6 - 8 December 2018 , Thu - Sat.
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Elizabeth Flock
Elizabeth Flock is an American journalist, author and documentary filmmaker whose work has focused on women’s and social issues. Her first book Love and Marriage in Mumbai (2018) is a New York Times' Editor's pick, and has been called a “vivid portrait of a nation in transition" (Publisher's Weekly, starred review), "deeply sympathetic but unsentimental" (NPR) and "impossible to put down" (The Washington Post). A reviewer in the Indian Express wrote that the book, which follows three couples in Mumbai over the course of a decade, “raises the right questions not just about the institution, but also of the successes and failures of the great Indian family.” Elizabeth began her career at Forbes India Magazine in Mumbai, where she did features and investigative reports. Her work has since appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, PBS NewsHour, The Atlantic, The Hindu, Hindustan Times and many other publications. She has been nominated for two Emmy awards and was a finalist for the Al Neuharth Innovation in Investigative Journalism Award. Elizabeth’s most recent work includes an investigation of sexual harassment, assault and retaliation with the U.S. Forest Service at NewsHour. That report led to the resignation of the Forest Service Chief and widespread change within the agency.
Ramachandra Guha
Ramachandra Guha is a historian and biographer. He has taught at Yale and Stanford universities; held the Arné Naess Chair, University of Oslo; and served as the Indo-American Community Visiting Professor, University of California, Berkeley and the Philippe Roman Professor of History and International Affairs, London School of Economics. In 2014, Yale University awarded him an honorary doctorate in the humanities. Ram’s books include a pioneering environmental history, The Unquiet Woods (1989); and an award-winning social history of cricket, A Corner of a Foreign Field (2002). India after Gandhi (2007) was chosen as a book of the year by the Economist, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal among others; and as a book of the decade in the Times of India, the Times of London, and The Hindu. His most recent books are Gandhi Before India (2014), which was chosen as a notable book of the year by the New York Times; and Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World (2018). The New York Times referred to him as ‘perhaps the best among India’s non-fiction writers’; and Time Magazine called him ‘Indian democracy’s pre-eminent chronicler’. Ram has received the Leopold-Hidy Prize of the American Society of Environmental History; the Malcolm Adideshiah Award for excellence in social science research; the Sahitya Akademi Award; the R. K. Narayan Prize; and the Fukoka Prize. In 2009, he was awarded the Padma Bhushan.
Yudhishthir Raj Isar
Yudhishthir Raj Isar straddles the multiple worlds of cultural theory and practice. He is Professor of Cultural Policy Studies, The American University of Paris (2002- ); and was Eminent Research Visitor, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University (2011-2013). Since January 2017, he is also the Education Director at the Aga Khan Trust for Culture. Isar was the founding co-editor of the Cultures and Globalization Series (SAGE) and has authored many book chapters and journal articles. He has been president of the European arts and culture platform Culture Action Europe (2004-2008). Isar is a trustee of cultural organizations and a consultant to foundations and international organizations, notably UNESCO.
Nalini Elvino de Sousa
Nalini Elvino de Sousa has a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from the University of Lisbon and a master's degree in Portuguese literature from Goa University. In 2006, as the manager of Lotus Film & TV Production, Nalini got the opportunity to showcase Goa to Portuguese-speaking audience via the RTPi (Portuguese International channel) and directed, anchored, and produced 75 documentaries showcasing different aspects of Goan culture, architecture, cuisine, and economics. Her 2010 short documentary ‘Water’ on various aspects of conservation was selected for the Vasudha awards at the IFFI and Kirloskar Vasundhara International Film Festival, Pune; and won the Jury award at the Nashik International Film Festival. In 2012, she directed and produced the short documentary ‘Dances of Goa’ which highlighted various dance forms specific to Goa some of which may become extinct. This was selected for the International Festival of Films on Tribal, Art & Culture (IFFTAC), Bhopal; and the Heritage Film Festival in Gujarat. It received the audience award at the Bulgarian International Film Festival ‘In the Palace’. She has also produced a short fiction ‘Paklo’ which won the second prize at the Marathi Film Festival in 2013 and had a special screening at IFFI in 2014. Nalini is again working with RTPi for a series called ‘Hora dos Portugueses’ (Portuguese time) about the lives of Portuguese citizens in India. She is the co-partner of the publishing house Lotus Libri and manager of the NGO Communicare Trust.
