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Nilankur Das
Nilankur Das spearheads the organisation 'thus' to add value to the increasing social capital of Goa, through managing, organising, and curating interdisciplinary programmes that foster critical growth and understanding. Starting at the People Tree shop at 6 Assagao, these events now are held in venues across Goa. The events are multidisciplinary in nature, on the likes of - presentations, lecture demonstrations, theatres, live acoustic and original music gigs, documentary and indie film screenings, book releases, and others. The idea is to create spaces for art and activism related programmes that constantly inspire conversations on rights based and contemporary social issues. For more - thuscritique.wordpress.com
Moushumi Kandali
Moushumi Kandali is a bilingual writer (Assamese and English), art critic, and translator. She has published four collections of short stories, three research books on visual art, and two books of translations. Kandali has worked as a permanent faculty in the Literary Arts (Creative Writing) Stream at the School of Culture and Creative Expressions, Ambedkar University, Delhi. She has received several awards for her innovative and experimental creative writing. Her stories have been included in the Oxford Anthology of North East Writing, Penguin Anthology of Fifteen Classic Assamese Short Stories and others. Her specialized areas of academic engagement are literary cultures and visual cultural practices of North Eastern India. Kandali currently teaches in the Department of Cultural Studies at Tezpur Central University.
Tarun Bhartiya
Tarun Bhartiya is a political activist based in Shillong. He is also a documentary filmmaker, photographer, and Hindi poet. His ‘cycle’ of six documentary shorts collectively titled Songs to Live By (2016), shot in the Khasi, Garo, and Jaintia Hills in Meghalaya, in places inhabited by communities that share a largely oral culture, explore what folk music means to a particular village or community. He also made The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway (part of the BBC series Indian Hill Railways, which won a Royal Television Society Award); edited In Camera by Ranjan Palit (for which he won a National Award); Jashn-e-Azadi by Sanjay Kak; and Girl Song and Songlines by Vasudha Joshi.
Pantaleão Fernandes
Pantaleão Fernandes is a Goa-based writer, photographer and ethnographer. His books include 100 Goan Experiences (2006); Goa Remembered (2011); Traditional Occupations of Goa (2015); and a children’s book Once Upon a Time in Goa (2015). Fernandes scours Goan villages, for hidden cultural stories which he tells with his short documentary films entitled ‘Untold stories from Goa’. He was recently conferred with an international award by the Instituto Felga I Gracias in Brazil for excellence for his contribution using photography towards the cause of preserving Goa’s art and culture. His photographs have been displayed at an exhibition “Goa – Fusao de Culturas” at Lisbon.
Mini Krishnan
Mini Krishnan is Editor-Translations, Oxford University Press. She sources and edits fiction, plays, travelogues, autobiographies and biographies from 16 Indian languages into English. Mini was formerly with Macmillan India where she edited the Modern Indian Novels in Translation (37 volumes, 1992-2000). Several of her literary translations have won the Crossword Award for translation. She served as Member, Indian Literature Abroad, a Ministry of Culture initiative to promote Indian writers in six UNESCO languages; and as PAC Member, National Translation Mission (2006-2013). She was the Founding Editor of the South Asia Women Writers Website hosted by the British Council (2004-2006). Mini has been a Charles Wallace Awardee twice and served as Advisor to The Hindu (1992-1998).
Isabel Santa Rita Vas
Isabel Santa Rita Vas is Guest Faculty, Department of English, Goa University. She is a founder member of The Mustard Seed Art Company, an amateur theatre group from Goa and an author and director. Rita Vas is the author of a collection of plays, Frescoes in the Womb: Six Plays from Goa (2012). All the plays in the collection have their centre in Goa, but often radiate out of their birthplace into a larger world, as do the destinies of numerous people from Goa who figure in it.
Manohar Shetty
Manohar Shetty is a Goa-based poet and widely considered one of the most prominent among those writing in English. His new collection of poems Full Disclosure: New and Collected Poems (1981-2017) was published recently. In addition to several poetry volumes such as Morning Light (2016); Personal Effects (2015); Living Room: Poems (2014); and Creatures Great and Small (2014); Shetty has edited Ferry Crossing: Short Stories from Goa (1998) and Goa Travels: Being the Accounts of Travellers from the 16th to the 21st Century (2014). His poems have been translated into Finnish, German, Italian, Marathi, and Slovenian. Shetty has been a Homi Bhabha Fellow and Senior Sahitya Akademi Fellow.
S. V. Srinivas
S V Srinivas has a PhD from University of Hyderabad. He taught in Secunderabad and Itanagar before joining the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society (CSCS), Bangalore, in 1998. He has held visiting appointments at the National University of Singapore (NUS); Georgetown University, Washington DC; the Indian Institute of Science (IISc); and the University of Hyderabad. Srinivas’ research explores the complex linkages between popular culture and mass politics. He is the author of two books on cinema and politics in India: Megastar (2009) and Politics as Performance (2013). Srinivas currently teaches courses in Humanities and Media, Society and Development at Azim Premji University, Bengaluru.
Mayank Singh
Mayank Singh is Joint Registrar with the Banaras Hindu University (BHU), also his alma mater, from where he completed his Master’s degree in Chemistry. His novella Mumbai 26/11: The Untold Story was published in 2009. Singh’s novel Wolf’s Lair (2017) is India’s first military thriller set in a contemporary milieu. He blogs actively and is a regular contributor for The Times of India and Fair Observer, a Washington-based online magazine, where his articles on contemporary political and strategic issues have earned him wide acclaim. Political violence, terrorism and its impact on socio-political landscape across the world are critically analysed in his writings. His views and opinions have also been published by leading dailies/magazines like First Post, Swarajya, Governance Now and Central Chronicle.
Neeta Raghunath Torne
Neeta Raghunath Torne is a well-known poet and writer. She has excelled in the field of literature through her poems, articles, and other writings. An Associate Professor at SSA, Government College, Pernem (Goa), her published work includes Ek Oll Kavitechi (2011) and Jagtana… (2013) while leaving (a multilingual way of expression), a collection of multilingual poems translated in three different languages Konkani, Hindi and English (also translated into Kannada by Mohan Habbu in 2016). She won the Kavi B Award (2012); the Kavi Narendra Bodke Smruti Puraskar (2012); and the Kavita Shree Award (2014) by Ankur Sahitya Akola. She has presented several research papers at various seminars and conferences in Goa and elsewhere in the country.
