Alka Saraogi
BLF SPEAKERS
Our Proud Speakers
Nirmala Putul
Nirmala Putul (also referred to as Nirmala Putul Murmu) is a Santhali writer, poet, and activist writing in both Santhali and Hindi. She was born in 1972 in the Santhal Parganas district of Jharkhand, and now serves as the Sarpanch of the Kurwa Gram Panchayat. Her literary and activist work is deeply invested in the rights of Adivasi women and broader themes of Adivasiyat. Putul depicts Santhal life from a woman's perspective, exploring how displacement, migration, and changing relationships with the environment affect people.
Other Speakers
Anamika
Bhawana Somaaya
Daisy Rockwell
Geetanjali Shree
Ghazala Wahab
Harish Bhat
Hindol Sengupta
Kanishka Gupta
Lalit Kumar
Maitreyee B Chowdhury
Makarand R Paranjape
Mani Rao
Ranjit Rae
Sayantan Ghosh
Shaan Kashyap
Vineetha Mokkil
Vivek Shanbhag
Sudhir Chandra
Sanjeev Sanyal
Ravi Venkatesan
Poonam Saxena
Subi Taba
Vineet Nayar
Tabish Khair
Baabusha Kohli
Shri.Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wadiyar
Banu Mushtaq
Arjun Subramaniam
Shashi Shekhar
Shishir Sinha
Udayan Vajpeyi
Shobhaa De
Priyanka Sarkar
Mahua Sen
Vyomesh Shukla
Alok Dhanwa
Akhilesh
Ashish Tripathi
Badri Narayan
Dhananjay Singh
Prabhat Ranjan
Priya Doraswamy
Ravi Singh
Anurag Basnet
Salma
Awadhesh Pradhan
Sanjeev Paliwal
Yatish Kumar
Geet Chaturvedi
Rishi Ram Adhikari
Taranand Viyogi
Madhu Kankaria
Moid Rasheedi
Shailesh Bharatwasi
G. N. Devy
Namita Gokhale
Chirag Thakkar
Dr. Prabhat Kumar Mishra
Pankaj Chaturvedi
Sujata Prasad
Shivani Sibal
Tripurari Sharan
Yugal Joshi
Dr Moutushi Mukherjee
Deepak Sapra
Swapnil Kant Dixit
Prof. Rajkumar
Professor Anjoo Sharan Upadhyaya
Prof. Priyankar Upadhyaya
Anukrti Upadhyay
