Sekhar Giri is the Chairman of Sajha Prakashan, former Chairman of Birganj Sugar Mill (a Government undertaking), and a member of the Pragya Sabha of the Nepal Academy. A poet, freelance journalist, and Chief Editor of Akchhar bimonthly, he is the author of several works and a prominent voice in Nepali literature and media.
सनतकुमार वस्ती, प्राेफेसर, डा. (पीएच् डी) संस्कृत, नेपाली, हिन्दी ~ उर्दू साहित्यमा रुचि। कविता, गीत, गजल रचना । कृति : १ वाह! गजल ( गजलकाे सैद्धान्तिक किताब) २ कविशिराेमणि रचनावली ( ५ भागमा ) सम्पादन, ३ लेखन, अध्ययन, अध्यापन, ४ महफिल – ए- काव्यउपासना ( कार्यक्रम सञ्चालक)
Pabitra Adhikari is the Program Director at Ageing Nepal, where she has been advocating for the rights and dignity of older persons since 2012. With a Master’s in Clinical Psychology, she has led impactful initiatives on elder abuse prevention, education for older adults, research, including coordinating a program that won the UNESCO King Sejong Literacy…
Imtiyaz Wafa is the President of Urdu Academy Nepal (UAN), that holds regular interactions and events to honor the Urdu language.
Dr. Dovan Rai is a computer scientist, educator, and writer. She currently serves as the Director of Research and Development of Body & Data, a nonprofit organization advocating for digital rights and feminist internet. She holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from WPI, USA, with a research focus on the use of artificial intelligence in…
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…