Siddhartha Deb was born in northeastern India and lives in Harlem, New York. He is the author of the novels The Point of Return, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and An Outline of the Republic, longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award. His non-fiction book, The Beautiful and the Damned, was […]
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Pankaj Mishra, born in North India, graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce from the Allahabad University before completing his MA in English Literature at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. Mishra writes literary and political essays for the New York Times, the Guardian, the New Yorker, London Review of Books, among other American, British and […]
Deepa Mehta is an Oscar-nominated filmmaker. Her films include the Elemental Trilogy: Earth, Fire, Water (which received an Oscar nomination for best foreign language film), Bollywood/Hollywood, Heaven on Earth, Midnight’s Children based on Salman Rushdie’s three-time Booker Prize winning novel and Anatomy of Violence. Deepa directed the pilot and second episode for the Netflix Original series, Leila, and […]
Nandana Dev Sen is a writer, actor, and child-rights activist. She has written six children’s books (translated into more than 15 languages globally), and starred in 20 feature films (from four continents, in numerous languages). She has represented UNICEF, RAHI and the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights to fight against child abuse, and […]
Diksha Bijlani is the winner of India’s first National Youth Poetry Slam, runner-up in Button Poetry’s video contest and featured poet in events such as College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational in Chicago, India’s first Mental Health Festival in Delhi, and India’s first spoken word festival Spoken in Mumbai, among others. She is a Public Policy graduate from Harvard Kennedy School, and […]
