Born on 23rd March 1957, Madhu Kankaria has penned several prose, poems, and novels. Her novel, ‘Hum Yahan The’, is based on the struggles of the tribals in Jharkhand. It also provides an insight into the culture, society, and economic conditions of Kolkata. Madhu Kankariya has been conferred with the Kathakram Puruskar, Hemchandra Smriti Sahitya…
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…
Syed Asghar Wajahat, popularly known as Asghar Wajahat is a Hindi scholar, fiction writer, novelist, playwright, independent documentary filmmaker, and television scriptwriter. He has published five collections of short stories, six collections of plays and street plays, and four novels. He completed his M.A. (Hindi) in 1968, and his Ph.D. in 1974, from Aligarh Muslim…
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…
Divya Prakash Dubey is a Hindi bestseller author, and songwriter and has a couple of short films too credited to his name. His three books, a couple of collections of stories in Hindi – Terms, and Conditions Apply and Masala Chai, and a short novel, Musafir cafe have changed the very fabric of modern Hindi…
Satyarth Nayak is an author and screenwriter based in Mumbai. A former SAARC Award-winning Correspondent with CNN-IBN, Delhi, he holds a Masters in English Literature from St. Stephen’s. Satyarth’s best-selling biography, Sridevi – The Eternal Screen Goddess, published by Penguin in 2019 and charting the journey of the screen legend from child star to becoming…
Prabhat Ranjan is a Fiction writer, translator, and editor. He has written ‘Kothagoi’, his first book in Hindi on the history of the tawaif tradition. Has published two collections of short stories ‘Janaki Pul’ and ‘Bolero Class’. and has translated more than 30 books including Anne Frank’s Diary, Mohsin Hamd’s novel Moth Smoke, Khushwant Singh’s…
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.
Ajit Rai is a leading Film & Theatre Critic and Cultural Journalist of India with vast experience of more than 35 years in almost all leading National Newspapers, reputed Journals, and Electronic media as well in India and Abroad. He wrote a best-seller book ” Hindujas and Bollywood” in English and ‘ Bollywood ki Buniyad…