Mahendra Malangia is one of India & Nepal’s most revered play writers and theatre directors. He has been writing and directing plays for the last four decades and even today remains as energetic and as creative as ever Malangia’s involvement with theatre began with him writing poetry and plays. Gradually he began directing plays himself.…
Pankaj Chaturvedi is an Indian writer. His published works are-‘Ek Sampoornata Ke Liye’, ‘Ek Hi Chehra’, ‘Raktchap Aur Anya Kavitayein’ (poetry-collection); ‘Atmakatha Ki Sanskruti’, ‘Nirasha Mein Bhi Samarthya’, ‘Raghuveer Sahay’ (Disclosure for Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi), ‘Jeene Ka Uddaat Ashaya’ (criticism); Hindi compositions of fifty-one verses of Bhartrihari. He has also edited Manglesh Dabral’s ‘Pratinidhi…
Pradeep Baisakh is a journalist and has extensively written on grassroots issues for various newspapers and journals in India and abroad. He has bagged a national award from National Foundation for India (NFI) for development journalism. Having nearly sixteen years of experience in the social sector, Baisakh currently works as the Asia Coordinator of Global…
K.R. Meera is a writer and journalist.She has penned books in Malayalam including novels, novellas, short-story collections, essays, and children’s literature. Her novel Aaraachaar, which won the Kendra and the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Awards, was translated by J. Devika as Hangwoman and was shortlisted for the 2016 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. Meera has…
Lalit Kumar is a columnist and translator as well as teaches English at Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College University of Delhi. His articles have appeared in many renowned national dailies and magazines. Some of his publications include the English co-translation of the Hindi bestseller Twelfth Fail, translation of the Maithili classic Kanyadan, and a co-edited volume…
Zarin Virji, a creative writing graduate from the University of Sheffield, follows her passions for teaching and writing. For over three decades she has played the role of a teacher, teacher trainer, and head of school. From 1996 to 2006, she edited the journal Classroom, a safe space for all matters related to education. Her…
Ranjit Hoskote is a poet, cultural theorist, translator and curator based in Bombay, India. His collections of poetry include Vanishing Acts: New & Selected Poems 1985-2005 (Penguin, 2006), Central Time (Penguin, 2014), Jonahwhale (Penguin, 2018, published in the UK by Arc as The Atlas of Lost Beliefs, 2020, a Poetry Book Society Recommendation), Hunchprose (Penguin,…
Kailash Satyarthi is a social reformer who campaigned against child labor in India and advocated the universal right to education. he is the co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, along with Malala Yousafzai, “for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education.” He is…
Sanjeev Sanyal is the Principal Economic Advisor to the Government of India. An internationally acclaimed economist and best-selling author, he spent two decades in the financial sector and was Global Strategist & Managing Director at Deutsche Bank till 2015. He was named Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2010. He is also…
Navtej Sarna was India’s Ambassador to the United States, High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, and Ambassador to Israel. He has also served as Secretary to the Government of India and as the Foreign Office Spokesperson. His earlier diplomatic assignments were in Moscow, Warsaw, Thimphu, Tehran, Geneva, and Washington DC. His literary work includes the novels The Exile and We…
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…
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…
Farah Bashir was born and raised in Kashmir. She was a former photojournalist with Reuters and currently works as a communications consultant. Rumours of Spring is her first book.
Sreenivasa Murthy N.S. is the son of Shri Seetharama Rao N.S. , a famous mathematics author. He is serving at Karnataka Bank Ltd. In Chintana Manthana Maalike, he has presented a series of lectures on the development of vastu shilpa of temples in Karnataka state. There was a special interview about him in Akasavani about…
Akshaya Mukul is a writer and a journalist. He is the author of Gita Press and the Making of Hindu India (2015) which won all the non-fiction literary prizes like Tata Book of the Year prize, Ramnath Goenka Award, Crossword Prize, Shakti Bhatt first book prize and Atta Galatta prize.He is the recipient of New…
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.
Akhilesh is an MA in Hindi Literature from Allahabad University. He is the author of several short story anthologies, including Aadmi Nahin Tootataa, Mukti, Shapgrast, and Andhera, as well as the novels Anweshan and Nirvasan. His stories have been adapted for the stage and into movies by Doordarshan, and feature films. He is also a…
Dr. Hindol Sengupta is a historian, journalist, and award-winning author of nine books. He is the Editor-at-Large at Fortune India and has also been a senior journalist with leading broadcasters and publications. He studied South Asian history and politics at Worcester College, Oxford, as a Chevening Scholar and in business and finance as Knight-Bagehot Fellow…
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,…
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…