6 - 8 December 2018 , Thu - Sat.
GALF 2018 : Speakers | Programme | Partners | Performances | Workshops | Exhibitions | Artwork | Press Release | Videos
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Frederick Noronha
Frederick Noronha is a Brazil-born journalist and alternative publisher from Goa. After a quarter century in journalism, spent writing for national and local media, and covering diverse fields including Goa, the environment, and ICT4D, he set up his alternative book publishing venture Goa, 1556 ( http://goa1556.in) a decade ago. Till date, this venture has published over 120 mainly non-fiction titles on Goa, mostly in English, but also in Konkani, Portuguese and Spanish. He promotes Copyleft, volunteers on the Wikipedia, and has been involved with dozens of cyber initiatives since 1995. Among his books are Another Goa (2009) and the co-edited The Green Pen: Environmental Journalism in India and South Asia (2010). He spends time in mentoring and sharing.
Casimiro Simões
Casimiro Simões was born in Lousã (Portugal) and has been working as a journalist for Lusa - Agência de Notícias de Portugal since 1989. He has published three books, all of which are in the area of social and political satire. In 2009, he published the satire Com as botas do meu pai – Pegadas do poder autárquico na vila de Vale Tudo (With the boots of my father - Footprints of the autarchic power in the village of Vale Tudo). This was followed in 2010 by Campanha bufa – Porco no espeto na safra de Vale Tudo (Campaign bufa - Pork on the spit in the harvest of Vale Tudo) - which marked the centenary of the Portuguese Republic. The final volume in the trilogy - Cornos ao sol – Agonia do carneiro velho na troika de Vale Tudo (Horns in the sun - Agony of the old sheep in the Troika of Vale Tudo) – was published in 2013. He has also written scores of chronicles and stories published in various Portuguese outlets. Casimiro headed the delegation of Coimbra da Lusa between 2005 and 2009. Earlier this year, he participated in the World Literature Festival of Sal, in Cape Verde.
Sudhir Kakar
Sudhir Kakar is a psychoanalyst, novelist, and a scholar in the fields of cultural psychology and the psychology of religion. He has been Lecturer at Harvard University and Research Associate, Harvard Business School; Professor at IIM, Ahmedabad; Head of Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT-Delhi; Senior Fellow at the Centre for Study of World Religions at Harvard University; as also Visiting Professor at the universities of Chicago (1989-92), Harvard, McGill, INSEAD (1994-2014), Melbourne, Hawaii and Vienna. Sudhir’s many honours include the Bhabha, Nehru and ICSSR National Fellowships; Fellowships of the Institutes of Advanced Study, Princeton and Berlin; the Kardiner Award of Columbia University; Boyer Prize for Psychological Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association; Merck-Tagore Award; Germany’s Goethe Medal; Rockefeller Residency; McArthur Fellowship; Distinguished Service Award of Indo-American Psychiatric Association; and the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In 2005, the French weekly Le Nouvel Observateur listed Sudhir as one of the world’s 25 major thinkers. He is the author of fourteen books of non-fiction and six of fiction, of which the latest is the novel The Kipling File. His writings have been translated into twenty-two languages around the world.
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). His latest book Goa: Rare Portraits (2018) is a pictorial depiction of the tribal life of Goa. Pantaleão 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.
Mallika Ahluwalia
Mallika Ahluwalia is the author of Divided by Partition, United by Resilience: 21 Inspirational Stories from 1947 (Rupa, 2018). She is also the CEO, Curator, and co-founder of the world's first Partition Museum, which opened at Town Hall, Amritsar in August 2017. The Museum has been getting a heart-warming response from all quarters and has been listed in the ‘Best of India: 18 Places to Visit in 2018’ list by National Geographic Traveller India. She was recently awarded an Excellence Award by Conde Nast Traveller and an ASEAN-India Youth Achiever Award for her work in honouring this history. Prior to this, Mallika worked in the field of health and education with some of the leading international development organizations, focusing on social policy that impacted the most marginalized households in India. She holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, an MPA/ID from Harvard Kennedy School and an A.B. cum laude from Princeton University in public policy. She lives in New Delhi. Three of her four grandparents were impacted by the Partition.
