Swapnil Saurav, Founder & CEO - Eka Press
Swapnil, born in Bihar, grew up in Hyderabad and has lived in the city since 1990. Swapnil earns his living by working in the Software Industry and solving customers' problems. He has spent over 15 years solving problems of customers from various industries like Healthcare, Retail and Manufacturing.
He started writing in the year 2013 with Technology books and in 2018, he also started writing fiction stories and novels. He writes about common people and describes things which can happen in anybody's life. He writes prose in English and poetry in Hindi. He has published 15 books so far. A couple of his Hindi poems have been recorded as a song in an album titled "Golden Moments", released in 2020.
Swapnil is the winner of “Story Mirror Author of the Year (Hindi) - 2019”. His Python programming book has consistently been ranked in top 20 programming books on Amazon.in.
Lavanya Nukavarapu, Director - Creative Services & Marketing
Lavanya is a finance professional who used to deliberate only on finance until one day poems and stories beckoned her. She became a compulsive writer who could not go to sleep without penning at least a few words every day. Her first book Bare Thoughts, a collection of her poems was published in 2018. In 2019, Lavanya published her first novel, The Captive, a psychological thriller that has received outstanding reviews. Her second novel Cigarettes Sex Love published in 2020 explores the complexities of modern-day relationships. Lavanya’s third novel is Strutting Lightbugs co-authored with Kalam Babu.
A research paper on Bare Thoughts, “The 21st Century Perspectives in the Poems by Lavanya Nukavarapu” was presented in February, 2020 by Prof. Sumalya Mali of Saldiha College, Bankura (W.B.) at the seminar "Recent Trends in Indian Women's Literature" organised by Midnapore College, Midnapore, West Bengal.
She is also a professional editor and likes to help upcoming authors in editing/guiding their works and promoting new talent. Her prior editing works include a historical fiction novel, a self-help and a political thriller.
Kalam Babu, Director - Operations
Kalam is a senior software professional who enjoys natural language processing, both the machine learning and non-machine-learning types. In real life as well as in literary pursuits, Kalam values simplicity.
A software professional, a 1991 engineering graduate from NIT Nagpur, and an MBA from Webster University (USA), Kalam takes delight in being a reader, programmer, writer and manager.
He reads and writes across a wide variety of genres and themes. Kalam has published three short story collections: It Did Not Happen One Night (2018), There Is No One New Around You (2019) and Transition (2020). Two of his short stories have been published in HydRAW anthologies: The Questionnaire in Advent (2019) and www.sisters.care in Coronicles (2020). His first novel is Strutting Lightbugs co-authored with Lavanya Nukavarapu.
