Famous Authors from India
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 | Lopa | ||
| Lopa Mukherjee is a writer of fiction, essays, poems, plays. She has written a novel, Three Rivers of Tears, a historical fiction set in post-colonial India. She is a culture worker doing presentations on Indian culture and makes documentaries on related subjects. She lives in Silicon Valley, California. | |||
 | Sudhir Kekre | ||
| After working abroad for a decade in the US and the UK, Sudhir Kekre heard the sound of home calling. He settled in India to pursue his passion for writing. Being a maverick, he cannot call a single place his home.
The first novel Pizza Porn, a funny coming age story of two youngsters, was published in February, 2013. This is his second book.
Apart from traveling, he loves animals because they cannot talk. God realized his mistake when he created human beings!
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1. Pizza Porn
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 | K.K. Kharlukhi | ||
| K.K. Kharlukhi was born and brought up in Shillong. He is one of the well-known Khasi novelists. His works include Novels, Playlets, Short Stories (both in Khasi and English) besides articles and directing documentary films. He is currently the General Secretary of the Khasi Authors' Society, a prominent literary organization in Meghalaya and had won the State Literary Award in 2008 for his novel 'Ka Sympa'. 'Tears of the Nymphs' is his debut in English fiction. | |||
 | S.K. Sood | ||
| Dr. S.K. Sood, retired Principal of Post Graduate Co-Educational College, Pathankot, India, has first-hand experience with frustrated youths and their problems both in the east and the west. For the last four decades, he has been teaching young boys and girls and listening to their love tangles, anguish and exultation, sorrows and thrills. His first novel Drink Not To Die But Live and Love is already quite popular in States and other Western Countries. In this novel, the writer has tried to present the experiences, the travails and tribulations of a young woman through her own point of view in the most original style. Dr. Sood is doctorate in literature and his pen penetrates into the character’s hidden recesses easily with great finesse and swiftness. | |||
 | Tripuraneni Gopichand | ||
| Tripuraneni Gopichand (1910-62) won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1963 for his last novel, Pandita Parameswara Sastri Veelunama. Novelist, short story writer, editor, essayist, playwright and also a film director, his works are remarkable for an interplay of values, ideas and 'isms' – materialism, hedonism, existentialism, rationalism, spiritualism, realism, humanism – to mention some. This novel, Merupula Marakalu - published a year before his death - became instantly popular and raised a major controversy. | |||
 | D.S. Rao | ||
| D.S. Rao, Ph.D., is a literary critic, editor, author, translator, and teacher of English literature. After serving Sahitya Akademi from 1956 to 1991, he retired as Editor, Indian Literature. His writings appeared in leading newspapers and journals. In 2003, his English translation of Gopicand’s Asamardhuni Jivayatra has been hailed as ‘a milestone’ by Prof. M. Sivaramakrishna. In 2005, his Five Decades has been called ‘a brilliant historical study’ by Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, President of India. | |||
1. Usha Rani : A tale of Sense and Sensuality (Translator)
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 | Adwitiya Borah | ||
| Adwitiya Borah, born amidst the greenery of Assam, is a Computer Science Engineer from NIT Silchar. Besides writing, she is a martial artist with a black belt in karate. She believes she was born to write and hopes to make it big in the literary world someday. The Wrong Vantage Point is her first full-length novel. | |||
 | Sayantan Gupta | ||
| Dr. Sayantan Gupta is a Consultant Gynaecologist by profession and also a Laparoscopic Surgeon, at present residing in and practicising at Malda, West Bengal. Writing prose, poetry and drama being his passion, some of his plays have made successful stage productions. He has recently published his book of poetry Where the Rainbow Ends. . His novels, The Physician – Legacy of the Healer God is in the process of publication. His novel Abode of the Kings has been published in 2013. He has cotranslated Michael Madhusudan Dutt’s Bengali epic Meghnaad Badh Kabya. | |||
1. Meghnaad Badh Kabya: The Slaying of Meghnaad – an Epic ( Co-Translator)
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 | Ashish Bansal | ||
| Ashish loves to read novels and watch films. He has completed B.Tech from Thapar University, Patiala. He currently resides in Hanumangarh. Apart from his business and hobbies, he is a shopaholic. He likes to travel too. | |||
 | Deepti Ingle | ||
| Deepti is a keen reader and a big Bollywood fan. She has completed her B.Tech from ICT, Mumbai. She works with an engineering firm in Pune. Apart from a passionate writer, she plays guitar, has interest in travelling and hanging out with friends. She has a published book Just Another Love Story. | |||
 | Nandita Bose | ||
