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S.
Ramaswamy
S.
Bhyrappa
S L Bhyrappa is a Kannada novelist, whose works are immensely
popular both within and beyond Karnataka. Widely regarded as one of Indias
foremost writers, his novels are unique in terms of theme, structure, and
characterisation. Recipient of Saraswathi Samman for Mandra, Bhyrappa has the honour of receiving
many other awards as well. His novels are translated into almost all
Indian languages including Sanskrit and English.
S.
Muthiah
S. Muthiah, educated in Sri Lanka, India and the United
States, was a senior journalist in Sri Lanka for 17 years and then was in
printing and publishing in India for 22 years. His interest in the historical
has led to him being described as the Chronicler of Madras. Chronicled in
over 35 books are the stories of Madras (Chennai), those of several of its
leading institutions as well as of some of its eminent personalities, beside
those of two communities he has been part of: The Indo- Lankans and the Nattukottai
Chettiars. A full-time writer and editor since 1990, Muthiah edits Madras Musings, a fortnightly on the
city. He is also a columnist for The
Hindu, Madras. His best-known books are Madras
Rediscovered, MadrasIts Past and its
Present, A Madras Miscellany, Getting India on the Move, The Spencer Legend, Looking Back from Moulmein, The
Ace of Clubs, The Indo-Lankans
and The Chettiar Heritage. He was
awarded the MBE (1992) by the Queen of England for his work on heritage and
environmental conservation.
Saba
Risaluddin
Saba Risaluddin, born in England, is an established writer known for her expertise in gardening literature. She has also written and broadcasted extensively on interfaith issues. In this unique work, she combines her knowledge of these seemingly different subjects, drawing from her travels in Europe, Asia (her late husband being from India), and North America. Since 1996, she has resided in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, where she also works as a freelance translator.
Sadaf
Hussain
Chef, author and podcaster, Sadaf Hussain (left)
wears many hats! When he isn’t chewing on food
history or food stories, Sadaf likes to write
and speak about culture and myth busting.
Sadhna
Shanker
Sadhna Shanker is an author, essayist, and travel writer. Her first book, "Ahlanwasahlan – A Syrian Journey," was published in English, Hindi, and Arabic in 2006. Her collection of essays, "When the Parallels Meet," was published in 2007. Shanker's work has been published widely, including in the International Herald Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, The Times of India, Hindustan Times, The Hindu, Indian Express, and Femina.
Sagarika
Chakraborty
Sagarika Chakraborty studied law at National Law University, Jodhpur, and is currently pursuing a management program at the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad. Her projects and articles cover a diverse range of subjects, including corporate governance principles with special emphasis on emerging and transition economies, monetary economics, and religion. Her work has been published in Indian and international publications. Sagarika has presented papers at international conferences in Sydney, Wellington, and Washington D.C. She has also written light fiction and poetry for both online and print media. This is her first book.
Sagarika Chakraborty studied law at National Law University, Jodhpur
and is currently studying management at Indian School of Business, Hyderabad.
Her projects and articles on diverse subjectscorporate governance principles
with special emphasis on emerging and transition economies, monetary economics,
religionhave been published in Indian and international publications. Sagarika
has presented papers at international conferences in Sydney, Wellington and
Washington D.C. She has also written light fiction and poetry for the online
and print media. This is her first book.
Salil
Sojwal
Salil Sojwal Salil Sojwal lives in Mumbai. Ex-advertising, ex-design, exhausted mostly. These illustrations are for his five-year-old daughter, for when she grows up reading this book.
Salma
Husain
Salma Husain is a passionate cook, food historian, and a Persian scholar; she has used the language in exploring the history of food. Salma has worked with the Star Celebrity Chef Gary Rhodes from London for a British television serial and also with South Korean Television for their series on Indian food. She has appeared on Indian television with her feature Journey of Kabab, which has been telecast by Urdu TV as well. At present, Salma is working as a consultant of Indian food with ITC Hotels. She writes articles and columns on food for popular journals and newspapers and has award-winning cookbooks to her credit. Salma received the National Tourism Award 2009 from the Vice-President of India Md. Hamid Ansari.
