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Neeta Torne
Neeta Raghunath Torne is a Poet, Writer and Compere. She is a Associate Professor of Marathi at S. S. A. Government College Pernem Goa.
Her Published works includes ‘EK Oll Kavitechi (Anthology 2011) and ‘Jagtana-While Living –A Multi lingual way of expression which was released at the hands of Renowned Poet and Lyricist Shri.Gulzaar at IVth GALF 2013. ‘Quest for new light’ selected poems translated into English and Kannada published in june 2016.
She has received Kavi B Puraskar 2012, ‘Kavi Narendra Bodke smruti Puraskar 2012, for Ek oll Kavithechi .
She has also worked as the Co-ordinator of Short film and Documentary Competition for the IInd and IIIrd Goa Environmental film Festival organized by the Kalakruti Porvorim Goa.
She has presented various poems at National and State level poetry recitation programmes.
She has Presented various Research Papers at various Seminars and Conferences in Goa as well as in Maharashtra.
Patricia Pereira-Sethi
Patricia Pereira-Sethi is an award-winning American journalist who has interviewed more than 45 heads of state during a two-decade career as correspondent, editor and United Nations Bureau chief for Newsweek magazine in New York. She now lives in Goa where she writes regular columns and has authored the biography of industrialist Ramesh Chauhan, entitled “Thunder Unbottled: From Thums Up to Bisleri.”
Willy Goes
Willy Goes (Wilfred Eusebio Goes) (born, 1963) writes in Konkani and in English. Has written five novels in Konkani, ‘Altoddi ani Poltoddi’, ‘Khand’, ‘Kantto’, ‘Kotrin’ and ‘Kapaz Jaki’. He has written one book for children titled ‘Pedru Tiva’, a collection of his short stories in Konkani titled ‘Mon Sanvrona’ and a collection of his short stories in English titled ‘Cobo’s Sofa and other Short Stories From Goa’.
Ramesh Veluskar
Ramesh Bhagavant Veluskar is a multifaceted literary personality basically writes in Konkani and has equally written in other Indian languages like Marathi, Hindi. He is a poet of repute in Konkani with his finest articulation in Konkani language and with the help of its rich idiom he re-creates new idiom making the language from rich to richest. He has nine collections of poetry published with different subjects. Collections like Morpakham, Mati, Hiranyagarbha, Saulgori and Zen Kavita are very important. Mr. Veluskar, along with poetry has written lot of prose in the form of essays, travelogues and literary appreciation. In addition to this he loves writing for children too. He has eight books for children. He has translated books of reputed literary figures like Bhas from Sanskrit, Tukaram from Marathi, Tagore from Bangla, Shri Aurobindo, Andha yug from Hindi anid Khalil Gibran very successfully. Mr. Veluskar wrote few dramas which were staged by institutions like Kala Academy’s School of Drama, Rudreshvar and others. He was awarded Shitya Academy Puraskar for his poetry collection Saulgori. Kala Academy Puraskar, Padmashri B.B.Borkar Puraskar, Goa State Cultural Award, Amrut Mohotsav Sanman Rashtrabhasha Prachar Samiti, Vardha 2013 and a national award for his SAMUDRAMUDRIKA a poetry collection in Hindi by Ministry of Human Resource Development.
Aditya Sudarshan
Aditya Sudarshan is the author of three novels, A Nice Quiet Holiday (Westland Books, 2009), Show Me A Hero (Rupa and Co., 2011) and most recently, The Persecution of Madhav Tripathi (Harper Collins India, 2015). His short stories have been published in various magazines and anthologies. He is also the author of a number of produced plays, including The Green Room, winner of the Hindu Metroplus Playwright Award for 2011. He writes literary criticism for The Hindu Literary Review and other publications, and political satire for NDTV's The Great Indian Tamasha.
http://winnowed.blogspot.in/2015/02/book-review-persecution-of-madhav.html
http://www.friendsofbooks.com/blog/book-review-the-persecution-of-madhav-tripathi
http://www.new-asian-writing.com/naw-interview-with-aditya-sudarshan/
Nabina Das
Nabina Das has two poetry collections "Blue Vessel" and "Into the Migrant City", a short story collection "The House of Twining Roses: Stories of the Mapped and the Unmapped", and a novel "Footprints in the Bajra". She teaches creative writing. A 2015-16 Commonwealth Feature Writer, a 2012 Charles Wallace Fellow, and a 2012 Lavanya Sankaran Fellow at Sangam House. Nabina has dabbled in street theater and folk and Hindustani music, and most recently, is co-editor of "40 under 40: an anthology or Post-Globalisation Poetry".
