Speaker
Sh. Pankaj Dubey
Novelist, Columnist & Broadcaster
Shri Pankaj Dubey is a pop-culture storyteller, bilingual novelist with Penguin Random House, columnist, podcaster, and curator of leading literary festivals. A former broadcaster with the BBC World Service in London, he now hosts the YouTube show Small Towns Big Stories.
He is the bestselling author of several popular novels, including What a Loser!, Ishqiyapa, Love Curry, Trending in Love, and his latest Penguin release, One String Attached. He is also the founder of the Sadak Chhaap Film Festival, a street film festival for children from slums and villages. He is widely recognised for bringing small-town narratives to national and global platforms through his writing, films, and creative initiatives.