A dreamer and a drawer Vandana Singh trained to be a pilot, a sculptor and became a film maker! A passionate animal lover, she worked at WWF India for six years and currently lives in Delhi and works as a freelance illustrator and designer.
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Niloufer Wadia
Niloufer Wadia quit her advertising career of over twenty years to follow her true love, illustration and painting. Happening upon children’s book illustration by chance in 2016, she now has published over fifteen storybooks, with several more in the pipeline. Besides this, she illustrates book covers, sketches regularly, does some cartooning and paints on canvas when no deadlines hound her.
Madhuri Kamat
Madhuri Kamat has documented and edited NGO work for two decades, written a poem on women who live on the pavement, a play on child sexual abuse and a script for UNICEF, and translated poems by street children. She has penned television soaps and scripts for forthcoming films. Her first book, Whose Father, What Goes?, is a retelling of Hamlet.
Meera Nair
Meera Nair was raised in India but now lives in New York city. She comes to India often, mostly to visit her favorite, top-secret chaat cart in Bangalore. Her; debut collection, Video, won the Asian-American Literary Award and was aWashington Post’s Best Book of the Year.
Priya Kuriyan
Priya Kuriyan is an independent animation film maker and illustrator based in Delhi. She has directed educational films for the Sesame Street show (Galli Galli Sim Sim) and has also codirected a short animation film for the CFSI. Over the past five years, she has also been illustrating for a number of children’s books and comics.
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Krishna Manavalli
Krishna Manavalli is a professor in the department of English at Karnatak University, Dharwad. She is a literary critic and translator who works in both English and Kannada. In her long and brilliant academic career in the US and India, Krishna has worked on multiple areas such as contemporary British literature, South Asian writing, postcolonial studies, feminism, cultural studies and translations. Krishna is also a member of the English advisory board of the Sahitya Akademi, and is on many academic and university administrative boards in the state.
Krishna’s recent publications include the translation of the renowned Kannada writer Chandrasekhar Kambar’s novels Karimayi (2017) and Shivana Dangura (2017). Krishna has received the 2019 Karnataka Sahitya Academy award for her translation of Karimayi.
Arshia Sattar
Arshia Sattar has a Ph.D from the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilisations at the University of Chicago. Her areas of interest are Indian epics, mythology and the story traditions of the subcontinent. Her articles appear in various national newspapers and magazines. Her translation of Tales from the Kathāsaritsāgara was published by Penguin in 1995.
Anchita Ghatak
Anchita Ghatak works with development organizations on issues of poverty, rights and gender. She has translated Sunanda Sikdar’s prizewinning Bengali memoir Dayamoyeer Katha into English as A Life Long Ago.
Srinivas Reddy
Srinivas Reddy graduated from Brown University with a BA in South Asian Studies. He is a professional concert sitarist and has given numerous recitals in the US and India; he is also a teacher and educator and has taught several classes on Indian literature and music.