About Us
Sampurna Chattarji is a poet, fiction-writer and translator. She has translated Sukumar Ray and Joy Goswami, and has written several children’s books for Puffin and Scholastic. Her debut poetry collection Sight May Strike You Blind was published by the Sahitya Akademi in 2007 . Her first novel Rupture was published by HarperCollins in 2009.
Dominic Alapat, is a poet . His poems have appeared in nth position, decomP, Miller’s Pond Poetry Magazine and Inclement Poetry Magazine.
Shiladitya Sarkar is a painter, poet and writer. Starting with his first solo exhibition at Chitrakoot, Kolkata, Shiladitya’s paintings have been exhibited in the UK, the USA, Singapore, Hong Kong, West Indies, Indonesia, the UAE and Jamaat Art Gallery, Mumbai. He has also participated in major group shows at Jehangir Art Gallery, Lalit Kala Academy and Bharat Bhavan. Shiladitya’s Thirst of a Minstrel – a biography of painter Ganesh Pyne was published by Rupa in 2005.
Santosh Ojha writes essays and travelogues by snatching time from his day job with a pharmaceutical company as Director of Sales and Marketing. Son of a Hindi teacher, Santosh grew up devouring books on history. Now, his favorite genre is biographies.
Biswarup Sarangi is an Architect by profession and an iconoclast by attitude. Apart from writing poems, short stories and other sundry inconsequentialities; he also likes to dabble in painting and artwork in various media.
Katie Sahiar Dubey is a freelance journalist and author of three books: India-Images of Nature, Indiascapes and Birds of India. The last mentioned was released in the House of Lords in London.
Partha Gangopadhyay teaches in a Kolkata college. He is deeply interested in the Indian and Tibetan history, philosophy and politics. He travels extensively in the hills of North Bengal and Sikkim to study Tibetan art and culture. Partha is actively engaged in a movement to protect the beauty and ecological balance of the Eastern Himalayas.
Mary McQueary is a writer. Having always wanting to be an artist instead of a writer, she recently adopted the label of writer after discovering words as a medium. A lover of art and architecture, and a professed minimalist, fortunately for her readers, the minimalist in Mary hasn’t constrained her art in building a large, expansive life throbbing with words.
Dr Subarno Chattarji teaches in the Department of American Studies, Swansea University and holds a D. Phil. from Oxford University in American poetry of the Vietnam War. His books include Memories of a Lost War (Oxford, New York: Clarendon and Oxford University Press, 2001) and Tracking the Media: Interpretations of Mass Media Discourses in India and Pakistan (forthcoming, Routledge, 2008). He was awarded a Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship in 2004 and a Kluge Fellowship at the Library of Congress in 2008 to complete research on Vietnamese-American writings. Dr Chattarji was formerly Reader, Department of English, University of Delhi and a visiting Professor, Miyazaki International College , Miyazaki , Japan .
Kiran David is an ad filmmaker and film buff extraordinaire. His passion for movies can only be matched by his obsession with exotic Chinese teas. Though Kiran blames his fading memory about the real world on eating out of aluminum utensils, his admirers find his recall of the minutest of reel world details awe inspiring.
Rajib Sarkar is the Editor of this blog. He could be contacted at rajib1sarkar1@gmail.com.
