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Mamang Dai is a journalist in Arunachal Pradesh. She was a reporter for the Sentinel, Hindustan Times and The Telegraph newspapers and is currently president of the Arunachal Pradesh union of working journalists, covering news programmes and interviews for All India Radio and Doordarshan, Itanagar. A former member of the Indian Administrative Service, she left the service to pursue a career in writing, travelled extensively and has numerous articles, poems and short stories published in various journals. She is the author of Arunachal Pradesh - The Hidden Land and the recipient of the state's first annual Verrier Elwin Award, 2003, for the book. Dai is one of the most intensely poetic new voices from the North East. The enthusiastic reception of her first collection, River Poems, has rightly acknowledged her importance as a significant new poet in the country.

Bhaichand Nemade A leading Marathi novelist, poet and literary critic, Nemade (b. 1938) is from the Maharashtra village of Sangavi. With a Ph.D. and D.Litt. from the North Maharashtra University, he taught in many places retiring from Gurudev Tagore Chair of Comparative Literature at the University of Mumbai. He has been a member of the Sahitya Akademi serving on its Executive Board and General Council from 1998-2002. Nemade's first novel, Kosala, established the modernist trend in Marathi literature and is considered a modern classic. This was followed by other novels and poetry, which gave him eminence among contemporary Marathi writers. Tikasvayavara, a highly acclaimed body of literary criticism, won him the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1990. His works display a deep understanding of Marathi culture and depict the indigenous lifestyle of the Maharashtra region. Yet a broad understanding of other India literatures and English inform his works. Many of his works have been translated into other languages of India and English.

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