January 31, 2009 – 12:22 pm
Jaipur, Sunday: All good things come to an end. The 5th and the last day of DSC Jaipur Literature Festival started with the same enthusiasm on a bright Sunday morning. Some of the interesting sessions aptly fitted the conclusion of the festival.
THOSE DAYS: Sunil Gangopadhyay & Aruna Chakravarti
Renowned Bengali novelist Sunil Gangopadhyay and award-winning writer, [...]
January 28, 2009 – 12:31 pm
Jaipur, Saturday – The fourth day of DSC Jaipur Literature Festival, Asia’s leading literary event, started with great enthusiasm. Authors, publishers and book lovers were seen attending some interesting sessions.
IN CONVERSATION: Pico Iyer with William Dalrymple
Festival Director William Dalrymple described Pico Iyer as ‘Thomas Merton on a frequent flyer pass’ to the audience gathered at the fourth [...]
January 27, 2009 – 5:30 pm
Jaipur, Friday The 3rd day of the DSC Jaipur Literature Festival Asia’s leading literary event attracting authors, publishers and book lovers from across the globe, witnessed some riveting sessions.
IN CONVERSATION: Chetan Bhagat with Namita Gokhale and Jai Arjun Singh
The third day opened with novelist Chetan Bhagat, in an intimate and frank discussion with the festival director Namita Gokhale [...]
January 22, 2009 – 9:59 pm
Jaipur, Thursday: It’s the 2nd day of the DSC Jaipur Literature Festival Asia’s leading literary event attracting authors, publishers and book lovers from across the globe. There were some interesting sessions that were held at the various venues of Diggi.
IMAGINIG INDIA: Nandan Nilekani with Patrick French
January 22, 2009 – 9:40 pm
Ms. Namita Gokhale is a Festival Director of the DSC Jaipur Literature Festival. To read more about her please click on: http://jaipurliteraturefestival.org/about-us/the-festival
January 22, 2009 – 9:40 pm
Mr. William Dalrymple is a Festival Director of the DSC Jaipur Literature Festival. To read more about him please click on: http://jaipurliteraturefestival.org/about-us/the-festival
January 22, 2009 – 9:38 pm
Opening Day
Jaipur, Wednesday: His Excellency, the Governor of Rajasthan, S K Singh, inaugurated the fourth DSC Jaipur Literature Festival in grand style today. The Governor and a procession of dignitaries entered the magnificent Durbar Hall
January 17, 2009 – 8:20 pm
The Tehelka Foundation presents
HANDS ON HABITAT – Empowering Youth to Claim their Natural Heritage
HANDS ON HABITAT is a conservation programme of the Foundation that empowers young people to conserve and protect their natural resources. The three-day workshop by Puneeta Roy, at Jaipur is designed to start a dialogue with young people about the sustainability of [...]
January 17, 2009 – 7:54 pm
Gita Wolf has written more than seventeen books for children and adults. A highly original voice and figure in contemporary publishing, she continues to explore and experiment with the form of the book and its status as a revered cultural object. Many of her children’s books have won major international awards and been translated into [...]
January 17, 2009 – 7:26 pm
Mahesh Vinayakram hails from one of the most rhythmically talented families in India, his brother being the renowned kanjira player Selva Ganesh, and his father is the grammy nominated Vikku Vinayakram.
January 17, 2009 – 7:22 pm
The Jaipur Literature Festival has emerged as an informal space for publishers, agents and others connected with the book industry to meet on a common platform and discuss their experiences and issues that concern them. For this year’s publishing session, we seek a focus on the rise of independent publishers alongside the expansion of multinational [...]
January 17, 2009 – 7:11 pm
Deepti Naval is an acclaimed actor, writer & director and has acted in more than 60 films. A selection of her poems in Hindi, Lamha-Lamha was published in 1983 and more recently, MapinLit published Black Winds and Other Poems. She is also a painter and photographer with several exhibitions to her credit and enjoys trekking in the [...]
January 17, 2009 – 7:07 pm
Karthika VK is Publisher and Chief Editor, HarperCollins India.
January 17, 2009 – 6:57 pm
Ustad Nile Khan comes from a family of traditional musicians of the erstwhile state of Patiala in Punjab. He learned music from his grandfather, Ustad Idu Shah, and father , Ustad Mohammad Siddique. Nile Khan is known for his soulful singing of the Punjabi Sufi music. He is a music teacher in the Government School [...]
January 17, 2009 – 6:51 pm
Alexandra Büchler is founding Director of Literature Across Frontiers, a European programme of literary exchange and policy debate. She is a member of the Executive Committee of Culture Action Europe and of the Translators’ Association UK. An editor and translator of fiction, poetry, theatre plays and texts on modern art and architecture, she has translated [...]
January 17, 2009 – 6:42 pm
Tarun Vijay is a commentator and a columnist on the Times of India and major Indian language newspapers and Director of a nationalist think tank Dr. Syama Prasad Mokerjee Research Foundation. He specializes in Chinese affairs and has received fellowship from Sichuan University. He has written a travelogue An odyssey in Tibet besides several other [...]
