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Writer Swarna Kilari was born in Kothagudem, in the erstwhile Khammam district. She holds a degree in Life Sciences and a postgraduate degree in Library Science. She is a writer, translator, and traveler. Her numerous film analyses, essays, and travelogues have been published in various magazines and anthologies. Her short…

M. Gopalakrishnan is a versatile Tamil writer known for his contributions to novels, short stories, poetry, and literary reviews. He is also an accomplished translator, working from both English and Hindi into Tamil. His notable novels include Amman Nesavu, Manal Kadigai, Manai Maatchi, Theertha Yathirai, and Vengai Vanam. He has…

“Sachidananda Hegde was born in Idagunji, located in the Uttara Kannada district, and pursued his higher education in India and Europe. He has built an extensive career across America, Europe, and India. His debut collection of stories, Karantajjanigondu Patra, is a biographical work on Yakshagana artist Keremane Mahabala Hegde, and…

“Popularly known as Kum. Vee., the novelist and short story writer Kum. Veerabhadrappa crossed the fences of Kannada literature’s refined tradition through his novella “Beli mattu Hola” (Fences and Fields), attracting readers with his unique linguistic experiments and idiomatic expressions. The language used in his stories and novels earned him…

“Yogindra Maravanthe is a writer and columnist from Udupi’s Maravanthe village, currently working as an aerospace engineer at Airbus in Bristol, UK. He shares his experiences of life abroad through essays in leading Kannada magazines, winning Sudha weekly’s Ugadi awards in 2019 and 2021. His aviation series Aero Purana is…