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Swati Sengupta is an author and gender rights educator. Her books include Guns On My Red Earth, Half the Field Is Mine, Out of War, the Incredible Life series of biographies for young readers, Murder in the City (translation), The Talking Bird and A Tea Garden Party. She runs a gender workshop series for the young called ‘The Elephant in the Room’. Swati has worked for over two decades with leading newspapers in India. She loves tea, lives in Kolkata and is bewitched by Darjeeling.

Before becoming a full-time author, Aritra Sarkar spent many years in the corporate world. He worked for two years in marketing research at The Wall Street Journal in New York (1999–2001) and then spent a decade working on corporate strategy at the ABP group in Kolkata. In 2014, he rolled up his sleeves and became an entrepreneur, launching MeVero, the world’s first passion-based social networking platform. Aritra has currently focused all his energies into literary pursuits and spiritual growth. He is an NYU graduate and is passionate about tennis, fitness, travelling, books and movies.

Bikram Vohra, after a prodigiously successful but short stint in Indian journalism, moved to the Gulf in 1984, and has been the most respected editor in the region since then. He currently has a humour column in the Times of India. He has written six books and an anthology of his funny haha funny peculiar columns was published in 2019 (Between the Lines, Xponent Media).
He has had over 22,000 articles published in over fifty newspapers worldwide and has covered wars, climbed mountains and been part of air accident investigations. He currently lives in Dubai with his family.

Dr Suresh K. Pandey is world-renowned eye surgeon, an author and Director of the SuVi Eye Hospital & Lasik Laser Centre, Kota, Rajasthan, India. He is a member of the prestigious International Intraocular Implant Club (IIIC). He is the former vice president of the Indian Medical Association (IMA) Kota and the former president of the Kota Division Ophthalmological Society (KDOS), Kota.

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RUCHI GHANASHYAM joined the Indian Foreign Service (IFS) in 1982. During her career of thirty-eight years, she worked in various capacities at the Ministry of External Affairs, the Government of India, including as director (Pakistan) and secretary (West). Outside India, she served in the Indian embassies in Damascus, Kathmandu, Brussels and Islamabad, as well as the Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations, New York. She was India’s high commissioner to Ghana, South Africa and the UK, where she retired in 2020.

Post retirement, she has written newspaper columns and articles as well as chapters for books. She has also participated in seminars and panel discussions, speaking on India’s foreign policy to students in India and the UK as well as at think tanks. She is a member of the board of patrons at the India Centre for Inclusive Growth and Sustainable Development, University of Southampton, and adjunct faculty at the Manipal Centre for European Studies, Manipal Academy of Higher Education. She is also involved in social work.

She is married to A.R. Ghanashyam, who joined the IFS in 1982 and retired as India’s high commissioner to Nigeria. They have two sons.