| Nandita writes in the nostalgic romance genre, capturing the essence of love, life and relationships within the uniquely Indian context. What she hopes to advocate through fictional works is the wisdom to value and prioritise love above all. In her spare time Nandita writes poetry, reads and is prepping for an alternate career as a literary reviewer. | |||
 | Harsh Agarwal | ||
| Harsh Agarwal is a young writer enthusiast who made his debut in publishing at the age of nineteen. This is his second novel. Harsh, basically a third year engineering student from NIT Assam, is a voracious reader, a professional freelancer and a book-reviewer. He successfully headed a creative writing portal as the director for a year and is well known for helping other young authors. He has been the project head for Time’s Lost Atlas and chairperson of a charitable project, Project Humming Bird. | |||
 | Moinak Dutta | ||
| A teacher of English by profession, Moinak Dutta has indulged his passion in creative writing with successful results. His first published poem was ‘The Epitaph’ that was featured in The Statesman, Kolkata in 1999. Since then, many of his poems have been published in national and international anthologies. A few short stories have also been part of some collections and magazines. Pestilence was published in 2009 by a Goa based company. His non-fictional achievements include a review of The Upanisads translated by V. J. Roebuck. | |||
 | Geoffrey Jackson | ||
| A retired university lecturer in English, he has worked in Holland, Denmark, Finland, Saudi Arabia and Oman. This is his debut book. | |||
 | Anvita Bajpai | ||
| Anvita, a multifaceted IITian, believes in living life to the fullest. Between her professional activities as a former AVP, an entrepreneur and an author now, she enjoys her passion for creativity, imagination, and self-discovery in the joys and demands of domestic life. This is her first work of fiction. | |||
 | Priyanka Bhardwaj | ||
| Priyanka Bhardwaj is a prolific writer in English. After doing a Bachelor in English Honours from University of Delhi, she acquired a post graduate diploma in Public Relations from Sardar Patel College of Communication and Management, Bhartiya Vidya Bhawan. She is currently pursuing her MBA. Her skill in literary English and her proficiency in the art of presenting beautiful ironical facts of life in fictional form make her a contemporary writer of note. | |||
 | Neelam Saxena Chandra | ||
| Neelam Saxena Chandra is an engineer by profession and an officer in the Indian Railways. Writing poetry and fiction is her passion. More than two hundred and fifty of her stories/poems have been published in various leading Indian as well as international magazines. She has won various awards and poetry contests. Recently Neelam also debuted as a lyricist in Shankar Tucker’s composition Mere Sajan Sun Sun. | |||
2. Soul Seekers
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 | Monika Pant | ||
| Based in Lucknow, Monika Pant decided in 2010 to leave her job as a senior English teacher and started writing full time. Her first break came in the form of stories in the ‘Chicken Soup for the Indian Soul’ series. She writes about human relationships and finds stories in events, conversations and conflicts around her. She is currently penning a couple of historical novels– a romance and a children’s mystery thriller. Her memoir as a cancer survivor is to be published soon. | |||
 | R.K. Biswas | ||
| R K Biswas earned her living as a copywriter. She has had more than 200 published items in journals and anthologies all over the world. She has won prizes and commendations for her poetry and fiction, including the first prize in the Anam Cara Short Story Competition 2012. She was long-listed in the 2006 Bridport Poetry Prize. She lives in Chennai, India with her husband and two children. | |||
 | Bina Biswas | ||
| Dr Bina Biswas is a Professor and the Head of the Department of English, TRR Group of Educational Institutions, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad. She is an alumnus of the University of Delhi and has a Doctorate from Andhra University. She is a Tagore scholar and a wellknown author. Her monumental works comprise Michael Madhusudan Dutt’s Meghnad Badh Kabya’s translation into English. Her book of short fictions Tale of the Missing Shoe and Other Stories and Tagore’s Heroines: Assessing the Portraits of Gender Orientation have been published. Her Poetry collection Forest Flowers has also been published in 2013. | |||
2. Meghnaad Badh Kabya: The Slaying of Meghnaad – an Epic ( Co-Translator)
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 | Shekhar Trivedi | ||
| Dr. Shekhar Trivedi is working as Professor in marketing with Dr. Gaur Hari Singhania Institute of Management & Research, Kanpur. His article on Direct Marketing won its place in the SOLUS, the golden jubilee issue of ‘Legendary Ad club of Bombay’ with other stalwarts of Indian Ad Industry. His case study on Retail was published under TCS | |||
 | Kulpreet Yadav | ||
| Kulpreet Yadav’s short stories have appeared in many literary magazines from around the world. He is the founder and co-editor of Open Road Review, a literary journal. He also co-edits Under the Banyan Tree, an online forum of true stories. In 2011, Kulpreet’s short fiction won a special commendation in the competition ‘The Best Short Writing in the World’, by Fleeting magazine. He lives in New Delhi. | |||
