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experience behind her. She is one of the leading names in progressive Telugu writing. Her dimunitive frame houses a forceful personality. She uses this to the maximum effect to speak up against the current degradation in society. Among the many honours she has won are
Bharatiya Bhasha Parishad Award and Central Sahitya Akademi Award.
Tamil
INDIRA PARTHASARTHY
    Born in 1930 in the town of Kumbakonam, Ranganathan nee Indira Parthasarathy obtained his M. A. degree from Annamalai University and Ph. D from Delhi University.
    Dr Parthasarathy has worked as a teacher and researcher in Delhi, Poland and Canada. He has been commended by Warsaw University for his contribution to the field of Dravidian research.
    Indira Parthasarthy has won laurels in various forms of literature such as the novel, short story and drama. Prominent among the awards he has won are
Central Sahitya Akademi Award; Tamil Nadu Government Award
; and
Kasturi Srinivasan Award.
PRAPANCHAN
    Prapanchan was born and brought up in Pondicherry. Vaidyalingam, as he was earlier called, went to Karandai College where he won the title 'Pulavar' or Pandit. He spent his early years in a French Colony. Yet, rather than being deeply affected by French literature, he was affected by 'Surya Mariyathai Iyakkam', the Self Respect Movement against Brahmin domination.
    He has worked as a teacher of Tamil, journalist and sub-editor. His writings have been appreciated for their richness and quality and have been translated into English, French, Swedish and German, besides into various Indian languages. He has won several coveted awards which include C
entral Sahitya Akademi Award; Bharatiya Bhasha Parishad Award; Kasturi Rangammal Award
and the prestigious
lllakkiya Chinthanai Award.
Dogri
CHAMAN ARORA
    Born in 1945, Chaman Arora is one of the most promising Dogri short story writers today. He has published two collections of short stories
Lohe Diyan Phingran and Kandhan Te Qile
and has contributed to an anthology of short stories by upcoming short story writers titled
Sach Te Sach.
He has also co-authored a play with Lalit Mangotra titled
Jeene Di Qaid.
OM GOSWAMI
    Born in 1948, Om Goswami is one of the most distinguished and popular Dogri short story writers. He also writes in Hindi. He has to his credit four collections of short stories in Dogri and three in Hindi. Arora has been awarded by the Sahitya Akademi for his Dogri collection
Sunne Di Chidi.
Until recently, he was the editor of Dogri publications of J & K Academy of Art, Culture and Languages. He has also contributed to children's literature, published a collection of plays and is currently editor of a quarterly children's magazine and chief editor of the Dogri Dictionary Project.
Konkani
CHANDRAKANT KENI
    Editor of the Marathi Daily
Rashtramat
since its inception in 1963, Chandrakant Keni (born in 1934) writes short stories in Konkani, Marathi and Hindi. The first editor of
Sunaparant
, the first ever Konkani daily and Chairman of the Goa Editors' Guild, Keni has also been the recipient of the
National Award for Journalism
(1995). Notable among the honours received by him have been the
Sahitya Akademi Award
(1989);
Dr. TMA Pai Foundation Literary Award
(1990);
Goa State Literary Awards
on three occasions and the
Goa State Cultural Award
(1997). A champion of the Konkani language, Chandrakant Keni has been closely associated with the freedom struggle of the territory from Portuguese colonialism.
EDWIN JOSEPH FRANCIS D'SOUZA
    Edwin D'Souza has written 27 novels and more than one hundred short stories to date. He has conducted several Konkani literary camps, seminars and panel discussions. He has also presented several papers on Konkani literature at prestigious forums. Some of his noteworthy literary awards have been from:
Konkani Bhasha Mandal
(1973, 1993);
Karnataka Konkani Sahitya Akademi
(1995-1997; 1997-1998);
Dr. TMA Pai Foundation, Manipal
(1992) and
Konkani Literature Award
(1998). He has been President of the 11th