January 17, 2009 – 6:41 pm
Swapan Dasgupta, journalist and columnist, managing editor of India Today. His articles are published in Pioneer, The Telegraph, Dainik Jagran , Times of India ,Outlook , The Free Press Journal and several others.
January 17, 2009 – 6:40 pm
MJ Akbar journalist and author. He is the Chairman of the fortnightly newsmagazine Covert and is also the founder and former editor-in-chief and managing director of The Asian Age. He has written several non-fiction books, including Byline, Nehru: The Making of India, Kashmir: Behind the Vale, Riot After Riot, India: The Siege Within, The Shade [...]
January 17, 2009 – 6:38 pm
Barkha Dutt is the best-known face of NDTV and has attained iconic status as a reporter. A role model for the young, her appeal cuts across all age groups. Barkha has pushed the limits of intrepid news reporting far beyond the conventional.
January 17, 2009 – 6:37 pm
Amitabh Bachchan, is one of the most prominent figures in the history of Indian cinema. Bachchan has won numerous major awards in his career, including three National Film Awards and twelve Filmfare Awards. He holds the record for most number of Best Actor nominations at the Filmfare Awards. In addition to acting, Bachchan has worked [...]
January 17, 2009 – 5:46 pm
Educated as an economist & developmental theorist at LSE & University of Oxford, Tuli returned home from the west in 1995 and wrote the seminal publication The Flamed-mosaic: Indian Contemporary Painting, recognized to have changed the study of Indian modern and contemporary art globally. His vision to place art and culture at the heart of [...]
January 17, 2009 – 5:45 pm
Manoj has been a television journalist for over 30 years with more than 4,500 telecasts. He worked for six years with Newstrack, pioneering television news magazine of India. Other prominent programs include Aap ki adaalat, India’s most wanted, Khula manch. . He teaches various disciplines of television and is currently writing three books, one of [...]
January 17, 2009 – 5:45 pm
Madhav Hada currently teaches in Sirohi, Rajasthan and has written various books relating to media and culture as well as poetry and literary criticism. He is a regular participant in television and radio shows and he has also been a columnist for Dainik Bhaskar.
January 17, 2009 – 5:35 pm
Baran Farooqi teaches English Literature at Jamia Millia Islamia. She has translated extensively from Urdu into English. Reading and reciting Urdu Literature has been a passion with her since childhood, which she learnt under the encouraging supervision of her father Shamsur Rahman Faruqui. Baran’s other interests include Shakespearean drama and Women’s Studies.
January 17, 2009 – 5:34 pm
Durga Prasad Aggarwal, a writer and critic, is the author of over ten books including, Aankhan Dekhi, that won the prestigious Sahitya Akademi Kanhayalal Award. He has written for web magazines and is currently the editor of, Indradhanush India. He also has a weekly Sunday column called, Kitaabon ki Duniya in the Rajasthan Patrika where [...]
January 17, 2009 – 5:34 pm
Malashri Lal is a Professor of English at the University of Delhi. Specializing in literary studies, she has written and lectured extensively on women’s socio-cultural positioning. Her books include The Law of the Threshold: Women Writers in Indian English and several anthologies. Malashri Lal’s current research is in oral traditions in Rajasthan and Himachal Pradesh [...]
January 17, 2009 – 5:33 pm
Indrajit Hazra is the author of The Burnt Forehead of Max Saul, The Garden of Earthly Delights, and The Bioscope Man. Indrajit also writes a column entitled Red Herring in the Sunday Hindustan Times. He lives in New Delhi.
January 17, 2009 – 5:31 pm
Paris-born Marc Parent whose grandmother was a Sri Ramakrishna Mission devotee, graduated in French and comparative literatures from universities in France and the US. After having taught for a while, Marc has worked in international publishing for twenty-two years. Today, he is executive editor for foreign fiction & non fiction at Buchet/Chastel in Paris where [...]
January 17, 2009 – 5:31 pm
Mita Kapur is the founder and CEO of Siyahi, a literary consultancy which also runs the Translating Bharat series of literary conferences annually. She is a freelance journalist regularly featured in newspapers and magazines. She has been associated with the Jaipur Literature Festival from its inception in 2006.
January 17, 2009 – 5:31 pm
Namita Bhandare studied journalism at Stanford University. In 1991, she joined Sunday magazine, as Features Editor. After a stint with India Today, she joined the Hindustan Times where she launched and edited the paper’s new Saturday edition. She has edited several books as part of the Hindustan Times leadership series. Namita is the co-author with [...]
January 17, 2009 – 5:30 pm
Nirupama Dutt is a poet, literary/art critic and journalist of many seasons. She worked with leading newspapers and journals. Nirupama’s first anthology of poems won a Punjabi Akademi award. She has edited several fiction and poetry anthologies and translated into English major writers of Punjabi and Hindi. She is presently writing a book on Punjab.
January 17, 2009 – 5:29 pm
Neeta Gupta is the publisher at Yatra Books. Besides translating and contributing to various magazines, she has been the editor of Bharatiya Anuvad Parishad’s quarterly journal on translation, Anuvad. Yatra Books has been co-ordinating Penguin’s Indian Languages Publishing Programme. They have published over a hundred and fifty books in Hindi, Urdu and Marathi. These books [...]