 | Vasudev Murthy | ||
| Vasudev Murthy has authored books on subjects as varied as music and business management, and articles that dwell on history, sociology, the occult, philosophy and the like. A prolific writer of short stories, Murthy draws on the rich and colourful tapestry of his collective experiences to paint brilliant word pictures of life and its vagaries and its myriad hues that in the haste of living we often tend to overlook. When he is not writing or traveling to remote parts of the world or playing the violin or communing with his dogs, Vasudev is a management consultant and a Guest Faculty at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. | |||
 | Shubha Sarma | ||
| Born and brought up in Lucknow, Shubha Sarma is an alumnus of Lady Shri Ram College and Jawaharlal Nehru University. Fond of dogs, she enjoys tending to her bonsai collection in her spare moments. After joining the Indian Administrative Service, she served for more than a decade in the tribal districts of Odisha where she endeavored to catalyze social change, empower women and address complex issues concerning left-wing extremism. A yoga practitioner, the author enjoys travelling, cycling and swimming. She lives with her husband and two sons in New Delhi. | |||
 | Nabina Das | ||
| An MFA (Poetry) from Rutgers University, US and an MA (Linguistics) from Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, Nabina’s poetry and prose have been published in several international journals and anthologies. Nabina is also a contributor to Prairie Schooner and is in the peer review committee of The Four Quarters Magazine. A winner of several writing residencies, fellowships and contests, she has worked in journalism and media for about 10 years (The Ithaca Journal, US; Tehelka News Portal, Delhi). | |||
 | Om Shukla | ||
| Born in a small town of Allahabad and brought up in Faridabad, Om Shukla has been involved in creative expression of his thoughts and feelings. He loves to pen down his feelings in the form of poems, in both English and Hindi. But his life brought him to a situation where he decided to pen down his life in the form of this debut novel. | |||
 | Ritu Lalit | ||
| Ritu Lalit is a corporate slave and fiction writer. A voracious reader, she is a gold medallist post graduate in English Literature who spent most of her childhood in remote areas in the north-eastern parts of India, lying on grassy hillsides daydreaming and reading books. She loves spinning tales, but no longer has her captive audience as her children grew up and flew away from the coop. She writes in the vain hope that the characters she creates will listen to her, even do her bidding. She has so far got middling success in this quest, but she continues to write, as it entertains her more than her corporate job. | |||
 | S K Suresh | ||
| Suresh Nair is the pen name of Colonel S K Suresh (Retd.). Post his military service, he has taken to writing. His interests in the 'inside' of the human include thoughts and their passage, the evolving human and the 'harmony within' of individuals and society. | |||
 | Harpreet Kaur | ||
| Harpreet Kaur has been writing for the past 19 years, first as a journalist and then as a writer. She loves traveling and writing. History forms the most part of all her writing including her first book, Archaeology: Techniques and Methods. The Rajput Warrior is her first novel. | |||
 | Amit Sharma | ||
| Having studied M.Tech in Computer Science from Kurukshetra University, Amit Sharma is currently working as a Software Engineer in Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) for last ten years. His wife is a teacher and they are blessed with a daughter who is in her terrible twos. | |||
 | Anuradha Vijayakrishnan | ||
| Anuradha Vijayakrishnan was born in Cochin, India. She followed up a Bachelor's in Chemical Engineering from Calicut University with postgraduate studies in Management from XLRI, Jamshedpur. She is a 2010 alumna of Western Michigan University's Prague Summer Program. Her poetry first appeared in print under the editorship of Ms. Kamala Das. Her work has appeared in various magazines and anthologies including New Writing 14 (Granta), Asia Literary Review, Indian Literature and Nth Position. | |||
 | Manish Das Gupta | ||
| Born and brought up in Kolkata, Manish Das Gupta has an all- consuming obsession for literature. Eventually, inevitably, he ended up writing ictions. Having studied Advanced Physics from the University of Calcutta, he is currently working as a software professional at an IT Company in Singapore together with his wife. | |||
 | Kumar Kaustubh | ||
| Kumar Kaustubh is an engineering student, lives in Jamshedpur. He has written 4 novels and scripts for many short films. He aspires to be an adventure traveller. | |||
 | Minal Sarosh | ||
| Minal Sarosh began her literacy career as a poet writing in English. She won the Commendation Prize in the All India Poetry Competition 2005 of The Poetry Society (India) Delhi. Her work has been published in many print and online journals and anthologies including, Chandrabhaga, Indian Literature and ‘These My Words’ The Penguin Book of Indian Poetry 2012. She lives in Ahmedabad with her husband Joel and son Leon. | |||
