The Mind Creative
Contributors
Sukumar Nayar is originally from Kerala, India.
He is a retired professor of theatre having trained
at Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) and New
York University (NYU). He had been involved with
theatre for over seven decades in India, Uganda,
England, Papua New Guinea, the United States and
Canada. He has directed, produced or otherwise
been involved in over 100 stage productions. For
his contribution to theatre he was awarded the
Millennium Theatre 100, “awarded to 100 theatre
practitioners in Alberta for outstanding contribution
to the development of theatre in the last 100 years.”
After taking early retirement, he joined the United
Nations as a consultant. He lives in Toronto with his
wife who is also a retired professor. Sukumar writes
a weekly blog called
Subtext: www.sukumarnayar.wordpress.com.
Lopa Banerjee has completed her Masters’
program in Creative Nonfiction Writing at the
University of Nebraska at Omaha. She has written
a book-length memoir and also a poetry collection.
She is a regular contributor to 'Cafe Dissensus' and
B’Khush.com. Her poetry, essays, stories and book
reviews have also appeared at online and print
journals and anthologies including 'Fine Lines',
'About Place' journal, ‘Prairie Fire’, 'Northeast
Review', ‘Indian Review’, ‘River Poets Journal’,’13th
Floor Magazine’. She has recently been a panelist
and reader at the Kriti Festival of Literature and Arts,
at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her poems
have also been featured this month at 'The Woman
Inc Poetry Project'.
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