January 17, 2009 – 5:29 pm
Nand Bhardwaj, born in 1948, has had a distinguished career as a writer, critic and media expert in Hindi and Rajasthani. He has written a number of short stories and a novel called, Samhi Khulato Marag in Rajasthani and has also translated Albert Camus’ The Outsider into English.
January 17, 2009 – 5:28 pm
Noor Zaheer has been a writer, dancer, playwright and journalist, for a decade in National Herald, Patriot, Take II and Ponit Counter Point. Some of her works include translations of plays by Bertolt Brecht, Tennessee Williams, Shakespear, Zean Aanooi and Peter Chaffers. She has also authored her memoirs book Mere hissay ki roshnaai, and a [...]
January 17, 2009 – 5:25 pm
Olivia’s work begins where her ancestor, James Baillie Fraser left off, painting the architecture of India and its people. She studied the traditional Indian miniature painting technique and has had numerous single and group shows in the UK. She has also illustrated her husband, William Dalrymple’s books, in particular City of Djinns. Her work is [...]
January 17, 2009 – 5:25 pm
Penny Richards works for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation here in India, concentrating on advocacy and communications for Avahan, their large-scale HIV Prevention programme. Before joining the foundation, Penny was the Asia Bureaux Editor for the BBC, in charge of their news coverage from Beijing to Brisbane, Tokyo to Tonga.
January 17, 2009 – 5:25 pm
Prof Rajul Bhargava,former Head,Dept of English,Univ of Rajasthan,has been actively engaged with Women’s Studies and Writing, especially the projection of gendered politics and the experimental narratology therein.Her work in Translation Studies too focuses primarily on texts by and on women.She is widely published and has represented her work inseminars and conferences worldwide.
January 17, 2009 – 5:24 pm
Shan Bhatnagar is a self-taught young artist who studied Business and economics at the University of Maryland, Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany. Shan worked with INTACH and started his interior design company “Temple Tree” and has been doing interior design work for hotels and restaurants.
January 17, 2009 – 5:24 pm
Shoma Chaudhury is the Founder Member and Executive Editor of Tehelka, the iconic media house, strongly associated with courage, integrity and public interest journalism. Shoma has earlier worked with The Pioneer, India Today and Outlook as a literary journalist and has curated several festivals and international conferences.
January 17, 2009 – 5:23 pm
Shyam Jangir, born in 1949, is the writer of a collection of poetry titled, Akla Chalo Re for which he received the Range Raghav Award. His other works include Mahakal ki Jataaon mein Das din. He writes fiction, poetry and travelogues and has edited several other books.
January 17, 2009 – 5:23 pm
Sujata Sen is Director East India, British Council. She is also Project Owner for projects and work on Intercultural Dialogue in the region which includes the literature events that will lead up to, and go beyond, India Market Focus at the London Book Fair 2009.
Before joining the British Council she was Assistant Editor, The Statesman. [...]
January 15, 2009 – 12:16 pm
Sunil Sethi presents the weekly literary show “Just Books” on NDTV, India’s leading TV channel, and is a commentor on arts and culture. He was a founding member of the newsmagazine India Today and has been a columnist for the Times
of India, Indian Express and, now, the financial daily Business Standard. He has scripted and [...]
January 15, 2009 – 12:15 pm
Urvashi Butalia is the publisher of Zubaan, a feminist publishing house and an imprint of Kali for Women. She is also a writer and activist, having been involved in the women’s movement for many decades. Among her published works are: Women and the Hindu Right: A Collection of Essays (co edited with Tanika Sarkar), Speaking [...]
January 15, 2009 – 12:15 pm
Ravi Singh had his early education in Colombo, Delhi and Vancouver, before graduating from HinduCollege, Delhi University. He worked briefly with TV 18 and with Delhi Diary magazine before joining Penguin India, in 1994, where he is now Publisher & Editor-in-Chief.
January 15, 2009 – 12:14 pm
Kaushik Bhaumik is Vice President at Osian’s – Connoisseurs of Art and Deputy Director of the Osian’s Cinefan Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema. He has co-edited anthology of essays on visual culture Visual Sense: A Cultural Reader recently published by Berg, Oxford. His monograph on early Bombay cinema is forthcoming this year from Clarendon [...]
January 14, 2009 – 10:30 pm
Ananya Vajpeyi teaches South Asian History at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. She was educated at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, at Oxford, where she read as a Rhodes Scholar, and at the University of Chicago. She is writing a book titled, Righteous Republic: The Political Foundations of Modern Indiafor Harvard University Press.
January 14, 2009 – 10:27 pm
Premchand Gandhi, born in 1967 in Jaipur, is a poet, writer, translator and columnist. His first book of poetry, Is Symphoney Mein, has been critically acclaimed and awarded by Rajendra Bohra Kavya Puraskar and Laxman Prasad Mandloi Samman. His other book Sanskriti ka Samkaal is a collection of two decades of journalistic writings on cultural [...]
January 14, 2009 – 10:08 pm
Rajiv Chandrasekaran is the National Editor of The Washington Post and the author of Imperial Life in the Emerald City, a best-selling account of the troubled American effort to reconstruct Iraq. The book won the Overseas Press Club book award, the Ron Ridenhour Prize and Britain’s Samuel Johnson Prize. It was named one of the [...]
