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Meet the people who have fulled Caferati's growth.
Anita is a nomad, an army brat and a naval wife who has traveled &
lived all over India. Aside from a brief stopover in the film industry,
she has spent most of her professional life in the travel trade. She is
also a partner in a travel site. She devours anything remotely readable
about almost anything.
Most of her writing has been informally circulated, stored in paper
journals or published in community newsletters, business websites and
brochures.
She recently started a professional writing service, Roving Writers.
Anita is the moving force behind our Delhi read-meets.
Links: Professional.
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Annie prefers to be called 'writer', though 'jack-of-all-beats hack'
would be closer to the truth.
She's writes poetry when she must, and prose, because she must.
She reported for a tabloid, edited a youth magazine, taught journalism
where she learnt it, volunteered for social stuff, and currently
wroks for a national news magazine.
A book of poems, called The Almost Drizzles Of May, was
written in collaboration with two other half-crazed girls, and has been
'in the process of publication' for almost a year. She has since
developed an aversion to procrastinators given to publishing.
Annie besides helping organise read-meets in Delhi, is also one of the editors of the Stories at the Coffee
Table project.
Links: Blog. |
Dubbed ‘hatchet queen' by people scorched by her sarcastic tongue and
fiery temper, by people who have had their works hurled back at them
across the room for simply being ‘verbal vomit,' Manisha Lakhe is an
ancient crone who cannot withstand bad grammar. She is reputed to have
a medieval rack where she dangles pretentious writers by their
participles. She has also a keen sense of smell for good writing and
nurtures new writers by feeding them her divine cheesecake.
Manisha is one of the organisers of our
read-meets, and one of the editors of the Stories at the Coffee
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Max Babi is a metallurgist and a plasma technologist. He is passionate about poetry in
four languages, short stories, novels and can spend days reading a
railway timetable (and write a story about that too). He loves
Hindustani classical music, jazz, blues or the beggar with an ektara
belting his heart out. Caferati@Pune is his dream come true, though he
often wants to quit it all. He's been an effective mentor to poets,
writers, scientists, businessmen and others of the confused ilk. He
writes online courses and conducts seminars, and yes, jazz workshops
too. He loves to act as a catalyst when it comes to organising events
or setting up multinational businesses. He is interested in everything.
Max is the motivator-in-chief of Caferati Pune, and has also helped catalyse Caferati groups in several other cities.
Links: Personal.
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Peter has been a journalist, radio jockey, compere, voice-over artist,
PR rep, salesman (complete with briefcase and tie), creative director and information architect. He now does his best to
refute allegations that “has been” is the operative phrase in the
previous sentence by doing a little of all those things as a web
content and communications consultant and freelance writer. He often
wonders why he’s the only writer he knows who doesn’t seem to have a
book brewing. He only wears ties to weddings these days.
Peter moderates Caferati's message board, and
is one of the editors of the Stories at the Coffee Table
project.
Links: Blog.
Articles. Personal.
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Rajendra is civil engineer, real estate developer, IT company owner,
sculptor, graphic artist and a wanderer. But before he became all
these, he was a poet and still is. A published collection of Marathi
poems to his credit, Rajendra has been equally fascinated by the English
language. Also loves Urdu shayari. After graduation from VRCE(VNIT)
Nagpur, he did a stint with MSEB as civil engineer and then floated
his own real estate development company Pradhan Builders. Later he got
infected by computer virus and floated Pronetsoft, an IT company that
infects more people by training them and also develops software
solutions, mainly for banking industry. When not wandering, he lives
happily in Nagpur with his wife, kids and dogs.
Raj is the person who got Caferati Nagpur started, and who keeps
it running.
Links: Blog. Personal.
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Female
Fat
Forty
Intelligent
Irascible
Acerbic
Academic
Teacher
Tyrant
Trouble
Sentimental goose
Reader
Writer
Poet
Writer
Poet
Poet
Poet
Ratna is one of the editors of the Stories at the Coffee Table
project, and may soon, if she can find enough time, start a Caferati chapter in Port Blair, where she heads a school.
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Shankar is CAD Ambassador at Sun Microsystems. Prior to Sun, he founded
PharmQuest, a pharmaceutical regulatory automation company, and Guru
Technologies, an electronic design services company. Shankar's
interests include yoga, vipassana, dance, music, poetry, integrative
medicine, mountaineering, mentoring and entrepreneurship. He lives in
Cupertino, California, with his wife and kids.
Shankar will attempt to get Caferati's first USA chapter moving with
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Sonia is passionate about being passionate. One of her multiple personalities is an eternal learner who's so far studied hockey, French, the piano, Microbiology and painting among other things. It's never a good question to ask her what she does because it's always a different answer.
She's still deciding on whether she should remain unprinted or be unprintable. She has fun experimenting with writing styles but most of her work is short stories and poems. She also loves getting people together on creative projects and can organize almost anything tirelessly.
Sonia is one of
Caferati Pune's organisers.
Links: Personal.
Blog.
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Sridala Swami has very successfully drifted from film to book editing and then to teaching yoga. Now, because there's no escaping it, she brings up her son and writes in the times in between. Whenever you ask her, she will tell you she is writing her first screenplay.
Sridala is one of Caferati Hyderabad's organisers.
Links: Blog.
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A former teacher of conversational French, Vijay is, today, a
screenplay writer, theatre professional, and filmmaker.
Actively involved in Motley (Naseeruddin Shah's Theatre
group) since 1991, he has also been Chief Assistant Director with Sai
Paranjpye. He has just produced his first film, a short
musical film for CFSI.
Vijay is one of the editors of the Stories at the Coffee
Table project and may soon start an Andamans chapter for Caferati. |
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