 | Adwaita Das | ||
| Adwaita has trained in Indian Classical vocals and Bharatnatyam dance; graduated in English Literature from Jadavpur University. She founded theatre group - Stage-Addict for original English plays and has worked in news, entertainment, arts and advertising. Her script Chhayankaner Jonyo won the Shyamanand Jalan National Youth Theatre Award. 27 Stitches, her poetry collection was published in 2013. She studied film direction at FTII, Pune and her first independent feature film Karon Kolkata is in the making. | |||
 | Amar Mudi | ||
| Amar Mudi (1954) was born in West Midnapur district of West Bengal, India. He is a writer, translator in Bengali, Hindi and English. His short stories and poems have been published in Indian Literature, Asiawrites, Bhasabandhan, Aaramva, Kishore Bharati, Anubad Patrika etc. He has written several One Act Plays, directed and acted in many plays. | |||
 | Dr. Prathap Kamath | ||
| Prathap Kamath is Associate Professor of English at Sree Narayana College, Kollam affiliated to the University of Kerala. A bilingual writer, he has published a collection of poems in English, Ekalavya: a book of poems and two collections of stories in Malayalam. Blood Rain and Other Stories is his first collection of stories in English. He also translates poems from Malayalam to English, and has published academic articles on poetry, drama and fiction. He holds a doctorate from Mahatma Gandhi University. | |||
 | Dr. Usha Bande | ||
| Dr. Usha Bande is an academic and critic by profession but a creative and journalistic writer by vocation. Usha Bande did her Ph.D. from Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla and post-doctoral research from University of Florida, Gainesville (USA). She is a prolific bilingual writer in English and Hindi. She has translated Marathi stories into Hindi and English. She has more than a dozen books to her credit; some of them are Violence in Media and Society; Culture, Nature and Literature, Ecology and Folk Traditions in Himachal Pradesh, a Coffee Table book entitled Forts and Palaces of Himachal Pradesh and Writing Resistance: A Comparative Study of Women Novelists. | |||
 | Archna Pant | ||
| Archna Pant is an MBA and an ex-media and advertising professional. She has worked with the Indian Express, New Delhi. Her stories have been published in the Chicken Soup of Indian Single’s Soul, Chicken Soup of Indian Couple’s Soul, Chicken Soup of Indian Doctor’s Soul and Chicken Soup of Indian Brothers and Sisters’ Soul. A homemaker at present and a freelance writer, she lives in Delhi with her husband and her son. | |||
 | Jinia Mukerjee | ||
| Jinia Mukerjee’s short stories focus on the unobserved, unexpressed and often unheeded nuances of human emotions and relationships. Born in Kolkata, and trained as a Clinical Psychologist from University of Kolkata and Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, she was involved in the rehabilitation of mentally disadvantaged women in India, after which she worked as a Research Clinical Psychologist in Australia. In the south of France, where she lives for the past 14 years, Jinia has worked as a psychotherapist, a lecturer in organisational behaviour in business schools, and is currently pursuing a doctoral fellowship in Management Science. Jinia’s short fictions and poetries have been published in Sahitya Academy’s journal Indian Literature, The Statesman’s festival and weekly editions, while her mental health awareness-raising articles have been published in magazines in France and Australia.
Jinia has also co-authored an award-winning Italian book on the politics, aesthetics and the semiotics of the female body that was critically acclaimed and prominently featured in Elle.
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 | Max Babi | ||
| A metallurgist and plasma technologist, Max Babi stumbled on to advanced training, life skills and soft skills and ruminating on Serendipity. He has conducted many workshops and lectures on the all-pervasive presence of Serendipity. He owes a huge debt to his young students whose hydra-headed queries inspired him to examine every nook and corner of the intellectual cosmos keeping in view the simplicity principle, which has contributed greatly to his holistic perception. | |||
 | Mohammad Aleem | ||
| Mohammad Aleem, winner of many national level awards like Sanskriti Award for Literature, Urdu Academy Delhi Award, Navodit Lekhak Puraskar by Hindi Academy Delhi and National Junior Fellowship Award by Ministry of Culture, Government of India. He has many books to his credit. Mere Nalon Ki Ghumshudah Awaz (a novel in Urdu and Hindi by Penguin Books, India, 2008) is one of them. He has also written extensively for TV and Radio, and attended many national level literary seminars. | |||
 | Carlotta Ladyizumi Abrams | ||
Carlotta Ladyizumi Abrams has a bachelor’s degree from Wesleyan University, an MFA from Arizona State and a PhD from the University of Southern Mississippi.She has traveled to over seventy countries. She is an international speaker and writer who is the Coordinator of Creative Writing at Estrella College in Arizona.
