Rituparna Chatterjee is a bestselling author, journalist and columnist. She is a former foreign correspondent and columnist for The Economic Times. For the same newspaper, her column California Dreaming was about her life as an immigrant mother in America, its gun violence and shooter drills for kindergarteners. Her first book An Ordinary Life (Penguin/Viking, 2017)…
Born in Kannauj, the city of perfumes, Padmashree Malini Awasthi, much like her name has spread the essence of Indian soil through her passion for Folk Music and traditions. Malini Awasthi currently serves as the Chair Professor for Folklore at Banaras Hindu University and is India’s Representative to UNSECO for its cultural commission. Professor Awasthi,…
Co-Convenor & Co-Coordinator Dr Nikky Priyadarshini is a well-known young writer in contemporary Maithili and Indian literature. Her creative entry into literature has been through critical writing which includes serious fiction and poetry. Dr Nikky Priyadarshini (MA in English and Maithili., NET, JRF, and PhD) was awarded a gold medal at Tilka Manjhi University Bhagalpur in Bihar…
Vaishali has done her Master diploma in Journalism from Symbiosis and Masters in English Literature from the University of Rajasthan. She has recently also secured a Certificate in Contemporary British Fiction through an online course run by the Oxford University. She started her career as a journalist with the Indian Express and The Times of…
Shubhrastha is a writer, poet, columnist and author. She is a prominent voice on issues of national policy and politics. She runs her own YouTube channel called The Churn with an attempt to hold calm, genuine and non-partisan open conversation with people across ideological-political divides.
Trisha De Niyogi is the Chief Operating Officer and Director at Niyogi Books, an homegrown independent publishing house based out of New Delhi, India. In her current role, one of the things she focuses on is business development. While on one hand she has started new lists of fiction, non-fiction and translated books taking literature,…