Dr. Gautam Choubey is an academic, writer and the host of Sansad TV’s talk show on Indian literature—Likhawat. Born in 1986 in a Railway Colony in a village named Bhojudih (Jharkhand), Gautam earned his primary education from the local village school before moving to Bokaro Chinmaya Vidyalay for senior years. He completed his higher education…
Sri Shirish Kumar Maurya is a very renowned Hindi poet and critic. He has been editing and publishing an important online magazine named Anunad (anunad.com) for the last 17 years. His early life was spent in Naugaonkhal, a remote village in Uttarakhand’s Shivalik mountain range, where he gained an insight of regular people’s lives, rural…
Savie Karnel is the author of the acclaimed books, The Nameless God, and Laxmi Panda: The Story of Netaji’s Youngest Spy. Her debut book The Nameless God was voted the Most Popular Children’s Book on Amazon India in 2021. It was also shortlisted for Bangalore Literature Festival’s Book Prize the same year. Notably, it was…
JEET THAYIL is a poet, novelist, librettist and musician. He was born into a Syrian Christian family in Kerala, India’s southernmost state. As a boy he travelled through much of the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia with his father, T.J.S. George, a writer and editor. He worked as a journalist for twenty-one years in Bombay,…
Deepa Balsavar is a multi-award winning writer and illustrator of children’s books. Her books have been translated into several languages and in 2019 she was honoured with Parag’s Big Little Book award for her contribution to the field of children’s illustration in India. She is currently an adjunct associate professor at IDC, The School of…
Nandini Purandare is an economist by training and a writer by choice. An avid trekker and traveller for over 45 years, she and her husband Dinesh introduced their children to the mountains at a very young age. As a natural extension of this love, Nandini became involved in the functioning of The Himalayan Club, becoming…
Sujata Shiven is a distinguished translator and author who has made significant contributions to Hindi literature. She has translated works of prominent Odia authors, including Bipin Bihari Mishra, A.K. Mishra, Indulata Mahanty, and Phani Mahanty, into Hindi, thereby bridging linguistic and cultural divides. Among her notable translations is “Charu, Chivar Aur Charya,” an Odia novel…
Ranjan Adiga is the author of Leech & Other Stories (Penguin Random House India, 2024). His works have appeared in The New York Times, HuffPost, Kathmandu Post, among other publications. Originally from Nepal, he is based in the US where he teaches creative writing at Westminster University in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Distinguished Toastmaster and the Presidential Citation recipient, current Club Growth Director of District 41, Ranjit Acharya is a Toastmaster member for two decades now. He started as a member of Kathmandu Toastmasters Club and was instrumental in opening Everest Toastmasters club in 2004 as a charter member. Acharya, is by profession known as advertising guru…
Surendra Labh is a distinguished figure in Nepal’s academic, literary, and policy-making spheres. He served as a Professor of Economics at Tribhuvan University for nearly four decades, during which he not only taught and mentored generations of students but also authored several important books on economics. Alongside his academic career, Labh has been equally devoted…