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Apala
Egan
Apala G. Egan grew up in India and currently lives in the US. She is fluent in Bengali and English and also speaks Hindi. A former community college instructor in the United States, she devotes her time to translating and writing. She has attended the Community of Writers Conference, formerly named Community of Writers at Squaw Valley, where she was awarded the Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston Scholarship.
Aparajita
Dutta
Aparajita Dutta is a multifaceted individual who wears the hats of both a writer and a social activist. She possesses an M.Phil in Comparative Literature, earned from Jadavpur University, and is currently on a journey toward a PhD at Louisiana State University.
Aparajita's academic pursuits and interests delve into several important areas. She is deeply passionate about advocating for gender and disability rights, striving to make a meaningful impact in these spheres. Her commitment extends to sports, where she explores the intersections of sports, culture, and society. Additionally, she harbors a fascination for discovering and immersing herself in new cultures while also mastering new languages.
While Aparajita Dutta's debut novel showcases her storytelling prowess, she has previously contributed as an author to two anthologies. Her body of work reflects her dedication to creating positive change in the world, both through her writing and her activism.
Aparajita Dutta is a writer and a social activist. An M.Phil in
Comparative Literature from Jadavpur University, she is currently pursuing her
PhD from Louisiana State University. Her interests are gender and disability
rights, sports, exploring new cultures and learning new languages. This is her
first novel, though she has been a contributing author for two anthologies in
the past.
Aparna
Basu
Late Dr. Aparna Basu was the Chairperson of the National Gandhi Museum, Raj Ghat, New Delhi. Formerly a Professor of History at the University of Delhi, Dr. Basu obtained her BA and PhD from the University of Cambridge, UK, and her MA from George Washington University, USA. She has written widely on women’s history and the history of education. Dr. Basu served on the editorial board of the Indian Economic and Social History Review and was on the Advisory Board of the Indian Journal of Gender Studies. She has authored biographies of Mridula Sarabhai, G.L. Mehta, Abbas Tyabji, and Kasturba Gandhi. She also held fellowships at St. Antony’s College and Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford, and Wolfson College, Cambridge, UK.
Late Dr
Aparna Basu was the Chairperson of the National Gandhi Museum, Raj
Ghat, New Delhi. Formerly a Professor of History at University of Delhi, Dr
Basu obtained her BA and PhD from the University of Cambridge, UK, and her MA
from George Washington University, USA. She has written widely on womens
history and history of education. She was on the editorial board of Indian
Economic and Social History Review and also on the Advisory Board of the Indian
Journal of Gender Studies. She has published biographies of Mridula Sarabhai,
G.L. Mehta, Abbas Tyabji, and Kasturba Gandhi, and has been a Fellow of St.
Antonys College and Queen Elizabeth House Oxford and Wolfson College,
Cambridge, UK.
Apoorvanand
.
Apoorvanand is Professor of Hindi and was part of the core group that designed the National Curriculum framework for School Education in 2005. Member of the National Focus Group on Teaching of Indian Languages (NCERT), and on the committee to advise on renovation and rejuvenation of Higher Education in India, he currently edits Alochana, a quarterly journal on criticism. Apoorvanand is Professor of Hindi and was part of the core group that designed the National Curriculum framework for School Education in 2005. Member of the National Focus Group on Teaching of Indian Languages (NCERT), and on the committee to advise on renovation and rejuvenation of Higher Education in India, he currently edits Alochana, a quarterly journal on criticism.
APS
Malhotra
A
Rajam
A. Rajam has loved reading books since childhood. Born in New York City, she grew up in a multi-generational home in Chennai where her grandfather and great grandmother were the primary storytellers. After studying English Literature for her graduation course, she went on to take many creative writing classes in India and the USA. This is her debut novel.