Samar
Khan
Samar Khan is a journalist, a film-maker and now an author.
He has had a 20-year journey in the world of media and entertainment. Having
started his career as a TV journalist with NDTV, Samar has directed two feature
films including the critically acclaimed Shaurya and the highly successful
documentary Living with a Super Star.
Samaresh
Bose
Samaresh Bose regarded undisputedly as one of the greatest Bengali writers of all times, was born in 1924 in Dhaka and spent his adolescent years in Naihati undergoing varied work experiences, ranging from hawking eggs on the streets to acting as a foreman in the Ichhapore ordnance factory. He wrote his first novel at the age of 21 and soon emerged as a major writer on the Bengali literary scene. His stories have been made into award-winning films. He has been a recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award (1980).
Samarpan
.
Samarpan is a monk, writer, teacher with several
well-known publications to his name, like Tiya:
A Parrots Journey Home, Param, Junglezen Sheru, and Carving a Sky: A Perspective on Life. His transcribed talks at the
university of his organisation on Scriptures in Bengali, are available in book
form at archive.org. and they cover the entire range of Indian spiritual
traditions.
Sami
Khan
Sami Ahmad Khan is a writer, academic, and documentary
producer.Completing his masters in English at Jawaharlal Nehru University
(JNU), he went to the University of Iowa on a Fulbright grant. He holds a PhD
degree in SF, and is a member of the Indian Science Fiction Writers
Association (ISFWA) and the Indian Association for Science Fiction Studies
(IASFS). Red Jihad, Samis debut thriller, won NBTs National Debut Youth
Fiction Award and was runner-up in the Muse India Young Writer Award.
Samit
Das
Samit Das specializes in painting, photography, interactive artworks, and artists' books, creating multisensory environments through art and architectural installations, with a deep interest in archiving. He has held solo shows in Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai, Mumbai, Singapore, and London. He documented the Tagore House Museum in Kolkata (1999-2000). Samit's research on Santiniketan's architecture started in 1994 and culminated through exhibitions, Radio Talk, Slide Shows including 'The Idea of Space and Rabindranath Tagore: A Photographic Exhibition' (Lalit Kala Akademi, Delhi) and 'In Search of Frozen Music' (Nature Morte) in 2011.
Samita
Chaudhuri
Samita Chaudhuri completed her post-graduation in pharmaceutical technology at Jadavpur University, followed by doctoral and post-doctoral research at Calcutta University. She has worked as a quality assurance manager at various pharmaceutical companies and currently teaches pharmacy at a government polytechnic college. In addition to her academic and professional pursuits, Samita is a trained rock climber, an experienced high-altitude trekker, and a passionate photographer.
Sanchit
Gupta
Sanchit
Gupta began his career as a
part-time copywriter with an advertising agency in Mumbai. He went on to
co-found his own theatre group, worked as a freelance film screenwriter and as
executive producerfiction for a leading television network. He is also a brand
management professional with a wide range of brand building and communication
development experience. His short stories have been published in several
esteemed publications and literary journals, and have won acclaim in leading
literary festivals and online forums.His film script based on this book has
been long-listed for the Sundance
Screenwriters Lab 2017- International.
Sangeeta and
Ratnesh Mathur
Sangeeta
and Ratnesh Mathur have lived and
worked in many cities in Asia and Europe. They began building a personal
collection of Indian comics, books, maps, stamps, travel and film posters,
music CDs and international film DVDs in the initial years of their travels. In
2003 they relocated to the Czech Republic, and after visiting central Europes
museums and antique shops, and regularly attending hobby club meetings, they
began expanding their collection with a specific aim of creating a museum back
in India. They added Indian picture postcards, lithographs, antiques in glass
and porcelain, coins, princely state insignia and weapons, etc. In this
endeavour, their focus, however, remained on the visual history of India and
its towns.
