Anita A Thomas is an author, blogger and a website designer. Her first book, Senserly, Amako, was launched in Singapore in January 2018 at the ASEAN-PBD Writers Festival and later showcased at the Asian Festival of Children’s Content (AFCC 2018). It was also launched in Lucknow, India at the SRMU Kitaab Literature Festival and featured in the Gold Coast Asia Pacific Writers and Translators Conference in Australia. Anita has worked as a media producer, owned a film production company and freelanced in India, Indonesia and Singapore in production and writing for advertising, design and public relations agencies, corporate clients and non-profit organisations. Anita designed, set-up, co-owns and maintains (since 2004) www.singaporeforkids.com, a website for residents in and visitors to Singapore. She has an abiding interest in everything new and intriguing that impacts the way we think and live and her passions are the theatre of the absurd, travel, photography, animals, food, music and children (in no particular order). She is currently working with young professionals in Singapore to capture the spirit of her book in a song and a short-animated film.
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BlaaZe, born Lakshmi Narasimha Vijaya Rajagopala Sheshadri Sharma Rajesh Raman, started entertainment with breakdance at the age of eight in Africa. Having studied in Africa, in England and attended college in the US, his global perspective of storytelling and music came into the limelight when double Oscar and Grammy winner AR Rahman took him under his wings in 2002. Ever since then, BlaaZé has written, sung and rapped in over 100 songs. He wrote Pray For Me, Brother, the official UN Anthem for Poverty by AR Rahman, and has won the prestigious MTV Youth Icon Award 2009 for his independent songs on issues and causes and founded the first Sanskrit hip hop band Rap Bhakthi Mala, along with music director Paul Jacob and Veena maestro Rajhesh Vaidhya. Currently he is on a mission to spread the knowledge of creating something from nothing. The art of creative writing and rap!
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Lakshmi Karunakaran is an arts-based educator from Bengaluru. She currently runs Buguri Community Libraries through her work at Hasiru Dala, an organisation working for the betterment of informal waste workers. Based in Bengaluru, Mysuru and Tumkuru, Buguri Community Libraries bring the joy of reading and sharing stories in communities where children of informal waste workers live. She also works at Radio Active 904 Mhz, a community radio channel, producing shows on arts, education, culture and personal transformation. She writes for Teacher Plus, a magazine for contemporary teachers.
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