Archana
Shah
Archana Shah Archana Shah has been collaborating with artisans around the country for the last 40 years to create textiles for urban markets. As a design student, she developed a keen interest in the traditional craft skills of indigenous artisans. This encouraged her to travel to remote corners of the country to study, understand and experience the vast variety of weaving, dyeing, printing, embroidery and ornamentation techniques practised by different communities. This proved to be a very enriching journey, and the unique skills of the people of various regions, their distinctive colour palettes and rich design vocabulary became the base for all her future work. This experience motivated her to start a clothing company, BANDHEJ, in 1985, a label that focuses on traditional textile skills, and offers a range of eco-friendly, handcrafted clothing for Indian women with an eastern sensibility. The company was started with the vision of upholding, preserving and promoting the precious skills and inherent knowledge of indigenous artisans through collaborative design interventions. Over the years, through many initiatives and interactions, she has been able to revive and rejuvenate several craft skills, thereby encouraging young artisans to realise that they can earn a decent livelihood by pursuing their traditional vocation. In 2013, Archana published her first book, SHIFTING SANDS, Kutch: A Land in Transition. It recounts her personal journey of discovery, which is interwoven with her association of over four decades with the land of Kutch, its people and their crafts. She continues to believe that there is a lot to learn from traditional wisdom.
Arjun
Sengupta
Arjun Sengupta is a filmmaker, critic, and journalist, who has written on
the arts for leading Indian newspapers and magazines like Economic
Times, Tehelka.com, New Indian Express, Frontline,
and Fountain Ink among other publications.
Arnab
Nandy
Born in Konnagar, a Kolkata suburb, Arnab Nandy first got published in 2004
in The Statesman Voices, a school students' supplement. He has since written
for Hindustan Times, The Telegraph and several other publications including the
Bengali women's magazine Sananda.
Arnab is now a journalist with The
Telegraph, where he primarily edits news stories and sometimes writes on
travel.
Deepankar
Aron
Deepankar Aron, an alumnus of IIT Delhi, recognised with the Presidential Award for his contribution as an Indian Revenue Service officer, is also a passionate traveller and a consummate photographer and writer. His articles have, over the years, appeared in various magazines and newspapers. World Heritage Sites of Uttarakhand, his first pictorial book was published in 2010.
Arun
Chaudhuri
Arun Chaudhuri began his career in
advertising in the mid-1970s in Clarion McCann Advertising Services. He then
worked in other leading agencies such as OBM and RK Swamy before setting up
Campaign, a Calcutta-based agency. He divested his stake in the company in 1997
to start BRAND, an organisation that specialises in Marketing Research, Rural
Marketing and Creative Services. He has been associated with a number of
universities, where he has taught Advertising and Public Relations since the
early 1990s.
Aruna
Chakravarti
Aruna Chakravarti was Principal
of Janki Devi Memorial College, University of Delhi. She is also a well-known
academic, writer and translator and has contributed widely for national and
international journals. Her volume of translated stories from the masters of
contemporary Bengali fiction entitled The Way Home appeared in 2006. Her first
attempt at creative writing a novel The
Inheritors, was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize 2004. Secret Spaces, a volume of her own short
stories, was published in April 2010.She has also contributed a piece The Broken Nest, a translation of
Rabindranath Tagore s novella Nashta
Needh to the volume entitled The
Essential Tagore and a simultaneous volume of the same name by
Visva-Bharati. Among her forthcoming publications is Jorasanko a novel based on the lives of the women of the Tagore
family. Aruna Chakravarti is the recipient of several prestigious awards. Among
them are the Vaitalik Award, the
Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize and the Sarat
Puraskar.
Arup
Dutta
Arup Kumar Dutta is an Indian author and freelance journalist. He writes short-fiction, long-fiction, non-fiction,
newspaper editorials, articles and columns, satirical pieces et al. Among the
awards he has been bestowed with are Shankar’s Award, Journalist Welfare
Foundation Award, Kamal Kumari National Award and The Life Time Achievement
Honor Award by AWIC, the Indian Chapter of International Board for Books for
Young People. Between 2004-2008, the Government of India appointed him
Director, Jawaharlal Nehru Indian Cultural Centre, Jakarta, and Indian Cultural
Centre, Bali, with the rank of a Counselor in the Indian Embassy, Jakarta,
Indonesia. In 2018, the University of Dibrugarh conferred D. Litt (honoris
causa) on him while the Government of India honoured him with the Padma Shri.
