David Godwin worked for many years as a publisher, at Heinemann, Seckers & Warburg and Jonathan Cape, before becoming a literary agent. He founded DGA with his wife Heather Godwin in 1995 and he now represents a varied list of … More »
Meghnad Desai was born in Vadodara and got his BA and MA from University of Bombay. He went to USA in 1961 where he got his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. He taught economics at the LSE from 1965 … More »
Michael Worton is Vice-Provost (Academic and International) of University College London, and Fielden Professor of French Language and Literature. His research focuses on 20th and 21st century European literature and on aspects of critical theory, feminism, gender politics, and painting … More »
MJ Akbar is one of India’s most distinguished editors and authors. He has written several bestselling books on life and politics in modern India that have achieved international acclaim. Akbar started his career with The Times of India in 1971 … More »
NAYANTARA SAHGAL is the author of nine novels, six works of non-fiction, and wide-ranging political and literary commentary. She has received the Sahitya Akademi Award, the Sinclair Prize and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. She has held Fellowships at the Bunting … More »
Senath Walter Perera obtained his MA and PhD on a Commonwealth Scholarship from the University of New Brunswick, Canada, and is currently Senior Professor in English at the University of Peradeniya. Though his doctoral research was on Indian, Kenyan and … More »
Surina Narula has devoted almost two decades to highlight the plight of street children globally and has even provided them a platform at the United Nations. An MBA and a Master’s in Social Anthropology at University College London, she has raised … More »
Tina Brown was the first woman editor of three leading US magazines. At the age of 25, soon after graduating from Oxford University, she revived Britain’s historic monthly Tatler. In 1984 she was invited to the United States to rescue … More »
Urvashi Butalia is a publisher and writer based in India. Co founder of Kali for Women, India’s first feminist publishing house, she now runs Zubaan, an imprint of Kali. She has been long involved in the women’s movement in India, … More »
William Dalrymple is the author of five acclaimed works of history and travel, including City of Djinns, which won the Young British Writer of the Year Prize and the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award; the best-selling From the Holy Mountain; White … More »