We wish to express our gratitude to Ms. Manjula Padmanabhan for allowing the organisers to use her work Lovely Uglies as the basic image for this conference.

You can follow Manjula Padmanabhan’s literary and artistic production at:

Web-Site:  http://manjulapadmanabhan.com/
Face Book page: https://www.facebook.com/manjula.padmanabhan.94
Current comic strip archive: http://manjulapadmanabhan.com/suki-home-page/
Online gallery:  http://www.sweetlotusart.com/