Dr. Ramashanker Singh is a historian and Academic Fellow at the Center for Research and Archiving in India and Indigenous Knowledge and Language Systems, Dr. Ambedkar University, Delhi. His pamphlets on various topics are published in renowned publications. He has his chapters published in books and encyclopedias. He has written, translated and edited for the…

Rakhshanda Jalil is a translator, writer, and literary historian. Her book on the lesser-known monuments of Delhi, Invisible City, continues to be a bestseller. Her recent works include Liking Progress, Loving Change: A Literary History of the Progressive Writers Movement in Urdu, A Rebel and her Cause, translations of The Sea Lies Ahead, Ghaddar and…

Farah Bashir was born and raised in Kashmir. She was a former photojournalist with Reuters and currently works as a communications consultant. Rumours of Spring is her first book.

Sreenivasa Murthy N.S. is the son of Shri Seetharama Rao N.S. , a famous mathematics author. He is serving at Karnataka Bank Ltd. In Chintana Manthana Maalike, he has presented a series of lectures on the development of vastu shilpa of temples in Karnataka state. There was a special interview about him in Akasavani about…

Akshaya Mukul is a writer and a journalist. He is the author of Gita Press and the Making of Hindu India (2015) which won all the non-fiction literary prizes like Tata Book of the Year prize, Ramnath Goenka Award, Crossword Prize, Shakti Bhatt first book prize and Atta Galatta prize.He is the recipient of New…

Sujata Prasad is an author, art columnist, curator, and heritage conservationist. A former civil servant, she is currently an advisor to the National Gallery of Modern Art, and serves as an expert on the Department of Science and Technology’s Scientific Advisory Committee for Heritage Research. She is a member of the governing board of the…

Sumit Sharma Sameer is an author of ‘Wake up Ali…Wake up Now. This is his first work of fiction, translated from Nepali language. Sameer is a graduate of the London School of Economics, UK and the Queen’s University, Canada. He completed his undergraduation from the Loyola College, Chennai.

Akhilesh is an MA in Hindi Literature from Allahabad University. He is the author of several short story anthologies, including Aadmi Nahin Tootataa, Mukti, Shapgrast, and Andhera, as well as the novels Anweshan and Nirvasan. His stories have been adapted for the stage and into movies by Doordarshan, and feature films. He is also a…

Dr. Hindol Sengupta is a historian, journalist, and award-winning author of nine books. He is the Editor-at-Large at Fortune India and has also been a senior journalist with leading broadcasters and publications. He studied South Asian history and politics at Worcester College, Oxford, as a Chevening Scholar and in business and finance as Knight-Bagehot Fellow…

Director & Coordinator

Ranjana Niraula is Coordinator & Director of KLF Kathmandu. She is a multifaceted personality from Nepal who juggles multiple roles in her daily life with equal panache. From being a popular poet in Nepali and English literature with a penchant to weave magic with her beautiful words and pictures to being a poet, editor, panelist,…