REKHARAJ
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REKHARAJ
D.P. ABHIJITH
P.N. GOPIKRISHNAN
DR. K.P. NAJEEMUDEEN
KUREEPUZHA SREEKUMAR
Kureepuzha Sreekumar was born on April 10, 1955, in Kureepuzha on the banks of Ashtamudi Lake (Kollam), to P.N. Sastry and K. Kamalamma. Girlfriend: Sushama Kumari. Son: Nesin Sreekumar. While a student at Sree Narayana College, Kollam, he won the first prize for poetry in the Youth Festival. While a student, he was imprisoned for participating in the protest. He worked against the Emergency. He has represented India at the Afro-Asian Young Writers Conference and Malayalam at the National Poet’s Conference. He has presented poetry at various universities in India. His works include Uppa, Kureepuzha Sreekumarinte Kavithakal and Fathima Thooruthu
He has received many awards including the Vailoppilly Award, Abu Dhabi Shakti Award, State Children’s Literature Award, Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award, P. Smaraka Award, Mooloor Award, Bhima Children’s Literature Award. He refused the Sri Padmanabhaswamy Award. He is not a believer in caste or religion.
D. PRADEEP KUMAR
FARSANA
Farsana is a contemporary Malayalam author, short story writer, columnist, and director. She
was born in Vazhakad, Malappuram district. Her parents are C.K. Abubacker and Ramla. She is a graduate in Psychology and did her Postgraduate Diploma in Journalism and Mass Communication. Currently lives in China. Her oeuvre includes the novel Elma and the story collection Vettaala, along with Kila, Khayal, and Shyaou Wang, all published by DC Books. She directed the documentary Adrayi, based on the life of K.A. Rahman, which was screened at international festivals including IDSFFK. Her work has earned her numerous honours, including the Samskrithi Sreeraman Cherukadhaa Puraskaram.
AMARTYA SEN
SANDHYA MARY
RAMACHANDRA GUHA
Ramachandra Guha is an eminent historian and biographer whose research interests span across varied fields. An authoritative voice on the history of modern India, he is a widely acclaimed author. His landmark history of the Republic, India after Gandhi, was chosen as a book of the year by several notable publications, including The Economist and The Washington Post. He has penned a two-volume biography of Mahatma Gandhi, with the first volume titled Gandhi Before India and the second titled Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World.
He is also the author of an award-winning social history of cricket, A Corner of a Foreign Field which The Guardian chose as one of the ten best books ever on cricket. He has written extensively on environmentalism, combining a history of dissent from peasants and ecological history. His book The Unquiet Woods opened up a new field of study- the environmental history of South Asia. Environmentalism: A Global History, Speaking with Nature: The Origins of Indian Environmentalism are some of his books on environmentalism. Ramachandra Guha is the recipient of several prestigious accolades, including the Howard Milman Award of the British Society for Sports History, the Ramnath Goenka Prize for Excellence in Journalism, the Sahitya Akademi Award, and the Fukuoka Prize for Contributions to Asian Studies.