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KHUSHWANT SINGH (India) Khushwant Singh, Born 2 February 1915, Is a Prominent Indian Novelist and Journalist KHUSHWANT SINGH (India) Khushwant Singh, born 2 February 1915, is a prominent Indian novelist and journalist. Singh's weekly column, “With Malice Towards One and All”, carried by several Indian newspapers, is among the most widely- read columns in the country. An important Indo- Anglian novelist, Khushwant is best known for his trenchant secularism, his humour, and an abiding love of poetry. His comparisons of social and behavioral characteristics of Westerners and Indians are laced with acid wit. He served as editor of several well- known literary and news magazines, like Illustrated Weekly of India, major newspapers, including Hindustan Times. Reputed Journalist, fiction writer, author of 'Train to Pakistan', historian of the Sikh Community, and translator of Urdu and Punjabi literature, Khushwant is a household name. Letters with just his name, with 'India' underneath, reaches his doorsteps. Kushwant's faith in the Indian political system was shaken by events such as massacre of Sikhs that followed Indira Gandhi's assassination. But he has remained resolutely positive on the promise of Indian democracy, and worked via 'Citizen's Justice Committee' floated by H.S. Phoolka of Delhi who is a Senior Advocate Supreme Court. Honoured by several Awards and National Honours like Padma Vibhushan, 2007, Khushwant's major works include : 'The History of Sikhs', 'Train to Pakistan', 'The Fall of the Kingdom of the Punjab', 'Ranjit Singh: The Maharajah of the Punjab', 'Ghadar 1915: India's First Armed Revolution', 'Tragedy of Punjab', 'Delhi: A Novel', 'Not a Nice Man to Know: The Best of Khushwant Singh', 'Truth, Love and a Little Malice', 'The Sunset Club'. NAMWAR SINGH (India) Prof. Namwar Singh is a veteran writer and literary critic of Hindi Literature. His monumental work Kavita ke Naye Pratimaan established 'new poetry' as a distinct new idiom in 21 Hindi literature. He has been honoured with Sahitya Akademi Award, Shalaka Samman and Bharatiya Bhasha Parishad Samman. He is the Additional Chairman of FOSWAL. A.B. BARDHAN (India) Comrade A.B. Bardhan is the General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (CPI). One of the most conscientious leader of the toiling masses of India, Comrade Bardhan is a statesman and a visionary who is constantly fighting for the less privileged sections of the society and the working class. He is the Additional Chairman of FOSWAL. SITAKANT MAHAPATRA (India) Educated at Allahabad, Cambridge and Harvard Universities, Sitakant Mahapatra is a major voice in modern Indian poetry. He has worked as a civil servant, academician, social anthropologist and critical writer. Even though he only writes poetry in his native Oriya (or as he puts it "in the language he dreams in"), anthologies of his poems have been published in translation in all Indian languages, in English, and in twelve foreign languages. Among the awards he has received are the Bharatiya Jnanpith Award (1993), and the Sahitya Akademi Award (1974). In 2003, he was recognised with a Padma Bhushan for his contribution to Indian literature. ASHOK VAJPEYI (India) Ashok Vajpeyi is an eminent Hindi poet and scholar. He is Chairman, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi. His important publications include 38 books of poetry and criticism, with several works translated into 22 various Indian and foreign languages. He has been honoured with Dayawati Modi Kavi Shikhar Samman, Sahitya Akademi Award, Agyeya Rashtriya Samman, and many others. He is the Academic Consultant of FOSWAL. KARTAR SINGH DUGGAL (India) One of the most eminent Punjabi writers. A versatile writer young in his nineties, written more than 50 novels, collections of short stories, poems. His magnus opus is his English translation of Guru Granth Sahib, in verse the 1430- page Holy book of the Sikhs which contains not only the exquisite poetry of Sikh Gurus, but also of Bhaktas from all over India, primarily from lower castes like Kabir and Ravidas, and of Sufi poets like Baba Shaikh Farid. He is President of several cultural organizations, Honoured with Padma Bhushan and Member of Rajya Sabha, the Upper House of Indian Parliament. ARPANA CAUR (India) Arpana Caur is a distinguished Indian painter, with her paintings in almost all important museums of the world. Born in 1954, has been exhibiting since 1974. Her solos, apart from Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Bengaluru and Chennai, have been held in London, Glasgow, Berlin, Amsterdam, Singapore, Munich, New York, and in Stockholm and Copenhagen National Museums. Her work can be seen in Museums of Modern Art in Delhi, Bhopal, Mumbai, Chandigarh, Dusseldorf, Singapore, Bradford, Stockholm, Hiroshima, MOCA LA, Asian Art San Fransisco, and Victoria Albert Museum London. She has been