Arup Kumar
Dutta is an Indian author and
freelance journalist. He writes short-fiction, long-fiction, non-fiction,
newspaper editorials, articles and columns, satirical pieces et al. Among the
awards he has been bestowed with are Shankars Award, Journalist Welfare
Foundation Award, Kamal Kumari National Award and The Life Time Achievement
Honor Award by AWIC, the Indian Chapter of International Board for Books for
Young People. Between 2004-2008, the Government of India appointed him
Director, Jawaharlal Nehru Indian Cultural Centre, Jakarta, and Indian Cultural
Centre, Bali, with the rank of a Counselor in the Indian Embassy, Jakarta,
Indonesia. In 2018, the University of Dibrugarh conferred D. Litt (honoris
causa) on him while the Government of India honoured him with the Padma Shri.
Arup
Mitra
Arup Mitra was art instructor at Lycée Français de Pondichéry and presently teaches art at the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education.
Arupa Patangia
Kalita
Arupa Patangia Kalita is one of the
most accomplished and refined writers of Assam. She has to her credit over 19
publications (some of which have been adapted as films and tele-films). She has
been conferred a number of awards for her contribution to the realm of Assamese
literaturethe Bharatiya Bhasha Parishad Literary Award (1995), the Katha Award
(1998), the Sahitya Akademi Award (2014) and the Assam Valley Literary Award
(2017). A number of short stories written by her have been translated into
English, Bengali and Hindi. Her works are used extensively for research by
MPhil and PhD students. Some of her stories have been prescribed as text for
universities, including the Gauhati University.
Arvindar
Singh
Arvindar Singh is a versatile columnist and entrepreneur. His notable works include "Myths and Realities of Security and Public Affairs" (an anthology) and "What A Life! A Kaleidoscope of Rajinder Puri’s Cartoons" (co-authored with Partha Chatterjee). Singh regularly contributes book reviews for Penguin Random House Publishers. He is known for his writings on security matters and authored a monograph on Field Marshal S.H.F.J Manekshaw for the United Services Institution of India, New Delhi, in 2003. Associated with Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, he frequently addresses current topics of national interest as a freelancer.
Asharani
Mathur
Asharani Mathur is a freelance writer and
editor who made the switch from marketing to writing when she was associated
with and wrote for, the former inflight magazines, Swagat and Namaskar; and
later edited publications for the Festival of India, including the definitive
Indian Bronze Sculptures (with Karl Khandalavala). Subsequently she edited and
produced books on aspects of Indian life and culture, as well as art catalogues
and has written books on subjects such as textiles, carpets, shawls and
jewellery. She has also scripted documentaries for television on the many
tribal populations of India and has been the music producer for the record label
Music Today, where she had the good fortune to work with some of the greatest
names in Indian music. She was the editor of The Indian Media: Illusion, Delusion and Reality, produced for the
Prem Bhatia Memorial Trust, where she is a Trustee.
Ashok
Dilwali
Ashok Dilwali is a master of mountain photography, known for his exceptional ability to transport us to snow-clad mountains and picturesque valleys through his lens. He excels at capturing the perfect mood from just the right angles, presenting the Himalayas, its people, and its places in a unique and unprecedented style. Dilwali's talent has earned him two gold medals in the International Photography Competitions in Austria, awarded in 2005 and 2006. Additionally, he secured third place in a photography competition held in the USA in 2002. His latest work represents his 25th publication.
Ashoke
Mukhopadhyay
Ashoke Mukhopadhyay made a foray in the arena of literature with a host of startling articles and insightful documentations like Terrorisma colonial construct, The Naxalites: Through the Eyes of Calcutta Police, etc. Mukhopadhyay won the coveted Ananda Snowcem Award twice for his articles. His zeal for seamless stitching of facts with imagination was also reflected in his novel Abiram Jwarer Roopkatha (A Ballad of Remittent Fever), which was long-listed in the JCB Award 2020.
Asim
Mukhopadhyay
Asim
Mukhopadhyay is a veteran
researcher, teacher and consultant-cum-contributor on socio-economic and
political situations in India and Bangladesh to various newspapers and journals
such as The Indian Express, Economic and Political Weekly (Mumbai),
and Frontier (Kolkata). He is
continuing his research on the depressed communities, mainly the tribals,
semi-tribals, minorities, with special emphasis on marginal farmers, artisans,
the urban poor living on city pavements and scrounging garbage dumps as rag-pickers.
