6 - 8 December 2018 , Thu - Sat.
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Himanshu Burte
Himanshu Burte, an architect and urbanist, is Assistant Professor atthe School of Habitat Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai, and has a Ph. D. in Urban Planning (CEPT University, Ahmedabad). He has practiced architecture in Mumbai and Goa for over a decade and a half, and has also published extensively across the professional, popular and academic press for over 25 years. His latest book (co-edited with Amita Bhide) Urban Parallax: Policy and the City in Contemporary India (Yoda Press/Aga Khan Agency for the Habitat India, 2018) gathers diverse disciplinary perspectives to deconstruct urban policy in India. His previous book, Space for Engagement: The Indian Artplace and a Habitational Approach to Architecture (Seagull Books, 2008), proposed an alternative conceptual framework for architecture centred on the act of dwelling. Active for long in building critical discourse around architecture and urbanism in India, Himanshu is a co-founder of Gubbi Alliance for Sustainable Habitat (www.gubbi.org), a network of architects practicing sustainably in India. His current research interests include urban transformation, critical practice, urban infrastructure, housing policy, theatre architecture, and sustainable urbanism. A former Fulbright Fellow (University of California, Berkeley, 2008-09), he is a member of the Editorial Advisory Panel of Marg Publications (Mumbai), a premier arts and culture publishing house.
Vinutha Mallya
Vinutha Mallya is a journalist with more than 15 years' experience in publishing as a book editor. With a keen interest in the business of publishing in India, she has written and spoken about the subject on many forums in the past. She is currently Assistant Features Editor at Pune Mirror, Times of India Group.
Mukul Kumar
Mukul Kumar is a civil servant, belonging to the 1997 batch of the Indian Civil Services. An Indian Railway Traffic Service officer, he is currently working in the Ministry of Railways, New Delhi. He has studied humanities from Delhi University, graduating from Kirori Mal College. He has studied Public Administration at the prestigious Indian Institute of Public Administration (IIPA), New Delhi. He has published an anthology of his English poems titled The Irrepressible Echoes (2012) and his debut novel As Boys Become Men was published by Rupa in 2016). Seduction by Truth (2018) is his second novel.
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.
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/
Edwin Thumboo
Edwin Thumboo is Emeritus Professor and Professorial Fellow (National University of Singapore). He 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.
Jonathan Gil Harris
Jonathan Gil Harris is an academic, writer and dedicated follower of Hindi cinema. He was born in New Zealand, received his post-graduate education in England, and moved to India after living in the US for twenty-three years. A prominent scholar of Shakespeare, he has authored six books on the drama and culture of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. He has also written for the Hindustan Times, Indian Express, the Hindu, and Outlook on Bollywood and Shakespeare. He currently lives in Delhi and is a professor of English at Ashoka University, where he was also Founding Dean of Academic Affairs. His two most recent books, The First Firangis: Remarkable Tales of Heroes, Healers, Courtesans, Charlatans, and Other Foreigners Who Became Indian (2014) and Masala Shakespeare: How the Bard Became Indian (2018), have both been published by Aleph Books Company.
Ana Filomena Amaral
Ana Filomena Amaral is an award-winning Portuguese writer born in Avintes, Oporto, and now living in Lousã, Coimbra. She earned a master’s in contemporary economic and social history from the University of Coimbra with a specialization in documentary sciences. She is an experienced interpreter and translator in several European languages, particularly German, and works for the Ministry of Education in Coimbra. She has published 12 books of which six are novels with one of them – Vaulted Home: Those Who Cheated Death (2014) - also published in the US. Ana has also published historical monographs, including her master’s thesis about Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo, the first and only woman prime minister of Portugal. Ana was the winner of the international award of Araçatuba tale in 2015, Brazil. Her 2014 novel O cassador de muros (Breaking Walls) will be translated into Russian. Earlier this year, she published O Diretor(The Director), the first book in the trilogy Mãe Nossa (Mother of ours) and alsocurated the international literary festival “Words of Fire.”
Deborah Baker
Deborah Baker’s first full-length book, a biography of the American modernist poet Laura Riding (In Extremis: The Life of Laura Riding, 1992) was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. In 2008 she published A Blue Hand, an account of Allen Ginsberg’s travels in India that also traced the idea of India in the American imagination. While a Fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, she researched and wrote The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism, a finalist for the 2011 National Book Award in Non-fiction. Her current book, The Last Englishmen: Love, War and the End of Empire, for which she received support from the Guggenheim and Whiting Foundations was just published by Penguin Random House India. She lives in Aldona, Goa and Brooklyn, New York.
Photo: Julienne Schaer
Easterine Kire
Easterine Kire is a poet, short story writer, children’s book writer and novelist from Nagaland. A PhD in English Literature from Savitribai Phule Pune University, she published the first English novel by a Naga writer: A Naga Village Remembered (Ura Academy, 2003). Her second novel, A Terrible Matriarchy (Zubaan, 2007) has been translated to Norwegian, German and Marathi. Her novel Bitter Wormwood (Zubaan, 2011) was shortlisted for The Hindu Literary Prize 2013. In 2016, Easterine won the Hindu Literature Prize for When the River Sleeps (Zubaan, 2014). Another novel Son of the Thundercloud (Speaking Tiger, 2016) was awarded the Tata Litlive Book of the Year award in 2017 and the Bal Sahitya Puraskar in 2018. Easterine was awarded the Governor’s prize for excellence in Naga literature in 2011 and the “Free Word” award by Catalan PEN, Barcelona in 2013. She also writes poetry and has a band called Jazzpoesi. The band produced a digital cd in summer 2013 that topped the Norwegian Jazz charts in the summer. She is also founder member of a publishing house called Barkweaver Publications.
