6 - 8 December 2018 , Thu - Sat.
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Anurag Basnet
Anurag Basnet is Managing Editor at Speaking Tiger Books. He has been in the publishing industry for 12 years. Anurag started his career with Penguin Books India and later worked with Rupa Publications before taking up his current position. He is the translator of Anil Yadav’s Woh Bhi Koi Des Hai, Maharaj! (2011) into Is That Even a Country, Sir! (2017), a travelogue in Northeast India that has achieved the status of a cult classic in contemporary Hindi literature. He has also co-translated The Free Voice: On Democracy, Culture and the Nation (2018) by the acclaimed journalist and news anchor Ravish Kumar.
Prashanti Talpankar
Prashanti Talpankar is an Associate Professor at Dnyanprassarak Mandal’s College and Research Centre, Assagao (Goa). She writes poetry, short stories, plays, and children’s stories. Talpankar has also acted in several award-winning movies, including Kabhi Paas Kabhi Fail, which won the National Award for the Best Children’s Film in 1999; Aleesha, winner of the National Award for Best Feature Film in Konkani in 2004; Paltadcho Munis, winner of the Best Konkani film in 2009, and the prize of the International Federation of Film Critics for Discovery at the Toronto Film Festival the same year; Baga Beach, winner of the National Award in 2013; and Rocky Handsome. Her film Juze (Konkani) was screened at IFFI, Indian Panorama 2017. Talpankar won the Best Supporting Actress Award for Aleesha (2004) and Baga Beach (2015) at the State Film Festival.
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.
Paro Anand
Paro Anand was the recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Bal Sahitya Puruskar Award 2017 for her book Wild Child, now published as Like Smoke with additional content. She has written books for children, young adults and adults. Recognized internationally and nationally, she headed the National Centre for Children’s Literature, has interacted with over three lakh people, primarily children in difficult circumstances, and runs a programme, Literature in Action. Paro holds a world record for helping over three thousand children make the world’s longest newspaper. Her book, No Guns at my Son’s Funeral (2005) was on the International Board on Books for Young People Honour List and is translated into German and Spanish. The Little Bird who held the Sky up with his Feet (2013) was on ‘1001 Books to Read Before You Grow Up’, an international gold standard of the world’s best children’s literature. BBC Hindi selected her on their 100 Women #100Women Project – a project highlighting the challenges and achievements of women in India. Her book Wingless has been performed nationally and internationally. She is also the co-author of Two (2017) with Swedish writer, Orjan Perrson​.Her latest book, The Other: Stories of Difference (2018), is a ground-breaking collection of stories dealing with sensitive issues. She has been awarded for her contribution to children’s literature by The Russian Centre for Science and Culture.
Jessica Faleiro
Jessica Faleiro’s fiction, poetry, essays and travel pieces have been published in Asia Literary Review, Forbes, Indian Quarterly, IndiaCurrents, Coldnoon, Joao Roque Literary Journal, Mascara Literary Review, Muse India and the Times of India as well as in various anthologies. Her first novel Afterlife: Ghost stories from Goa (2012) is about a Goan family and their ‘ghostly’ encounters. She recently released The Delicate Balance of Little Lives (2018), a collection of interlinked stories about five middle-class Goan women trying to cope with loss. She won the Joao Roque Literary Award ‘Best in Fiction 2017’ for her short story ‘Unmatched’. Jessica is currently the Commissioning Editor for the Joao Roque Literary Journal. She previously worked for Kingston University Press as a sub-editor and co-edited the March 2018 editor of the Joao Roque Literary Journal’s edition on ‘Writing from the Goan Diaspora’. Jessica has an MA in Creative Writing from Kingston University. She also talks about creativity and runs creative writing workshops.
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.
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.
Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
Victor Rangel-Ribeiro (b. in Goa, 1925), first broke into print in Mumbai in 1946. Having lived under and survived the British and the Portuguese colonial empires, the 92-year-old author regards himself as one of the last of a dying breed: a pre-postcolonial writer. Victor left his heart behind in India when he migrated to the US in 1956: his stories almost always include Indian characters, either here at home, or in the diaspora, with interracial preconceptions driving the plots.
Victor’s fiction and books on music can be found in some of the major libraries of the West, including Princeton, Yale, Harvard, Oxford and Cambridge. A career that began 71 years ago is still ongoing. His latest collection, The Miscreant: Selected Stories, 1949-2016, published this year, will be followed next April by his biography of the artist Francis Newton Souza; a second novel is nearing completion
David De Souza
David De Souza has been a proponent of ‘De-Schooling’ during the 10 years he taught photography in six colleges of Mumbai University. He believes that school kills creativity. He calls himself an anti-fashion, fashion photographer. He started life as a Biochemist but a second-hand camera in the 1970s was like a talisman and he obediently followed its diktat. His inspiration has been books, literary, and visual, and his lifelong obsession to be the creator of a few. He lives in Moira, Goa since the last four years.
Mustansir Dalvi
Mustansir Dalvi is an Anglophone poet, translator and editor. Brouhahas of Cocks is his first book of poems in English published by Poetrywala in 2013. His poems are included in several anthologies, including These My Words: The Penguin Book of Indian Poetry and the Sahitya Akademi’s To Catch a Poem: An Anthology of Poetry for Young People. His poems have been translated into French, Croatian and Marathi. Mustansir’s 2012 English translation of Muhammad Iqbal’s influential Shikwaand Jawaab-e-Shikwa from the Urdu as Taking Issue and Allah’s Answer (Penguin Classics) has been described as ‘insolent and heretical’. This book was awarded Runner-Up for Best Translation at the Muse India National Literary Award in 2012. His translations of the Sufi mystic Rahim are published in the anthology Eating God: A Book of Bhakti Poetry (2014, Penguin Ananda). He has translated the poems of Hemant Divate from the Marathi in Struggles with Imagined Gods (2014, Poetrywala). He is the editor of Man without a Navel, a collection of new and selected translations of Hemant Divate’s poems from the Marathi (2018, Poetrywala). His new book of poems Cosmopolitician is to be published by Poetrywala in 2018.