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 | Prof. Manju Jaidka | ||
| Manju Jaidka is a Professor at the Department of English & Cultural Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh. A recipient of several national and international awards, she has several publications to her credit, including two novels, Spots of Time and Scandal Point, a play, The Seduction and Betrayal of Cat Whiskers, and a collection of poems, For Reasons Unknown. As the Chairperson of the Chandigarh Sahitya Akademi she organizes literary events on a regular basis and as the chief functionary of an academic organization with international linkages, she has been organizing international conferences successfully every year. She serves on the executive board of several leading international and national organizations. | |||
 | Srinivasan Charuhasan | ||
| Charuhasan, a noted name in the South Indian film industry, practised law in Ramnad and Madurai districts in Tamil Nadu till 1975 and then at the Madras High Court till 1986. His acting career began with his debut in Uthiri Pookkal. He won instant recognition and acted in some famous roles in acclaimed films, bagging pretigious awards like a National Award for the best actor for Tabarana Kathe in Kannada in 1986, a Karnataka state award and a Filmfare Award in 1993. He is also a good singer, a musicologist, and a vibrant orator - both in English and Tamil. | |||
 | Sudama Panigrahi | ||
| Sudama Panigrahi, a self made person, works in Indian Railways. He writes poems in English and Odia. His first novel, Love Across the Borders was published in 2013. His poems have been published in many national journals. | |||
 | Neela Senthil | ||
Neela Senthil (Dr. M. Neelamalar) teaches media sciences at Anna University, Chennai. She has written a number of books and research articles. She has presented various papers in national/international conferences/seminars and has travelled widely and visited the countries such as the United Kingdom, Hong Kong and Mauritius for this purpose.
Her published books include, Media Law and Ethics, Kargil Revisited: Images and perceptions of the Kargil War after Ten years, Print Media Coverage of the 26/11 Mumbai Terror Coverage and Nationalism and National Integration in Tamil Films. An Endless Refuge is her first published work of fiction. She hopes to follow it up with many more of the same genre.
She lives in Chennai with husband Dr. V. S. Senthil Kumar and her two children.
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 | Surabhi Sahu | ||
| Surabhi has been residing in Singapore since 2004. She has worked as a senior financial journalist at The Mergermarket Group, as a senior market reporter at ICIS, part of Reed Business Information, and as a commodities reporter at Dow Jones Newswires, The Wall Street Journal Asia. She concluded her schooling from Delhi Public School, R.K. Puram, graduated in Economics (Hons) from St. Stephens College, University of Delhi, and completed a Masters in Business Economics from the Department of Business Economics, University of Delhi. | |||
 | Leena Sarma | ||
| Leena Sarma is an officer with the Indian Railways and currently working as GM, Centre for Railway Information System, New Delhi. She is a well-known novelist from Assam with eight novels to her credit. A Melody in the Wilderness is her first English novel. Widely traveled, the writer developed the plot keeping America at the backdrop. | |||
 | Syed Mohammad Irshad | ||
| Syed is a Commerce graduate, born in Lucknow, India, in a landed family of lawyers on December 30, 1988. He has done his schooling from City Montessori School, Lucknow. Resilient, likes to innovate and involve himself in creative things. He enjoys ancient history and loves playing cricket as well. A teacher by profession and enjoys pedagogy and opines that ideologies and views should low smoothly and be shared without deiance. He has a keen interest in architecture. | |||
 | Dr. Lokendra Singh | ||
| A Neurosurgeon trained in India from PGI, Chandigarh and abroad in UK, USA, Japan, France, Brazil and Italy. After passing his specialty board exam in Neurosurgery from UK he resigned and shifted back to India; presently working as Sr. Consultant Neurosurgeon and dy. Director at Central India Institute of Medical Sciences (CIIMS), Nagpur. He is a regular invited faculty at National and International neurosurgery conferences. A well known Hindi poet of Central India was awarded ‘Sahitya Akademi award’ by Maharashtra Hindi Sahitya Akademi for year 2010 for his collection of Hindi poems 'Bunde Jeevan ki'. | |||
 | Ishaan Lalit | ||
| Ishaan Lalit is a seasoned author, who through his unusual plots has gained many great reviews and fans. His book Hexagon won the award for best Science Fiction at the Indian Literary Awards but he continued to evolve changing genres and bringing fresh stories to his fans. This is his fourth project and it delves into a darker, more conflicted side of fiction while keeping his narration and the plot crisp. | |||
 | A.V. Koshy | ||
| Dr. Koshy is an established poet, critic, essayist and writer of iction. He has, to his credit, two published books. His poems have been chosen as editor’s picks for the Camel Saloon and one of them was nominated for the Pushcart Poetry Prize of 2012. His Treatise was chosen as one of the best Indian reads of 2012 by The Butterly and the Bee. At present, he teaches English Literature in Saudi Arabia. | |||
