Asiya Zahoor hails from Baramulla in north Kashmir where she taught literature at a college. Asiya has written books and articles on migration, religion and psycholinguistics, as well as Caribbean and Kashmiri literature. Her poems have been translated into Arabic, French, Persian, Portuguese and Urdu. Her film, “The Stitch,” won the Critics Award for Best Short Film at the 2nd South Asian Film Festival and has been screened at various festivals around the world. Asiya is the curator of www.bolbosh.net, a website that documents languages and literature of Kashmir where she was born and raised. Asiya Zahoor studied Psycholinguistics at Oxford University and has recently been awarded The Sanford Taylor fellowship at Cornell University.
Meet Our Authors
ASIYA ZAHOOR
CHANDAK CHATTARJI
Chandak Chattarji is an educationist, author of English textbooks, poet and translator. After graduating from Viswa Bharati University in 1955, he did his MA at the University of Calcutta in 1957 and qualified as an Associate of the College of Preceptors, London, in 1970. He has taught English at La Martiniere, Lucknow; Sainik School, Rewa; Tashi Namgyal Academy, Gangtok and St Paul’s School, Darjeeling. Chattarji retired in 1993 as the Principal of Air Force School, Kanpur. His collection of poems Another Dorian Gray was published by the Writers Workshop in 1990. His recent publications include the poetry collection Summer Knows (Sampark, 2015) which has been translated into French by Roselyne Sibille; a translation of Jibanananda Das’s short fiction (2016) and Six Bangla Poets (2017), both published by Poetrywala, Mumbai.
RACHNA JOSHI
Rachna Joshi is a poet and reviewer. She has written three collections of poems: Configurations (Rupa & Co., 1993); Crossing the Vaitarani (Writer s Workshop, 2008) and Travel Tapestry (Yatra Books, 2013). She has been writing and publishing poetry for the best part of two decades she could be called an old practitioner. She works as Senior Assistant Editor at the India International Centre.
RASHNA IMHASLY GANDHY
Rashna Imhasly-Gandhy works as a Transpersonal Psychologist. She lives and practices in Mumbai and New Delhi, India, and teaches and lectures in Switzerland, Holland and Mexico. Besides her private practice, she works with groups in conflict areas in Kashmir. She is the author of Psychology of Love: Wisdom of Indian Mythology. The Emerging Feminine: Discovering the Heroine Within is her new work on relationships.
SITA NANDA
Sita Nanda was born in 1929 in Abbottabad (Nawan Shehr) in the North-West Frontier Province, now in Pakistan. She spent her childhood in Eastern U.P. and went to boarding school in Shimla. Nanda was married at the age of eighteen and spent the next fifty years of her life with her husband in Delhi and Nainital. She was an ardent yachtswoman, committed yoga practitioner and a devoted mother.
UDAYAN VAJPEYI
Udayan Vajpeyi is a Hindi poet, essayist, short fiction and script writer. He has published two volumes of poetry, a short story collection, a book of essays and other miscellaneous publications (including a book of recreated folktales and an account of an extended conversation with filmmaker Mani Kaul). His work has been translated into Bengali, Tamil, Oriya, Kannada, English, French, Swedish, Polish and Bulgarian. He teaches Physiology at Gandhi Medical College, Bhopal.