January 14, 2009 – 10:07 pm
Prakash, the latest star of the remarkable Dandetha bardic dynasty from Borunda near Jodhpur, is an expert on the folklore of Rajasthan who worked with the late Komal Kothari and who knows the traditions and the folk beliefs of the state like few others.
January 14, 2009 – 10:06 pm
Mohan Bhopa is one of the most successful practioners of the Papuji ki Phad. Once an illiterate village goat herd from the Shekhawati, he has travelled the world with his phad, bringing the great mediaveal courtly epic of Papuji to audiences from Jaipur to Boston.
January 14, 2009 – 5:36 pm
Dr. Mukund Lath teaches history at the University of Rajasthan, Jaipur. His A Study of Dattilam, is an in-depth exploration of one of the ancient most Indian texts on music and is considered a landmark in musicology. He is also the author amongst others of Ardhakathanaka, Half a Tale. He is also a classical vocalist [...]
January 14, 2009 – 5:28 pm
Gurcharan Das is the author of an upcoming book, The Difficulty of Being Good: On the Subtle Art of Dharma. His past works include, India Unbound, A Fine Family (a novel); The Elephant Paradigm; and an anthology, Three English Plays. He studied philosophy and Sanskrit at Harvard University, and lives in Delhi.
January 14, 2009 – 12:48 pm
James Asher is a worldbeat artist who has enjoyed extensive popularity with his albums in India, especially those that contain Indian elements and content. It began in 1998, after James was swept away by the magic of Rajasthan. Inviting 22 musicians mostly Indian but resident in the UK, the year was spent creating the critically [...]
January 13, 2009 – 6:00 pm
Associate Editor of The Hindu and one of India’s leading commentators on foreign affairs, Varadarajan has reported extensively from Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Nepal, Bangladesh, the former Yugoslavia as well as Kashmir and India’s northeastern region. Prior to joining The Hindu in 2004, he was the Foreign Affairs editor and Deputy Chief of Bureau of [...]
January 12, 2009 – 1:52 pm
Keki N. Daruwalla (1937–) has published nine volumes of poetry, and three collections of Short fiction, including one novella. His works include, Under Orion and The Map Maker amongst others. Daruwalla wrote his Masters in literature from Punjab University. He went as a Visiting Fellow under the Colombo Plan to Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford (1980-81). [...]
January 12, 2009 – 1:51 pm
Advaita Kala is the author of the bestselling novel, Almost Single. Almost Single awaits its release (Feb) in the United States under the Bantam Discovery Program. Also later this year French, Hindi and Marathi translations of the book will be available. She is presently at work on her new book and is the South Asia [...]
January 12, 2009 – 1:47 pm
The panel organized by the Osian’s Center for Archiving, Research & Development (CARD) will bring together specialists from different walks of the arts and culture to discuss the role of the archive as a pivotal source of inspiration for the future of artistic and cultural creativity.
January 10, 2009 – 4:45 pm
Led by Reknowned Baul Singers Paban Dass & Mimlu with their daughter Duniya. Joined by Debdas Baul, Kanai Das Baul, Nimai Goswami and Halim Fakir.
January 9, 2009 – 8:00 pm
Madhu Trehan studied journalistic photography in Harrow Technical College & School of Arts in 1968. She received her master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University, New York in 1972. Trehan worked as editor in India Abroad, New York. In 1975 she returned to India to start India’s leading news magazine India Today. Trehan became known [...]
January 8, 2009 – 8:17 pm
Writer of prose and poetry, his works include Nadi Kuch Kehti Hai and Bachi hui hasi. He has been awarded the Som Dutt Samman among many other honours.
January 8, 2009 – 7:37 pm
A dream compelled Peter Pannke to travel to the Mali. Toumani Diabate, master of the 21-string Kora-harp, told him the innermost truth about his country. Dreamtalker introduces the master musician, nominated for the Grammy Award 2009, who is giving his first Indian concert in Jaipur, and discusses the role of Griots.
January 8, 2009 – 4:48 pm
Established in 2000 by Neville Tuli, Osian’s is India’s foremost arts and cultural institution that has been focused on building India’s artistic, cultural and educational infrastructure, fusing artistic, & creative excellence with financial self-sufficiency.
The Centre for Archiving, Research and Development (CARD) lies at the heart of Osian’s unique infrastructure building programme. Since its inception, CARD [...]
January 8, 2009 – 1:12 pm
Known for blending a powerful, arena rock sound with the epic tranquility of Sufi poetry, Junoon is an international phenomenon, has sold over 25 million albums worldwide, and has shared the stage with bands such as Oasis, Pearl Jam, and Wyclef Jean. Originally founded in Pakistan, the band’s sweeping melodies and driving vocals have often [...]
January 7, 2009 – 7:35 pm
Slumdog Millionaire is a 2008 family drama directed by Danny Boyle and written by Simon Beaufoy is based on the novel Q &A by Vikas Swarup. It is the story of how an impoverished Indian teen, Jamal, becomes a winner on the Hindi version of “Who Wants to be A Millionaire?”. The local police find it [...]
