Yatra Team| Namita Gokhale is an author and the director of Yatra Books. Besides being a founder & the co-director of the DSC Jaipur Literature Festival, Namita Gokhale conceptualized the International Festival of Indian Literature, Neemrana 2002, and the Africa-Asia Literary Conference, Neemrana 2006. She is committed to showcasing the best of Indian writing and engaging the vibrant Indian languages in a creative dialogue with each other and the rest of the world.. Her novels include Paro : Dreams of Passion (1984), Gods, Graves and Grandmother (1994), A Himalayan Love Story (1996), Mountain Echoes (1998), The Book of Shadows (1999) and The Book of Shiva (2001). Her recent novel, Shakuntala : The Play of Memory (2005) appeared first in Hindi translation. Her illustrated re-telling of the Indian epic, The Mahabharata for young readers, was launched in 2009. All published by Penguin India. |  |
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Neeta Gupta is the publisher of Yatra Books. She is also the editor of Bharatiya Anuvad Parishad's quarterly journal on translation, Anuvad. Yatra Books has been co-ordinating Penguin's Indian Languages Publishing Programme. They have published over two hundred titles in Hindi, Urdu and Marathi. These books have been published both in translation as well as in the original languages. |
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Shuchita Mital Editor, Yatra Books, was earlier on the editorial board of the Malayala Manorama's Vanitha women's fortnightly. A member of the Translator's Association of India, she has assisted in editing their quarterly journal, Anuvad. A formidable talent in both literary and academic translations, Shuchita is the Editor-in-Charge at Yatra Books. |
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Shivani Khare Sub-editor and Translator, Yatra Books, is a post graduate in Political Science and English Literature and has a PG diploma in Translation from the Bhartiya Anuvad Parishad. She has also completed a Certificate course in Book Publishing from National Book Trust, India and an advance diploma in computers from NIIT. She has over eight years of experience in Book Publishing and Translation. |
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Pallavi Singh, Sub-editor, Yatra Books, is an MA in Hindi, followed by a Translation Diploma from Bharatiya Anuvad Parishad. She has been with Yatra for two years now and is an invaluable resourse person. She also provides comic relief at Yatra. |
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Meera Bisht Sub-editor, Yatra Books, is a graduate, with a Sangeet Visharad in Indian Classical Music. Apart from Proof-reading and editing copy, she is also responsible for final checks on both Hindi and Marathi CRC's. She has been with Yatra Books since 2005. |
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Pooja Sharma, Sub-editor,Yatra Books has a Masters in Hindi as well as a Translation Diploma from Bharatiya Anuvad Parishad. She has been with Yatra Books for 2 years now and is independently handling copy-editing and proofing on soft copy. She has assisted in the translation & editing of DK |
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Urmila Gupta is a translator and editor at Yatra Books. She has a post-graduate degree in Hindi and a diploma in Translation from the Bharatiya Anuvad Parishad |
