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Nandita Bose explores relationships and social biases through her works of fiction. Her published works include: Tread Softly, The Perfume of Promise, If Walls could Weep and Shadow & Soul.

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Roswitha Joshi  was born in Hamburg, Germany, and acquired a translator’s diploma for English in 1989. She is the author of Life is Peculiar, On the Rocks and Other Stories, Once More!, Fool’s Paradise, Indian Dreams and Trapped in Want and Wonder.

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Rachna Singh is the author of Dating, Diapers & Denial, We Were Wrong About Hema, and her account of her battle with breast cancer, called ‘Mum’s Gotta Live’. Her novel, ‘Band, Baaja Boys’, has been adapted into a web series called Mannphodgunj Ki Binny, which is streaming on MX Player.

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Sabah Carrim has authored two novels: Humeirah and Semi-Apes. Both stories are set in Mauritius where she was born. She is a regular contributor to The Bangalore Review and has academic and fiction publications in various magazines and journals. She is currently writing a doctoral thesis on the Khmer Rouge Tribunal. Her first novel Humeirah, was the subject of a thesis by Masaryk University, Czech Republic. Her next book, a collection of short stories on Malaysian education, will be launched in 2017. She is a law lecturer and currently lives in Kuala Lumpur.

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Carlo Pizzati has published two novels, a collection of short stories and a non-fiction book. He writes about culture and politics for the Italian national newspaper La Stampa and teaches post-graduate level communication theory courses in different continents. His works appear in Italian, English and Spanish. Born in Switzerland, he grew up near the Dolomites Mountains north of Venice, Italy, then in Florida, Washington D.C. and New York City where, in 1987, he started to work as a foreign correspondent, which brought him to Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Madrid and since 2010 across Asia, based in a fishermen village in Tamil Nadu.

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Alan Johnson is a Professor of English at Idaho State University.

His expertise is in postcolonial literature and theory, with an emphasis on South Asia, especially India, where he was born. He teaches a variety of other courses besides his speciality area, such as the novel, major figures (e.g., Rushdie and Naipaul), literary theory, postcolonial ecocriticism, comparative literature, South Asian literature and popular culture, writing about literature, and honors humanities. In 2010, he was a Fulbright lecturer in India, focusing on globalization and the place of literature, and he’s traveled throughout India for research, conferences, and talks. His current project is an interdisciplinary study of literary and popular depictions of the jungle in Indian literature, which draws on, among other fields, postcolonial critique and ecocriticism. Other projects: Hindi (Bollywood) film studies; religion and literature in India. He has written two books, Postcolonial Literature Today, co-edited with Jagdish Batra (New Delhi: Prestige, 2015) and Out of Bounds: Anglo-Indian Literature and the Geography of Displacement. (Univ. of Hawai’i, 2011).

He is currently a Fulbright-Nehru Scholar based in Chennai.

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Manu S Pillai is the author of the award winning The Ivory Throne: Chronicles of the House of Travancore, which tells a social and political history of Kerala, from the dawn of colonialism in the sixteenth century till the rise of communism in the twentieth. Written over six years and researched in three continents, The Ivory Throneis his first book, which weaves themes of religious nationalism, matriliny, political economy, and feminism through the life and times of the last female Maharajah of Travancore. He is Chief of Staff to Dr Shashi Tharoor MP, and has worked at the House of Lords in Britain and with Sunil Khilnani and the BBC on their Incarnations Indian history series. He is also text contributor to Serena Chopra’s Bhutan Echoes (Tasveer, 2016), and is a columnist for Mint Lounge, as well as a contributor on history, politics, and culture to The Hindu, Open Magazine, and other major publications. He lives and works out of New Delhi.

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Aroon has been lucky in having this wide-eyed view of the world where the smallest things of everyday life have their own magical qualities, and trigger journeys into make-believe worlds, releasing the Walter Mitty who lives within him.
In two of his novels –The Shadow Throne and Skyfire – he has explored the world of conspiracy thriller fiction. Set in the themes of Armageddon, mass destruction and apocalypse scenarios, the plot and pace in these novels is riveting.
Aroon’s third novel – The Treasure of Kafur – is a mystery set in Mughal times. He also enjoys exploring other genres including non-fiction travel and history writing. He is currently working on a non-fiction business book along with another thriller.

