Lavanya Shanbhogue Arvind & Vipul Nair

Lavanya Shanbhogue Arvind is a novelist, feminist research scholar and a TedX speaker. She won the Commonwealth Short Story Special Prize(2011). She is currently pursuing an Integrated MPhil-PhD degree in Women’s Studies from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai. She was awarded the Best Student Prize (2015-2016) and the Institute Gold Medal (2015-2017) for academic performance by TISS. She was awarded the Writers in Immersion and Cultural Exchange (WrICE) Fellowship by RMIT University, Australia and was an invited speaker at the Melbourne Writers Festival. Her writings have been published in both Indian and International press including the Griffith Review, Australia, and Blink’s year-end fiction special of the Hindu Business Line. Her non-fiction writings on feminist themes have appeared in Huffington Post, Hindu Business Line and Daily O among others. Her debut novel, The Heavens We Chase, set in pre-partition, British India, was released by Roli Books in 2016. Vipul Nair is an industrialist, a keen observer of the economy and a history and an economics afficionado.