Tamal Bandyopadhyay is a business journalist, known for his weekly column on banking and finance Banker’s Trust published in Business Standard. He had started this column in Mint. He has authored five books namely HDFC Bank 2.0: From Dawn to Digital, From Lehman to Demonetization: A Decade of Disruptions, Reforms and Misadventures, Bandhan: The Making…

Arun Maheshwari is the Managing Director of Vani Prakashan and Chairman of Vani Foundation. He has showcased Hindi literature in more than 32 countries. He has been awarded with the Medal of Honour in Sweden and by the Ambassador of Norway to India for his contribution to the field of literature and Indo-Swedish and Indo-Norwegian…

Ramakanta Rath is one of the most renowned modernist poets in the Odia literature. He obtained his MA in English Literature from Ravenshaw College in Odisha. He joined the Indian Administrative Service in 1957. Some of his notable works are Kete Dinara (1962), Aneka Kothari (1967) Sri Radha (1984) Sri Palataka (1997). He received the…

SUBAS PANI is an author, translator, composer and creative director with a PhD on Jayadeva’s Geetagovinda. A civil servant by profession, he was Chief Secretary to the Government of Odisha and Secretary to the Government of India. With a lifelong deep and abiding interest in the heritage of India and especially of Odisha, his research…

Jayanta Mahapatra is an Indian English poet. He completed his M. Sc. in Physics from Patna University, Bihar. He began his teaching career as a lecturer in physics in 1949 and taught at various government colleges in Odisha including Gangadhar Meher College, Sambalpur, B.J.B College, Bhubaneswar, Fakir Mohan College, Balasore and Ravenshaw College, Cuttack. He…

Uday has reported and covered top political stories of the country including the 2014 & 2019 General Elections & various state assembly polls. Uday anchors and hosts the Entertainment segments at NewsX as well and has interviewed the top actors & singers from Bollywood & Hollywood. After studying at The Doon School, Dehradun , he…

Manoranjan Byapari is a Bengali writer and socio-political activist who is among the early writers of Dalit literature and is the Chairperson of West Bengal Dalit Sahitya Academy. He came to prominence with the publication of his influential essay Is there a Dalit writing in Bangla? In 2014 he was honoured with Suprabha Majumdar prize…

Dr. Susma Sharma Gurumayum is a poet from Imphal, Manipur and is a Gold Medalist in M.A. History from Manipur University. She has a PhD in History and previously worked as a Sub-Deputy Collector under the Government of Manipur from June 2017 to October 2019. She is currently serving as Assistant Professor in History under…

Sanhati Pani , is an anchor , moderator , voice over artist  and entrepreneur . Her graceful personality and unique ability to write intelligent scripts on varied fields, connect the topics with the discussions along with her presence of mind and speak fluently in English , hindi and her mother tongue Odia gives her an…