Archives: Authors

Kamalakar Bhat is a professor and head of the postgraduate department of English of Ahmednagar College, Ahmednagar, Maharashtra. He is an award-winning bilingual writer, a columnist and a translator between English, Hindi, Marathi and Kannada. He has three collections of poems and three collections of translated verse in Kannada. He has edited three books in English. His essays and translations have appeared in Outlook magazine, Scroll.in, Wire.in, Muse India, Indian Literature, kitaab.org, indianculturalforum.com, The Bombay Literary Magazine and bengalurureview.com.

Lakshmi Subramanian is an Indian historian with a long and distinguished academic and research career. Lakshmi has authored eleven books on the economic and cultural history of India so far. Her latest book, Reading from the South: African Print Cultures and Oceanic Turns in Isabel Hofmeyr’s work, was released in 2023.

Easterine Kire is a Naga writer. She has been awarded the Free Voice Award from Catalan PEN, the Hindu Litforlife Prize, the Tata Literature Live! Book of the Year Award, the Sahitya Sabha and the Bal Sahitya Puraskar. Besides writing historical fiction using the oral history of Nagaland, she is also interested in exploring the spiritual universe of the Nagas. Her poetry has been featured in The European Constitution in Verse.

Navdeep Singh is an assistant professor of English at M. R. Government College, Fazilka.

Shivani Dasmahapatra is a public policy and communications specialist. Her professional experience of three decades is diverse and ranges from consulting members of Parliament, corporate enterprises, and non-profit organizations to journalism, photography, editing and social media management. Born into a family with three generations in the Indian Army, she has a deep interest in Indian military history. Currently, as founder trustee of Lest We Forget India Foundation, she provides crucial support to the families of Indian Armed Forces personnel. Through the foundation’s social media presence, she chronicles India’s military history through stories of service and sacrifice of India’s soldiers and keeps their legacy alive. Shivani is a seasoned writer and editor, having worked with India Today, Encyclopedia Britannica and numerous national publications. She also provides expertise in communications strategy, content development and knowledge product creation to corporates and various organizations. A passionate advocate, Shivani volunteers for social causes, particularly those focused on child education, women empowerment and animal protection, and is a patron of the Foundation for Media Professionals. Photography remains Shivani’s foremost passion. She continuously explores new techniques and delves into innovative methods to transform her photographs into artworks. On the rare occasion that you catch her outside of work, it will be undertaking farming in the Himalayan hills in north India or trekking with her family and pet Basset Hound.

Dhruva Jaishankar is Executive Director of the Observer Research Foundation America (ORF America), which he helped establish in 2020. He previously held positions or affiliations with the Observer Research Foundation, Brookings India (now the Centre for Social and Economic Progress), the German Marshall Fund of the United States, the Brookings Institution, the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies at Nanyang Technological University, and the the Lowy Institute. Since 2006, he has also been a frequent contributor to the Indian media, including the Hindustan Times and Indian Express. He was educated at Macalester College and Georgetown University.

Sadaf Hussain is an author, chef, food writer, podcaster and two-time TedX speaker, who was among the top 8 on MasterChef India in 2016. He has worked with over 18 Indian restaurants, assisting them in developing new menus or establishing themselves in the market. He was also a researcher and contributor to the University of Sheffield-commissioned project, Forgotten Food of Rampur. Sadaf’s writing explores not only food but also stories; he is fascinated by foodlore and the stories that surround it. He is a chronicler exploring the customs, traditions and rituals of food; for him, food is just a conversation starter and not the end in itself.

Debashish (Deb) Sengupta works as Associate Professor (SL) and Course Leader (International Business & Management) at University of Portsmouth, London. Deb is the winner of two prestigious national-level awards for his research and writing, in India and in Bahrain. His book ‘The Life of Y’ won the first prize at DMA-NTPC business book awards for the year 2018-19. His research project on role and motivations of young women volunteers during Covid-19 won the ‘Best Research Project in the Kingdom of Bahrain’ award for the year 2022-23. His book The Life of Y has been featured in the collections of Stanford University. Deb is a well-known researcher and author in the area of young people at work and has several acclaimed books, research articles and digital artefacts to his credit, that have been widely read and used.

Mica Stone (Allison Kent) has been writing most of her adult life with one animal or another insisting on helping out, placing a supportive chin on her thigh or an interfering paw on her keyboard. She’s written over sixty novels and novellas in multiple genres, and many feature pets, most of them rescues. She currently lives with six rescue cats and two rescue pit bulls.

Tatum was rescued from Georgia by The Pixel Fund and came to live with Charles and Nicole in 2016. Sometimes Tatum and his parents film content for social media, but most of the time you can find them living their best life and sharing some snacks. Tatum is happiest when he’s laying in the sunshine with his Mum. Find him online @hi.this.is.tatum.