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Editor Padmini Natarajan grew up in Madras, Hyderabad and Bombay. Books have been her constant companion since her childhood. She has two kids and is celebrating her fiftieth, her husband’s sixtieth b’day and their 28th wedding anniversary. She has been part of an all women’s drama group and don both male and female role. She acts in serious roles, though comedy is her forte. Along with scripting skits she writes poetry, fiction, first person encounters. She is member of an International Women’s Association and volunteer with a suicide prevention group. Padmini has lived in Mauritius for ten years and has been a globe trotter |
Mentor A
Delhi based, army-kid education, a
professional Architecture degree, marriages, kids (three) and friends that
go back decades were my assorted teachers. Relationships (+?+), Reading
(anything plus Russell, Rand and Richard Bach my three rrr’s), travel,
amateur astronomy, music (all kinds), The Net and technology at the edges
.... my interests. In essence I am but an empathizing observer and
sometimes....a participant willing and otherwise. It is ‘life’ that
provides me with fresh insights, rehashed ones and the panorama of
‘detail’. Intrinsic in it are its ‘true’ depth and structure which
I attempt to reflect. My conveyence-expousing-expression of the same is as
everything else subject to Godels limits.,, and mine the day I stop
‘learning’. |
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Site Architect
Vijainder K Thakur is a formerfighter pilot of the Indian Air Force, currently works as a software system architect in Austin. He lives in perpetual bewilderment and bliss! Bewilderment because he cannot fathom why people pay him to do what he loves to do, and could well do it for free! Bliss because he basks in the bountiful love of his wife and two beautiful daughters. |
Graphic Editor
Kamini has tried to remain contemporary with the advancements in graphic designing. She is fortunate to have managed frequent stints as a professional designer for leading Indian magazines, Ad agencies and NGOs. With growing responsibilities as wife of an Indian Air Force test pilot and mother of two young daughters, she now enjoys being a free lance graphic designer. |
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Editor "I
spent my early childhood in Mauritius, then Mumbai. Finished my graduation
from Stella Maris College, Madras and went on to do an MBA from ESSEC,
France. I worked for a year in London and my husband and I have recently
returned to Mumbai where I am an investment banker. I have a great liking
for books and music and like to do to the odd bit of writing, particularly
relating to gender issues. My other interests |
Editor Elaine Rati Kochar successfully blends her traditional values and social responsibilities as a housewife with a streak for knowledge, creativity, social service and exploration. Her husband is a former Air Force Officer who is now a commercial pilot. Presently she is working at developing software for making computer lessons more interesting for school children. |
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Forum Host Suman
Chopra, is well known to Sawf readers for her no nonsense moderate view.
Wife of a senior Air Force Officer currently based in Moscow, Suman
periodically steals time from her family and social responsibilities to
enrich the Sawf columns with her views. |
Site Managing Editor Anita
Thakur is a former cosmetologist. A staunch promoter of rich Indian
Heritage and culture, earlier through the world of Herbal Cosmetics and
now through South Asian Women’s Forum. |
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Rasik Shah lives in Vancouver, Canada. He practiced law in Kenya before migrating to Canada, and practiced law in Vancouver for many years. He has always had a keen interest in literature. He writes full time now, and as a hobby, takes out trekking tours to the Indian Himalayas almost every year. He has traveled widely and among living persons he most admires is the Dalai Lama. He also likes environmental activists like David Suzuki of Canada, Vandana Shiva and Claude Alvares of India; thinkers like the late George Grant of Canada and Ashis Nandy of India. Among his writings are: 1. The Ngong Hills at: http://www.dorsai.org/~tjhubsc/ngong.htm 2. At the Dentist's at: http://www.es.co.nz/~treeves/rasik.htm 3. A series of six trekking articles at: www.sawf.org in our issues starting from 27th December, 1999 onwards. Among the modern writers of fiction he admires is James Joyce. The greatest classical writer, to his mind, is Leo Tolstoy. One of the most impressive short story writers, he thinks, is Flannery O'Connor. The one single greatest human being of all time, to his mind, is Mahatma Gandhi.
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Poetry Host Poetry, I believe is a way of affirming myself that I am alive. Poetry lets me know that my life, however inexplicable it may be, is at least partly tangible for me in verse. It’s a song of the soul |
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