January 7, 2009 – 7:32 pm
Cheb I Sabbah, musical adventurer, global spiritualist and producer extraordinaire has returned to the Indian subcontinent for Devotion, his seventh album on Six Degrees Records.
Cheb i Sabbah left his native Algeria in the 1960s, and has made a career out of blending music from all
over the world into kaleidoscopic, dance-floor mixes ever since. His first three [...]
January 7, 2009 – 7:11 pm
A devotional night of love poetry to the Divine
The performance is a collaboration between Shye Ben-Tzur, an Israeli composer and performer
based in India, Rajasthani rhythms and western sounds.After the successful project Heeyam, where three ancient traditions(Hindu, Islamic & Judaic) met into one calibration, Shye Ben-Tzur brings forward a new live Show that follows his upcoming [...]
January 7, 2009 – 7:01 pm
Ramajaz plays an exciting, eclectic mix of jazz-fusion, combining Jazz, Latin, Tango and Flamenco styles with Indian ragas. Ramajaz will be performing from their two albums: Anjuna and Chennai Flamenco.
The artists are: Yosi Marshall on piano, Sirishkumar on tabla, Karthick Srinivasan on violin and Maarten Visser on saxophone.
Ramajaz began in 2005 as a partnership between [...]
January 7, 2009 – 6:56 pm
Ever wondered why mother Earth became a virago? What is it that a woman covets most? Who revived a seductive courtesan from her death sleep? How can one Become something else? When does time stand still? Where did we all begin? Come and meet a star cast of mischievous maidens from across the globe and [...]
January 7, 2009 – 6:48 pm
belongs to the illustrious musical family of Darbhanga Gharana and represents the 12th generation of this musical lineage. His training in Dhruvpad- Dhammar started at an early age under the guidance of his father late Pt. Vidur Mallick, the Dhrupad Maestro. Pt. Mallick has been mastered not only in Dhrupad but also in Khyal, [...]
January 7, 2009 – 4:45 pm
Sivasankari is a Tamil writer and activist. Her works include more than 36 novels, 48 short novels, 150 short stories, 15 travelogues, 7 collections of articles, 13 collections of short stories, one talking book, 3 volumes of literary research, 2 volumes of anthologies, and 2 biographies. She is presently working on a project titled Knit [...]
January 7, 2009 – 4:42 pm
Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih is a poet, writer and translator. He belongs to the Khasi tribe and writes in both Khasi and English. His short stories have been published in leading journals in India and translated into Hindi and Bengali. Nongkynrih is a Reader in the Department of English, North-Eastern Hill University (NEHU), Shillong. He has [...]
January 7, 2009 – 4:40 pm
Gearóid Mac Lochlainn’s work has won many awards at home and internationally and has been translated into several languages. He has been writer-in-residence at Queens University, Belfast and the University of Ulster. He was also the subject of a TG4 documentary Idir Dha Chomhairle (2007). Mac Lochlainn has worked extensively with the British Council and [...]
January 7, 2009 – 4:37 pm
Mererid Hopwood is a poet and novelist. She shot to fame in Wales in 2001 when she became the first woman ever to win the prestigious Chair for poetry at the National Eisteddfod. She has since won the National Crown, also for poetry, and the Eisteddfod’s Prose Medal, for her novel O Ran. She was [...]
January 7, 2009 – 4:32 pm
Matthew Hollis was born in Norwich in 1971. Ground Water (Bloodaxe 2004), his first full-length collection, was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize for Poetry, the Guardian First Book Award and the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. He is co-editor of 101 Poems Against War (Faber, 2003) and Strong Words: Modern Poets on Modern Poetry [...]
January 7, 2009 – 3:59 pm
Sampurna Chattarji is an award-winning poet, fiction-writer and translator. Her books include The Greatest Stories Ever Told, Abol Tabol: The Nonsense World of Sukumar Ray and Mulla Nasruddin (all published by Penguin/Puffin). Abol Tabol was reissued as a Puffin Classic in 2008 under the title Wordygurdyboom! Her modern retelling of the complete Panchatantra titled Three [...]
January 7, 2009 – 3:57 pm
Meg Bateman was born in Edinburgh in Scotland in 1959. She teaches at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, the Gaelic-medium campus of the University of the Highlands and Islands in the Isle of Skye. She has brought out three collections of poetry and has co-edited and translated three anthologies of Gaelic medieval, 17th-century and religious verse. Her [...]
January 7, 2009 – 3:20 pm
Alok Bhalla obtained his Master’s in English from Delhi University and Ph D from Kent State University, USA. At present he is Visiting Professor at Jamia Millia Islamia. Till recently he was professor at the English and Foreign Languages University (former CIEFL). He is also on the Executive Council of the Sahitya Akademi. He has [...]
January 7, 2009 – 3:19 pm
Apurva Narain born in 1967, is the son and poet translator of one of the leading living poets in Hindi, Kuwar Narain. He has translated a selection of his poems in English titled, No Other World. He is based in Delhi and spends time in India, England and France.
