Archives: Authors

Aravinda Anantharaman has worked in dotcoms and also with children’s library called Hippocampus. She has written Dorje’s Holiday at the Gyenso Khang and Dolma Visits the City and is also the author of Puffin Lives- Dalai Lama.

Devakinandan Khatri (1861-1913) was born in Pusa, Bihar, in the home of his maternal grandfather, Jivanlal Mahato, a wealthy landowner. His father, Lala Ishvardas, descended from an illustrious family from Lahore. He shot to literary fame with his first novel, Chandrakanta, at the age of twenty-six. He subsequently set up his own printing press, the Lahari Press, in Banaras. His other popular works include Chandrakanta Santati and Bhutnath.

Author, poet and translator, Deepa Agarwal writes for both children and adults. She received the N.C.E.R.T. National Award for Children’s Literature in 1993 for her picture book Ashok’s New Friends. Her historical fiction Caravan to Tibet was on the IBBY (International Board on Books for Young People) Honour List 2008.

Anupam Arunachalam is a writer, illustrator and cartoonist. His day job mainly involves creating fiction and non-fiction comics for kids and adults. He’s thoroughly excited by the narrative possibilities in the interaction of words and images.

Born in 1939, Sasthi Brata grew up and was educated in Calcutta, reading physics at Presidency College. He left India soon after and has lived in London and various other capital cities in Europe and America.

Vinay Govind Brahmania has a creative workshop in Mumbai which caters to the advertising and animation industry.

Mukunda Rao is the author of six books of fiction, two plays: Mahatma – Khuda ka Hijra (1988 and 2009) and Baba Saheb Ambedkar (2008 and 2014), staged in different parts of Karnataka and much appreciated, and six insightful philosophical works, among which The Biology of Enlightenment is a much-read classic that has become a cult book amongst spiritual aspirants. After his retirement in 2010 from teaching service in a college, he lives with his wife on a farm outside Bengaluru. is the author of six books of fiction, two plays: Mahatma – Khuda ka Hijra (1988 and 2009) and Baba Saheb Ambedkar (2008 and 2014), staged in different parts of Karnataka and much appreciated, and six insightful philosophical works, among which The Biology of Enlightenment is a much-read classic that has become a cult book amongst spiritual aspirants. After his retirement in 2010 from teaching service in a college, he lives with his wife on a farm outside Bengaluru.

Nasreen Munni kabir is a reputed documentary film- maker and writer on films. Based in London, she has made several programmes on Hindi cinema for Channel 4 Tv, UK, including the forty – six – part series Movie Mahal and The Inner / Outer World of Shah Rukh Khan.Her several Books are, among others, Guru Dutt: A Life in Cinema, Talking Films and Talking Songs with Javed Akhtar,A.R. Rahman: The Spirit of Music , Lata Mangeshkar : In her own Voice and, most recently , In the Company of a poet, a book of conversations with Gulzar.