spring2015

Artists and Authorsin this issueAshok NiyogiAshok Niyogi is a wandering seeker after truth. He was bornin Kolkata, India, in 1955 and graduated in economics fromPresidency College. He worked in the USSR and Russia and hiswork involved extensive travel worldwide. He is now retired andlives in Delhi and California. He still travels hard and long andoccasionally writes. Ashok has two books of poems and twobooks of essays to his credit and has been extensively publishedworldwide.Alex NodopakaAlex Nodopaka was immaculately conceived in Ukraine. Heexhibited finger paintings in Russia in 1940 before flipping hisfinger at and leaving the Soviet shenanigans. Nodopaka studiedtongue-in-cheek at the École des Beaux Arts, Casablanca, Moroccoand has been doodling ever since. Currently, he lives in the USA,where he serves as a self-appointed art pundit. His interest inliterature and the visual arts is exhaustively multi-cultural.Keith NunesKeith Nunes is a former journalist who now writes for love. He’s beenpublished in New Zealand’s top literary journals as well as overseas.He lives with flamboyant artist Talulah Belle Lautrec-Nunes nearOropi, twenty-five kilometers south of Tauranga.