An MA in modern history from Jadavpur University (1966), Kolkata and a PhD from
Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata (1991) on political economy in Bangladesh
in the 1970s, he has authored several books in Bengali and English on child
labourers in the beedi industry, terracotta temples of West Bengal, documents
on the Bangladesh Liberation Movements, womens participation in local
self-governance (the Panchayati Raj), peasants struggles in India (he has
contributed a chapter to Peasant
Struggles in India, edited by Prof A.R. Desai, published by Oxford University
Press, 1979). This is his debut novel.
Atreyee
Gohain
Atreyee Gohain is an Assistant
Professor of English at Bethune-Cookman University, Florida, where she teaches
courses in academic writing, postcolonial literature, and diasporic American
literature. She has a PhD in English from Ohio University and enjoys
translating from Assamese to English. Her translations have been published in leading
literary journals and anthologies
Atul Kumar
Thakur
Atul K. Thakur is a public policy professional, management consultant, journalist, and writer who specializes in the interface of politics and economics. His research and writing interests extend to macroeconomic policies and international affairs, with a special focus on South Asia. He is an alumnus, inter alia, of Banaras Hindu University and has worked across sectors, spanning policy research, management consultancy, publishing, and media. 'India Now and in Transition' is his second book as an editor. He has previously edited 'India since 1947: Looking Back at a Modern Nation' (Niyogi Books, 2013), a significant work on modern India. He is currently working on a book on Nepal's complex political-economic transitions and ethnicity issues. As a journalist and columnist, he has written extensively for many prominent newspapers and websites. He is also a literary critic, having reviewed hundreds of books for leading publications in India and abroad.
Avay
Shukla
Avay Shukla belongs to the Indian Administrative Service and has served in Himachal Pradesh for 30 years. He is president of the Himachal Pradesh Trekking Association and a founder member of the Ecotourism Society of India. He is an unapologetic conservationist and has quite often found this clashing with his role as a government servant, a trait portrayed honestly in this book. His passion for nature has seen him tramping up and down the remotest areas of this mountain state for the last 20 years. His detailed account of some of the major and more difficult treks is unique in that he brings to bear on these journeys his administrative insights and experience, which adds depth and perspective to his observations and narrative. The author is now retired and settled in a small village (pop. 225; 224 when his wife dumps him for Delhi, which is quite often) 20 km above Shimla. He is a relentless blogger and spends his remaining time tending to his apple plants and looking for golf balls that he unerringly drives into the forests every time.
Avey
Varghese
Avey Varghese, hailing from a traditional Christian family in Kerala, completed his engineering in Bangalore, where he worked for over a decade in the ITES. In early 2011, he shifted his base to Chennai when he discovered his innate veiled love for photography. Avey stepped gingerly into the realm of framing moments with a simple point-and-shoot camera. The vivid colors of nature, azure skies, and candid portraits found a place in his frames in his initial days. In no time, he advanced into portfolios and celebrity shoots. Photography consumed a greater space in his life, escalating from being an ardent passion to an earnest profession. Avey's snaps elucidate his eye for detail and impeccable framing, making them seem life-like and touching the soul of the beholder. His cosmopolitan stance and love for traveling made him an avid voyager, exploring many lands and capturing exquisite frames.
Avinash
Pushkarna
With his graduation in Zoology (Honours) and later a degree in Law from Delhi University, Avinash Pushkarna joined the State Bank of India as a Probationary Officer in 1983. But his passion to be a Civil Servant made him join the Government of India in 1986. He has put in around thirty years of active service and is presently serving as an Additional Commissioner of Customs, Central Excise & Service Tax. He has received World Customs Organisation’s Certificate of Merit for his distinguished service. A passionate and voracious reader, Avinash aspires to be an author of repute. My Red Butterfly is his debut novel.
With his graduation in Zoology (Honours) and
later a degree in Law from Delhi University, Avinash Pushkarna joined the State Bank of India as a Probationary
Officer in 1983. But his passion to be a Civil Servant made him join the
Government of India in 1986. He has put in around thirty years of active
service and is presently serving as an Additional Commissioner of Customs,
Central Excise & Service Tax. He has received World Customs Organisations
Certificate of Merit for his distinguished service. A passionate and voracious
reader, Avinash aspires to be an author of repute. My Red Butterfly is his debut novel.
Ayesha
Siddiqa
Ayesha Siddiqa is a Pakistani political scientist, a
political commentator and an author who serves as a research associate at the
SOAS South Asia Institute.
