Archives: Authors

A widely travelled freelance writer who enjoys writing on all kinds of topics, Sreelata Menon is a history buff who especially enjoys introducing children to the lives and times of great personalities. She is the author of Freelance Writing for the Newbie Writer.

Writer and photographer, Thomas K. Shor was born in Boston, USA, and studied comparative religion and literature in Vermont. With an ear for unusual stories, the fortune to attract them and an eye for detail, he has travelled the planet’s mountainous realms—from the Mayan Highlands of southern Mexico in the midst of insurrection to the mountains of Greece and, more recently to the Indian Himalayas—to collect, illustrate and write stories, with a uniquely personal character often having the flavour of fables. Shor has lectured widely on his writings and has had solo exhibits of his photographs in Europe and in India. He is the author of Windblown Clouds and can often be found in the most obscure locales, immersed in a compelling story touching upon fundamental human themes. The author’s website is www.ThomasShor.com

Dr Firuza R. Parikh is the Director of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics at Jaslok Hospital and Research Centre. She is responsible for the birth of more than 5,000 ART babies. Firuza is Editor-In-Chief of Fertility and Sterility (Indian Edition) and has been featured on the front page of the New York Times and Washington Post as well as in magazines such as Time and Newsweek.

Maggi Lidchi-Grassi is a writer and has lived at the Aurobindo Ashram at Pondicherry since 1959. Her other works include the novels Earthman, The First Wife, Great Sir and Heaven Lady, and several collections of poems, fables, short stories, and plays.

Abhijit Banerjee is the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at MIT and the author of Poor Economics. He has been named as one of Foreign Policy magazine’s top 100 global thinkers and has served on the U.N. Secretary-General’s panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda.

Alice Albinia read English Literature at Cambridge University. After graduating, she moved to Delhi, where she worked for the next two a half years as a journalist and editor for the Centre for Science & Environment, Biblio, Outlook Traveller, and several other Indian newspapers and magazines. Her first book, Empires of the Indus won a Royal Society of Literature / Jerwood Foundation Special Prize for non-fiction work in progress, a Somerset Maugham Award and the Dolman Travel Prize. Alice Alibinia lives in UK.