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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.
Sumana Roy
Sumana Roy’s first book, How I Became a Tree, a work of non-fiction, was published in India earlier this year. Her poems, essays, stories, and literary criticism have appeared in The Caravan, Granta, Guernica, India Quarterly, the Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB), Drunken Boat, the Prairie Schooner, Berfrois, Himal Southasian, Asian Cha, Pratilipi, and other journals. She is the co-founder and co-editor of Antiserious. Her novel, Missing, will be published by Aleph in the summer of 2018. She lives in Siliguri, a small town in sub-Himalayan Bengal. Roy has been photographing walls in northern Bengal for nearly a decade now.
Pantaleão Fernandes
Pantaleão Fernandes is a Goa-based writer, photographer and ethnographer. His books include 100 Goan Experiences (2006); Goa Remembered (2011); Traditional Occupations of Goa (2015); and a children’s book Once Upon a Time in Goa (2015). Fernandes scours Goan villages, for hidden cultural stories which he tells with his short documentary films entitled ‘Untold stories from Goa’. He was recently conferred with an international award by the Instituto Felga I Gracias in Brazil for excellence for his contribution using photography towards the cause of preserving Goa’s art and culture. His photographs have been displayed at an exhibition “Goa – Fusao de Culturas” at Lisbon.
Kornelia Santoro
Kornelia Santoro completed her education as a certified journalist and worked for a decade as news editor for radio and as political journalist for a newspaper in Bavaria. She also coached young journalists in Poland shortly after the Iron Curtain came down. She is a creative spirit and loves to experiment in the kitchen and to explore the human relationship with food. Her three cookbooks, Kornelia’s Kitchen: Mediterranean Cooking for India (2010); Kornelia’s Kitchen 2: Cooking for Allergies (2013); and Cooking for Happiness (2016) have all won the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards. Cooking for Happiness received the ‘Best of the World’ title at the final of the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards in 2017. Santoro also writes for magazines and websites in India and Europe. She lives in Goa with her family.
Shafi Shauq
Shafi Shauq is a poet, linguist, translator, and fiction writer. He is the author/translator of over 55 books in Kashmiri, English, Hindi, and Urdu. A PhD in English, he taught at the University of Kashmir for over three decades. Shauq is the recipient of several prestigious awards like the Sahitya Akademi Award in Creative Writing (2006); Bharti Bhasha Saman Award (2007); Sahitya Akademi Translation Award (2007); and Ahad Zargar Award (2011). He has represented Indian literature in several countries including Brazil, Canada, China, Germany, and the UK. He has been associated with prestigious academic projects such as Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature, Medieval Indian Literature, and Oxford Companion to Indian Theatre. Shauq has written scripts and screen-plays for more than 50 television films and serials. His latest work is Kaeshur Lughat (Encyclopaedic Dictionary of the Kashmiri Language).
Tanvi Bambolkar
Tanvi Bambolkar is a Research Scholar at the Department of English, Goa University, working on Folk Theatre of Goa. She has worked as a casual newsreader and translator at All India Radio, Panaji, and is currently Creative Writing Instructor at Bal Bhavan Panaji. She has been writing since childhood for local dailies, from creating puzzles for children to writing columns for the youth. Bambolkar is deeply attached to her mother tongue Konkani and has been active in all the activities related to the Konkani movement. Her translations from other languages into Konkani have been published in print and digital form on platforms like Prathambooks Storyweaver.
Jessica Faleiro
Jessica Faleiro is a Goa-based, adult third culture kid who writes fiction, poetry, essays and travel pieces.
Her poems, stories and non-fiction have appeared in Asia Literary Review, Indian Quarterly, IndiaCurrents, Coldnoon, Joao Roque Literary Journal, Rockland Lit, Mascara Literary Review, Muse India and the Times of India. She published her first novel ‘Afterlife: Ghost stories from Goa’ about the gothic, against a Goan backdrop, in 2012.
Jessica has an MA in Creative Writing from Kingston University, UK. She gives talks on creativity, and writing workshops to help improve craft. For more info, please visit her website: https://jessicafaleiro.wordpress.com/about/
Antara Dev Sen
Antara Dev Sen is the founder editor of The Little Magazine, an independent journal of ideas and letters, and the first Indian magazine to focus on contemporary South Asian literature and offer it in English translation. Sen is also a literary critic and translator, a newspaper columnist and commentator on the media, politics and culture. She has edited several books including the TLM Short Stories from South Asia series. Earlier, Sen was Senior Editor of the Hindustan Times and the Indian Express in Delhi. She has also been a Reuters Fellow at Oxford University. Sen is associated with other media, literary, educational, and voluntary organisations in India and overseas. She lives in Delhi.
Chandan Gowda
Chandan Gowda teaches at Azim Premji University and writes a weekly column on culture and politics in Bangalore Mirror. He recently translated U R Ananthamurthy’s story Bara (2016), and edited The Post Office of Abachooru, a book of short stories of Purnachandra Tejasvi (forthcoming). A Life in the World, consisting of autobiographical interviews with U R Ananthamurthy is also forthcoming. Gowda conceived and directed Sahitya Sahavasa (In the Company of Literature), a series of video lectures of U R Ananthamurthy on modern Kannada writers, which was telecast on Doordarshan in 2014. He has also edited The Way I See It: A Gauri Lankesh Reader (2017) and Theatres of Democracy: Selected Essays of Shiv Visvanathan (2016). He is presently completing a book on the cultural politics of development in old Mysore state.
Sushila Sawant Mendes
Sushila Sawant Mendes (PhD, 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). Mendes 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.
