Team
Barnaby Haszard Morris
Barnaby Haszard Morris is a Kerala-based writer split between lapping up the sights, sounds and smells of the Malayali salaryman’s life and longing for a cool beer on the deck at a Coromandel beachfront holiday home back in NZ. He’s happy to bore anyone with his obsessive knowledge of film history, and starts his day by checking whatever football and cricket scores are available to ingest.
Sandeep Sandhu
Sandeep Sandhu was born and raised a Londoner, hailing from the prominent NRI outpost that is Southall. The town has certainly shaped his writing and perception of the world and continues to be a thriving cosmopolitan part of the city. More taken with literature and the arts, he quickly pursued these both academically and personally.
Peta Jinnath Andersen
Peta Jinnath Andersen is a freelance and fiction writer. Born in Sydney, Australia, to a Fiji-Indian father and Scottish mother, she’s a bit confused about her background, but loves it all the same. Currently living in the US, she has just had her first child, and is busy studying hard in an effort to learn more about her Indian heritage – including taking Hindi lessons – so she can teach her son about just what it is that makes an NRI special.
Pulkit Datta
Pulkit Datta is based in New York City as a graduate student in cinema studies and an independent filmmaker. He loves all things about Indian cinema and its interactions with NRI audiences as well as the larger mainstream non-Indian audiences around the world. When he’s not watching films, he writes about them, reads about them, and talks about them.
Gori Girl
Gori Girl lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she has access to a great deal of Indian culture. She has developed a huge crush on India in general, and Punjab in particular. Having developed a taste for bhangra and Bollywood, she tries to make sense of cultural differences with a bohemian eye and an ironic and irreverent sense of humor.
Jaspreet Pandohar
Jaspreet Pandohar is a London based entertainment journalist and TV researcher. A movie buff since childhood, she recently took the plunge to follow her passion, going on to work as an assistant director and script supervisor on a host of British and Indian feature films. Nowadays when she’s not busy making them, you can find her locked in a dark cinema with a box of popcorn dissecting the world of make believe.
Vivek Dehejia
Vivek Dehejia is a professor and writer. Born in Mumbai, India, when it was still called Bombay, growing up in Ottawa, Canada, and having lived in New York, California, and New Delhi, along with numerous and lengthy stints in Austria, Germany, and Italy, he considers himself a true global desi. At present he is based in Ottawa, where he is a university professor, and divides his remaining time between Montreal and Mumbai, where he aspires (as yet unsuccessfully) to be a bon vivant.
Meera Dattani
Meera Dattani is a London-based freelance journalist with a chronic case of itchy feet. She has worked wirelessly and tirelessly from internet cafes and beaches across the globe, from Buenos Aires and Kampala to Melbourne and Ho Chi Minh City. Writing about travel, people, social and cultural trends is what gets her fingers tapping.
Afshan Mujawar
Born in Bombay, brought up in Dubai, now married and settled in Bangalore, India. Crazy creatures that we humans are, I enjoy observing different philosophies, cultures, characters and life in general. I wind up with a little clear and a little confused perspective, deriving contentment and curiosity all at the same time. It’s a great feeling! I am an independent author and even more independent voice.
Jayanth Tadinada
In the last four years at IIT Bombay where he is majoring in Computer Science, Jayanth Tadinada saw his interests meander from history to design, psychology to photography and philosophy to sketching but finally settled on making comic strips and writing. Having watched a great deal of movies and comedy series, he considers himself a student of the art and daydreams of becoming a screenwriter one day but is too sarcastic to admit it. He writes about his funny observations and weird theories to explain them at http://gtoosphere.blogspot.com
Ashish Seth
Ashish Seth is a freelance writer, educator, and music producer living in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. His publications include a variety of articles in a variety of papers, the most notable of which is the Medium Newspaper for the University of Toronto. He mostly writes articles in the arts and features. Ashish has published a book of science writing called Come on baby take a chance with us: Issues in Psilocybin Mushroom Use. You can find his music online on myspace and facebook keyword mustardapple.
Sourav Roy
Being a fourth year engineering student from MSRIT Bangalore, Sourav has more than coding and software development on his mind. He passionately writes poems in Hindi, and has published a book titled- “Anabhra Ratri Ki Anupama”. Sourav is also among the panel of editors of Khabar India, a nation-wide opinion based magazine. You will often find him coding on his computer, or reading journals online. He is a freelance writer and has written many articles for several magazines and websites
Maria Francis
Maria is a Singapore-based writer who spends half her days dieting and the other half making up for it. She has spent most of her life divided between Dubai, the NRI haven for Malayalis and hometown Kerala. Her favourite pastimes are reading and writing fiction and has now added cuddling her adorable baby boy to the list. She is now settled in Singapore, whilst trying to get the hang of eating with chopsticks and pretending to like sushi.
Nikhil Inamdar
Nikhil has a Masters in Broadcast Journalism from the University of Westminster, London. He began his career with Times Now – a leading English language news channel in India and went on to become Associate Producer for News Features at Bloomberg UTV, Mumbai. He is currently living in London straddling 2-3 part-time jobs. He spends his free time and money traveling, reading fiction, deciding to exercise and wondering what to do next in life!
Sreesha Sreenivasan
While working with a luxury hotel chain, I met people from all walks of life. They talked and I listened. Now the tables have turned and I write so others may read. I currently live in the beautiful, quaint and idyllic German town of Mainz with my husband. I believe everything happens for a reason; ‘intelligent design’ not being one of them.
