A Graduate in English literature, Adwaita has been trained in Indian classical vocals and dance. On and around stage since kindergarten, she founded production group Stage-addict, which performed original plays in English. Apart from her writings getting published in leading newspapers, she has contributed her verses to Talking Tummies. She is currently studying filmmaking at Film and Television Institute of India.

 Adwitiya Borah

Adwitiya Borah is a student of NIT Silchar. She has been deeply interested in creative writing, especially short story writing. She likes to explore different human emotions in different situations and write about them.

 Amar Mudi

Amar Mudi, with a Masters in Mass Communication, has worked in the Sahitya Akademi and the National Book Trust, India. His writings in Bangla and English have been published in magazines of repute.He has been extensively involved in translations from Hindi and English into Bangla and vice-versa. Books published by him so far are Jiban Zatra, Amar Nam Lal and Uttaradhikari.

zes. She is a 2010 alumna of Western Michigan University’s Prague Summer Program.

 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 housewife at present and a freelance writer, she lives in Delhi with her husband Harish Pant and her son Anurag Pant.

 

Ashish Bansal

Ashish loves to read novels and watch films. He has completed B.Tech (2010) from Thapar University, Patiala. He is currently running his family business and resides in Hanumangarh.

2. Meghnaad Badh Kabya: The Slaying of Meghnaad – an Epic (Co-Translator)

 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.

 Deepti D. Ingle

Deepti is a very keen reader. She completed her B.Tech (2005) from UDCT (now, ICT) Mumbai. She currently works in Pune. Her passion is truly to write. She has a book published entitled, Just Another Love Story.

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.

 Hisham M Nazer

Born in 1987, Hisham M Nazer grew up in Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh. He is a trilingual poet, who writes in English, Bangla and Hindi. He has been published in several national magazines and international anthologies. He has worked as the sub-editor for two literary magazines, Shasshwatiki (Bengali) and The Browsing Corner (Multi-lingual e-zine).

Jinia Mukerjee Nath has specialized in clinical psychology from the University of Calcutta and Macquarie University, Sydney. Keen in creative writing, her poetry and short fiction have been published in Indian Literature and in The Statesman’s festival and weekly editions. Her awareness-raising articles have been published in magazines in France and Australia. Jinia recently
co-authored an award-winning book that was critically acclaimed and prominently featured in Elle.

 K.K. Kharlukhi

Khraw Kupar Kharlukhi is a noted writer in Khasi literature and presently the General Secretary of the Khasi Authors’ Society. Since 1987 he has written a number of novels, novellas, short stories, and dramas. His magnum opus Ka Melody in Khasi language has been very popular. He has directed several documentary films and short films, including a full-length feature film in Khasi entitled Saphira. He has won the Meghalaya State Literary Award, 2008.

 Kulpreet Yadav

Kulpreet Yadav’s short stories have appeared in many literary magazines from around the world. He is the founder and coeditor
of Open Road Review, a literary journal. He also coedits 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.

 Kumar Kaustubh

Kumar Kaustubh is a part-time writer and a full-time student. He likes to describe himself as a person who lives for his dreams; whose mind is active in the labyrinths of thought in the day and who expresses all his delights, longings, hopes and worries at night when he sits down to bead his thoughts into fiction.

Lopa, a post-graduate in physics from IIT Kanpur, is conversant in English, French, Sanskrit and a number of Indian languages. She has many short stories, essays and poems to her credit and has scripted and produced a few documentary films.

 Manish Das Gupta

1. Love Lies and the Sea

 Max Babi

1. Making Sense of Serendipity – a Treatise on Serendipity, Synchronicity & Creative Intuition

Minal Sarosh

Minal Sarosh is a post graduate in English Literature writing since early 1990s. Besides appearing in print and online journals, her poems have also been anthologized in Indian Literature and several other journals and books. She has won awards and commendations at the All India Poetry Competition 2005, Creative Writing Competition 2006, Reliance Timeout Book Club Awards, 2007 and SMS Poetry Competitions 2007 and 2008.

1. Soil for My Roots

Moinak Dutta

include a review of The Upanisads translated by V. J. Roebuck

1. Online @ Offline

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.

1.Caught in Two Winds

 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).

After her Masters in English Literature from Ranchi University, Nandita Bose went on to undertake research in Aesthetics from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. She has had a rich career in academics, corporate training and running her own HR consultancy. As a writer, her special area of interest is romance novels as she firmly believes that love stories reflect our society and how human relationships develop within it. Nandita, currently lives in Bangalore with her husband, Dr. Kumar Ramachandran, and their two daughters.

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.

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.

 Dr. Prathap Kamath

Prathap Kamath has graduated from the Kerala University and Pondicherry University and holds a doctorate from Mahatma Gandhi University for his work on the American novelist Henry Miller. He is Associate Professor of English at Sree Narayana College, Kollam. He has been publishing poetry in English for the last 10 years in various national and international journals. He is engaged in translating poetry from Malayalam to English.

After completing her schooling, PRIYANKA did her Bachelors in English Honours from Daulat Ram College, University of Delhi. She is currently pursuing MBA from Jaypee Business School. Her blog, Gossamer Diaries unfurls the poet in her. A few of her poems have been published in anthologies and e-magazines. Her skill in literary English and proficiency in the art of presenting beautiful ironical facts of life in fictional form make her a contemporary writer of note.

 RK Biswas

RK 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.

2.The Vanishing Man and Other Imperfect Men

 Ritu Lalit

Ritu Lalit is an author, not because she has some deep philosophy to expound, but simply because if she needs someone to listen to her, she has to create the characters. She lives in the NCR region with her two perpetually-shocked-by-their-hippie-parent sons, a daughter-in-law, and her dogs, cat, fishes and turtle. She has two other novels to her credit, A Bowlful of Butterflies and Hilawi.

Dr. S. K. Sood is a retired Principal of post graduate co-educational college at Pathankot, India. Dr. Sood is a doctorate in literature and has an exceptional eye which can penetrate into a character’s hidden recesses. His first novel, Drink Not to Die but Live & Love, is a bestseller in the USA and other western countries.

Title(s) of this author available with us :

1.Marriage without Marriage

Dr. Sayantan Gupta is a Consultant Gynaecologist by profession and also a laparoscopic surgeon , at present residing in and practising at Malda, West Bengal, India. Writing prose, poetry and drama being his passion, some of his plays have made successful stage productions. His poems have been published in different online magazines and anthologies. Short stories written by him have been well acclaimed by readers worldwide.

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 endeavoured 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.

Nothing about Sudhir has been cool and smooth. Trained to be an engineer, he realised that he wasn’t cut out for that role. So he left engineering and worked abroad for a decade. He saw three ghastly terrorist attacks from close quarters. Whether it was Mumbai or New York or London, the response has been the same - of fear, outrage and sheer bravery. At the age when people settle down in life and write their memoirs, the author is embarking on a new career!

 Dr. Usha Bande

Dr. Usha Bande, critic and academic, was till recently Fellow, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla. She was also Visiting Fellow at Vishwa Bharati University, Shanti Niketan (WB). Earlier she had been on the faculty of English Literature in Govt. College for Women, Shimla. She retired as Principal Govt. College, Arki (HP).

Title(s) of this author available with us :

1. A Box of  Stolen Moments

2. The Garden of Spice and Other Stories

 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, Vasudev 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.