 | Jose Varghese | ||
| Jose Varghese is an English teacher whose research focuses on post- colonial iction. His Silver Painted Gandhi and Other Poems was listed in Grace Cavalieri’s Best Reading for Fall 2009, in Montserrat Review. He is the founder and chief editor of Lakeview International Journal of Literature and Arts and was the winner of the River Muse 2013 Spring Poetry Contest, USA, and runner up of the Salt Prize 2012, UK. | |||
 | Aboobacker Kappad | ||
| Dr. Aboobacker Kappad, is a writer in Malayalam and translator. There are eight books in Malayalam to his credit, novels, short story collections, children’s books and Cultural study. He retired as Associate Professor of English from Government College, Koyilandy (Kerala). | |||
 | Pratima Srivastava | ||
| Pratima Srivastava is a full time naturalist, part time traveller, birdwatcher, and nature photographer. She loves and appreciates different colours of life. As an officer of the Indian Forest Service, she travels to areas that are remote, far away from the urban and flashy, and where nature in its pure and pristine form awaits to delight and surprise with its beauty. She also composes poems in Hindi and English. | |||
 | Jahid Akhtar | ||
| Jahid Akhtar is a software developer by profession. He was born and brought up in Assam and resides in Bangalore with his wife Anjali and their little daughter, Jia. Jahid enjoys writing about some unforgettable moments, in his blog titled Flashbacks. | |||
 | Nirmala Pillai | ||
| Nirmala Pillai is a published writer and painter, with two collections of poems and short stories in various English journals. As a painter she has held painting exhibitions all over India. She is a Civil Service Officer with the Central Government of India. | |||
 | Vibha Batra | ||
| Vibha Batra is an advertising consultant, author, poet, lyricist, and columnist. She's the author of 7 published books. She has also contributed short stories and poems to several anthologies. | |||
 | Vandana Kumari Jena | ||
| Vandana Kumari Jena is an officer of the 1979 batch of the Indian Administrative Service of the Orissa cadre. She writes middles, short stories and poetry. Her short stories have been published in over fifteen anthologies. Her first novel The Dance of Death was published by Har-Anand Publications in 2008. She is married with two sons. She lives in New Delhi. | |||
 | Dr. Ramkumar Mukhopadhyay | ||
Ramkumar Mukhopadhyay, born in 1956 in Kolkata, has authored several novels, collections of short stories, travelogues, essays in Bengali. He did his Masters in English from the University of Calcutta and his Ph.D from Jadavpur University. Presently he is Director, Publishing Department, Visva-Bharati University. He is also a member of the Executive Board, Sahitya Akademi and President, Bharatiya Bhasha Parishad. Winner of Ananda Puraskar, Kusumanjali Award, Bankimchandra Smriti Puraskar, Katha Award etc, he has been translated into various languages.
He has represented the country as a writer in a number of international conferences.
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 | Nihar Pradhan | ||
| Nihar Pradhan. Digital Strategist, Business Transformer, Process Innovator, Management Consultant, Creative Blogger & Amateur Photographer. Co-Founder & Partner of Digital Campus Services, an innovator of a pioneering Cloud Computing Solution for the Global Education Sector. Thought articles on Business Management in the leading nationals like The Economic Times to The Hindu and books on Electronic Commerce to Knowledge Management. He makes distance with the political dogmas and religious doctrines & breaks the distance with nature and nurturing ideas. | |||
 | Sethu | ||
| Sethu, a prominent modernist writer of Malayalam and a winner of the Sahitya Akademi and Kerala Sahitya Akademi awards, has around thirty-five titles of novels and stories to his credit. Many of his works have been translated into other languages. Three of his stories have been filmed in Malayalam and one in Bengali. A banker by profession, he is now the Chairman of the National Book Trust, India. | |||
 | Naseer Ahmed Nasir | ||
| Naseer Ahmed Nasir is one of the most eminent, distinct, cultured and thought provoking poets from Pakistan. He is considered as a trend setter poet of modern Urdu poems among his contemporaries. He has a poetic creed of his own, a fine sensibility and a gift of reflective abstraction. This is how critics have summarized Nasir's art. His poetry has been translated into various international languages such as English, Spanish, Russian, Romanian, Uzbek, Hindi and Persian along with some regional languages and has several poetry collections to his credit. He is also editor of an Urdu literary magazine 'Tasteer'. Naseer Ahmed Nasir was born on 1st April 1954 in a nondescript village Nagrian in Gujrat district of Punjab, Pakistan. A civil engineer by profession, he is married and having three children, and now permanently settled in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. | |||
 | Ashoke Mitra | ||
| Like shifting clouds, Ashoke Mitra juggles from being a scientist with five patents in chemical drug research to currently leading investment banking portfolios for a renowned multinational company. He is a man of several hobbies - photography, ornithology, traveling, sports, gardening and wildlife are few passions of his besides reading and writing. | |||
 | Ajay Yadav | ||
