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December 2017
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Letters to the Editor Dear Editor,
This photograph, titled ‘Dancing in the air’ was captured by Anurag Gupta of India. It won the First Prize in the Indian Wildlife category in the Beautiful India Photo Competition 2017.
Advisory Board Members N. Ram is an award-winning journalist and former Editor-in-Chief of The Hindu. He is Director of Kasturi & Sons Limited, publishers of The Hindu. Suzanne McNeill lived in India for seven years before returning to Scotland. She is a freelance writer and graphic designer. Liz Neisloss is a veteran journalist and writer who has worked for CNN based from Singapore, Chennai and at the United Nations in New York. She is now based in Mumbai. G. Venket Ram is an acclaimed photographer and the creative mind behind many a Culturama issue. www.gvenketram.com Annelize Booysen is a business consultant and social entrepreneur. She lived in Asia for more than a decade, which included three years in India. She is currently based in the United States. Namita Jain, founder of Jaldi Fit, is a leading fitness guru and a businesswoman who helms Kishco, a world-class cutlery brand.
Contributors Susan Philip is a freelance writer based in Chennai, and the editorial coordinator of Culturama’s various coffee table books. Eknath Easwaran (1910–1999) was a spiritual teacher, author and interpreter of Indian literature. In 1961, he founded the Blue Mountain Center of Meditation and Nilgiri Press in California. Jane Kataria is a model, actress, radio jockey and writer. She is married to an Indian national.
Once I picked up the November issue of Culturama, I could not put it down till I completed it. Every issue is a treasure, and this one was filled with spiritual gems – right from the Editor’s note to Eknath Easwaran’s ‘Holistic Living’ to Karthikeyan’s story by Devdutt Pattanaik. ‘A Story A Day’ was particularly interesting – awaiting more in the forthcoming issues! Wonderful! Best wishes to the Culturama team. Kalamurthi, India
Dear Editor,
I have been a fan of Culturama for several years, since our posting to Chennai from 2009 to 2012. Each month I look forward to the feature stories in your magazine on varied topics, and am sure to find at least two or more features that attract my attention. I have noticed some lovely and very eye-catching photographs in the magazine – I recall my son Christopher and I also had a couple of photographs featured in Culturama in the past. Anita Nazareth-Wedick, Canada
Dear Editor,
I have seen the call for entries to the photo competition – which I used to participate in. I miss it very much, but have some sweet memories. Also wanted to share that I have just read another brilliant edition of Culturama. Tineke Sysmans, Belgium
Dear Editor,
The article on traditional Indian games was very nice, and took me back to my childhood. Many of us played these games, and they have been (mostly) forgotten over one generation. Also, the article ‘What Do Children Need?’ – on a much written subject – was very well penned. Peter Raj Kapoor, India
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