Contributors Ethel Da Costa Is a Goa based acknowledged Fashion, Lifestyle, Music writer-journalist, Radio Head, Creative Entrepreneur, Media and PR Consultant, Fashion Stylist, commentator and columnist of all things political and socially incorrect. Having worked with Femina, The Times of India, Radio Mirchi 98.3FM, the International Film Festival of India, OHerald Publications among others, she is an award winning media personality having been awarded `The Pillar of Hindustani Award 2011’ by the Trans Asian Chamber of Commerce & Industry (TACCI) Mumbai and Jaycee Creed Award 2013 for her exemplar contribution to media. She is also a published poet-author of Eve’s Revenge: Stories of Nemesis (2008), with a second sequel in the making Eve’s Light: Stories of Passion (2014).
Heudi Fuller-Love From food reviewer for Asia Life in Cambodia, to trainee gaucho on a farm in Argentina, food, travel and lifestyle writer/photographer Heidi Fuller-love regularly contributes to 68+ publications (including her own French website Femme Voyageur) and travels the world for her award-winning city/ country guide show for British Airways inflight radio. A regular Goa visitor, Heidi Fuller-love has penned guides to the region for Trip Advisor and countless other publications. Sanjeev V Sardesai has been in the field of promotion of the heritage & Culture of Goa through a forum called as HANDS-ON-HISTORIANS, since the year 1999. He also has a forum under the identity “SansCritic”, which delves in understanding the reasoning behind the traditions followed in various faiths & cultures. An avid photographer and the founder member of Goa’s premier photographic Association - GOAN SHUTTERBUGS. Presently compiling a comprehensive book on the history of Goa which is scheduled to be launched at the end of 2014.
Chef Andrzej Andy Zyla’s cuisine and creations is delectable, simple and delicate which he will be sharing with WO’GOA readers. In the past 10 years Chef Andy has been the Chef de Partie at the Chelsea Arts Club in London, Sous Chef at the Six Sebses Hotels Resorts Spas in the Maldives, Head Chef at the Earl Spenser in London, the Speciality Sous Chef at The Address Montgomerie in Dubai, Chef de Cuisine at the Fairmont Hotels & Resorts, Palm Jumeirah Dubai and currently Chef Andy’s cuisine can be savored at “Watatsumi” a fine dining Japanese restaurant situated at the Le Méridien Mina Seyahi which is operated by Point Select Leisure Management. 8