Perumal Murugan is an Indian author, scholar and literary chronicler who writes in Tamil. Murugan initially studied Tamil literature both as an undergraduate, in Erode and as a postgraduate in Coimbatore then went on to obtain an M. Phil. from Madras University in Tamil studies followed by a Ph.D. where his doctoral thesis focused on…
Abhay Mishra walks along the rivers and while doing so, he tries having conversations with the rivers and listening to their ever flowing stories. Amidst the warps and wefts of the society and rivers, he tries to voice the concern about how we have slowly forgotten to say thank you to our rivers. Abhay has…
Sabin Iqbal is a noted novelist, a literature festival curator, and a journalist with nearly 20 years of experience in national and international newspapers and magazines. As Editorial Director, he was a member of the core team of the first edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale. His debut novel, The Cliffhangers (Aleph, 2019) was Shortlisted for…
प्रवीण कुमार की शिक्षा हिन्दू कॉलेज , दिल्ली विश्वविद्यालय से संपन्न हुई । पहला कहानी संग्रह ‘छबीला रंगबाज़ का शहर’ हिन्दी की बेस्ट सेलर किताब रही जिसे 2018 का ‘डॉ विजयमोहन सिंह स्मृति युवा कथा पुरस्कार’ तथा 2018 में ही अमर उजाला समूह का प्रथम ‘ शब्द सम्मान( थाप)’ प्राप्त हुआ । हाल ही में…
Shekhar Pathak is an Indian historian, writer and academician from Uttarakhand. He is the founder of People’s Association for Himalaya Area Research (PAHAR), established in 1983, former professor of History at Kumaun University, Nainital and a Nehru Fellow at the Centre for Contemporary Studies at Teen Murti in New Delhi. He was awarded the Padma…
Satish Padmanabhan is Managing Editor, Outlook Magazine. He has over 25 years of work in various media like newspapers, magazine, TV and digital. He started with Sunday and BusinessWorld, then moving to TV with TV-18 and CNBC, and later as News Editor at NDTV. He has also taught journalism at the Times School of Journalism…
Rama Pandey is a film and theater personality, an author, a cultural persona and an activist from Jodhpur, Rajasthan. She bought laurels to the nation at a very early age by becoming the roaming cultural ambassador of India in 1971. Some of her notable books are Begum Bano Aur Khatoon, Gauhar, Tauba Tun Nassu and…
Neelakshi Singh is a contemporary Hindi author. In 2004 she won Sahitya Academy Golden Jubilee Young Writers Award. Her story collections- Parinde Kaa Intezar Sa Kuchh, Jinki Mutthiyon Me Surakh Tha, Ibtida Ke Aage Khali Hi, and Novel- Shudhhipatra have been praised by literary critics. Her latest novel Khela is acclaimed for its powerful narration…
Alka Saraogi is an Indian novelist and short story writer in the Hindi language. She holds a PhD degree from Calcutta University for her thesis on the poetry of Raghuvir Sahay. Saraogi published newspaper articles about health and women’s issues before beginning writing prose. She was awarded with the Sahitya Akademi Award for Hindi for…
Geet Chaturvedi is a Hindi poet, short story author, lyricist, screenwriter and novelist from Mumbai, Maharashtra. His poems have been translated into 22 languages worldwide and he translated the work of great Spanish Poet Pablo Neruda in Hindi and many other languages. In 2011, The Indian Express included him in a list of the Ten…