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	Kalyani Thakur Charal Kalyani Thakur has published 4 books of poetry written in Bengali, a collection of short stories, a collection of essays; she has also edited 4 books and various special issues of journals on topics like folklore, water, refugees, poetry of dalit women, dalit women writting, short stories of Indian women. Stories Chandalinir Kobita A Poem Against War Find out ...
	Dr. M. Dasan Dr. M. Dasan is currently professor and Head of the Department of English and Comparative Literature, Central University of Kerala. Formerly he has held various academic and administrative positions – professor and Head, Dean, Registrar–in Calicut and Kannur Universities for about three decades. He has published about 40 research articles in prestigious journals and books...
	Favita Rochelle Dias My name is Favita Rochelle Dias. Since childhood I have loved dancing, listening music, playing cricket, football and any other sports. I never really liked reading much but, now reading has become an important activity. This new hobby has inspired me and has helped me re-discover myself. This re-discovery resulted in an article that was ...
	Subhadra Joopaka Joopaka Subhadra is a powerful Dalit woman writer who has written poems and short stories that bring out the lives and conditions of the Dalits, and more specifically Dalit women. Many of her stories are drawn from her own experiences. This is what makes her stories so compelling, convincing and disturbing. The collection, Rayakka Manyam contains ...
	Des Raj Kalil Des Raj Kali has produced hundreds of articles on dalits, culture and literature in various magazines including ‘Tehalka’ and has been conferred upon several awards as fiction writer. He has been a key Panel Speaker at Jaipur Literature Festival (2010) and Speaker at SamanvaySamagam, Habitat Centre, Delhi. He has offered regular features on All-India Radio, ...
	Devanoora Mahadeva DEVANOORA MAHADEVA emerged as a major literary voice in the 1970s, which also saw the emergence of the Dalit Movement. Mahadeva’s short stories collected in Dyavanuru (1973) broke new ground introducing themes anchored around the life of Dalits. His innovative narrative techniques swerved away from the modernist modes current at the time. The novella Odalaala (1981) ...
	Chandrakanta Murasingh Chandrakanta Murasingh is one of the leading poets of Kokborok, a language spoken by a large number of indigenous people. He was born at Tuiwandal, a remote village of Tripura on 1st April, 1957. He works with a Bank and now resides in Agartala. He has seven titles of collection of poems to his credit. ...
	Ajay Navaria Ajay Navaria is the author of two collections of short stories, Pathkathaauranyakahaniyan (2006) and Yes, Sir (2012), and one novel, Udhar ke log. A collection of his short stories, translated by Laura Brueck into English and published as Unclaimed Terrain (2013), has won critical acclaim. Renowned Pakistan writer Mohammed Hanif has hailed Navaria as an ...
	Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih KYNPHAM SING NONGKYNRIH writes poems, short fiction and drama in Khasi (the language of his tribe) and English. He has a total of 13 publications in Khasi and 10 in English. His collections of poetry in English include Moments, The Sieve (Writers Workshop), The Yearning of Seeds and Time’s Barter: Haiku and Senryu (HarperCollins). He ...
	Urmila Pawar From Mumbai university, born in a small village of Ratnagiri as the youngest child of a Dalit family. Urmila Pawar learned early in life the meaning of her subordination as a woman and as a dalit . The lesson she learned about the needs of self-confidence, and the courage to overcome these forms of discrimination ...
	Venkat Raman Singh Shyam Venkat Raman Singh Shyam (b.1970) belongs to the tradition of Pardhan Gond art inaugurated by the legendary Jangarh Singh Shyam, his uncle. After apprenticing with Jangarh in the 1990s, Venkat worked a range of jobs—including as house painter, screen printer and signboard artist. He also was fortunate to be guided by the pioneering Jagdish Swaminathan. ...
	Sivakami P. Sivakami is a prolific writer and dalit activist. She has published 5 novels, 4 short story collections, 5 essay collections and 2 poetry collections. Most of her works are translated into English and other foreign languages. Her first self translated novel “The Grip Of Change” rated as among the five favourite novels of India ...

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	Tony Birch Tony Birch is the author of five works of fiction; Shadowboxing (2006), Father’s Day (2009), Blood (2011), The Promise (2014), and Ghost River (2015). In 2016 he is publishing his first poetry collection, Broken Teeth. He is currently the Dr Bruce MacGuinness Research Fellow in the Moondani Balluk Unit at Victoria University. His research interest ...
	Ali Cobby Eckermann Ali Cobby Eckermann is a Yankunytjatjara poet. Her first poetry collection Little Bit Long Time celebrated her successful search to find her birth family. She has written much about the legacy of the Stolen Generations including her first verse novel His Fathers Eyes.
	Lionel Fogarty Lionel Fogarty has given voice to Aboriginal poetry for over thirty years and is one of Australia’s most respected and radical Indigenous poet and political activists. Lionel remains a passionate mentor to young Aboriginal writers in remote regions of Australia.
	Marie Munkara Marie Munkara: of Rembarranga, Tiwi and Chinese descent Marie was delivered on the banks of the Mainoru River in Arnhemland by her two grandmothers and spent her early years on Bathurst Island. Her first Novel Every Secret Thing (University of Queensland Press) won the David Unaipon Award in 2008 and the Northern Territories Book of ...
	Jared Thomas Dr Jared Thomas is a Nukunu person of the Southern Flinders Ranges. He currently works as Arts Development Officer, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts, Arts SA and prior to this was a lecturer at the David Unaipon College of Indigenous Education and Research, the University of South Australia where he is now an adjunct ...
	Jane Harrison Jane Harrison is a descendant of the Muruwari people of NSW. She is a playwright/writer and a researcher/policy maker. Her award-winning play Stolen has been performed in Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Tasmania, WA, the UK, Hong Kong and Tokyo, with readings in Canada, New York and Los Angeles. Rainbow’s End premiered in 2005, has had a Tokyo production, toured throughout ...
	Gnarnayarrahe Waitairie Uncle Gnarnayarrahe Waitairie comes from the Yindjibarndi tribe in Western Australia. He has been playing the didgeridoo since the age of two. He plays at various universities, primary schools and kindergartens regularly together with a myriad of other performance venues. He is an accomplished actor for many years, a dancer, storyteller and original song-writer with ...
	Vinod Prasanna Born into one of India’s greatest flute-playing families, award-winning bansuri (flute) virtuoso, Vinod Prasanna, shines as an outstanding performer of authentic traditional and contemporary Indian music. Vinod’s emotive melodies, exquisite improvisations and divine flute song distinguish his performance of Indian classical, world and meditation music. Hailing from Varanasi, one of India’s holy cities, Vinod’s late ...