6 - 8 December 2018 , Thu - Sat.
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Deepa Narayan
Deepa Narayan is an international poverty, gender and development adviser who has worked at the World Bank, the United Nations and in the non-governmental sector. She was Senior Advisor in the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management group of the World Bank from 2003 to 2008. She served on advisory groups of the World Economic Forum for four years. In 2011, Foreign Policy magazine named Narayan one of 100 most influential global thinkers. India Today named her one of India’s 35 Great Thinkers. She has authored or co-authored seventeen books. Her groundbreaking Voices of the Poorstudies brought together the experiences of 60,000 poor women and men from 60 countries to re-examine core assumptions about poverty. Deepa’s latest book, Chup: Breaking the Silence About India’s Women, is based on 600 interviews with middle class and upper class educated women in metros, the book demonstrates why current approaches to women’s empowerment and leadership will not work and how these must be changed. It catalogues in detail every day behaviors clustered into 7 habits.
Maithreyi Karnoor
Maithreyi Karnoor is a poet and a translator. A Handful of Sesame, her English translation of the Sahitya Akademi Award-winning Kannada novel, Halla Bantu Halla was published this year. Another translation – a Sahitya Akademi publication – of a collection of plays by H. S. Shivaprakash is forthcoming. She was shortlisted for the Montreal International Poetry Prize in 2017. Maithreyi’s works, including poetry, translations, literary and theatre reviews have appeared in The Hindu, The Wire, Indian Express, Daily O, Muse India, Indian Literature and elsewhere. She lives in Goa.
Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd
Kancha Ilaiah ‘Shepherd’ is Director, Centre for Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy (CSSEIP), Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad, and earlier taught at the Department of Political Science, Osmania University. A political theorist, writer, and activist for Dalit rights, he writes in both English and Telugu. Kancha worked on land reform in Andhra Pradesh for his MPhil and on the political dimensions of Buddhism for his PhD. His doctoral research was published as God as Political Philosopher: Buddha’s Challenge to Brahminism (2001). He is the author and co-author of several books in English and Telugu, including Why I am Not a Hindu: A Sudra Critique of Hindutva Philosophy, Culture and Political Economy (1996); Post-Hindu India: A Discourse in Dalit-Bahujan, Socio-Spiritual and Scientific Revolution (2009); and recently published his memoirs, From a Shepherd Boy to an Intellectual: My Memoirs (2018). Kancha has been a recipient of the Mahatma Jyotirao Phule Award and was a Nehru Fellow between 1994-97.
Sophia Lorena Benjamin
Sophia Lorena Benjamin is the author of Claudia (2018), a historical romance novel set in Goa. The book has received positive reviews from bloggers, reviewers and other readers. She has worked in India as well as in Dubai with organizations like Goa Doordarshan, HSBC, Citigroup and Marks & Spencer. She does ghost writing, communications coaching and English-speaking training for students and professionals. Her articles have appeared in The Times of India, Navhind Times, Hans India, Asian Voice, Paws Magazine and elsewhere. Born and raised in Goa, Sophia currently lives in the city of Hyderabad with her husband and two children.
Vinutha Mallya
Vinutha Mallya is a journalist with more than 15 years' experience in publishing as a book editor. With a keen interest in the business of publishing in India, she has written and spoken about the subject on many forums in the past. She is currently Assistant Features Editor at Pune Mirror, Times of India Group.
Heta Pandit
Heta Pandit has worked in the field of heritage conservation for over thirty years. She is the author of (with Annabel Mascarenhas) Houses of Goa (2000); Dust & Other Short Stories from Goa (2002); Walking in Goa (2004); In & Around Old Goa (2005); Hidden Hands: The Master Builders of Goa (2003); Walking with Angels (2006); and There's More to Life than a House in Goa (2015). Heta is associated with the Charles Correa Foundation as well as the Goa Heritage Action Group, Panaji, Goa. She is currently engaged in carrying out an independent research project on Goa’s unique kaavi art. Her book Grinding Stories on Goan songs sung over the grinding stone (oviyos) is currently in print.
Ganesh Devy
Ganesh Devy writes in three languages - English, Marathi and Gujarati – and his most recent book is The Crisis Within (2017). His other recent books (in English) include The G N Devy Reader (2009); and A Nomad Called Thief (2006). His Marathi book Vanaprasth received several awards. Ganesh led the People's Linguistic Survey of India in 2010 which published 50 Volumes of The People's Linguistic Survey of India. He is also the Founder of the Bhasha Research and Publication Centre, Vadodra; Adivasi Academy, Tejgadh. Ganesh has been awarded the Padma Shri, the Sahitya Akademi Award, the SAARC Writers’ Foundation Award and Prince Claus Award in recognition of his work on tribals, nomadic tribes and other oppressed communities and dying out languages.
Augusto Pinto
Augusto Pinto is an Associate Professor in the Department of English, S. S. Dempo College, Goa. He is a book reviewer, essayist and translator from Konkani into English. He has translated the work of several important Konkani writers into English. Among the books where his work has been recently published are The Salt of the Earth: Stories from Rustic Goa by Jayanti Naik (2017) where he has translated her best short stories with an afterword; and Goa: A Garland of Poems (2017), an anthology of Goan poetry.
Hune Margulies
Hune Margulies is an author, poet and university professor. Dr. Hune Margulies is the founder and director of The Martin Buber Institute for Dialogical Ecology. Margulies completed his Doctoral studies at Columbia University in New York. He holds a Masters Degree in Philosophy from Fordham University, as well as a Masters degree in Urbanism from Hunter College of the City University of New York. Dr. Margulies taught at various universities in New York and lectured at different universities and cultural institutions around the world. Margulies is the author of the book "will and grace: meditations on the dialogical philosophy of martin buber", published by Sense/Brill Publishers in October 2017. This book in the Philosophy of Religion and in Religious Philosophy, focuses on a critical observation of theological principles, beliefs and institutions through a perspective that combines insights from Dialogical Philosophy and some aspects of Zen Buddhism. The link to the book is: http://tinyurl.com/
Vishvesh Kandolkar
Vishvesh Kandolkar is an Associate Professor at Goa College of Architecture, and a doctoral student at Manipal University through the Srishti Institute of Art, Design, and Technology, Bangalore. He writes op-eds as well as art and architectural criticism. His writings can be accessed at: http://wishvesh.blogspot.com/.
