Gopi Chand Narang has won recognition around the world for his outstanding contribution to literature. Among the many awards he has received, the most notable are the Sitara-e Imtiaz (2012) and the President’s National Gold Medal (1977) from Pakistan; and the Padma Shri (1990), Sahitya Akademi Award (1995), and the Padma Bhushan (2004) from India. […]
Robert Wolfe during travels has labored as an auto assembly line worker in Detroit, as a carnival worker, a journalist in New York City, on a farm of a Zen community in California, as a landscaper, a financial consultant, a janitor. After living in the Mendocino area for about twenty years he bought a camper van
Priya Vasudevan is a lawyer, writer and trainer. As a lawyer, she has written training manuals and trained teachers, lawyers and judges in human rights law. Priya also serves as an Arbitrator and is a member of regional organizations such as Asia Pacific Forum for Women, Law and Development. She has written ‘Contempt of Court’ in Halsbury’s Laws of India for Butterworths India
Easterine Kire (Iralu) is a poet, writer, and novelist from Nagaland. She is one of the finest story tellers from the region and has written several books in English including three collections of poetry and short stories. Her first novel, A Naga Village Remembered, was the first-ever Naga novel to be published. Easterine has translated 200
Amruta Patil writer-painter, is India’s first female graphic novelist. She is the author of Kari and the Mahabharata-based Parva duology (Adi Parva & Sauptik). She is a Nari Shakti Puraskar awardee. Her book: Aranyaka: Book of the Forest
Paarul Chand is Editor-in-Chief and Partner at PRmoment India, a digital magazine for the PR industry in India. An Indian Institute of Mass Communications alumnus, Paarul started her career as a television journalist in 1993 and reported for CNBC India’s India Business Report (BBC World Service Television’s first India-based news show with Network 18) and later
Gayatri Rath is a journalism alumnus of the Indian Institute of Mass Communication and is a practising communications and marketing professional. She has a passion for inclusion – both in society and at the workplace. Gayatri lives with her family in Gurgaon, India. Her book: A Question of Trust
Ramesh Kandula is a journalist based in Hyderabad. He holds an MA in English literature from Hyderabad Central University and an MA in politics from Andhra University. In a career spanning three decades across the media spectrum—print, television and the web—he has been associated with various organizations, including Eenadu, Deccan Chronicle and the Tribune. His
Diana R Chambers was born with a book in one hand and a passport in the other. She earned a university degree in Asian art history and has traveled frequently to the region. Eventually her road led to scriptwriting—and Hollywood, where she met Nancy Valentine and learned of her great love affair with the Maharaja