Sanjay
Dasgupta
Sanjay
Dasgupta trained as a mechanical
engineer, strayed into journalism and has been a journalist ever since. He is a
voracious reader, and his other passions include classical music.
Sanjay
Kanvinde
Sanjay Kanvinde, an Architect and Urban Designer by training, is presently a partner with Kanvinde Rai & Chowdhury. He has over 40 years of experience in the field of architecture and urban design and has been involved in the design of various educational institutions in India. He has been actively involved in academics as visiting faculty in the Urban Design Department, School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi, since 1980. Additionally, he has served as a visiting critic and a member of the board of studies at several schools of architecture.
Sanjeeva
Pandey
An officer of the Indian Forest Service (1982
batch), Sanjeeva Pandey has served
as Director of the Great Himalayan National Park (GHNP) from 1998 to 2006, a
prime hotspot of biological diversity in the western Himalayas, India, where he
engaged himself in biodiversity conservation through livelihood-based natural
resource management. Sanjeeva has travelled to many countries and contributed
to numerous training manuals, written papers, newspaper and journal and
electronic media articles.
Sankarankutty
Pottekkat
Sankarankutty Pottekkat, popularly known as S.K. Pottekat, is an iconic Malayalam writer. He is the author of nearly 60 books which include 10 novels, 24 collections of short stories, and 18 travelogues.Pottekkat won the Kerala Sahitya Academy Award in 1961 for the novel Oru Theruvinte Katha (The Story of a Street). His autobiographical novel Oru Desathinte Katha (The Story of a Locale) won, in succession, the Kerala Sahitya Academy Award (1971), the Kendra Sahitya Award (1977), and the Jnanpith Award (1980). His works have been translated into English, Italian, Russian, German, and Czech, as well as all major Indian languages.
Santanu
Chaudhuri
Santanu Sinha Chaudhuri began his career as a banker. Since reengineering his
career in 2000, he has taught English to adult learners at different
institutions including the British Council English Language Centre in Kolkata.
He writes on learning English language and other topics and translates Bengali
fiction into English.
Subrata
Sanyal
Subrata Sanyal, an engineer by profession, is currently engaged as a
consultant of techno-commercial services. Born and brought up in North Bengal,
he feels a close relationship with the people of Bhutan, with whom he has
interacted during the course of his professional visits to Bhutan. This book is
a direct result of his visits to Bhutan over the last 20 years.
Sarah
Surgey
Sarah Surgey has been a freelance writer and teacher for over 10 years.
Sarat
Chattopadhyay
Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay (18761938) was an illustrious Bengali novelist and short story writer of the early 20th century. Many of his stories narrate the lives, tragedies, and struggles of the village people and the contemporary social practices that prevailed in Bengal. His writing matured at a time when the national movement was gaining momentum together with an awakening of social consciousness.
Sensitive and daring, his novels captivated the hearts and minds of innumerable readers both in Bengal and the rest of India. His best known novels include Palli Samaj (1916), Choritrohin (1917), Devdas (1917), Nishkriti (1917), Srikanta (1917), Datta (1918), Griha Daha (1920), and Sesh Prashna (1929). Many of his stories were adopted for well-crafted and popular films in Bengali and Hindi languages for many years.He remains the most popular, most translated, most adapted, and the most plagiarized Indian author of all time.
Sarbani
Putatunda
Sarbani
Putatunda, a retired professor of
English, is passionately involved in creative and critical writings. Other than
authoring and editing several books she loves translating interesting works of
other authors too.
Sarbari
Sinha
Deputy Editor, Frontline, Chennai, Sarbari Sinha has worked with the print
media (The Statesman, Kolkata; Hindustan Times, Kolkata and New Indian Express,
Chennai). She joined Frontline in 2005. She has published translations of
Bengali short stories in various magazines including Sahitya Akademis Indian
Literature. Postgraduate in English Literature, Calcutta University (1994),
Sinha has attended seminars and translation workshops at the University of East
Anglia in Norwich on a Charles Wallace Trust fellowship (2008).
