Soumya has spent 14 years writing and editing in the realm of progressive culture, design, arts, social issues, literature and creative lifestyle. She has formerly been associated with Platform Magazine, Hindustan Times, NDTV, The Guardian and The Times of India Group. Soumya is presently Commissioning Editor at STIR, a global publication for design, architecture and art. She has conducted lectures, moderated talks, held jury for a book of nature fiction and published a curated blog of poetry featuring poets globally. Her work appears on the literary landscape in various forms. She travels often in nature, and goes home to poetry.

A former creative writer and journalist, Sneha is a brand and marketing communication specialist who enjoys working with luxury, retail, fin tech and social impact brands on telling their story with heart and premise. She also teaches writing, criticism and marketing at Istituto Marangoni and Balwant School of Architecture. A creature of process and organisation and creator of empathetic content tinged with a sense of humour, she’s always trying to find new ways to push herself out of her comfort zone.

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Kashif was born in Mithila and grew up in Jamshedpur and Lucknow. Since 1995 he has been living in the United States, and makes his living in the biotech industry. He started Urdu’s first website Urdustan.com which ran for over a decade. Seeing the lack of proper coverage of Muslim issues in Indian media he started TwoCircles.net or TCN in 2006, which went on to do a lot of groundbreaking work, influenced many other news organisations and journalists, and created positive impact in the community. Many alumni of TCN have gone on to work for organisations like Al Jazeera, The Wire, Lallantop, Wired, etc.

Rajshekhar is an Indian journalist with primary interests in energy, environment, climate and India’s ongoing slide into right-wing authoritarianism. His book, Despite the State, an examination of pervasive state failure and democratic decay in India, was published by Westland Publications, India, in January 2021. His work has won the Bala Kailasam Memorial Award, the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Award, and five Shriram Awards for Excellence in Financial Journalism. In his spare time, he runs, cycles and reads.

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This Sunday at The Goa Project Sessions, in the ​Intersections track, we’ll ​learn about the still very nascent field of adapted sport in India — the country’s Paralympic Games medal count may paint a different picture, but there is much to do in reality — and chat with an author who, for many years, tracked a disparate group of independent Indian women united mainly by their adoration of Shah Rukh Khan, and through these conversations learnt about their world views and aspirations.

Born and raised in Hyderabad,​ Padmini​ h​as a PhD in Adapted Physical Activity/Education from Texas Woman’s University​ at Denton, Texas, USA. She ​previously completed an M​asters’ in Kinesiology​ from TWU​,​ and a Bachelor’​s degree in Physiotherapy from Dr. NTR University of Health Sciences in India. In 2016, she met Sunil Jain​,​ founder ​trustee of Astha, a non-profit ​in Bengaluru, and ​began supporting​ the Indian Wheelchair Tennis Tour. In January 2021, she started Adapted Sports India Foundation​,​ through which she is developing education and awareness programs to improve public knowledge about equitable access to sporting opportunities for persons with disabilities in India.

Shrayana is trained in development economics at Delhi University and Harvard University. Since 2014, she has worked as an economist at the World Bank, where she focusses on social protection and jobs. Prior to the Bank, she worked at CPR, SEWA Union and ISST. Her book, Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh : India’s Lonely Young Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence, is being published by HarperCollins and is out in November 2021

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Register here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMrfuisqTMpHdfsrdBIR_X3KhIAVbny8GoJ

Our apologies for deleting and resending that last message twice. We typoed on one name, noticed it too late, deleted, corrected, re-sent, then noticed another.

Peter, who clearly has not been following his own editing check-list, has made to go stand in the corner.

We start in 5 minutes or thereabouts. Come join us?

We have some questions.

One, we have been talking about doing some in-person TGP events in the near future, and we want to know what you think about it.
Could you please take a few minutes to answer some questions? https://forms.gle/bKhMgEpg7XYY4QqU9

Two, in our Sessions, the online TGP we’ve been doing since last May, we have a Showcase, which is meant to be a platform for our creative members to show us their work. Unlike the other components of the Sessions, these have no Q&A or discussion; they are just meant for the audience to sit back and enjoy. Art of any kind, music, theatre, poetry (or any other genre of writing), anything that can be done via Zoom, and which would take from five to ten minutes.
Interested? Please go to our form and pick ‘Performance / Exhibition’ in the question about format. (Know someone who might fit? Point them to the same form, please. And yes, you can use that form to pitch any other kind of session too.)

https://forms.gle/RU4zfKP3qsGr8x5t5

And third, we’re looking for a few more people to join our curating team, the track manager’s group.

https://forms.gle/yD4ELEP6YEUrdohb8

(What are the various tracks, and who would you be volunteering with? https://thegoaproject.wordpress.com/tgp-tracks/ has it all.)

Tomorrow, Sunday 7th November, we will not have a regular TGP Sessions.
Instead we’re doing an Open House, a TGP informal meet, partly to mark the festive season and hang out together, and partly to discuss plans ahead for TGP, and hear what you — old TGP hands, new members — would like to suggest.
Please join us? Register here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMrfuisqTMpHdfsrdBIR_X3KhIAVbny8GoJ
Bring yourself and whatever you’re eating and/or drinking.

We’re open. Join in!