Sumana Roy
Sumana Roy’s first book, How I Became a Tree, a work of non-fiction, was published in India in February 2017. Her first novel, Missing, was published in April 2018. Her poems, essays, stories, and literary criticism have appeared in The Caravan, Granta, Guernica, India Quarterly, the Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB), Drunken Boat, the Prairie Schooner, Berfrois, Himal Southasian, Asian Cha, Pratilipi, and other journals. She is the co-founder and co-editor of Antiserious. She lives in Siliguri, a small town in sub-Himalayan Bengal. Roy has been photographing walls in northern Bengal for nearly a decade now.
Shanta Gokhale
Shanta Gokhale is a bilingual columnist, novelist, playwright, film script-writer and translator. She has translated Uddhav Shelke's novel Dhag; her own novels Rita Welinkar(1995) and Tya Varshi (2010) - as Crowfall (2013) - both of which received Maharashtra State awards for best fiction; Durga Khote's autobiography I, Durga Khote (2007) and over a dozen plays from Marathi into English, including her own, Avinash (1994). Her translation of Gieve Patel's English play Mister Behram into Marathi was staged in Pune and Mumbai. Her other translations include Prabhakar Barve's Kora Canvas and Makarand Sathe's novel Achyut Athavale ani Athavan into English and Jerry Pinto's Em and the Big Hoom into Marathi for which she received the Balshastri Jambhekar award in 2016. Shanta has written numerous film-scripts for documentary and feature films. She has been a culture columnist for The Times of India, Mid-Day and Mumbai Mirror. She is the author of Playwright at the Centre: Marathi Drama from 1843 to the Present (2000) and has edited Satyadev Dubey: A Fifty-year Journey Through Theatre (2011), The Theatre of Veenapani Chawla: Theory, Practice, Performance and The Scenes We Made: Experimental Theatre in Mumbai (2015). Shanta received the Sangeet Natak Akademi award for overall contribution to the Performing Arts in 2016.
Perumal Murugan
Perumal Murugan is an Indian author, scholar and literary chronicler who writes in Tamil. He has six novels, four collections of short stories and four anthologies of poetry to his credit many of which are translated into English. The translated novels include Poonachi: Or the Story of a Black Goat (2018); Current Show (2017); Pyre (2016); One Part Woman (2015); and Seasons of the Palm (2017) which was shortlisted for the Kiriyama Prize in 2005. One Part Woman, his best-known work, was shortlisted for the Crossword Award and won the prestigious ILF Samanvay Bhasha Samman in 2015. Perumal has also received awards from the Tamil Nadu government as well as from Katha Books. He was earlier a professor of Tamil at the Government Arts College in Namakkal.
Ramrao Wagh
Ramrao Wagh is a faculty member at the Department of Computer Science & Technology, Goa University. Well known in the field of computer science education through his contribution as a teacher, researcher and policy maker, he has contributed to curriculum design and modernization of teaching–learning methods. He is also the Director of Digital learning & Initiatives, Goa University and the UGC Swayam Coordinator for Goa University. He was until recently the Director of prestigious Visiting Research Professor Programme (VRPP) of Goa University. Ramrao has served on several high-level committees of the government and is active in professional, social and cultural fields. He is currently the chair of ACM Goa Professional Chapter. He has handled various issues related to grassroots development, prominent among them the movement for revival of Khazan (saline) land farming in Goa as the Convener of Khazan Action.
Alan Machado
Alan Machado (Prabhu) traces his ancestry to Aldona, Goa, from where his family emigrated to Mangalore c. 1680. Only one member survived the Captivity (1784-1799) under Tipu Sultan which decimated more than half of Kanara’s Christian population. The trauma his ancestors underwent, their conversion to Christianity, migration to Kanara, and Captivity under Tipu, have been motivating factors in his continuing research and writing on various aspects of his Goan and Mangalorean heritage. He has published four books to date: Sarasvati’s Children: A History of the Mangalorean Christians (1999); The Captivity of 1784; Shades within Shadows, a novel (2011); and Slaves of Sultans (2015). An engineer by profession, Alan is currently working on a new book which will cover certain chapters of Indian history.
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.