January 6, 2009 – 4:13 pm
Rajiv Chandrasekaran is the National Editor of The Washington Post and the author of Imperial Life in the Emerald City, a best-selling account of the troubled American effort to reconstruct Iraq. The book won the Overseas Press Club book award, the Ron Ridenhour Prize and Britain’s Samuel Johnson Prize. It was named one of the [...]
January 6, 2009 – 3:19 pm
Wendy Doniger is an American scholar of history of religion. She is the author, translator, and editor of almost thirty books in as many years; the latest was The Woman Who Pretended To Be Who She Was. Her current works in progress include a novel, Horses for Lovers, Dogs for Husbands and a book about [...]
January 6, 2009 – 3:19 pm
A poet, a sculptor, a scriptwriter, a painter, a photographer, an author and illustrator of several books for children.Born and brought up in Dehradun, Viky is a national award winner for children’s literature. Her poetry collection Canvas has been awarded Kriti Samman by Hindi academy.A M.F.A. from B.H.U. Viky works with a leading ad agency [...]
January 6, 2009 – 3:18 pm
Vikram Seth is an Indian poet, novelist, librettist, translator, biographer, children’s writer and travel writer. He has published five volumes of poetry. His book From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet (1983) won the Thomas Cook award for travel writing and the first of his novels, The Golden Gate (1986) received wide acclaim (Gore [...]
January 6, 2009 – 3:18 pm
Vikas Swarup is an Indian diplomat, presently posted in Pretoria. His award winning debut novel Q&A has become an international phenomenon, translated into 36 languages and adapted into the acclaimed film Slumdog Millionaire. His second novel Six Suspects is also being translated into several languages and has been optioned for a film by the BBC.
January 6, 2009 – 3:17 pm
Vandana Bhandari is currently a Professor in the Fashion and Textiles department and the Head of International Linkages at the National Institute of Fashion Technology, New Delhi.
Her works include: Celebrating Dreams: Weddings in India , Textiles and Crafts of India: Arunachal Pradesh, Assam and Manipur, the NIFT Millennium Document titled Evolving Trends in Fashion and [...]
January 6, 2009 – 3:16 pm
Udupi Rajagopalacharya Ananthamurthy, is a leading contemporary writer and critic in the Kannada language. He received a Master of Arts degree from the University of Mysore and earned his doctorate from the University of Birmingham in 1966. He is a recipient of the Jnanpith Award for the Kannada language and in 1998 he received the [...]
January 6, 2009 – 3:15 pm
Tahmima Anam was born in Bangladesh in 1975. She grew up in Paris, New York, and Bangkok, attended Harvard University, where she earned a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology. She lives in London. Tahmima’s writing has been published in Granta, The New York Times, and The Guardian. A Golden Age is her first novel.
January 6, 2009 – 3:13 pm
In a 25 year career as a journalist, Tarun has been an editor with the India Today and the Indian Express groups, and the managing editor of Outlook. He is the founder of Tehelka- which has garnered international fame for its aggressive public interest journalism. In 2001, AsiaWeek listed Tejpal as one of Asia’s 50 [...]
January 6, 2009 – 3:12 pm
Shamsur Rahman Faruqui, Urdu critic, poet, fiction writer, was born in 1935. Savar (Rider), his book of short stories was published in India and Pakistan to great acclaim as re-creation of the Indo Muslim literary culture in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. His novel Ka’i Chaand the Sar-e Asman (Many Moons Across the Sky) explores [...]
January 6, 2009 – 3:11 pm
Sunil Gangopadhyay began his literary career as a poet with the journal Krittibas in 1953 & his novel Atma Prakash in 1966.A prolific writer Sunil Gangopadhyay has published around 350 books in his fifty five years span as writer. He is best known for his Neera poems and the mega narratives, Sei Samai, Purba Paschim [...]
January 6, 2009 – 3:10 pm
Sonia Faleiro is an award-winning journalist and writer. The Girl (Viking, 2006) is her first novel. Her short stories and non fiction appear have appeared in numerous anthologies, most recently in AIDS Sutra: Untold Stories from India (Random House, Vintage UK, Anchor Books US, 2008).
Sonia is a Contributing Editor to Vogue. She is working on [...]
January 6, 2009 – 3:10 pm
Simon Schama is University Professor of Art History and History at Columbia University; the author of fourteen books including Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution, Landscape and Memory, Rembrandt’s Eyes, Rough Crossings: Britain, The American Revolution and The Slaves and most recently
The American Future: A History. He writes regularly for The Guardian in London [...]
January 6, 2009 – 3:09 pm
Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi’s bestselling 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. Shanghvi’s new novel, The Lost Flamingoes of Bombay, was short-listed for the Man Asian Literary Prize 2008.
January 6, 2009 – 2:37 pm
Shaktidan Kavia, a widely travelled author and professor has written Sanskriti ri Soram, Saputa ri Dharti, Rajasthani Sahitya ka anusheelam and Rajasthani kaavya mein saanskritik gaurav amongst many others. He has recieved many awards and honours including Sahitya Akademi Award for Rajasthani translators and Rajasthan Sahitya Akademi award for poetry. His writing has been translated [...]
