7 - 10 December 2017 , Thu - Sun.
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Jose Lourenco
Jose Lourenco's short fiction, poetry, translations and essays in Konkani and English have appeared in various publications. He is also the author of The Parish Churches of Goa: A Study of Façade Architecture (2005). His publishing firm Amazing Goa Publications experiments with innovative products for education and information. A civil engineer by profession, he is a founder-member of the Goa Writers group.
Pragya Bhagat
Pragya Bhagat has lived in nine cities across five countries. She has degrees in Biology and Dalit and Tribal Studies, taught children, and coached teachers. She now lives in the hills of Kumaon, writing. Bhagat has performed her poetry across India and America, from coffee shops to colleges, from open mics to India’s first spoken word festival. She is the author of More Than a Memory, a poetry collection that has been called ‘a melodious autobiography’. Her fiction and nonfiction have been published in The Huffington Post, Helter Skelter, The Open Road Review, and The Bombay Review, amongst others. She is a fan of Bollywood, the violin, and cold milk.
Chitra Viraraghavan
Chitra Viraraghavan has worked in academic publishing, taught English, and is a book editor, school textbook writer, author of The Americans: A Novel (Fourth Estate, 2014), and co-editor of Madras On My Mind: A City in Stories (HarperCollins India, 2017). Delhi Thaatha: A Great Grand Story, a children’s book about a philosopher, is forthcoming from Seagull Books (2018). She is working on her second novel, a work of historical fiction.
Sadia Dehlvi
Sadia Dehlvi is a Delhi-based author and columnist whose writings have focused on issues of faith, heritage, minorities, and women for nearly 40 years. She is the author of three books: Sufism: The Heart of Islam (2010); The Sufi Courtyard: Dargahs of Delhi (2012) and the recent Jasmine and Jinns: Memories and Recipes of My Delhi (2017). Dehlvi has produced and directed a television series - The Sufi Courtyard (Sufiyon ka Aangan) - which documents the spiritual legacy and the living traditions of important dargahs in India. She also co-produced and scripted the television series Amma and Family and played one of the main roles. Sadia’s surname Dehlvi signifies her family's centuries old connection with the city of Delhi.
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 -Â thuscritique.wordpress.com
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.
Subodh Sarkar
Subodh Sarkar is a poet, writer, and editor. He teaches English at City College, Kolkata. Since publishing his first book of poems (1976) in Bengali, he now has 31 books in Bengali and 4 books in English to his credit. Sarkar has edited and guest-edited Indian Literature. He was a Fulbright Fellow for 2016-2017 and taught post-colonial literature at the University of Iowa. He is a recipient of Bangabhushan from the Government of West Bengal (2015); D Litt (Honoris Causa) from University of Gour Banga (2015); and the Gangadhar Meher National Award for Poetry from Sambalpur University (2016). He is now the President of State Kobita Academy, Government of West Bengal. In 2013, Sarkar won the Sahitya Akademi Award for Dwaipayan Hrader Dhare.
Kornelia Santoro
Kornelia Santoro completed her education as a certified journalist and worked for a decade as news editor for radio and as political journalist for a newspaper in Bavaria. She also coached young journalists in Poland shortly after the Iron Curtain came down. She is a creative spirit and loves to experiment in the kitchen and to explore the human relationship with food. Her three cookbooks, Kornelia’s Kitchen: Mediterranean Cooking for India (2010); Kornelia’s Kitchen 2: Cooking for Allergies (2013); and Cooking for Happiness (2016) have all won the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards. Cooking for Happiness received the ‘Best of the World’ title at the final of the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards in 2017. Santoro also writes for magazines and websites in India and Europe. She lives in Goa with her family.
Shelly Bhoil
Shelly Bhoil lives in India and Brazil. In addition to her debut poetry book An Ember from Her Pyre (2016), she has published academic papers and poetry in over two dozen books and journals. Bhoil brought out, with Tsering Shakya, the Muse India Edition of Tibetan Writings in English (2014). Her forthcoming publications include two co-edited volumes: Resistant Hybridities: Tibetan Narratives in Exile (2018) and Negotiating Dispossession: Tibetan Subjectivties on a Global Stage (2018). Bhoil has received Commendation Prize in All India Poetry Competition 2016, Third Prize in Rabindranath Tagore International Poetry Prize 2016, first place in Tahoe Safe Alliance Writing Contest 2011, and honourable mention in FLEFF Checkpoint Story Contest 2011, Ithaca University.
Krishna Shastri Devulapalli
Krishna Shastri Devulapalli is a humour writer, cartoonist, columnist and the quintessential Madras-Chennai novelist. His first novel Ice Boys in Bell-bottoms is a chronicle of a 1970s childhood in the city while Jump Cut is a seriocomic thriller with the Madras film industry as its backdrop. His comic epistolary play, Dear Anita, sends up the Indian publishing industry, as does a work of non-fiction, How To Be A Literary Sensation. His most recent novel is The Sentimental Spy: The Family Bond. He is also the co-editor of the anthology Madras On My Mind: A City in Stories.