Sarit
Chaudhuri
Sarit K. Chaudhuri is the Director of the National Museum of Mankind, IGRMS, Bhopal. From 2003 to 2005, he served as a postdoctoral fellow in a collaborative project involving SOAS, British Museum, CCRD, and Rajiv Gandhi University, Arunachal Pradesh. He has previously worked with AnSI, Shillong, and served as a professor and head of the Department of Anthropology at Rajiv Gandhi University, Arunachal Pradesh. Dr. Chaudhuri has authored 9 books and 52 research papers.
Shubha
Sarma
Shubha Sarma Born and brought up in
Lucknow, Shubha Sarma is an alumnus of Lady Shri Ram College
and Jawaharlal Nehru University and a member of the Indian Administrative
Service. A Yoga practitioner, she enjoys travelling, swimming and tending to
her bonsai collection. Her debut book, Fly
on the Wall & Other Stories was launched in 2013 and was
translated into Hindi and Italian. It received rave reviews from readers and
critics alike. Her body of work displays strong characters and reflects the
changing times that confront us. This is her second novel.
Sarmistha
De
Sarmistha De is an archivist at the State Archives of West Bengal. She earned her PhD in History from Jadavpur University. Her research is primarily based on archival sources, focusing on the condition and treatment of marginalized Europeans in colonial India.
Sarmistha
Gupta
Sarmistha
Dutta Gupta is a literary
translator and an activist of the womens movement.
Sarojesh
Mukerjee
Sarojini
Naidu
Sarvepalli
Radhakrishnan
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan was an Indian philosopher and statesman who was
the first Vice President of India (19521962) and the second President of India
from 1962 to 1967.
Satyabrata
Rout
Satyabrata Rout Dr Satyabrata Rout is a noted scenographer and director of contemporary Indian theatre. He has completed his post-graduation in design and direction from the National School of Drama, New Delhi in 1983, and thereafter was associated with various institutions and organisations like Rangmandal, Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal, Theatre-in-Education Company, NSD Extension Programme, etc. Satyabrata is one of the pioneers in conceptualising Visual Theatre in India, and has designed and directed more than 75 plays of international repute.
Saurav
Dasthakur
Saurav Dasthakur is Assistant Professor of English at Visva-Bharati. His areas of research include Modernist Literature, Childrens Literature, Culture Studies and Translation. He has published academic articles in books and journals of national and international repute, including the Journal of Asian Studies, and co-guest-edited a special issue of Sangeet Natak, the journal of Sangeet Natak Akademi, New Delhi, on Rabindranath Tagore.
Scheherazade
Alim
Scheherazade Alim studied law at the University of Oxford and spent twenty years in Dubai, where she held the position of senior corporate/commercial lawyer with Clifford Chance. "Enjoyable Grammar" was her first book. Her articles have appeared in Outlook, India. The author is the great-great-granddaughter of Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, founder of Aligarh Muslim University, and the granddaughter of Syed Ross Masood, grandson of the founder and a distinguished former vice-chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University.
Konrad
Seitz
Konrad Seitz The author, Dr Phil. Konrad Seitz, lived in India for many years, including from 19871990 as a German ambassador. He and his wife, Eva Seitz, rank among the most important private collectors of Indian miniature paintings worldwide.Their readiness to share their collection with art lovers all over the world both in publications like this one and through major donations to museums has done much to enhance our appreciation of the marvels of Indian painting.
Sekhar
Chakrabarti
Sekhar Chakrabarti is an internationally famed philatelist and postal history collector. His other passion is vexillology, which he has incorporated into his philatelic collections.
