Badri Narayan is an eminent Hindi poet. He is one of the important poets who emerged in the era of the nineties. He is also an expert in social history and cultural anthropology. Along with being an eminent poet of Hindi, he is known as a social scientist who continuously worked in the basic political…
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…
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…
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,…
Poet, writer and social worker
Milee Ashwarya is a Publisher, of Ebury Publishing and Vintage Publishing at Penguin Random House India. Her focus has been on championing the best voices in fiction and non-fiction while publishing a range of bestsellers across segments. Her authors include Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Piyush Pandey, Hussain S. Zaidi, Yuvraj Singh, Hindol Sengupta, R. Gopalakrishnan,…
Anshul Chaturvedi has been writing and editing to earn a living as a journalist for some 25 years, of which the last 21 have been with the Times of India. Apart from what the job needs him to scrutinize, he reads a lot about WW2, managerial theory, the philosophy of Vivekananda and Ramakrishna and the…
Subroto Bagchi is Chairman of Odisha Skill Development Authority. This is a full-time assignment, in the rank of a Cabinet Minister. He was invited by Shri Naveen Patnaik, Hon’ble Chief Minister of Odisha in 2016, to set up the Odisha Skill Development Authority to harmonise the various skill initiatives of the Government. Upon taking charge, the State…
Koral Dasgupta is an Indian author and literary entrepreneur. India Today critiqued her novel as “works beyond the obvious…with characters not just individuals but a philosophy.” She is a compulsive storyteller and has published from academic nonfiction to relationship dramas. Her stories explore the inherent nature of complex minds leading to a relatable conflict and…