Announcement: Swarajya - Indic Academy Writing Workshop, 9-10 April 2016, Bangalore

Indic Academy in collaboration with Swarajya will be hosting a two day workshop for writers on Saturday 9th and Sunday 10th April 2016 in Bengaluru.

The workshop is being curated by Swarajya Editorial Director R Jagannathan. Best selling author and one of India’s well known editors MJ Akbar will address the workshop, followed by a host of celebrated writers and authors. The workshop will host sessions on specific themes of writing such as on economics, satire on the web, popular history, visual story telling and creative non-fiction.

Speakers include Anand Ranganathan, Madhu Kishwar, Sanjeev Sanyal, Vivek Dehejia, Rahul Roushan, Vivek Agnihotri and Hindol Sengupta.

About Indic Academy

Indic Academy is a school for thinkers who aim to preserve, protect and promote Indic civilizational thought, culture and values. It seeks to act as an enabler for these thinkers to discover, nurture and express their potential.

Mission 2020 by 2020:

Indic Academy has set itself a target of acting as an enabler to 2020 thinkers by the year 2020. For achieving its goals, Indic Academy classifies thinkers into two kinds (a) Indic Scholars and (b) Indic Public Intellectuals. By the year 2020, Indic Academy aims to enable:

• Enrollment of and research by 1010 students and scholars.
• Single or multi step transformation of 1010 Public Intellectuals from social media activism to blogging, writing columns & books or becoming PhDs or Self made scholars in their chosen area of interest.