Our Team

V.J. Varghese teaches at the Department of History in the School of Social Sciences, University of Hyderabad. His areas of interest include modern South Asian history, transnational migrations from South Asia, Making of modern subjectivities and regional modernities in South Asia. He works on the transformation of the Syrian Christian community in Kerala, under the weight of modernity through the routes of migrations, land reclamation and agrarian expansion. He looks at the apparently conflicting orientations - local and the imperial/global,

Fathima E.V, writer- translator, is the Vice President of I- Shore. She is the co- translator (along with Nandakumar K) of M.Mukundan's 'Delhi: A Soliloquy,' which won the JCB Prize 2021. She recieved the Crossword Prize for English translation 2017, and V. Abdulla Translation Award 2017, (and was short listed for the Muse India Translation Award 2017) for her debut translation, 'A Preface to Man,' translated from Subash Chandran's Malayalam novel 'Manushayanu Oru Aamugham.' Her other translations include "Baby Doll: Stories of Gracy," (which

Mahmood Kooria is General Secretary of the I-SHORE. He holds research positions at Leiden University (the Netherlands) and University of Bergen (Norway) and is a Visiting Faculty at Ashoka University (India). He read his PhD at the Leiden University Institute for History in 2016, authored Islamic Law in Circulation: Shāfiʿī Texts across the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean (Cambridge University Press, 2022), and co-edited Malabar in the Indian Ocean World: Cosmopolitanism in a Maritime Historical Region (Oxford University Press, 2018) and

Manu V. Devadevan is associate professor of History at the Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, Himachal Pradesh. He studied Sociology at the Annamalai University and History at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, before obtaining PhD from the Mangalore University in 2022.

Dr. A.K Abdul Hakeem is a well-known Author, Speaker, and Educator who marked his own space in the cultural circles of Kerala as Organizer and Interviewer.

He is working as the General Convenor of Kerala Literature Festival (KLF) held at Kozhikode for the last five years. He holds positions in KSTA (District Committee Member), Purogamana Kalasahitya Sangam (District Committee Member), State School Curriculum Steering Committee (Member), Kozhikode Samskarika Vedi (President).

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