Our Contributors

Ayush Gaur is a research scholar in the department of English, at Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India. His area of research is Climate Change Literature. He has been the Executive Member of The Foundation for the Study of Literature and Environment. He has been the Gender champion, the Ministry of Women & Child Development, Government of India. He has been the Climate Counsellor for the International Center for Culture and Education. His publications include a paper on the Study of the Marginalization of Environment and Women Climate Fiction Genre, in an international journal, Anthropological Bulletin (ISSN NO: 2348-4667). His area of interest includes Ecocriticism, Canadian Literature, and Climate change literature.

Sidra Sohaib is a research scholar in the Department of English, at Aligarh Muslim University, India. Her area of interest lies in Poetry and Comparative Literature. She had been an active member of the University Debating and Literary Club, Film Club, Raleigh Literary Society, and various NGOs. Aspires to make a career in academics, and she wishes to reach beyond geographical boundaries and linguistic complexities through her poems and research work.

Sidra can be reached at sidrasohaib13@gmail.com

Dr. Rafiq, Sami is Professor of English at Muslim University, Aligarh. She is a translator, writer, poet and novelist who celebrates human values and love for Nature.
Sami Rafiq had her education from St. Mary's Convent Naini Tal, India and Scindia Kanya Vidyalaya, Gwalior, India. She received her PhD degree on American drama from Aligarh Muslim University in India.
Her latest book Woman in the Trees: Poems on Climate and Nature has just been released.
 She is the founding editor of Cloverleaf: Journal of Education in Evolvement and All Encompassing Spirituality, http://cloverleaf.spiritualeducation.org/.

Shiv D. Talwar was born to deeply spiritual and open-hearted parents in 1937 in pre-partition India. He began his education in a desi school in India where he received an undergraduate degree in civil engineering in 1954. Shiv earned two graduate degrees in his profession, a Master’s from Lehigh University in the United States (1962) followed by a Ph. D. from the University of Waterloo in Canada (1973). Shiv has been living in Canada with his wife and two children since 1966.

The pre-partition India was partitioned to create a Muslim-majority Pakistan and a Hindu-majority India in 1947. This event was accompanied by calamitous “us” against “them” tribalism of unimaginable scale. Shiv was genuinely troubled by it. “Something must be done to put an end to this type of hatred forever,” he then resolved.

Shiv’s roots in open-minded spirituality at home, nurtured by school teachers in India, matured in Canada in the light of his accomplished spiritual mentor, Swami Vishwatma Bawra.

 From his mentor, Shiv received education in the unifying core spirituality of Ancient India which made him realize that the light of core spirituality underlying all religions automatically dispels the darkness of human fragmentation. He also realized that education is the way to spread light.

Shiv retired early (1996) from teaching civil engineering to dedicate the rest of his life to the cause of education to cultivate unity in diversity. To that end, he organized the Spiritual Heritage Education Network Inc. in 2000.

Shiv is uniquely equipped with a blend of modern scientific problem-solving education on one side and education in ancient spiritual wisdom on the other to face the challenge of searching for a way to reform prevailing global education to integrate humanity.  

Shiv's second book entitled Global Action in Education: Contemplative Learning of Unity in Diversity (in publication) is written as a proposal to re-envision and reform education is a logical sequel to the award-winning book Shiv published in 2019, The Common Ground, Vol. 1: A Unified Basis of Existence (Xlibris).