Visions Revisions-2

Ahmad Yusuf started his literary career in 1948. "Khwab Gar Khwab Shiken" was originally published in the Mumbai-based Urdu magazine- Shair. A translated version was later published in Samkaleen Sahitya under the title "Khwab Dar Khwab."

She has sixteen novels and six books to her credit. She has had her works published in periodicals like Anandamela, Desh, Ananda Bazaar, Bartaman, Manorama and Tathyakendra and has also contributed to Bengali magazines published from the USA. Her translations include two volumes of Somerset Maugham’s works, one volume of D H Lawrence’s short stories, and Shri Aurbindo’s lyrics and sonnets. She has also done English to Bangla translations for Srinvantu magazine. She has a masters in English literature and is a lecturer in English with Krishna Girls College, Howrah in addition to her busy writing career.

Bindu Bhatt, one of the foremost women writers in Gujarati, has written Adyatan Hindi Upanyas  (1993), a critique of the modern novel in Hindi. She has translated several texts from Gujarati into Hindi and vice versa.

Gurbaksh Singh was a pioneer in the field of refined prose writing in Punjabi. He has to his credit several collections of essays of short stories as well as two novels. He had a long-standing association with the popular journal Preet Lahri. His writings have been widely translated into Russian and other languages of East Europe.

Harendra Kumar Bhuyan belongs to the Assam Civil Service. He has published several collections of short stories, novels and plays for radio and stage.

K N Y Pathanjali was a journalist, working for Mahanager: a Telugu daily. He began writing in the year 1963. His novels and several short stories have been translated into Urdu, Hindi, English, and Malayalam.

Keerti Ramachandra has an MA in English Literature from Karnataka University and an M.Phil in Linguistics from Jawaharlal Nehru University. She has varied teaching experience from remedial English to spoken/conversational English, English as foreign language for non-Indians, graduate classes in Literature and Communication skills, and high school courses. Fluent in Marathi, Kannada and Hindi, she frequently translates from all three into English and has received the A K Ramanujan Award for Translation in 1995.

Littérateur, playwright, critic, travel writer, screenwriter M T Vasudevan Nair is one of the most outstanding writers of India.

Born at Kudallur village in Palghat, Kerala in 1933, MT began contributing to periodicals very early in life. The first collection of his short stories was published before he completed his graduation from Victoria College, Palghat. He joined the Malayalam magazine Mathrubhumi in 1956, and later became its editor.

He has won the Sahitya Akademi Award for his novel, Kaalam; the President’s Gold Medal for the film Nirmalyam – written, produced and directed by him; The Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award thrice for his novel, Naalukettu; his short story collection Swargam Turakkunna Samayam and play, Gopuranatayil. He received the Vayalar Award for his novel Randamoozham and the National Award for Best Screenplay for Oru Vadakkan Veera Gatha, Sadayam and Kadavu. MT was awarded the Katha Award for Creative Fiction for the story Cheriya Cheriya Bhookambangal in 1992. He received the prestigious Jnanpith award in 1995. The Padma Bhushan Award was conferred upon him in 2005. MT lives in Calicut.

Mrinal Pande has to her credit several collections of short stories as well as plays and novels. Editor of Saptahik Hindustan, she has had a distinguished career in journalism and the media.

Prakash Narayan Sant alias Bhalchandra Gopal Dixit has a doctorate in Geology and is a Reader in Y.C. College, Karad.

She is undoubtedly one of the most gifted and accomplished amongst the contemporary short story writers and novelists in Orissa. She has an impressive corpus of eighteen novels, several short story collections, one travelogue, nine books for children and ten for neo-literates. She has received numerous awards and honours, including the Orissa Sahitya Akademi Award (1985) for her novel Shilapadma, the Sarala Award for her novel Yajnaseni, the Katha Award for Creative Fiction for the story “Shapya” (1994) and the Biswv Award (1995) for her contribution to Oriya literature. She is also the first woman to receive the Moorti Devi Award of the Bharatiya Jnanpith (1991) for her path-breaking work, Yajnaseni.

Shantinath Desai was a Professor of English, Shivaji University, Kolhapur, and later the Vice Chancellor of Kuvempu University, Shimoga. He wrote several novels and collections of short stories, out of which Rakshasa received the Karnataka Sahitya Akademi Award.

One of the most versatile of contemporary Tamil writers, Sundara Ramaswamy, fondly called Suraa, brought about a new wave in Tamil literature. Despite the fact that he received no formal education, he was adept in Tamil, Malayalam, English and Sanskrit. His creative genius manifested it self through his work, cutting across genres – short stories, novels, poems, essays, criticism and translation. He wrote poetry under the pseudonym Pasuviah.