6 - 8 December 2018 , Thu - Sat.
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Sushila Sawant Mendes
Sushila Sawant Mendes has a PhD in history from Goa University heads the Department of History at the Government College of Arts, Science and Commerce, Quepem (Goa). Her doctoral dissertation was on the impact of Luis de Menezes Braganza on Goa's anti-colonial struggle, and later became a book: Luis de Menezes Braganza: Nationalism, Secularism and Free-thought in Portuguese Goa (2014). She is currently working on a book on the history of Assolna, Velim, and Cuncolim. Sushila regularly presents papers at various seminars in India and abroad, many of which are included in books on Goa’s history. The Government of Goa has appointed her on the Expert Committee for revision of the Goa Gazetteer. The present Std. X history text of the Goa Board was finalized under her guidance as Chairperson. Mendes is a Trustee of the Manovikas Public Charitable Trust, and a Founder Trustee of Silver Star Appeal.
Sheeba Shah
Sheeba Shah is a fiction writer from Nepal. She now lives in Goa and also runs a theatre Group here. She is the author of Beyond the Illusions (2008); Facing My Phantoms (2010); and earlier this year, The Other Queen (2018). Sheeba is currently working on her fourth novel which is based in Goa.
Manu S. Pillai
Manu S. Pillai is the author of the award-winning The Ivory Throne: Chronicles of the House of Travancore (HarperCollins India, 2015), and Rebel Sultans: The Deccan from Khilji to Shivaji (Juggernaut, 2018). Formerly Chief of Staff to Dr. Shashi Tharoor MP, he has in the past worked at the House of Lords in Britain, and with the BBC on their Incarnations history series. Written over six years and researched in three continents, Manu’s first book, The Ivory Throne won the 2016 Tata Lit Live Prize for best first work of non-fiction and the 2017 Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar. Manu is also text contributor to Serena Chopra’s Bhutan Echoes (Tasveer, 2016), and writes a weekly column for Mint Lounge. His other writings have appeared in The Hindu, Open Magazine, the Times of India, Hindustan Times, and other publications.
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/
Mustansir Dalvi
Mustansir Dalvi is an Anglophone poet, translator and editor. Brouhahas of Cocks is his first book of poems in English published by Poetrywala in 2013. His poems are included in several anthologies, including These My Words: The Penguin Book of Indian Poetry and the Sahitya Akademi’s To Catch a Poem: An Anthology of Poetry for Young People. His poems have been translated into French, Croatian and Marathi. Mustansir’s 2012 English translation of Muhammad Iqbal’s influential Shikwaand Jawaab-e-Shikwa from the Urdu as Taking Issue and Allah’s Answer (Penguin Classics) has been described as ‘insolent and heretical’. This book was awarded Runner-Up for Best Translation at the Muse India National Literary Award in 2012. His translations of the Sufi mystic Rahim are published in the anthology Eating God: A Book of Bhakti Poetry (2014, Penguin Ananda). He has translated the poems of Hemant Divate from the Marathi in Struggles with Imagined Gods (2014, Poetrywala). He is the editor of Man without a Navel, a collection of new and selected translations of Hemant Divate’s poems from the Marathi (2018, Poetrywala). His new book of poems Cosmopolitician is to be published by Poetrywala in 2018.
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.
Patricia Pereira-Sethi
Patricia Pereira-Sethi is an award-winning international journalist who worked for two decades as correspondent, editor and the United Nations Bureau Chief for Newsweek magazine in New York. She was the first Indian and youngest ever correspondent to be named the United Nations Bureau Chief of an American organisation. She has conducted one-on-one interviews with more than 45 heads of state during her career, including Indira Gandhi, Morarji Desai, Fidel Castro, George Bush Sr, Augusto Pinochet, Daniel Ortega, Olaf Palme, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Robert Mugabe, Pham Van Dong. And others. Patricia has been felicitated for her career by Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar and the Goa Union of Journalists after her return to Goa. She has authored the biography of industrialist Ramesh Chauhan Thunder Unbottled: From Thums Up to Bisleri (2013). She lives in Dona Paula and is a Special Columnist for the Sunday Panorama section of the Navhind Times as well as the magazine Viva Goa. Fluent in Spanish, she has lectured at Goa University’s Centre for Latin American Studies to PhD students.
Shanta Gokhale
Shanta Gokhale is a bilingual columnist, novelist, playwright, film script-writer and translator. She has translated Uddhav Shelke's novel Dhag; her own novels Rita Welinkar(1995) and Tya Varshi (2010) - as Crowfall (2013) - both of which received Maharashtra State awards for best fiction; Durga Khote's autobiography I, Durga Khote (2007) and over a dozen plays from Marathi into English, including her own, Avinash (1994). Her translation of Gieve Patel's English play Mister Behram into Marathi was staged in Pune and Mumbai. Her other translations include Prabhakar Barve's Kora Canvas and Makarand Sathe's novel Achyut Athavale ani Athavan into English and Jerry Pinto's Em and the Big Hoom into Marathi for which she received the Balshastri Jambhekar award in 2016. Shanta has written numerous film-scripts for documentary and feature films. She has been a culture columnist for The Times of India, Mid-Day and Mumbai Mirror. She is the author of Playwright at the Centre: Marathi Drama from 1843 to the Present (2000) and has edited Satyadev Dubey: A Fifty-year Journey Through Theatre (2011), The Theatre of Veenapani Chawla: Theory, Practice, Performance and The Scenes We Made: Experimental Theatre in Mumbai (2015). Shanta received the Sangeet Natak Akademi award for overall contribution to the Performing Arts in 2016.
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.
Perumal Murugan
Perumal Murugan is an Indian author, scholar and literary chronicler who writes in Tamil. He has six novels, four collections of short stories and four anthologies of poetry to his credit many of which are translated into English. The translated novels include Poonachi: Or the Story of a Black Goat (2018); Current Show (2017); Pyre (2016); One Part Woman (2015); and Seasons of the Palm (2017) which was shortlisted for the Kiriyama Prize in 2005. One Part Woman, his best-known work, was shortlisted for the Crossword Award and won the prestigious ILF Samanvay Bhasha Samman in 2015. Perumal has also received awards from the Tamil Nadu government as well as from Katha Books. He was earlier a professor of Tamil at the Government Arts College in Namakkal.