extensively written about, filmed, and awarded with several national and international awards including a Gold Medal in VIth International Triennele 1986. She was commissioned by Hiroshima Museum of Modern Art for its permanent collection for the 50th Anniversary of the Holocaust in 1995, and by Bangluru city and the city of Hamburg to do large non- commercial murals in public spaces. Since 1981 she 23 did three large non-commercial murals in Delhi too, and a mural for SAARC Secretariat, Kathmandu. Today her paintings support several projects for the underprivileged, including free vocational training school for girls, in the Academy of Fine Arts and Literature, launched 36 years back, of which she along with her mother the writer Ajeet Cour, are the Founder Members, a leprosy home in Ghaziabad, old People’s Home in Chandigarh, Home for Orphan Girls in Himachal Village, and free ration projects for poor old widows, and several social, environmental, historical heritage projects. SAMIK BANDYOPADHYAY (India) Born 1940. MA in English Literature, Calcutta University, 1961. Junior Research Fellow, Anthropological Survey of India 1962-64. Lecturer, Departments of English Literature and Drama, Rabindra Bharati University 1966-73. Regional Editor, Oxford University Press, Calcutta, 1973-82. Editor, Seagull Books, 1982-88. Producer Emeritus, All India Radio and Doordarshan, 1989- 92. Research Professor, Asiatic Society, Calcutta, 1995-97. Had been co-opted Member, General Council, Sangeet Natak Akademi (for two consecutive terms), and Central Board of Film Certification (two terms). Was member of the 14-Member Indian Delegation to the East-West Theatre Seminar organized by the International Theatre Institute, New Delhi 1966, and panelist at seminars on Indian Theatre as part of Festivals of India in USSR and Germany, at Tashkent and Berlin. Has lectured in the USA, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Pittsburgh University, and Brown University. Visiting Fellow (Professor), School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Has translated plays and fiction by Badal Sircar and Mahasweta Devi; contributed introductions to plays by Vijay Tendulkar, Mahesh Elkunchwar, G P Deshpande, Satish Alekar; and reconstructed for publication filmscripts for films made by Shyam Benegal and Mrinal Sen. Presently Editor, Thema, Calcutta; Visiting Faculty at NFAI and FTII, Pune; Member, Board of Studies, Department of Drama, Rabindra Bharati University, Calcutta; Member, Academic Council, Film and Television Institute of 24 India, Pune, and Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute, Calcutta; Member, National School of Drama Society, New Delhi. JAYANTA MAHAPATRA (India) One of the greatest Indian poets of the modern era, with deep insight in the human psyche. His poems reflect rare sensitivity that probes relationships as well as the predicament of human existence. For decades, he has been hailed as the doyen of Indian poets. Jayanta Mahapatra has been honoured with several national and international awards, including the SAARC LITERARY AWARD. SURESH K. GOEL (India) Currently Director General, Indian Council For Cultural Relations, Suresh K. Goel has been a career diplomat. Having started as Third Secretary in High Commission of India, Singapore; First Secretary in High Commission of India, Kuala Lumpur ; First Secretary, Embassy of India, Beijing; First Secretary, Permanent Mission of India, New York, he was Director Ministry of External Affairs, Deputy Chief of Mission in Embassy of India in Cairo; Consul General, Johannesburg; Ambassador in Vientiane . As Director General of India Council of Cultural Relations, he is adding new vision, ideas, new innovative programmes and festivals, and is involved 24x7 in exploring and expanding new territories of Indian culture all over the world. IBRAHIM WAHEED (Maldives) Having started as a Teacher in Majeediyya School, Male, in 1982, Ibrahim Waheed rose to the coveted position 25 of Head of Culture and Arts Section, Ministry of Information Arts and Culture, and finally its Director General. Served as Deputy Minister of Finance and Treasury. He represented Maldives at various international workshops and seminars, and is Commissioner, Elections Commission, Maldives. As News Anchor, Host and Presenter, Television Maldives , interviewed various dignitaries including Mr. Yasser Arafat and Shri Rajiv Gandhi. He has been awarded the Premchand Fellowship for 2010-11 by Sahitya Akademi. He is a rare intellectual, and guitar player too ! JAYANT PRASAD (India) Jayant Prasad was born in 1952 and educated in Delhi University and Jawaharlal Nehru University. After lecturing on Modern Indian History for two years at St. Stephen's College, Delhi University, he entered the Indian Foreign Service in 1976. In Indian Missions abroad, he has served as India's Permanent Representative
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