![]() ![]() His best-selling books include Land of the Seven Rivers, The Indian Renaissance and The Ocean of Churn, all published by Penguin. Sanjeev attended Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi and Oxford University where he was a Rhodes Scholar (1992-95). He has also served on the Future City Sub-Committee of the Singapore government tasked with building a long-term vision for the city-state. He has been a Visiting Scholar at Oxford University, Adjunct Fellow at the Institute of Policy Studies, Singapore and a Senior Fellow of the World Wide Fund for Nature. In 2007, he was awarded the Eisenhower Fellowship for his work on urban dynamics. He is also a well-known environmentalist and urban theorist. He was named Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2010. An internationally acclaimed economist and best-selling author, he spent two decades in the financial sector and was Global Strategist & Managing Director at Deutsche Bank till 2015. ![]() Sanjeev Sanyal is the Principal Economic Advisor to the Government of India. ![]()
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The call was from one of Champagne’s fellow members of Veterans for Peace, or VFP, asking him to go check out a boat that had been hauled out of the water in Humboldt Bay, California - only an hour’s drive north from his home in Garberville, where he was serving as the president of the local VFP chapter. But in 2010, he received a call that opened his eyes to a story of resistance he had never heard before. He’s been kicked out of college, where he was accused of starting a riot. Fredy Champagne has been a peace activist ever since he returned from combat in Vietnam. ![]() ![]() ![]() Their new collaboration released Friday is a meeting of unconventional minds between Gaiman - whose writing is often so idiosyncratic it's impossible to pin down - and FourPlay, an indie rock band of sorts that happens to be playing the traditional string quartet instruments of two violins, a viola and a cello. I loved the wit," Gaiman tells NPR's Morning Edition, recalling his first collaboration with the quartet in a 2010 Sydney Opera House reading of his novella The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains. Now, he's setting his sights on music.įor his debut studio album Signs of Life, the British author joins Australia's FourPlay String Quartet in an eclectic blend of classical and indie rock tunes with poetry and prose. ![]() ![]() Writer Neil Gaiman (center) makes music with FourPlay (L-R: Peter Hollo, Shenton Gregory aka Shenzo Gregorio, Lara Goodridge and Tim Hollo)įrom The Sandman and Lucifer to Good Omens, Neil Gaiman has written novels and comics that have been adapted into plays, TV series and films. ![]() ![]() Mo began his career as a writer and animator for television, garnering 6 Emmy awards for his writing on Sesame Street, creating Nickelodeon's The Off-Beats, Cartoon Network’s Sheep in the Big City and head-writing Codename: Kids Next Door. ![]() Mo’s work books have been translated into a myriad of languages, spawned animated shorts and theatrical musical productions, and his illustrations, wire sculpture, and carved ceramics have been exhibited in galleries and museums across the nation. 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