ryan Lobo is an award winning filmmaker and photographer. He is the author of the work of literary fiction “Mr. Iyer Goes to War” to be released by Bloomsbury UK in November 2016. In 2009 Ryan spoke at the TED conference about storytelling with photography to a standing ovation.
Ryan owns Mad Monitor Productions, a film and photo Production Company based in Bangalore, India. He has worked as a producer and cinematographer for more than 80 film projects for National Geographic Channel, Discovery Channel, OWN and other clients, including shooting undercover for the Emmy-nominated film Child Slaves of India, producing several films for Oprah Winfrey and several film projects in conflict zones like Iraq, Liberia and Afghanistan. Ryan Lobo has co-produced the critically acclaimed 2011 Sundance film festival award winning film, “The Redemption of General Butt naked”, the story of General Butt Naked, a former African warlord who terrorized Liberia with his child soldiers. The film won for best cinematography at the Sundance film festival in 2011 and was nominated for best feature length documentary film. He has produced episodes for the OWN series ‘Belief’ on the Kumbh Mela, Jain initiation and Holi. He currently shoots various film and photography projects for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and for the C&A foundation.
His photographs and writing have been featured in numerous magazines like GEO, Tehelka, Bidoun, The Caravan, National Geographic, the Boston review, Chimurenga, Onzeweruld, the Wall Street Journal and others. As an artist, Ryan’s limited edition photographs have been exhibited all over the world and are present in many collections. As a writer Ryan has produced the work “War and Forgiveness” from his travels in Iraq, Afghanistan and Liberia. His photographs from supermax American prisons have been used in the book “Torture and the War on Terror” by polish philosopher Tzevatan Todorov.
Ryan Lobo is the founder trustee of “The Sunbird Trust” which works towards ensuring education for children in insurgency affected areas of North Eastern India with the intention of bringing peace to conflict areas via education.
Sushila Sawant Mendes
Sushila Sawant Mendes has a doctorate in history from Goa University. For the past 26 years, she has been the head of the Department of History at the Government College of Arts, Science and Commerce, Quepem in Goa, where she worked as Vice Principal for two terms. Her interest in history has been life-long, while her focus on political consciousness began during her years as a front ranking student activist. This preoccupation led her to research the impact of Luis de Menezes Braganca on Goa’s anti-colonial struggle. She presents papers regularly at state and national seminars, many of which have found a place in books on the history of Goa. Ms. Sawant Mendes is a trustee of the Manovikas Public Charitable Trust. She is also a trustee of Silver Star Appeal (India), a foundation devoted to awareness of diabetes. She is widely travelled across the country as well as Europe.
Kornelia Santoro
German Writer Kornelia Santoro follows the cutting edge of food knowledge since teenage years. After completing her education as a certified journalist, she worked for a decade as news editor for radio and political journalist for a newspaper in Bavaria. She also coached young journalists in Poland during a program of the European Union, shortly after the opening of the Iron Curtain. Then she met her Italian husband while riding an Enfield Bullet through India. The couple settled in Goa. After the birth of her son, Kornelia Santoro started writing cookbooks. As a creative spirit she loves to experiment in the kitchen and to explore the human relationship with food in a profound way. Her first two cookbooks, Kornelia’s Kitchen – Mediterranean Cooking for India and Kornelia’s Kitchen 2 – Cooking for Allergies, have both won the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards for India. She also writes for magazines and websites in India and Europe. Kornelia Santoro believes that “everything is possible and happiness is a moment of bliss.”
Aloysius D'Souza
Born in Rangoon, Burma 16.12.1934 . He has done his Schooling at St Mary's High School, Mount Abu-- Senior Cambridge 1951 , College at St Xavier's College,
Bombay B.Sc 1956 and Diploma in Business Management at University of Bombay in 1968. my Work Experience J Walter Thompson Co (India) Ltd from 1957 to 1963, V M Salgaocar e Irmao Ltd.from 1963 to 1965 , Cosme Mathias Menezes & Co Ltd. from 1965 to 1969 ,V M Salgaocar & Bro. Ltd.from 1969 to 1973 ,Dil Udyog Electronics Pvt Ltd (our own company)from 1973 to 2015 (retired December 2015).and Specialisation in Marketing.
Narendra Dengle
Narendra Dengle is an architect, writer,and educationist based in Pune. He is the Academic Chair at PVPCOA Pune. His practice is evolved around cultural, contextual and aesthetic issues. His works have featured in Indian and international journals of architecture. Author of three books, he has made films on the scope & appreciation of architecture.
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-sundaymagazine/poetry-in-architecture/article2275459.ece
http://narendradengle.blogspot.in/
Jayanti Naik
Dr. Jayanti Naik who hails from Amona in Quepem taluka of Goa is an eminent Folklorist and Konkani litterateur. After studying Sociology in Mysore University at post – graduate level she has completed her doctorate in Konkani at Goa University. She has also done post- graduate Diploma course in Folklore of IKS of Mysore University.
She has written 34 books, 16 of which are on folklore and the other are on various genres of literature including short story, poetry, drama, essay, children’s literature, and translation etc. Beside English her own stories have been translated into Hindi, Marathi, Telegu, and Mallyalam languages. Her works are studied at graduate and post graduate leval.
She has participated in number of state and national level seminars and presented research papers. Also she has guided number of workshops on literature and folklore as resource person.
She is recipient of number of state and national level awards, most notable of which are Kala Academy Literary Award I 2002; Sahity Akademy Literary Award in 2004 for her collection of short story ‘ Athang ‘ and Yashodamini Award in 2009 of Dir. of Women and Child development , Govt. of Goa for her over all literary contribution.
She is the Editor of ‘ Ananya ’ – A six monthly literary journal of Goa Konkani Akademi.
Dhruba Hazarika
Dhruba Hazarika was born in Shillong and educated in St. Edmund’s School & College. He completed his Masters in Economics in 1979 from Guwahati University. Before joining the Civil Services in 1983 he had also worked as a salesman in Delhi and as a lecturer in economics in Jagiroad college, Assam. In early 2016 he retired from the Indian Administrative Service.
He has written over a 100 short stories and essays in various magazines, journals, newspapers. He has authored three books till date comprising two novels, A Bowstring Winter, Sons of Brahma(novels) and Luck(short stories). He is a recipient of the DY365 Literary Award (2014) and the Katha Award(1994) besides being a founder member of the prestigious North-East Writers Forum.
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.
