Archives: Authors

Parismita Singh’s work has appeared in various publications including Time Out, the Sarai Reader and Katha Prize Stories 13. She was shortlisted for The Little Magazine New Writing award, 2006. She also works on the field of education.

Louis Brawley was born in Ohio and lived and worked in New York, where he met U.G. Krishnamurti in 2002. He works as an artist, photographer and freelance art handler worldwide—occupations which fund his travels around the world, writing and recording accounts and impressions from friends of the ‘Raging Sage’.

Anjan Sundaram has reported from Africa for the New York Times and the Associated Press. His essays and writing have appeared in Foreign Policy magazine, Fortune magazine, the Washington Post, and the Guardian, and he has featured on BBC World. Anjan has also worked as a management consultant in San Francisco. He graduated from Yale, and received a Reuters award for his reporting in Congo.

Eugenia W. Herbert is Professor Emeritus of History st Mount Holyoke College, U.S.A. and the author of several books, including Twlight on the Zambezi: Late Colonialism in Central Africa.

Andrea Hirata is an Indonesian writer. He was a fellow in the International
Writer’s Program at the University of Iowa, 2010. His first novel, The
Rainbow Troops (published in Indonesia in 2005 as Laskar Pelangi), sold
more than 5 million copies and will be sold in over 25 countries, making
him the country’s bestselling writer ever and its first to enjoy international
popular success. The film adaptation of Laskar Pelangi, released in 2008,
went on to become the highest ever grossing film in Indonesia. Hirata’s
short story ‘Dry Season’ appeared in New York University’s Washington
Square Review. His work inspired a choreography by CityDance Ensemble,
Washington, DC in 2010. Hirata has written three sequels to The Rainbow
Troops: Sang Pemimpi (The Dreamer), Edensor and Maryamah Karpov. He
lives in Indonesia.

Shameer (Author)
Shammeeer Munvar Sultan was born and raised in Chennai. After graduation from College of Engineering, Guindy, he joined a well – known MNC as a software engineer. The Love – failure experienced by his best -friends inspired him to write short and simple Tamil novels which were lapped up by yougesters all over Tamil Nadu. Neon Nagaram – the Tamil novel from which You Stole My Song has been adapted – is his second novel, and is soon to be made into feature film in Tamil. An avid pianist , Shammer is also one of the founders of Paadhai, a creative group formed to express emotions through writings and music. He has pioneered the idea of the musical novel.

Chandru (Author)
Chandru aka Chandrakasan S. grew up in Bhilai and graduated from College of Engineering, Guindy. Being Shammeer’s partner-in-crime right from college days, Chandru had no other choice but to join Paadhai. Working full-time as a software engineer with another well-known MNC, he is the CFO of Paadhai in his free time and manages all its business activities. He started adapting Neon Nagaram into You Stole My Song after much coaxing by team Paadhai.

Chandru aka Chandrakasan S. grew up in Bhilai and graduated from College of Engineering, Guindy. Being Shammeer’s partner-in-crime right from college days, Chandru had no other choice but to join Paadhai. Working full-time as a software engineer with another well-known MNC, he is the CFO of Paadhai in his free time and manages all its business activities. He started adapting Neon Nagaram into You Stole My Song after much coaxing by team Paadhai.

Sheela Chari was born in Bangalore, India, and now lives in New York. She has degrees from Stanford University, Boston University, and New York University, where she eceived an MFA in creative writing. Vanished is her first novel. It was chosen as a 2012 Children’s Literature Honor Book by the Asian/Pacific-American Library Association (APALA), nominated for an Edgars Award for best juvenile mystery, and was featured as an Al’s Book Club Pick on the Today show.

Shyam Selvadurai was born in 1965 in Colombo, Sri Lanka. He came to Canada at the age of nineteen. He has studied creative writing and journalism, and has a BFA from York University. Selvadurai has written for television and his fiction and essays have appeared in journals and anthologies. Funny Boy, his first novel, was published to acclaim in 1994. It won the W.H. Smith / Books in Canada First Novel Award and, in the US, the Lambda Literary Award for Best Gay Men’s Fiction. and was named a Notable Book by the American Library Association. Funny Boy was also published in the US, UK, India and numerous countries in Europe.