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Murzban F. Shroff is a Mumbai-based writer. He has published his fiction with over 50 journals in the U.S. and UK. He has won six Pushcart Prize nominations, the highest award for the short story in the U.S, and is the recipient of the John Gilgun Fiction Award. His debut short story collection, Breathless In Bombay, was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize in the best debut category from Europe and South Asia. It was rated by the Guardian as among the ten best Mumbai books. His recent novel, Waiting For Jonathan Koshy, was a finalist for the Horatio Nelson Fiction Prize and received high praise from two renowned American authors, one a Pulitzer Prize winner, the other a National Book Award Finalist and New York Times book reviewer. He has represented Mumbai at the London Short Story Festival and been invited to speak about his work at UCLA, California State University Monterey Bay, and Berkeley. He is currently at work on a larger-than-life India collection, and the third part in his Mumbai trilogy.

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Jane De Suza’s latest novel Happily Never After is a hilariously honest love story. Earlier books include the detective-comedy The Spy who Lost her Head and the best-selling SuperZero series for children, among others. She is a management grad and an advertising  consultant, and writes for magazines and anthologies across the world.

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Anita Raghavan was born in Malaysia but came to the United States in 1970. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, she spent eighteen years at the Wall Street Journal where she won the Overseas Press Club award for her coverage of the mergers and acquisition boom in Europe, and the New York Press Club award for her reporting on the the near death of the hedge fund Long-Term Capital. In 2008, she became the London Bureau Chief for Forbes. Currently she is a contributor to New York Times Dealbook and Forbes.

Anita is the author of The Billionaire’s Apprentice: The Rise of The Indian-American Elite and The Fall of The Galleon Hedge Fund.

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Vasudev Murthy is a yoga enthusiast, violinist, animal rights activist and management consultant. He has written across Crime, Classical Music, Management and humour. His work has been published by Bloomsbury, HarperCollins, Sage, Poisoned Pen Press, Rupa and Jaico, and has been translated to Kannada, Hindi, Portuguese and Japanese. His latest book “Yogasutras simplified” was published in November 2022 by Jaico

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Trisha De Niyogi is currently heading the Strategic Planning and Marketing division at Niyogi Books. As a lead for strategic planning, her goal is to drive a portfolio diversification in alignment to the company’s long-term strategy. She began her career in publishing with SAGE Publications and has come a long way since then.

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Trusha Ganesh is a 15 year old schoolgirl from Curtorim, Goa. An avid blogger, she loves writing on anything and everything. She started her first blog at the age of 9 and has since moved on to maintaining the following 4 blogs, each having its own sets of loyal followers.

In 2013, she was a “Grand First Prize Winner” at the nationwide “i-Genius Young Author’s Hunt”, which received over fifty thousand entries. Her story was one of the fifty short stories published in the book “i-genius A Twist in the Tale”, published by Rupa, making her the youngest published author in Goa at age 11. The selection jury included Chetan Bhagat and Ruskin Bond.

Trusha has authored several newspaper and magazine articles and her writing and interviews have been featured in the Times of India, Planet Goa and The Navhind Times. Her weekly column “Trusha‘s Two Bits” in the newspaper The Goan, completes a year soon. She has also been featured in the Author Speak section of AnuReviews.com, India’s most prolific book reviews’ blog.

Trusha is also a very passionate Karate and Kobodu exponent. She is a black belt and national level Karate champion. She “relaxes” by playing the piano, taking part in triathlons and dreaming of making a difference to this world.

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Reijul Sachdev is currently enrolled in the 4th year of a 5-year integrated MTech programme in Computer Science at IIIT-Bangalore. He also works part-time on research for the Human Dynamics and Changing Places groups at the MIT Media Lab. He is an avid debater and has won many debates, including TIMES NOW’s ‘I Lead India’ televised debate.

He is fond of reading, writing poetry and trekking. He loves the outdoors and adores Nature’s bounty. Being a juvenile diabetic and borderline schizophrenic, he finds an outlet for his emotions through his poetry. While he has often felt different, his friends and family are a constant support and reminder to him that in every freak, there lives a Superman.

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K.R. Meera is a multi-award-winning writer and journalist who has published more than a dozen books, including short stories, novels and essays, and won some of the most prestigious literary prizes, including the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for short story and novel, the Vayalar Award and the Odakkuzhal Award. Last year, she won the Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award for Aarachar, widely hailed as a contemporary classic and a bestseller in Malayalam with more than 120,000 copies in less than three years. It was published in English as Hangwoman and  was short-listed  for the DSC Literary Prize. Her other translated works include Yellow Is The Colour Of Longing, The Gospel of Yudas and And Slowly Forgetting That Tree. She lives in Kottayam.

