About Khabar
Khabar is HLF’s latest initiative to keep in touch with its supporters and reach out to new audiences. Through this online medium, we hope to bridge physical distances and recreate the true spirit of sahitya.
HLF Team
Amita R Desai
Festival Director
Amita R Desai
Festival Director
Founder Director of Goethe-Zentrum Hyderabad, Ms Amita Desai is an alumna of the University of Hamburg, Germany. She has been representing the City State of Hamburg since 2012 as well as serving as the Honorary Consul of the Federal Republic of Germany for Andhra Pradesh and Telangana since 2022. Known for her dynamism and professionalism, she has made a substantial contribution to the cultural landscape of Hyderabad in the last two decades. She has initiated, nurtured, and supported the Hyderabad Western Music Foundation, the DocuCircle of Hyderabad, Women’s March, Emerging Palette in the visual arts, Photography events, Hyderabad International Jazz Festival among others.
Dr B Kinnera Murthy
Festival Director
Dr B Kinnera Murthy
Festival Director
Dr B Kinnera Murthy is a Strategy Consultant, Director on Corporate Boards and Academic Governing Councils, National Council Member of Professional Organisations, Founder of a Woman Support NGO, etc. since her superannuation from The Administrative Staff College of India in 2012, where she held the posts of Dean and Professor, Strategic Management. She is also associated with Moving Images and Apna Watan.
Dr T Vijay Kumar
Festival Director
Dr T Vijay Kumar
Festival Director
T Vijay Kumar currently teaches literatures in English at BITS Pilani, Hyderabad. Formerly, he was Professor and Head, Department of English, and Dean, Faculty of Arts, Osmania University, Hyderabad. His publications include critical studies: Indian Languages in the Diaspora (2021), English and Other International Languages (2018), and translations from Telugu: The Liberation of Sita (2016, 2018) by Volga and Kanyasulkam (2002) by Gurajada Venkata Appa Rao. He is TEDx speaker and a Founder Editor of Muse India: the literary ejournal.
A Giridhar Rao
Jhilam Chattaraj
Kolla Krishna Madhavi
Laasya Reddy Yeddula
Suroor Alikhan
Uma Damodar Sridhar
Khabar Artwork
Poosapati Parameshwar Raju
Masthead Design
Sadhana Ramchander
HLF Khabar Volume 3
HLF Khabar Volume 2
HLF Khabar Volume 1
