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EDITOR
 Dr Rati Saxena - is an eminent Hindi poet, translator
and Sanskrit scholar. She has authored three collections of
poems in Hindi (Maya mahathagini, ajanmi kavita ki kokh se,
sapane dekhata samudra) and one each in English and Malayalam
(in translation). Besides, she has written several research
articles on Vedic literature and Indology and published critical
studies. Her poems are translated in different languages like
Malayalam, Punjabi, KonkaNi and Tamil etc. Rati Saxena’ poetry
represented in various journals of other part of world like –Verasal
( Amsterdam, Netherlands and printed in Prague), Edgar literary
Magazine (Texas) and gumball poetry etc. Thus establishing a
sound reputation as an academic critic. Rati Saxena has
translated 9 books from Malayalam to Hindi. Translations of some
of the most well known Malayalam poems and novels have earned
her nation-wide respect and recognition. She has written a book
on famous poet of Malayalam -Balamaniyamma. Among the several
awards she has received, the most coveted is the Kendra Sahitya
Akademi Award for Translation in 2000. She is also a recipient
of the prestigious Indira Gandhi National Culture and Arts
Fellowship, which helped her complete this path-breaking work “A
seed of mind-a fresh approach to Atharvavedic study".
EDITORIAL BOARD
Dr. Sudha Varrier - has Post Graduate degree in philosophy and Russian and doctorate in film studies. She is freelance film scholar and journalist. Has published one poetry collection, one short story collection, three novels, one book on aesthetics of Adaptation in films, a comparative study of short stories -male and female writers and is currently working on a comparative study on the novel of O V Vijayan, Sara Joseph and NS Madhavan. For the book on films she got the state award 2002.
Dr.Jayasree Ramakrishnan Nair - is a freelance editor and translator. Senior Associate Editor, Samyukta - A Journal of Women's Studies. At present working as Editor for www.india9.com, Oregon Technologies, Pravachambalam, Trivandrum. She has to her credit among other published translations, the translations of four plays of Shakespeare into Malayalam. Areas of interest are Translation Studies, Folklore Studies, Shakespeare Studies and Women's Studies.
Thachom Poyil Rajeevan - writes poetry, fiction and
essays in Malayalam and also in English. He has published two
poetry collections and a collection of essays in Malayalam and a
collection of poems in English ‘he who was gone thus’ This
collection was released in US by Ohio-based Six Gallery Press in
November in 2003. He was an official invitee for International
Poetry festival held in Struga, Macedonia in August 2003. His
poems have been translated into Italian, Macedonian, Bulgarian,
Rumanian, Tamil, Hindi, Telgu, Kannada and Marathi. Rajeevan is
an active supporter of kritya.
Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih is a Poet, translator, and short
story writer; he has published five collections of poetry, two
in English, three in Khasi. These include Moments, The Sieve, Ka
Samoi jong ka Lyer, Ki Mawsiang ka Sohra, and Ki Jingkynmaw. He
is the recipient of the first North-East Poetry Award conferred
by the North-East India Poetry Council, Tripura. At present, he
works as a Deputy Director, in-charge of Publication Cell,
North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong, Meghalaya.
Jaydev Mukundan K-is a freelance
journalist, who writes in English. Jaydev helped in editing
kritya’s English issue.
ARTIST
B D Dattan - Former Art Editor in Department of
Encyclopedia, Kerala and former Executive Member of Kerala Lalit
Kala Academi, Dattan has held many one-man exhibitions of his
drawings and paintings during 1973 to 2003. His paintings are
exhibited in National Museum, Modern Art gallery, Parliament
House, Kendra Lalit Akademi, Sri Chitra Art gallery and Raj Bhavan,
Kerala. He has drawn all the logos for Kritya. Kritya is
grateful to him for his contribution.
Prabhakar - is an artist from Chattisgarh. His paintings
have appeared as cover page for various journals in Hindi. He
has made all the paintings appearing in Kritya.
Vijendra Vij - A young designer and an artist, Expert in
Computer Animation. He has designed the header for Kritya.
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