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Aakar Patel is a syndicated columnist who has edited English and Gujarati newspapers. He is author most recently of ‘Price of the Modi Years’, a history of India after 2014. His translation of Saadat Hasan Manto’s Urdu non-fiction, ‘Why I Write’, was published by Tranquebar in 2014. His study of majoritarianism in India, ‘Our Hindu Rashtra: What It Is. How We Got Here’, was published by Westland in 2020. He is Chair of Amnesty International India.

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T.S. Viswanathan is presently engaged in spiritual and motivational speaking for the general public and corporates. During the last 12 months he has given over 50 lectures, including at Mylapore Club and the Sivanthi Aditinar Memorial Lecture. Has given several lectures in Sanskrit and English on the Upanishads, the Bhagavad Gita and general Vedanta. Has written for Business Line, the Hindu and spiritual magazines and was instrumental in organising a Sanskrit meet in Chennai. His books include Divine Entrepreneur, A Search in Secret (Sacred) Hinduism and Do You Really Die?

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Vivek Shanbhag writes in Kannada. He has published five short story collections, three novels and two plays, and has edited two anthologies, one of them in English. For 7 years from 2005 to 2012, he published and edited the literary journal Desha Kaala. His acclaimed novel Ghachar Ghochar was published in English translation in 2015.  He was a Fall 2016 resident at the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. An engineer by training, he lives in Bangalore.

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Dr Sally Breen is the author of The Casuals (2011) winner of the Varuna Harper Collins Manuscript Prize and Atomic City (2013) shortlisted for Book of the Year QLD Literary Awards 2014. Her short form work has been published widely in Overland, Griffith Review, Meanjin, The Guardian London, The Age, Best Australian Stories, The Asia Literary Review, The Conversation and The Sydney Review of Books. Dr Breen has worked as associate editor of the Griffith Review, is executive director of Asia Pacific Writers and Translators and Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Griffith University. She lives on the Gold Coast, Australia https://www.sallybreen.com.au

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Manjiri Prabhu holds a doctorate in Communication Science and is an independent film-maker for television, a writer/ novelist in English and also the founder/director of a literary festival. She has directed over 200 children’s TV programmes, more than 50 short fiction and travel films and has authored 9 books. Her unpublished psychological thriller novel was adapted into a Hindi feature film by NFDC, titled Kuchh Dil Ne Kaha. Her thesis, converted into a book, titled Roles: Reel and Real, has become a rare reference book for students of Hindi cinema. She has been acknowledged as a pioneer in India among women writers of mystery fiction and is the first female mystery author to be published outside India and has been labelled as the ‘Desi Agatha Christie’. Her novel ‘The Cosmic Clues’ was selected as a Killer Book, by Independent Mystery Booksellers of America, and ‘The Astral Alibi’ was honoured as a ‘Notable Book’ in the Kiriyama Prize. She is the founder/director of the Pune International Literary Festival.

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Prof. Malavika Kapur is a Clinical psychologist working with children. At present she is a visiting professor at the National Institute of Advanced Studies. She was the Professor and Head of the Department of Clinical Psychology at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore. As a professional she has over 15 books and over 100 national and international publications to her credit including technical books on child psychology.

The mysteries of the human mind have always fascinated her as a psychologist and a creative writer. Writing fiction offers her a perfect blend of psychology and creative fantasy. Her books include “The Lost Soul and Other stories” an adventure story for children entitled “Adventures at Kudremukh” another “Doogoo, the noisy elephant” and an anthology “Ghosts and other friends”. In 2016 her novel and her children’s adventure story have been published in Kannada. She has deep interest in the ancient Indian approach to child care in India as evidenced by her work on Kashyapa Samhita and her novel ‘Jivaka, the child who healed” based on Kashyapa Samhita has received favourable reviews.

She is the daughter of renowned Kannada writer and Jnanapeeta award winner Dr Shivarama Karanth.

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Dr Sally Breen is the author of The Casuals (2011) winner of the Varuna Harper Collins Manuscript Prize and Atomic City (2013) shortlisted for Book of the Year QLD Literary Awards 2014. Her short form work has been published widely in Overland, Griffith Review, Meanjin, The Guardian London, The Age, Best Australian Stories, The Asia Literary Review, The Conversation and The Sydney Review of Books. Dr Breen has worked as associate editor of the Griffith Review, is executive director of Asia Pacific Writers and Translators and Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Griffith University. She lives on the Gold Coast, Australia https://www.sallybreen.com.au