January 6, 2009 – 2:22 pm
Sarwat Khan is a well known name in contemporary Urdu literature. She has five books to her credit, Zarron ki haraarat (Stories), Andhera Pag (Novel) & three books of criticism. Andhere Pag is a rare piece on the traditions and customs of the Rajpurohit Caste in Rajasthan, in which she portrays the struggle of a [...]
January 6, 2009 – 2:21 pm
Satyanarana from Jodhpur is the author of many works of fiction and reportage including the book, Phati Jeb se ek din which was made into a telefilm. He has been the recepient of several awards. He is is a professor of Hindi.
January 6, 2009 – 2:21 pm
Rana Dasgupta is the author of Tokyo Cancelled(2005) and Solo (2009). He lives in New Delhi.
January 6, 2009 – 1:37 pm
Gulzar is a noted Indian poet, lyricist, director, and playwright, who works primarily in Hindi and Urdu languages. He has been awarded the Padma Bhushan and Sahitya Akademi Award. He has written in Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, and dialects of Hindi like Marwari and Bhojpuri.
January 6, 2009 – 1:36 pm
Kavita Singh is Associate Professor at the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi where she teaches the history of Indian painting and curatorial studies. She has published on Indian folk and courtly painting and is currently working on the history of museums in India.
January 6, 2009 – 1:36 pm
Kudsi Erguner, is particularly famed for his activities helping to introduce Ottoman and sufi music to the world. He lives and works in Paris as a musician, composer, musicologist, teacher and author.
Erguner comes from a family of Turkish musicians.He received his training directly from his father, Ulvi Erguner, who was the last great master of [...]
January 6, 2009 – 1:36 pm
Malise Ruthven is the author of Fundamentalism: the Search fo Meaning, A Fury for God: The Islamist Attack on America, The Divine Supermarket:Shopping for God in America, Islam in the World and several other books.
A former university lecturer and scriptwriter for the BBC External Services, he is currently working on a book about religion and [...]
January 6, 2009 – 1:35 pm
Bhawana Somaaya began her career in journalism in the late ’70s while studying for her BA degree in Psychology. Commencing with Free Press Journal’s Cinema Journal as chief reporter, she moved to Super as a special correspondent while completing LLB at the Government Law College, Mumbai. In ’81 she joined Movie as an assistant editor [...]
January 6, 2009 – 1:35 pm
Marie Brenner is a writer-at-large for the Vanity Fair. Her expose of the tobacco industry, The Man who knew too Much, was the basis for the 1999 movie The Insider, which was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture. She is the author of Great Dames: What I learned from Older Women (2000) and [...]
January 6, 2009 – 1:34 pm
Nadeem Aslam is the author of the award-winning novels Season of the Rainbirds and Maps for Lost Lovers. He lives in the UK. His third novel The Wasted Vigil has just been published.
January 6, 2009 – 1:34 pm
Nalini Jameela was born in Kerala to parents who were daily wage laborers.She started sex work at the age of 24 and has been involved with Kerala Sex Workers Forum. She has two daughters Latha and Seenath.
Nalini has directed two documentaries Jwalamukhika & A peep in to the silence.
Her autobiography Njan Laingikathozhilali was published in [...]
January 6, 2009 – 1:34 pm
Navdeep Suri is a member of the Indian Foreign Service since 1983. He is currently Consul General of India in Johannesburg. Mr. Suri is co-author of the study Development Strategy as a Determinant of Foreign Policy: A case study of India and Pakistan. His work on Indo-African relations has been published in India’s Foreign Policy, [...]
January 6, 2009 – 1:33 pm
Nabaneeta Dev Sen is a Bengali poet and writer. A recipient of the Sahitya Akademi award and the Padmashree, she is also Professor of Comparative Literature at Jadavpur University, Calcutta. Her works include, Pratham Pratyay, Maya raye gelo and Karuna tomar kon path diye amongst many others.
January 6, 2009 – 1:31 pm
Prasoon Joshi, “the Advertising Guru of India”, is also an accalimed Poet and screenwriter in Bollywood. An MBA, he started his career as a copywriter. Today, he is Chairman McCann-Erickson India & Creative Director Asia Pacific. From Cannes Lion winning Advertising campaigns for Coca Cola& Happydent to Filmfare for Taare zameen par &Rang De Basanti [...]
January 6, 2009 – 1:30 pm
Peter Pannke is a singer, dreamer and storyteller born in Germany. His books include Troubadoure Allahs – Sufimusik im Industal,Indien – Fest der Farben, Mali – Reise durch ein magisches Land(Frederking & Thaler, Munich) and Saengers muessen zweimal sterben – Eine Reise ins unerhoerte Indien(Piper/Mallik, Munich).
At the Jaipur Literature Festival he is launching Dreamtalker – [...]
January 6, 2009 – 1:30 pm
Apart from being a prominent diplomat, Pavan Varma is a writer with over a dozen books to his credit, including Krishna: The Playful Divine; Ghalib: The Man, The Times and The Havelis of Old Delhi. His books on contemporary subjects – The Great Indian Middle Class; Being Indian: The Truth about why the 21st Century [...]
