Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi’s debut novel, The Last Song of Dusk, won the Betty Trask Award (UK), the Premio Grinzane Cavour (Italy), and was nominated for the IMPAC Prize (Ireland). Translated into sixteen languages, The Last Song of Dusk was an international bestseller. Shanghvi’s second novel, The Lost Flamingos of Bombay, was shortlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize, 2008. A past contributor to the New York […]
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Purushottam Agrawal, a renowned Kabir and bhakti scholar has served as a member of Union Public Service Commission of India (2007-2013). Before this, he served as Chairperson, Centre of Indian Languages, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has been a Visiting Professor at Faculty of Oriental Studies, Cambridge University (UK), and at El Colegio de Mexico. He hosted a
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Sikeena Karmali is the author of The Mulberry Courtesan, Places to Remember, and A House by the Sea. Her academic publications include Cosmopolitanism in Muslim Contexts: Perspectives from the Past, The Challenge of Pluralism: Paradigms from Muslim Contexts and ISLAM: Between Message and History. She has served on the Canada Council for the Arts peer jury for literature. Her
Pawo Choyning Dorji is a photographer, filmmaker and the author of Seeing Sacred: Lights & Shadows along the Journey. He is working on a second book of photo-essays titled Light of the Moon: The Life & Legacy of Xuanzang of Tang. His photos have been published in international magazines and newspapers including LIFE, Esquire, VICE
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Kelly Dorji is an actor, artist and travel facilitator living in Thimphu, Bhutan. His first book is the Hidden Rainbow. His book: Hidden Rainbow
Ekarat is an alter-ego, a self-created role model, with a million stories to tell. He has walked this Earth for forty bittersweet summers. He has been a travel magazine editor, film marketing executive, communications lecturer and salesman. His book: The Book of Love
Shashi Warrier is the author of The Hidden Continent, Suzy’s Gift and five thrillers: Night of the Krait, The Orphan Diaries, Sniper, Noordin’s Gift, and The Girl Who Didn’t Give Up. Hangman’s Journal is a semi-fictional biography of the last hangman of the erstwhile kingdom of Travancore and The Homecoming is a novel based in Kashmir.
Arati Kumar-Rao is an environmental photographer, writer, artist and National Geographic Explorer documenting the effects of environmental degradation. Working primarily in the Indian subcontinent, she chronicles anthropogenic changes in landscapes and their fallouts on livelihood, culture and biodiversity. She communicates through still and moving images, soundscapes, longform narratives and art. Her work has appeared in
Bhavani Iyer has written for Hindi films like Raazi, Black, Guzaarish, Lootera and television shows like 24, Everest and Meri Awaaz Hi Pehchaan Hai. She started her career as a copywriter with iB&W Advertising and was the youngest editor of the film magazine Stardust. Utterly and passionately in love with language and writing, she started reading Shakespeare when she