Tuesday, November 5, 2013

4:30-5:00 Tea in the Woodstock emmy 2011 nominations Quadrangle

6th MUSSOORIE WRITERS MOUNTAIN FESTIVAL
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You are cordially invited to experience this unique opportunity as the campus comes alive to hear writers , mountaineers , musicians , artists and adventurers from all over the world. The weekend will culminate with the 2 nd Annual Mussoorie Half Marathon !
 
4:30-5:00 Tea in the Woodstock emmy 2011 nominations Quadrangle
Introduced by Tara Douglas Adivasi Arts Trust
Deborah Baker is a writer who lives in Brooklyn and Goa. Her first full-length book, a biography of the American modernist poet Laura Riding, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1994. After many years as a book editor in various New York publishing houses, she wrote A Blue Hand an account of Allen Ginsberg s travels in India that also traced the idea of India in the American imagination. While a Fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, she researched and wrote The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism, a finalist for the 2011 National Book Award in Non-fiction. She is married to the writer Amitav Ghosh and has two children.
Simon Beames is programme director for the MSc in Outdoor emmy 2011 nominations Education at the University of Edinburgh. Originally from Canada, emmy 2011 nominations he has taught outdoors in North America, Asia, and Europe for over 20 years. Simon is currently working on his fourth book, which explores the relationship between adventure and education. He is co-editor of the Journal of Experiential Education and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.
Maria Coffey is the internationally published author of twelve books, including Where the Mountain Casts its Shadow (2003) emmy 2011 nominations which won the Banff Mountain Film Festival Literature Prize. For this and her two other books on mountaineering and extreme adventure: Explorers of the Infinite (2008) and Fragile Edge (1989) she was awarded the 2009 American Alpine Club Literary Award. Originally from the UK, Coffey lives with her husband, veterinarian and photographer Dag Goering, in British Columbia, Canada. They are the founders of Hidden Places, a boutique adventure travel company, and Elephant Earth Initiative, which advocates for elephant welfare and conservation. Maria s website is: www.hiddenplaces.net
Mamang Dai is a poet and novelist writing in English from Arunachal Pradesh in India s northeast. Dai was correspondent the Hindustan Times, the Telegraph and The Sentinel newspapers and President, Arunachal Pradesh Union of Working journalists. She also worked with World Wide Fund for nature in the Eastern emmy 2011 nominations Himalaya Biodiversity Hotspots programme. Her first publication: River Poems hailed her as one of the most intensely poetic voices from the North east region. In 2003 Dai was honoured with the state s Verrier Elwin Award for her book Arunachal Pradesh- the hidden land, that documented the culture and customs of her land. She has featured in several national and international forums to promote the disappearing traditions of her state in the face of modernity and give voice to its people through the imaginative space of prose and poetry. emmy 2011 nominations A long time member of the North East Writers Forum (NEWF) Dai is a recipient emmy 2011 nominations of the Padma Shri, 2011, (Literature and Education.)Currently she is Member, Arunachal Pradesh Public Service Commission. Dai lives in ITANAGAR, Arunachal Pradesh.
William Dalrymple was born in Scotland in 1965, and brought up on the shores of the Firth of Forth. He was educated at Ampleforth and Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1986, while still at college, he set off to follow emmy 2011 nominations on foot the outward route of Marco Polo from Jerusalem emmy 2011 nominations to Mongolia and wrote a highly acclaimed bestseller about the journey, In Xanadu, when he was twenty-two. The book won the 1990 Yorkshire Post Best First Work Award and a Scottish Arts Council Spring Book Award; it was also shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize. In 1989 Dalrymple moved to Delhi where he lived for five years researching his second book, City of Djinns, which won the 1994 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award and the Sunday Times Young British Writer of the Year Award. From the Holy Mountain, his acclaimed study of the demise of Christianity in its Middle emmy 2011 nominations Eastern homeland, was awarded the Scottish Arts Council Autumn Book Award for

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