Faridoun Farrokh was born and educated in Iran where he began a teaching career, initially in schools and later at the universities in Shiraz and Mashhad, his hometown, after completing graduate studies in the U.S. Currently, he is a professor of English at Texas A&M International University, where he has taught for the past sixteen years. His academic specialty and research interests are in the eighteenth-century English literature and contemporary Iranian fiction as well as literary translation.
Aakar Patel is a syndicated columnist who has edited English and Gujarati newspapers. His works include 'Why I Write', a translation of Saadat Hasan Manto’s Urdu non-fiction (Tranquebar, 2014), '
Lakshmi Subramanian is Professor of History in the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata. She has previously taught at Jamia Millia Islamia (New Delhi), University of Calcutta and Visva-Bh
Reshma Valliappan is Founder-Director of Mind Arcs and The Red Door that work in the area of breaking barriers between normalcy and madness, along with a platform to advocate for the rights of pers
Jasleen Dhamija is an internationally renowned expert in the field of living cultural traditions, intangible heritage, rural non-farm development and history of textiles and costumes. Her stint in