January 6, 2009 – 1:29 pm
Pushpesh Pant, born 11 December 1946. Educated in Nainitaland Delhi. Have taught in the Delhi Univeristy and the JNU for four decades. Written books on culture, cuisine, travel and Indian foreign poolicy and international relations. independent producer of television documenataries. TV anchor and columnist in Hindi and English newspapers.
January 6, 2009 – 1:24 pm
Nicholas Coleridge is the author of twelve books, both fiction and non-fiction, based loosely upon his professional life (The Fashion Conspiracy, Paper Tigers, With Friends Like These) or epic novels (Godchildren, A Much Married Man). His books have been published in fourteen languages. His next novel, Deadly Sins, is published in May.
He is Vice President [...]
January 6, 2009 – 1:21 pm
Muzaffar Ali, born in1944 Lucknow, is an Indian film-maker, a fashion designer, a poet, an artist, a music-lover, a revivalist and a social worker. In 2005 he was awarded the Padma Shri for his achievements. Some of his films include the very popular, Umrao Jaan, Sheeshon ka Maseeha and Anjuman amongst many others.
January 6, 2009 – 1:17 pm
Mukul Kesavan is a writer and historian who lives in Delhi. His most recent book was The Ugliness of the Indian Male and Other Propositions.
January 6, 2009 – 1:15 pm
Hailing from village Satasar, Maliram Sharma belongs to the first generation to have recieved formal education and achieve acedemic heights in his family. He writes poetry, satire and fiction. His works include Aamne Saamne, Sadak ka sailab and O Satasar, an autobigraphical account amongst other works. He has held various important administrative and honorary posts [...]
January 6, 2009 – 1:15 pm
Lijia Zhang, author of Socialism is Great! was born and raised in Nanjing. Her articles have appeared in numerous international publications, including South China Morning Post, The Japan Times, The Independent, The Washington Post, and Newsweek. She is a regular speaker on BBC radio and NPR. She lives in Beijing with her two daughters.
January 6, 2009 – 1:09 pm
Kanika Gahlaut, a senior editor with Mail Today, has been a lifestyle journalist for over 15 years. In between attending fashion shows, watching films, partying and schmoozing hard for a living, she has authored Among the Chatterati: The Diary of a Page Three Hack (Penguin India), a fictionalised take on Delhi’s partying set, and has [...]
January 6, 2009 – 1:05 pm
Ashis Nandy is one of the leading Indian social, cultural and political critics. His field covers public conscience, political psychology, mass violence, nationalism and culture. He received the Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize in 2007. He is Senior Fellow and Director of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies and Chairperson of the Committee for [...]
January 6, 2009 – 1:02 pm
Ashok Chakradhar is a leading Hindi poet specializing in satire and comedy. He has won many prestigious national awards for literature and has been actively associated with radio and television and has scripted a number of dramas, satires and poems including, Masalaaraam and Bandariyaa Chalee Sasuraal amongst many others.
January 5, 2009 – 7:14 pm
Alok Rai is a professor of literature at the Deaprtment of English, Delhi University. He has specialised in, Victorian, post-Victorian English Literature, George Orwell language and cultural politics in modern India. His recent publications include, Translation of Premchand’s Nirmala into English and Hindi Nationalism.
January 5, 2009 – 6:56 pm
Udaya Narayana Singh, is Director of the Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore, India and is a renowned linguist as well as a reputed poet, playwright and essayist in Maithili and Bengali. He previously set up the Centre in Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies at the University of Hyderabad, and taught in the Universities at [...]
January 5, 2009 – 6:46 pm
Tash Aw is Malaysian by birth but now lives in London. His first novel, The Harmony Silk Factory, won the Whitbread Best First Novel Award and the Commonwealth Best First Novel Award. Map of the Invisible World is his second novel.
January 5, 2009 – 6:29 pm
Sam Miller in the early nineties was the BBC World Service TV and radio correspondent in Delhi and on his return to the UK in 1993 was presenter and editor of the BBC’s current affairs programme, South Asia Report. Later he was Head of the BBC’s Urdu service and Managing Editor, South Asia.
In 2004, he [...]
January 5, 2009 – 6:10 pm
Ritu Kumar, one of India’s foremost designers has developed a unique style of her own, reflecting the ancient traditions of Indian craftsmanship in a contemporary vocabulary.With a background in art history and museology, which has enriched her horizons, Ritu’s understanding of ancient designs and the innovative use of traditional crafts has created a new classicism. [...]
January 5, 2009 – 5:31 pm
Paul Zacharia is a writer and columnist in Malayalam. He has published over 40 books including short stories, novels, travelogues, essays and film-scripts. He lives in Thiruvananthapuram. He won the Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award in 2005.
January 5, 2009 – 5:28 pm
Gillian Wright studied Urdu and Hindi at London University’s School of Oriental and African Studies. She has lived in India for thirty years and has translated Hindi novels by Srilal Shukla and Rahi Masoom Reza and short stories by Bhisham Sahni. She has also written books on travel and wildlife, and collaborated with Mark Tully [...]
January 5, 2009 – 12:54 pm
Patrick French is a British writer, the author of Younghusband, Liberty or Death, Tibet,Tibet and most recently The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul, described by James Wood in The New Yorker as ‘a masterly, mournful book … full of intimate and moving revelations.’