Photo Release: The Rembrandt Hotel Bangkok Warmly Welcomed Influential Indian Writers to Festival of India in Thailand 2015

Wednesday 27 May 2015 12:04
The Rembrandt Hotel Bangkok as an official partner of the Festival of India in Thailand, were happy to host famous Indian writers who attended the ‘Words on Water’ – The Literature Festival of India in Thailand.

Words on Water, the Literary Festival of Indian Writers attempts to mainstream the ideas of contemporary India & Indian writing in English for Thai audiences.

The hotel’s Management warmly welcomed

Photo caption from left :

Shailendra Gulhati ; a Jammu Based Spiritual Author. He contributes regularly to Sunday newspapers and magazines in spiritual columns.

Shobhaa De ; best-selling author of 18 books, widely-read columnist, respected social commentator and opinion shaper.

Arshia Sattar ; Teaches classical Indian literature at various institutions across the country, translations of essays on the Ramayana, short-listed of the Crossword Non-Fiction Award in 2012.

Eric Hallin ; General Manager of the Rembrandt Hotel Bangkok.

Amrita Tripathi ; awriter and former news anchor, a prolific tweeter and JLF regular. Her second novel The Sibius Knot is forthcoming from HarperCollins India.

Namita Gokhale ; a writer, publisher and festival director. She currently curates ‘kitabnama: Books and Beyond’, a multilingual book show on the national channel Doordarshan.

Vicas Swarup ; renowned Author of the Oscar winning film - Slum dog Millionaire and spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs Government of India.

Kamolnuch Bhiromsawad ; Director of Sales & Marketing of the Rembrandt Hotel Bangkok.