Faculty
Amitabha Bagchi
Amitabha Bagchi is the author of five novels including the DSC Prize winning Half the Night is Gone. His debut, Above Average (2007), was a bestseller. The Householder (2012) was a novel inspired by Amitabha’s reading of Shrilal Shukla, and received critical acclaim. Amitabha’s third novel This Place (2013) was a love-letter to the city of Baltimore in the US. His most recent work is the novel Unknown City which is a sequel to Above Average. Amitabha has also translated the ghazals on Muneer Niazi into English under the title Lost Paradise (Juggernaut, 2022).
Chetan Mahajan
Chetan Mahajan leads this creative writing course. Chetan has spent two decades working in on-line learning, both in the US and India. He started teaching online in 2006 as a faculty member at the University of Phoenix online.
Chetan is a Penguin-published author and an award-winning blogger. Chetan and his wife Dr. Vandita Dubey (also a published author) moved to the Himalayas almost a decade ago. There they founded the Himalayan Writing Retreat.
Chetan is a full-time author and works as a writing coach independently as well as with the London based the writing coach. He also writes for The Mint, Outlook Magazine, HT Brunch, Reader’s Digest and Hindu Business Line.
Dr Vandita Dubey
Dr. Vandita Dubey is a US licensed Psychologist and a published author. She holds a Doctoral Degree in Clinical Psychology from the Illinois School of Professional Psychology. Her book “Parenting in the age of Sexposure” was published by Rupa in 2016. She provides individual and group therapy online. She is the expert psychologist featured on the popular Youtube channel Zen-brain.
You can learn more about her and read her blog at http://vanditadubey.com/
- Workshops/Retreats
- Physical Workshops/Courses
- International Writer's Retreat
- Online Courses
- Custom Workshops
