Vijay Seshadri

Vijay Seshadri is a writer of subtle, elastic and unblinking intelligence. His poems inhabit the crossroads of history and wilderness, the imaginative realm where fi r and alder trees share a common life with reggae bands, refugees, office buildings and speeding traffic. Grave and witty, classical and contemporary, this volume

Vijaydan Detha

Vijaydan Detha is one of the most prolific and celebrated voices in India, and is undoubtedly the most important writer of Rajasthani prose in the twentieth century. He spent decades of his life collecting folk stories from in and around his village Borunda and retelling them. His work received national

Vikas Kumar Jha

Vikas Kumar Jha (b. 1961) is a journalist by professionand has worked for magazines like Maya and Outlook, andis currently devoted to full-time writing. His first novel wastitled Bhog, and his collection of Hindi poems, Is BaarishMein. He has also written two critically acclaimed plays inMaithili, namely, Jamputra and Sonmachhariya,

Viki King

Viki King is well known in Hollywood and internationally as an adviser to luminaries in the entertainment industry, as well as new writers just beginning their first projects. She can be contacted through her website www.vikiking.com.

Vikram Akula

VIKRAM AKULA has been at the forefront of creating market-based solutions for financial inclusion. He founded Bharat Financial Inclusion (SKS Microfinance) in India, one of the world's largest microfinance companies. In 2006, TIME magazine named him one of the world's 100 most influential people. His awards include the Schwab Social

Vikram Balagopal

Vikram Balagopal is the author of the award-winning graphic novel Simian. Following his training at the New York Film Academy (New York), he has worked in India with various film-makers, and his screenplay was chosen for Mira Nair's Maisha Screenwriter's lab. He is a published poet, illustrator and cartoonist in

Vikram Madan

Vikram Madan grew up in New Delhi, India where, despite spending his childhood rhyming and doodling, he ended up an engineer. After many years of working in the tech industry, he finally came to his senses, and here he is, having followed his heart back to rhyming and doodling again!

Vikram Mehta

Vikram Paralkar

Vikram Paralkar is a physician-scientist at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, USA. He was born and raised in Mumbai, India. His book The Wounds of the Dead was published by HarperCollins India in 2017. The Afflictions has been translated into Spanish and Italian.

Vikram Singh Mehta

Vikram Singh Mehta is chairman and Distinguished Fellow of the Center for Social and Economic Progress (CSEP). He is an independent director of several companies including Larsen and Toubro Ltd and Mahindra and Mahindra Ltd. He received Asia House's ‘Businessman of the Year' award for 2010 and ‘Best Independent Director

Vikram Soni

Vikram Soni has been UGC Professor of Physics at the National Physical Laboratory and at the Centre for Theoretical Physics at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. He is presently an Emeritus Professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.He was educated at the University of Delhi and the University of California,

Vikram Sood

Vikram Sood, a career intelligence officer for thirty-one years who retired in March 2003 after heading the R&AW, is currently adviser at the Observer Research Foundation, an independent public-policy think tank based in New Delhi. He writes regularly on security, foreign relations and strategic issues in journals and newspapers and

Vikramajit Ram

Vikramajit Ram was born and educated in Bangalore. After graduating in 1990 from the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, he worked for several years as a graphic designer. His first book, Elephant Kingdom: Sculptures from Indian Architecture (Mapin, 2007), is a cultural history of the Indian elephant, told through depictions

Vikramjit Ram

Vikramajit Ram was born and educated in Bangalore. After graduating in 1990 from the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, he worked for several years as a graphic designer. His first book, Elephant Kingdom: Sculptures from Indian Architecture (Mapin, 2007), is a cultural history of the Indian elephant, told through depictions

Vikrant Pande

Vikrant Pande has translated twelve Marathi bestsellers into English. His translation of Girish Kuber's book Tatayan (The Tatas: How a Family Built a Business and a Nation) won the prestigious Gaja Capital Best Business Book award in 2019. His book on the history of State Bank of India The SBI Story: Two

Vinay Dabholkar

Vinay Dabholkar works as a catalyst in three areas: design thinking, culture of innovation and mindfulness. He is a co-author of the book 8 Steps to Innovation: From Jugaad to Excellence. He has been a visiting faculty member at IIM Bangalore (since 2011) and IIT Bombay (since 2016). Over the

Vinay Lal

Vinay Lal is a historian, writer, and cultural critic. He has been on the faculty at UCLA since 1993 and is presently professor of history, Delhi University. His author of ten books.

Vinaya Bhagat

Vinaya Bhagat is an IT professional and a writer. Her short stories have been published in anthologies: Across the Ages, Ten Shades of Life, and have been short-listed in national and international writing competitions. Vinaya's work gives her the opportunity to travel all over the world, learn about various cultures,

Vinaya Chaitanya

Vinaya Chaitanya was born in Muvattupuzha – the place of the three rivers – in the foothills of the Western Ghats, before the invasion of rubber plantations, in 1952. He was accepted as a disciple by Nataraja Guru, disciple and successor of Narayana Guru, the philosopher-poet of Kerala. Vinaya has

Vineetha Mokkil

Vineetha Mokkil is a fiction writer and reviewer based in New Delhi. Her short stories have been published in Santa Fe Writers Project Journal and Why We Don't Talk, an anthology of contemporary Indian short fiction and in the Asia Writes project. Poems translated by her have appeared in Indian

Vinitha

Vinitha is an award-winning author and editor, who has written over twenty books for children. Two of her stories are part of the CBSE curriculum and one is part of the ICSE curriculum. She is in the midst of completing her second non-children book. A flaneur and book-devourer, she lives

Vinny Chitluri

Vinny Chitluri did her post-graduation in paediatrics from Kalavati Saren Hospital, New Delhi. She then moved to the US till her retirement at the age of fifty in 1994, post which she settled down in Shirdi. Her relationship with Sai Baba is that of a “best friend” who loves her

Vinod Bhardwaj

Vinod Bhardwaj is an art and film critic and writer. Hehas published two collections of poetry (Jalta Makanand Hoshiarpur), one short-story collection (Chiteri),and more than ten books on art and cinema. He has alsocompiled and published an acclaimed encyclopaedia ofmodern art in Hindi. This is his first novel in a

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Vinod Kapri

Vinod Kapri is an award-winning filmmaker and has won a National Award for his film Can't Take This Shit Anymore (2014). His critically acclaimed film Pihu (2017) bagged two awards at an international film festival. Before venturing into filmmaking, he spent twenty-three years of his career as a journalist with

Vinod Kumar Shukla

VINOD KUMAR SHUKLA is a poet and novelist from Raipur, Chhattisgarh. In 1999, Shukla received the Sahitya Akademi Award for his novel, Deewar Mein Ek Khidki Rehti Thi. In 2023, he was awarded the PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature.    

Vinod Mathew

Vinod Mathew is a known columnist and journalist with over three decades of experience with the Indian print media. He divided the first seventeen years of his career among three business publications: The Economic Times, Business Today and Hindu BusinessLine, and the next thirteen years between two national dailies where

Vinod Mehta

Vinod Mehta (1942-2015) left home with a BA third classdegree, experimented with a string of jobs, including that of a factory hand in suburban Britain, before accepting an offer to edit Debonair. He went on to become one of India's most influential editors, launching a number of successful publications from

Vipul Rikhi

Vipul Rikhi is a writer, singer, poet, storyteller andtranslator immersed in the oral traditions of Kabir and other Bhakti and Sufipoets for over a decade. He is the author of several books of poetry, fictionand translation. His most recent books are One Palace, a Thousand Doorways,a book of translations, and

Viral V Acharya