| Dr. Ajay Yadav is a consultant Anesthetist, Intensivist and pain specialist. His textbook of anesthesia is most saleable textbook book for undergraduates in India, South East Asia and Africa. He is a rational, logical and analytical thinker. It had always been his dream to write a book which can honestly unfurl the other side of curtain. | |||
 | Rajeev Ranjan | ||
| Rajeev Ranjan graduated in physics from University of Delhi in the year 1996. He works for Government of India in senior executive position. A voracious reader and writer, Rajeev has written two more bestselling novels. | |||
 | Payal Sareen Reddy | ||
| Payal Sareen Reddy is a salaried professional in the financial industry. Ashoka Bala Reddy is a creative person who works for an animation company. After more than 10 years of living life the way it 'should' be, the couple decided to pen a fiction-drama novel based on their friends' true stories. | |||
 | Ashoka Bala Reddy | ||
| Ashoka Bala Reddy is a creative person who works for an animation company. Payal Sareen Reddy is a salaried professional in the financial industry. After more than 10 years of living life the way it 'should' be, the couple decided to pen a fiction-drama novel based on their friends' true stories. | |||
 | Pushan Kumar Dutta | ||
| Pushan Kumar Dutta is a retired Deputy Drug Controller from the Ministry of Health. He has devoted his life, post retirement to writing. Besides publishing some of the reference books on drugs, he also penned two novels based on Mughal history: Relics of the Lesser Mughals and Old Delhi New Delhi. Then, Now and Beyond is his latest book on reincarnation and mythology. He has dedicated more than a decade in writing this book. He hasn’t left any stones unturned in authenticating the veracity of the unusual powers of Indian saints. | |||
 | Puja Miri Yajnik | ||
| Puja Miri Yajnik has written stories for children. These stories have been received with much acclaim throughout the country and abroad. She has also written for newspapers and magazines on a great variety of subjects ranging from school examination system to the conveniences and vagaries of mobile telephones, theatre and life and times of celebrities like Maharani Gayatri Devi and Michael Jackson. Puja is an avid reader, and extremely caring parent and a prolific writer. | |||
 | Rashmi Singh | ||
Rashmi Singh is an author not by chance but by birth. With six books in the market, Rashmi Singh has never tied herself to any particular genre. A well known figure in the literary world, The Memsaheb is her seventh book and fifth fiction.
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2. The Memsaheb
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 | Anand Choudhary | ||
| Anand Choudhary is a first time author, social entrepreneur and a former journalist based in the city of Katihar in Eastern India. He has a Masters degree in Human Resource and Knowledge Management from Lancaster University Management School, UK. In addition, he also possesses a Postgraduate Diploma in Journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication, New Delhi and BA (Hons) in Psychology. Anand returned to India in 2012 and planted one of the largest high-density mango orchards in the state of Bihar which has provided lots of employment opportunities to the people of his village. He also runs a foundation named `Dr. Sudha Rani Sinha Foundation Trust'' in the memory of his beloved mother Prof Sudha Rani Sinha which provides cash prizes to meritorious students of his region. Newspapers including New Indian Express, Dainik Bhaskar, Dainik Jagran, Hindustan and Prabhat Khabar have done several stories on him whilst news channels including www.news18.com, Rastriya Sahara (Bihar & Jharkhand) have reported about his work. | |||
 | Dinesh Unnikrishnan | ||
| Dinesh Unnikrishnan, a journalist based in Mumbai and hails from Thrissur in Kerala. Presently the Financial Editor of Firstpost, he has worked in the past for Mint news paper in the Hindustan Times Group and other news organizations such as the New Indian Express, the United News of India, the Press Trust of India and the Reuters, since 2004. The Arrival is Dinesh’s first novel, although his writings have appeared across various publications over the years. Dinesh is the winner of 2011 Ramnath Goenka Award for journalists in the ‘Business and Economic Journalism’ category. | |||
1. The Arrival
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 | Peter Fama | ||
| Peter Fama was born in rural Ontario, Canada. He came from a large family with ten children. He studied at Canadian universities and moved to Asia. He has lived and worked in five different countries, traveled extensively in North America, Asia, and Europe, and taught at a variety of universities throughout his career. He reads broadly and extensively in his free time. Currently, Peter is living with his wife Joanna in Bangkok. | |||
 | Hari Prasad | ||
| Smitten at a very young age by adventure and romance that only literature could provide, Hari has spent his life in indefatigable pursuit of great storytelling. While all other aspects of his life might be a cliché, including being an IIM pass out, Hari strives to capture the singular and fantastical in his writing. | |||
 | Divyasha | ||
| Divyasha multitasks as an Engineering student, an artist, a Dragon Ball Z fan, a young editor for newspapers, a sleeping-record breaker, an anonymous blogger, a relationship advisor, and an avid reader. A Scholastics Writing Awards winner, she is passionate about her writing and clueless about her future. | |||