Radhika Menon
Radhika Menon’s deep interest in children and their reading inspired her to set up Tulika Publishers in 1996. Her publishing philosophy is underlined by the belief that translating across different languages gives voice and image to cultural diversity in a way publishing in one language does not. 15 years and around 1,000 titles later, Tulika is regarded as the benchmark of children’s publishing in India, producing books in nine languages – English, Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada, Marathi, Gujarati and Bangla. A hands-on publisher, Radhika is closely involved with visualising, editing, designing and marketing of all Tulika books. In 2000, she started the first exclusive children’s bookstore in India – Goodbooks – which she ran successfully for over five years. The Goodbooks Trust continues to advise in the setting up libraries and reading programmes. Radhika is part of the team that is setting up a website for children’s books – again a first of its kind resource on childrens’ books – which will carry reviews as well as archival articles and reviews from the 1970s. She has been on various committees of the NBT and NCERT, New Delhi, and on the advisory panel of Anveshi, Hyderabad for its project ‘Different Tales: Stories from Marginal Cultures’. Currently, she is on the advisory committee of Eklavya’s publishing programme and of their proposed Children’s Literature Centre in Bhopal.
Savia Viegas
Savia Viegas holds a PhD from the University of Mumbai. She was awarded the Senior Fulbright Fellowship in 2003 with affiliation to the Smithsonian Museum. She has completed a project entitled ‘The Family Archive: A Study of Family Portraits of Goans” under the aegis of Ministry of Culture, Government of India; and her exhibition of collated and curated old Goan photographs ‘Moments, Memory and Memorabilia’ was shown at Sunaparanta, Carpediem, Xaviers Centre for Historical Research, and MOG in Goa. Savia’s novel Let me tell you about Quinta (Penguin, 2011) has been included in the teaching of Portuguese post-colonial fiction at William and Mary College, Virginia.
Jaideep Hardikar
Jaideep Hardikar is an award-winning Nagpur based journalist/writer. He is a core team member of the People's Archive of Rural India (PARI) and a Fellow of the Mumbai School of Economics and Public Policy working on water commons. He has worked with four different newspapers for over two decades, most recently with The Telegraph as its central India Assistant Editor. Jaideep's journalism appears in several digital and print media outlets, including the BBC, ruralindiaonline.org, New Internationalist Magazine, news18.org, Hindkisan, Divya Marathi, Indian Express Online, and others. He has been the recipient of many national and international fellowships and awards, including the prestigious Prem Bhatia award for environmental journalism and Sanskriti Award for Young Journalists. Jaideep was awarded an Alfred Friendly Press Fellowship in 2009. He was also a 2015 fellow in the Asia Leadership Fellow Program hosted by the International House of Japan and the Japan Foundation at Tokyo and a Monash-DFAT fellow in 2017. Jaideep is an author of A Village Awaits Doomsday (2013), translated into Hindi as Yahan Ek Gaon Tha. The book looks at people displaced by development projects. He is currently writing a second book on farmers’ suicides and cotton growers’ struggles in a globalised world.
Ashwani Kumar
Ashwani Kumar is an Anglophone Indian poet, writer, and professor at Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS). His anthologies include My Grandfather’s Imaginary Typewriter (2014) with a prolegomenon by Ashis Nandy and Banaras and the Other (2017). Ashwani’s poems - translated in Indian languages and Hungarian - are noted for their ‘lyrical celebration’ of garbled voices of memory and their subversive ‘whimsy’ quality. Banaras, the first of a trilogy on religious cities, was long-listed for the 1st Jayadev National Poetry Award 2017. Select cantos of the Hungarian translation of Banaras were performed by Hungarian band Kalaka at the Times Lit Fest 2017 in Mumbai. He is currently working on Ayodhya, the second volume in the trilogy; the non-fiction book Biharis (forthcoming, Aleph Books); and a special volume on Tagore in Hungarian Architecture of Alphabets/Betűrendek architektúrája (forthcoming, 2019). Ashwani is the co-founder of Indian Novels Collective which brings classic novels of in Indian Literature to English readers. He is the author of Community Warriors (2008); and co-editor of Power Shifts and Global Governance (2010), Global Civil Society Yearbook 2009: Poverty and Activism (2009). Migration and Mobility (forthcoming). He also writes articles and reviews for Financial Express, the Print, Business Standard, The Hindu, Indian Express, DNA, Open Democracy and others.
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.
