“The Day I Became a Runner” explores a compelling premise, asserting that women who embrace running, being a solitary activity in the public domain, present a more direct challenge to patriarchy compared to those participating in sports like badminton, cricket, and tennis. Award-winning journalist Sohini Chattopadhyay delves into the stories of eight athletes, spanning the…
Subhasis Mishra is a Global Talent Leader with 24 years of experience in Retail, Technology, Media and Entertainment businesses across Asia Pacific & North America in Fortune 100 companies. He has a wide breadth of experience attracting, developing and engaging diverse workforce and building/growing dynamic organizations. He also published his first fiction book in 2017…
Uday Prakash, born on January 1, 1952, is a versatile figure in Indian literature, excelling as a Hindi poet, scholar, journalist, translator, and short story writer. His diverse roles include serving as an administrator, editor, researcher, and TV director. As a freelancer, he contributes to major dailies and periodicals, earning accolades for his short stories…
Rahul Rawail is an Indian film director and editor in Bollywood known for his films like Love Story, Betaab, Arjun, Dacait, Anjaam, Arjun Pandit and the recent one Jo Bole So Nihaal. He received nominations for the Filmfare Award for Best Director for Betaab and Arjun. In his book “Raj Kapoor The Master at Work”,…
Dr T Sumathy aka Thamizhachi Thangapandian is a Tamil writer, English Professor and a Member of Parliament. She has nineteen publications including collections of poetry, essays and interviews to her credit. Birthing Hut and Other Stories is her first collection of short stories.
Prof. (Dr.) Y.S.R. Murthy assumed charge as the First Vice Chancellor of RV University, Bangalore recently. As a former civil servant from the 1985 batch of IAS and Allied Services, he held many responsible and sensitive assignments including in the National Human Rights Commission, Prime Minister’s Office, President’s Secretariat and Cabinet Secretariat. Between 2009 and…
Sujeet is an Indian politician of the Biju Janata Dal Party and a Member of Parliament (MP), representing Odisha in the Rajya Sabha. He is also a Lawyer and trained Arbitrator, practising in the Supreme Court of India. Sujeet currently mentors and advises the Kalinga Kusum Foundation, a social enterprise dedicated to creating and accelerating…
Tanaya Patnaik is Executive Director of the Sambad Group and heads the radio, television and digital wings of the media house. She is an alumnus of the prestigious Warwick Business School in London. She is instrumental in giving conventional media, a new and enhanced digital look and heads three leading news web portals (www.sambad.in, www.kanaknews.com…
Stephen Alter is the author of more than twenty books of fiction and non-fiction. He was born in Mussoorie, Uttarakhand, India and much of his writing focuses on the Himalayan region. Wild Himalaya: A Natural History of the Greatest Mountain Range on Earth (Aleph 2019), his most recent work of non-fiction, received the 2020 Banff…
Rahul Soni is a writer, editor, and translator based in India. He is Senior Commissioning Editor – Literary with HarperCollins India, Associate Editor with the journal Almost Island, and Programmes Coordinator at the Sangam House international writers’ residency. He has previously been associated with the journals Pratilipi and Asymptote, and the literary agency Writer’s Side. He has edited the anthology of Hindi poetry…