https://northeastreview.wordpress.com/2014/04/15/nabina-interview/
http://openroadreview.com/interview-nabina-das-kulpreet-yadav/
http://www.sunday-guardian.com/bookbeat/at-home-in-the-world-the-many-lives-of-nabina-das
http://www.syahee.com/page/nabina-das
Cyprian Fernandes
Cyprian Fernandes is the author of Yesterday in Paradise Cyprian Fernandes has been a journalist for 56 years. He was born in Nairobi, Kenya on September 16, 1943. He was forced to leave school at the age 13. He became a journalist in 1960 and the rest as they say is history. Yesterday in Paradise is his debut novel.
http://www.syahee.com/page/cyprian-fernandes
Leonard J Fernandes
Leonard Fernandes is co-founder of the Margao-based publishing house, CinnamonTeal Publishing, and of Publishing Next, India's only publishing conference. He is also the co-founder of The Dogears Bookshop in Margao. He has a master's degree in business administration from The Ohio State University, and a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the Goa Engineering College.
Ryan Lobo
Ryan Lobo is an award winning filmmaker and photographer. He is the author of the work of literary fiction “Mr. Iyer Goes to War” to be released by Bloomsbury UK in November 2016. In 2009 Ryan spoke at the TED conference about storytelling with photography to a standing ovation.
Ryan owns Mad Monitor Productions, a film and photo Production Company based in Bangalore, India. He has worked as a producer and cinematographer for more than 80 film projects for National Geographic Channel, Discovery Channel, OWN and other clients, including shooting undercover for the Emmy-nominated film Child Slaves of India, producing several films for Oprah Winfrey and several film projects in conflict zones like Iraq, Liberia and Afghanistan. Ryan Lobo has co-produced the critically acclaimed 2011 Sundance film festival award winning film, “The Redemption of General Butt naked”, the story of General Butt Naked, a former African warlord who terrorized Liberia with his child soldiers. The film won for best cinematography at the Sundance film festival in 2011 and was nominated for best feature length documentary film. He has produced episodes for the OWN series ‘Belief’ on the Kumbh Mela, Jain initiation and Holi. He currently shoots various film and photography projects for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and for the C&A foundation.
His photographs and writing have been featured in numerous magazines like GEO, Tehelka, Bidoun, The Caravan, National Geographic, the Boston review, Chimurenga, Onzeweruld, the Wall Street Journal and others. As an artist, Ryan’s limited edition photographs have been exhibited all over the world and are present in many collections. As a writer Ryan has produced the work “War and Forgiveness” from his travels in Iraq, Afghanistan and Liberia. His photographs from supermax American prisons have been used in the book “Torture and the War on Terror” by polish philosopher Tzevatan Todorov.
Ryan Lobo is the founder trustee of “The Sunbird Trust” which works towards ensuring education for children in insurgency affected areas of North Eastern India with the intention of bringing peace to conflict areas via education.
Nandini Sundar
Nandini Sundar is Professor of Sociology at the Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University. Her book, The Burning Forest: India’s War in Bastar has just been published by Juggernaut Press. She was awarded the Infosys Prize for Social Sciences - Social Anthropology (2010), and the Ester Boserup Prize for Development Research (2016). Her public writings are available at http://nandinisundar.blogspot.com.
http://www.livemint.com/Leisure/zyfPVZSNYs3suCelqi4vBP/Nandini-Sundar-Militarization-of-the-imagination.html
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/272541.Nandini_Sundar
http://www.livelaw.in/pil-battles-involve-much-meets-eye/
http://socialistplatform.blogspot.in/2010/07/trophies-of-operation-green-hunt.html
The International Centre Goa, Goa Writers Group and Goa 1556 co-organised the Book Release of "From Mind to Keyboard" A collection of essays by writers of their journey(s) edited by Sheela Jaywant on 9th July 2016.
The International Centre Goa and Goa Writers Group co - organised the Book Reading & Discussion of "Guru Nanak, the Thinker and the Poet" edited by Astri Ghosh on 13th August 2016.
Department of English, Goa University in collaboration with Institute Menezes Braganza and The International Centre Goa hosted Shakespeare Festival on 14th & 15th October 2016 at at Institute Menezes Braganza Hall, Panaji - Goa.
The International Centre Goa and Goa Writers Group in association with Goa University co-organised a lecture on "Rabindranath Tagore's Photographic Self Presentations and Imaging of the Body in his paintings" by Prof. Raman Siva Kumar, internationally noted contemporary Indian art historian, art critic and curator and Mario Miranda Chair Professor in Art, Painting and Illustrative Art and Cartooning Goa University on 15th October 2016.
