The Mind Creative March 2014
CONTRIBUTORS
SOUVIK CHAKRABORTY is an amateur fine art photographer, currently
residing in Pittsburgh, USA. Originally from Kolkata, India, he a PhD in
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the University of Nebraska Medical
Center and now pursues a career as a Research Associate in the University
of Pittsburgh. Souvik’s passion for photography helps him to escape the
confines of the rational world of science and venture into the world of
unrestrained imagination and creativity. In his own words, “Photography has
helped me speak and express like a wordless language”. Presently Souvik
is interested in minimalist landscape/waterscape and urban architecture. He
specializes in black and white photography and is partial towards long
exposure shots, which, he feels, adds a surreal touch to his captures. His
work has been appreciated and published in prestigious online and print
photography magazines including Stark Magazine, Blur Magazine, Smart
Photography, Lens Folio and FA E Photomagazine. The reader can see more
of his works at www.flickr.com/people/souchaks/
NEETU RALHAN In her own words, she is “a writer who would like to write
more often and finds it hard to craft an author bio that would leave the reader
mesmerized.” I gifted writer, currently she lives in Gurgaon (India) with her
family. She writes her own BLOG: http://sllipofthepen.wordpress.com/
MEENA MAHANTY KUMAR is a freelance writer and poet. She started as
editor of her school magazine and was on the editorial board and a writer
for her firm's in-house literary magazine, Shruti. Her poem ‘Loneliness in a
Megacity' was published by the American Poetry Society in 1990. She authors
several blogs, with topics as diverse as health, poetry, fiction and skin care.
Her passion for soap making and creating natural skin care products has
resulted in her now writing a regular feature for the Sydney based newspaper
The Indian Down Under on the subject.
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