Archives: Authors

Rohini S. Rajagopal was leading a fairly humdrum life in Bangalore when an encounter with infertility stopped her in her tracks. In a temporary suspension of good sense, she quit her well-paying, flexible-hours job to write this book that narrates her journey from infertility to motherhood. But for her current penury, she has no regrets about that move.
She has a master’s degree in English (media and communication). Her special talents include fitting dishes inside overfilled refrigerators and taking three-hour-long afternoon naps without the slightest trace of guilt. You can find her on Instagram at rajagopal.rohini.

Sekhar Mukherjee works as director at NID, Vijayawada, after a long stint as senior faculty of communication design at NID, Ahmedabad. He is an animation-film designer and graphic novelist, and is artistic director of the Chitrakatha International Student Animation Festival. He won the Best Animation Teacher Award from CNBC-TV18 and is one of the founders of Longform Graphic Anthology.

Pinaki De is a renowned book cover designer and a comics scholar.

Debkumar Mitra is a mathematics major, a science writer and a comics fan.

Sarbajit Sen is one of the pioneers of graphic narratives in India whose works have been exhibited all around the globe.

SAAD S. KHAN is a historian and a political
scientist. For the past five years, he has been a faculty member at the National School of Public Policy in Lahore, Pakistan. Khan was a Cambridge-OSI Trust scholar at the University of Cambridge, the UK, and a Fulbright non-degree professional scholar at the Institute for Training and Development, Amherst, Massachusetts, the US.

SARA S. KHAN holds a master’s degree in public administration. She has mainly worked in the social sector, including as the head of the Mohammad Ali Jinnah Academy, Quetta; at the Red Crescent Society, Lahore; and at Averox, Islamabad.

Amaru was a Sanskrit poet who probably wrote around the 9th century. Although virtually nothing is known about his life, his Amaru Shatakam is one of the most admired collections of love lyrics in the Sanskrit language.

Evan Purcell is an American teacher who has worked in Zanzibar, Kazakhstan, China and Russia. He’s spent two years in the beautiful kingdom of Bhutan. He’s published six novels for both adults and children. You can read about his writing and travels at evanpurcell.blogspot.com.

His much-loved series for children, Karma Tandin, Monster Hunter, has three books: Karma Fights a Monster, Karma Meets a Zombie and Karma vs the Evil Twin.

E.M. Forster was an English author and essayist. He studied at King’s College, Cambridge, and volunteered with the International Red Cross during the First World War. He became the secretary of the Maharajah of Dewas, India, in the 1920s. He then returned to London and established himself as a BBC Radio broadcaster. He was selected as an honorary fellow of King’s College and became a Companion of Honour and a member of the Order of Merit. Forster has written novels like A Room with a View, Maurice, The Longest Journey, Where Angels Fear to Tread, and Howards End.