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Akash Nag (1 Post)

Akash Nag is a student of Garden High School, Kolkata. He swears by cricket but loves swimming and watching football as well. When in a good mood, Akash loves to draw the world of his dreams.

Nafees Ahmed (1 Post)

Nafees Ahmed loves Cinema. Loves Coffee. Loves Food. Loves his gal. Loves Music. Drools over home made Biryani. Unbiased, unjudgemental and unprofessional writer with a little tweak of sarcasm. Enslaved to a '9 to 6' job as software professional.

Nandini Dhar (1 Post)

Nandini Dhar writes poems, fiction and on films when she is not reading or teaching.

Niilesh A Raje (3 Posts)

Niilesh A Raje views writing as meditation. He is a "Business Analyst" by profession and a "Writer" by passion. In 2007, he was selected as "The Youth of the Nation" to represent India at the first CCS World Youth Forum held in the European Parliament, Brussels on the theme of Leadership and Motivation. As a thought leader he also received the invitation as India delegate to The Climate Project's Asia-Pacific Summit held in Melbourne, Australia in July 2009 to undergo personal training from Al Gore (Ex-Vice President of America and Nobel Peace Prize laureate). With a strong publication background his articles have been published by the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA), a leading association in the profession of Business Analysis in USA, in ProjectTimes.com, Business Analyst Times and In Flight Magazines to name a few. His magazine "Nosstalgiaaa", a free online bi-monthly magazine pays homage to the masters of Hindi cinema and enlightens the readers on all facets of film making through articles, interviews, trivia, anecdotes and book reviews. Nosstalgiaaa, is the first of its kind and is solely dedicated to the golden era of Indian Cinema.

Nilanjan Bhattacharya (1 Post)

Nilanjan Bhattacharya is a documentary filmmaker, artist, writer and a scavenger of knowledge from Kolkata, India. He started his career by assisting acclaimed filmmaker Tapan Sinha. As an independent filmmaker he took up documentary as his medium for creative expression, eventually expanding his practice to create art videos and installations. For the last fifteen years he has been exploring indigenous knowledge on biodiversity and food in India through his art. His works have been showcased at Mumbai International film Festival, Goteborg International Film Festival, Les Rencontres Internationale Paris, Wellcome Collection Gallery London, Experimenter Gallery Calcutta, European Kunsthalle, Frankfurter Kunstverein, and GRASSI Museum fürVölkerkunde Leipzig. He received the National Film Award of India for his documentaries Under This Sun (2005), and Johar Welcome To Our World (2010). Nilanjan writes on food and Kolkata’s public culture. He currently lives between Leipzig and Kolkata.

Nirabari Bandyopadhyay (2 Posts)

Nirabari Bandyopadhyay has done MA from Dept of Film Studies, Jadavpur University with experience in digital media, films and media, public relation and communication. She had her specialisation on Cultural Politics of Male Body in Hindi Cinema. She is presently working as a Faculty for Film Studies in iLEAD. She has directed a docu-feature named ‘Iti’(Regards) which was screened under the Competitive Indian Documentary Section at the 25th Kolkata International Film Festival 2019. She had participated as speaker in many workshops on digital art.

Nishi Pulugurtha (4 Posts)

Nishi Pulugurtha is Reader in English, Brahmananda Keshab Chandra College, Kolkata. She was a UGC Research Fellow,University of Calcutta and earned her Ph.D on Coleridge’s poetry. Her post doctoral work dealt poetry written in English by Bengalis in the nineteenth century (UGCMRP). She is now working on diasporic literature and has been awarded an Associateship at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla.

NS Rajan (10 Posts)

NS Rajan is a retired senior IRS Officer. He is an avid reader and a sports lover, particularly cricket, having watched many greats in action from the late 1940s (he has played cricket at a fairly competitive level). He loves listening to music of all genres, is fascinated by Hindi film music of the ‘golden era’ and has written many essays on composers, lyricists and singers. Rajan loves to sing and spends some of his time singing on his karaoke system. He likes to write and has contributed articles, short stories and letters to newspapers and magazines, some of which have been published in Silhouette Magazine and LnC. Rajan is very fond of travelling and learning about new and fascinating places and is a keen observer of all that he sees, hears and observes during his travels. Travel and photography usually always go together and Rajan has been interested in photography from his teens, weaned on a German Zeiss Ikon. His abiding love for travel and photography inspired him to write an illustrated book on his trip to the USA, Go West Odyssey: How I Saw America in 19 Days, including in it a number of pictures taken by him during the trip. He works actively to keep himself engaged in some mental pursuit or the other and to keep himself mentally and physically fit at the ripe old age of 89.