6 - 8 December 2018 , Thu - Sat.
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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.
S. R. Sundaram
S. R. Sundaram (aka Kannan Sundaram) is the Managing Director and Publisher of Kalachuvadu Publication Pvt. Ltd. He is also the editor and publisher of Kalachuvadu, a monthly journal for culture and politics. Kalachuvadu first established itself as a premier little magazine and has now expanded its scope beyond the reaches of a literary journal to function as a broad forum for politics and culture. Kannan co-organised ‘Tamil Ini 2000′, the international Tamil conference on 20th century Tamil writing. He has been on the International Visitor Program to the U.S. (2002) and the Frankfurt Book Fair Fellowship Programme (2007). He was also invited to the Visiting International Publisher program in Sydney in 2017 and to the Istanbul Fellowship in 2018. Kannan’s mission is to get the best of Tamil literature translated into other Indian and world languages and vice versa. He has published five books consisting of critical articles on Tamil media and politics and his sixth collection will be published this year.
Maithreyi Karnoor
Maithreyi Karnoor is a poet and a translator. A Handful of Sesame, her English translation of the Sahitya Akademi Award-winning Kannada novel, Halla Bantu Halla was published this year. Another translation – a Sahitya Akademi publication – of a collection of plays by H. S. Shivaprakash is forthcoming. She was shortlisted for the Montreal International Poetry Prize in 2017. Maithreyi’s works, including poetry, translations, literary and theatre reviews have appeared in The Hindu, The Wire, Indian Express, Daily O, Muse India, Indian Literature and elsewhere. She lives in Goa.
Samar Halarnkar
Samar Halarnkar is the editor of Indiaspend.org, a data-driven, public-interest journalism non-profit. He is the author of Nirvana Under the Rain Tree (2002), an early chronicle of India’s internet revolution, and A Married Man’s Guide to Creative Cooking: And Other Dubious Adventures (2013). Samar has been a visiting lecturer at the University of California-Berkeley and a fellow at the Nieman Foundation, Harvard University. A journalist for 27 years, his last full-time job was Managing Editor of the Hindustan Times. He also writes for Scroll, the Hindustan Times and the New York Times. Samar is an enthusiastic cook, and the fallout of his culinary experiences find their way into a cooking column for Mint Lounge.
Patricia Pereira-Sethi
Patricia Pereira-Sethi is an award-winning international journalist who worked for two decades as correspondent, editor and the United Nations Bureau Chief for Newsweek magazine in New York. She was the first Indian and youngest ever correspondent to be named the United Nations Bureau Chief of an American organisation. She has conducted one-on-one interviews with more than 45 heads of state during her career, including Indira Gandhi, Morarji Desai, Fidel Castro, George Bush Sr, Augusto Pinochet, Daniel Ortega, Olaf Palme, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Robert Mugabe, Pham Van Dong. And others. Patricia has been felicitated for her career by Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar and the Goa Union of Journalists after her return to Goa. She has authored the biography of industrialist Ramesh Chauhan Thunder Unbottled: From Thums Up to Bisleri (2013). She lives in Dona Paula and is a Special Columnist for the Sunday Panorama section of the Navhind Times as well as the magazine Viva Goa. Fluent in Spanish, she has lectured at Goa University’s Centre for Latin American Studies to PhD students.
Sharmila Rao
Sharmila Rao is a dentist on a sabbatical, hypnotherapist and hypnotherapy trainer working with tobacco addicts and sleep apnoea. She is a trained Bharatnatyam exponent and takes sessions on theatre and storytelling at Manipal University and Goa University. She has published papers on both theatre and health on international platforms and writes in both Kannada and English. Her blogs at www.parwatisingari.com has been nominated for national awards. Her other blogs are www.kitabikida.wordpress.com on book reviews; www.plinkyprompt.wordpress.com on stories; and www.corporatehealthtrainer.wordpress.com on health and wellness.
Chinmay Tumbe
Chinmay Tumbe is faculty member at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad and the 2018 Alfred D. Chandler Jr International Visiting Scholar in Business History at Harvard Business School. He works on migration, cities, firms and history. An alumnus of the London School of Economics and Political Science and the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, he has been a faculty member at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Hyderabad and was the 2013 Jean Monnet Fellow at the Migration Policy Centre, European University Institute, Florence, Italy. He has published widely on migration for a decade and has served on policymaking groups. India Moving is his first book.
R. Benedito Ferrão
R. Benedito Ferrão has lived and worked in Kuwait, India, the United States, England, and Australia. A writer and academic, he is currently an Assistant Professor of English and Asian & Pacific Islander American Studies at The College of William and Mary. In 2017-18, he curated the art exhibition Goa/Portugal/Mozambique: The Many Lives of Vamona Navelcar (Fundação Oriente Gallery, Goa), and edited a book of the same title, published by Fundação Oriente (2017), to accompany this retrospective of Navelcar’s art. His fiction and non-fiction appear in Riksha, The Good Men Project, Mizna, and other publications.
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.
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.
