Doorva Devarshi is a writer and editor. Formerly a dentist, in 2020, she decided to switch her scalpel for a pen and hasn’t looked back since. She lives in Jaipur with her parents and their family’s greatest feline obsession, Chimken.
Murzban F. Shroff is a Mumbai-based writer. His fiction has appeared in over 75 literary journals in the U.S. and UK. He is the recipient of the Bacopa Review Fiction Award and the John Gilgun Fiction Award. He has received seven Pushcart Prize nominations, among the most honored short story prizes in the U.S. His…
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…
Satish Padmanabhan, Managing Editor, Outlook Magazine, has been a media professional for over 30 years, having worked in print, TV and digital. He started by reporting for Sunday magazine, Business World and The Economic Times in the 90s. As the television industry opened up after the economic reforms, he joined India Business Report on BBC,…
Author, poet and translator, Deepa Agarwal writes for both children and adults and has over 50 books published. A frequent contributor to magazines and journals in India and abroad, Deepa has edited and compiled several anthologies as well. Among other awards, she received the N.C.E.R.T. National Award for Children’s Literature in 1993 for her picture…
Prof. Jatindra Kumar Nayak is an Indian translator, literary critic, columnist, editor, and academic from Odisha. An alumnus of Oxford University, UK, Prof. Nayak has been instrumental in bringing Odia literature to a global audience through his exemplary translations. His notable translations include Yantrarudha by Chandrasekhar Rath, rendered into English as Astride the Wheel, for…
Upendra Nath Behera, (IAS Rtd) Upendra Nath Behera, a retired IAS officer, is a Mechanical Engineering graduate from IIT Kharagpur who joined the Indian Administrative Service in 1983. He also holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Management and is fluent in German. Throughout his career, Shri Behera has held several significant positions in both the…
Harun Rashid Khan served as the Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) from 2011 to 2016. Born and educated in Bhubaneswar, he attended Badagada High School, where he excelled in both academics and extracurricular activities, particularly in English debates and elocution contests, despite studying in the vernacular medium. Khan pursued higher education…
P.K Das, Architect, Author P.K. Das, renowned as an Architect–Activist, is committed to bridging the gap between architecture and communities through participatory planning, with a strong focus on sustainable urban ecology. His diverse work spans organizing slum dwellers for improved living conditions, developing affordable housing models, influencing housing and urban development policies, reclaiming public spaces,…
Dr. Kuladhar Saikia is a distinguished short story writer and Sahitya Akademi Award recipient (2015) with a diverse body of work that includes 25 short story collections, 5 plays, a novel, and a book of essays. His novel has been published in Hindi by Penguin, and his English short stories are featured in the collection…