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Siddharthya Roy is an independent journalist focusing on political strife and insurgencies in South Asia. With an engineering background and years spent coding, he moved to professional journalism in 2011. After earning an MA in politics and global affairs from Columbia University in 2018, he bagged the Pulitzer Centre in Crisis Reporting Grant for his reporting of neo-jihadist groups in South Asia, investigating human trafficking and narco trade in the Rohingya camps. He introduced India’s first data and computational journalism programme at the Symbiosis Institute Of Media and Communication. He splits his time between being a digital nomad and daydreaming of becoming an analogue one.

Avinash Paliwal is a reader in international relations at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, specializing in South Asian strategic affairs. A former journalist and foreign affairs analyst, he is the author of India’s Near East: A New History and My Enemy’s Enemy: India in Afghanistan from the Soviet Invasion to the US Withdrawal.

Vraja Bihari Das is a highly respected spiritual teacher, author and full-time monk at the Shri Shri Radha Gopinath Mandir, ISKCON Chowpatty, where he has been serving for the past two and a half decades. He is also a member of the temple care committee and congregation development at ISKCON Chowpatty, where he provides counselling to young men in the monastery and trains a satellite community of over 100+ families in various parts of Mumbai.
He has authored five books including Cricket in a Monastery. A seasoned international speaker and having travelled and spoken in the USA, Australia, UK, Germany, Russia and other parts of Europe and the Middle East, Vraja Bihari’s candid thoughts on mental hygiene, spiritual discipline and finding deep emotional fulfilment resonate with people from all walks of life.