 | Debasis Panigrahi | ||
| Debasis Panigrahi is a popular and critically acclaimed writer of short stories, short fiction, novella and novel in Odia, an Indian classical language. A recipient of ‘Odisha Sahitya Academy Award’, his stories have been translated and published in English, Hindi, Bengali, Telugu and Kannada. He is a member of Indian Police Service and lives in Cuttack, an ancient and historical town of eastern India. | |||
 | Esha Pandey | ||
| Esha Pandey is an Indian Police Service (IPS) officer, having worked in Delhi and currently serving in Lakshadweep. She has done her Masters in International Relations and subsequently completed Masters of Philosophy in American Studies from JNU, Delhi. Before becoming a civil servant she dabbled with the idea of being a journalist and worked with Times of India as copy editor. She has won a United Nations FPA Award for Excellence for the "Best short story". She is an avid blogger, voracious reader, a committed wife and a hands-on mother to her little bundle of joy. | |||
 | K V Mohankumar | ||
K V Mohankumar, a distinguished novelist and short story writer. Member of Indian Administrative Service. Author of 15 books. He has written best selling novels in Malayalam like Ushnaraasi (The Scorched Earth), Sradhasesham (Beyond Salvation), Jaaranum Poochayum (Paramour and the Cat), and Ezhaamindriyam (The Seventh Sense).
Pranayaththinte Moonnaam Kannu (The Third Eye of Love), a fictionalized philosophical quest based on Tantric Buddhism, bagged several Literary Awards in Malayalam. | |||
 | Manjula Cherkil | ||
Manjula Cherkil, a research associate for the Five College Women’s Studies Research Center (FCWSRC), Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, US and a translator. Most of her professional life has been spent in research and providing administrative support for conducting training programs in Corporate Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility, offered by the Centre for Corporate Governance and Citizenship at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, India’s premier national management institute, where she was employed for more than three decades.
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1. The Third Eye of Love (Translator)
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 | Shine Syamaladevi | ||
| Shine Syamaladevi was born in a small village in Kerala. An avid reader and daydreamer since childhood, he believes passionate dreams really come true. The journeys around the nation on various official appointments added fuel to his passion, eventually resulting in his first book. | |||
 | Krishan Kalra | ||
An engineer by training, Krishan Kalra worked in the corporate world for 38 years, followed by 7 years as Additional Secretary General of FICCI and another 3 as Secretary General of the PHD Chamber.
He has been a prolific writer and a frequent public speaker.
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 | Naqvi Mohammad | ||
Naqvi Mohammad hails from old Lucknow, from a landed family of lawyers. Accidently a commerce graduate, he has passion for pure literature than anything else. He loves experimenting with ‘why’ and ‘where’ of human emotions in his writings. He has keen interest in relics, history, nature, philosophy, cooking, and aesthetics.
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 | Nitu | ||
Nitu completed her Post-graduation from Panjab University, Chandigarh. She then became one of the first Lady Officers to join the Armed forces. With an unconventional choice for a career, she led a conventional life. Her service took her to various conflict theatres of the country and also provided a rare insight into the lives of women on both sides of the conflict. She is an experienced officer of the 1991 batch of CRPF. She has worked in tough areas and handled critical assignments.
Recipient of the Police Medal for Meritorious Service, Antrik Suraksha Padak and Kathin Seva Padak, she has worked closely with women in the forces. Active in community service, she has been associated with NGOs particularly working with street children, people with disabilities and widows. She has been closely associated with women in conflict areas.
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 | Rungeen Singh | ||
Rungeen Singh, M.A. English Literature and LLB, has over 45 years English teaching experience. She has 750 articles, short stories, poems and middles published. Nearly 100 books for children have been published or accepted. She has won prizes in the Tinkle, Family Magazine, Children’s Book Trust competition and the Femina-Aahat Contest.
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 | Indrani Talukdar | ||
Indrani Talukdar, a writer/editor/journalist, has worked extensively in India and Australia. Apart from working as music and art critic for The Pioneer and Financial Express in the 90s, she also won the Rotary Exchange Fellowship (to Argentina) and the Greater Dandenong Short Story Writing Competition (Melbourne 2003). Her debut novel, When the Lamps were Lit was serialized as an e-book by indianwoman.com. She has a Masters degree in Communication Studies from RMIT University (Melbourne). She is now working as Editor for IRMA at Anand in Gujarat.
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