People

You must be keen on knowing about the people behind this publishing company. Here it is...

Maitreya was founded by Sapna Rangaswamy and her son Ravikiran in 2010.

Sapna Rangaswamy is a classical dancer and she writes on Indian Classical Dance. She wrote her first book titled '46+14=06, A Story of a Genius with her son Ravikiran. She named her publishing company Maitreya after Maitreyi Devi, the late Bengali writer. Sapna takes care of the marketing and distribution of the books and has built strong ties with institutes like the National Institute of Design and organisations like Sri Aurobindo Society. Her second book titled 'The Dance Company' has hit the bookshops recently.

Ravikiran is a writer and photographer. He has studied B.A with English Literature from Loyola College, Chennai, Post Graduation Diploma in Advertising and Marketing from Xavier Institute of Communication, Mumbai and Post Graduation studies in Photography Design from the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad. While studying at the National Institute of Design, he wrote his first fiction with his mother. As a photographer, he has written done a couple of photo-features for travel magazines and is also currently working on a Photographic Fiction with his mother. Ravikiran does photography, designing and overall layout of the books published by Maitreya.

Aditya Bharadwaj is a Product Designer from National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad and a mechanical engineer. Being a designer, he keeps dabbling into a lot of different fields. He has provided an illustration in the book '46 + 14 = 06' and has recently done the cover of the book 'Srimad Bhagavatam - At Each Step A Luminous World'. He is also a writer and is working on his own books on design principles and hopes to publish it soon. Aditya does freelance work for Maitreya.