Founders

Shinie Antony has written the novellas Eden Abandoned: The Story of Lilith (won the 2025 Laadli Fiction Award, the Wise Owl Literary Award for Fiction 2025, the Ruskin Bond Award for Fiction at Banaras Literature Festival 2026), Can’t (longlisted for 2024 Crossword Book Awards), and The Girl Who Couldn’t Love. Also, short-story collections Barefoot and Pregnant, The Orphanage for Words; and compiled anthologies Hell Hath No Fury, Boo, Why We Don’t Talk, An Unsuitable Woman, and co-edited The Art of Holding On, Letting Go. Her story A Dog’s Death won the Commonwealth Short Story Asia prize in 2002.

Srikrishna Ramamoorthy is a venture capital investor investing in early stage start-ups that create large scale social impact. His past experience is in consulting and implementation with organizations that improve the lives of people at the ‘Base of the Pyramid’. Passionate about travel, books, Indian classical music and radio, Srikrishna has hosted a daily show on India’s first and only wellness and lifestyle radio station.

Vikram Sampath is a historian and author of several acclaimed works of non-fiction including the biographies of Gauhar Jaan, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, the Mysore Wodeyars and Veena S Balachander; Waiting for Shiva: Unearthing the Truth of Kashi’s Gyan Vapi; Bravehearts of Bharat: Vignettes from Indian History and Tipu Sultan: The Saga of Mysore’s Interregnum. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, an Eisenhower and Aspen Global Fellow and Senior Research Fellow of Prime Ministers’ Museum and Library Society. His book on Gauhar Jaan won him several laurels including the Sahitya Akademi’s first Yuva Puraskar for English Literature and the ARSC International Award for Excellence in Historical Research in New York.