Shanta is a Mumbai-based bilingual writer, translator, theatre historian and cultural columnist. She has written two award-winning novels in Marathi, translated by her into English, and several plays in Marathi and English. She has authored a critical history of Marathi drama, edited three books on theatre, and translated several works of drama, fiction and non-fiction from Marathi into English and vice-versa. She has won the Sangeet Natak Akademi award for overall contribution to the performing arts, the Balshastri Jambhekar award for translation, and Lifetime Achievement awards of the Ooty Literary Festival, Theatre Group Thespo, and the America-based Maharashtra Foundation.
A C Grayling CBE, is the Master of the New College of the Humanities, London, and its Professor of Philosophy. He is also a Supernumerary Fellow of St Anne’s…
More InfoA former Professor of Medical Law at the University of Edinburgh, Alexander has written more than 100 books. He is best known for ‘The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency’…
More InfoAmbarish is a Delhi-based vascular surgeon and writer. His debut novel ‘Perineum: Nether Parts of the Empire’, a rogue, fictive sexual history of the British Raj, was published in…
More InfoAmrita is the author of the novel ‘Milk Teeth’. Her writing has appeared in ‘Hindustan Times’, ‘Scroll’, ‘Himal Southasian’ and ‘Brown Paper Bag’. Amrita was trained as an aerospace…
More Info