Saswati
Sen
Saswati Sen, regarded as one of the best exponents of the famous Lucknow gharana of Kathak, is the driving force behind Kalashram, Pandit Birju Maharaj’s dream institution. She has received the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award, the Sanskriti, the Shringar Mani Award, and the Critic’s Recommendation Award. She has performed at the RIMPA (Ravi Shankar Institute for Music and Performing Arts) festival in Varanasi, the Kathak Prasang in Bhopal and Jaipur, and the prestigious Khajuraho Festival of dance, among others. After her initial training under Reba Chatterjee Vidyarthi at the Bharatiya Kala Kendra in New Delhi, she was awarded the National Scholarship in 1969 by the Ministry of Culture. She then graduated to become one of the foremost disciples of Pandit Birju Maharaj.
Shailaja
Menon
Shailaja
Menon is a certified Manasa yoga teacher, speaker,
and freelance writer/editor based in Malaysia. She has over 18 years of
experience in yoga, both as a teacher and as a practitioner, and teaches at her
studio, Mat & Beyond Yoga Studio in Malaysia. Her ability to
translate the practice of yoga from mere shapes on a mat to a living, breathing
philosophy and way of life is what makes her classes, writings, and
perspectives so insightful. Through this she is able to transform and elevate
an individuals life at every levelphysical, mental, emotional and spiritual.
Shalina
Mehta
Prof. Shalina Mehta, a Ph.D from Delhi University, retired from Panjab University, Chandigarh, having taught social and cultural anthropology for forty years at the Department of Anthropology. She has published extensively on various subjects of contemporary interest and has more than 70 articles published in national and International journals of repute. She has three books and four edited volumes to her credit. She has been a recipient of several National and International Honours and Awards and is nominated to various national and International academic bodies.
Shalini
Chugh
Shalini Chugh is a marketing professional who completed her MBA from IMS Indore. She has a special interest in traveling and the art and architecture of India, particularly Rajasthan. This interest led her to work with her husband on developing and marketing new projects and designs inspired by the traditional arts and crafts of India. In her quest to understand the finest works, she has traveled to discover and unravel many hidden architectural treasures of marble and stone marvels in the country.
Shams Afif
Siddiqi
Shankar
Sen
Shankar
Sen (1936-2012),
an engineer and a retired bank executive, writes prose and poetry in both
English and Bengali and has had ten books published during the last seven
years. In addition to his own collections of poems in English and Bengali and
short stories in English. Shankar Sen has translated some of the best-known
works of eminent Bengali authors in English. His last book, The Quest,
is an English translation of the film-script of filmmaker Goutam Ghoses critically
acclaimed Moner Manush based on a novel by Sunil Gangopadhyay.
Shanta
Gokhale
Shanta Gokhale is a writer, translator, cultural critic and theatre historian.
She writes in English and Marathi. She has published two novels in Marathi, Rita Welinkar and Tya Varshi. Both won the Maharashtra State award for the best novel
of the year. The first novel was recently adapted as a film, Rita by her daughter Renuka Shahane. She
has written numerous scripts for documentary, corporate and feature films, some
of which have won national awards.Shanta has also written columns for Mid-Day, The Times of India, Loksatta
and Saptahik Sakal. She has been
writing a fortnightly column on culture for Mumbai
Mirror for five years.
Shayoni
Mitra
Shayoni Mitra is a travel journalist. Her writing has been featured in various national and international travel magazines and guidebooks.
Shefali
Mehta
A novelist, a poet, and a social worker, Shefali Tripathi Mehta has a multifarious professional personality. People on Our Roof is her fifth book and the second work of fiction after Stuck Like Lint (2017). She has published short stories and poems in anthologies and online. She writes on disability awareness, social issues, travel, and parenting. For close to ten years, Shefali wrote the cover story for the Sunday supplement of the Deccan Herald. She lives in Bangalore and works with the Azim Premji Foundation. Shefali volunteers with the disability organization Arushi and curates Gond art to support tribal artists.
