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Jayanath Pati (1890–1939) was born in Sadipur village of Nawada subdivision of Gaya district, Bihar. After completing his intermediate (10+2), he cleared the exam to become a mukhtar (a lawyer knowledgeable in British laws during the colonial Raj in India) and set up a successful practice in Nawada. He was well versed in Urdu
and Persian and knew Sanskrit, English, Bangla and Latin. His first novel, Sunita (1927), was about a woman who is married to an elderly man, the manuscript of which seems to be lost. His second novel, Fool Bahadur, was published on April Fool’s Day in 1928 followed by his third novel, Gadahnit, in the same year.

Abhay K. is the author of a dozen poetry books, including, Celestial, Stray Poems, Monsoon, The Magic of Madagascar and The Alphabets of Latin America and is the editor of The Book of Bihari Literature, The Bloomsbury Book of Great Indian Love Poems, Capitals, New Brazilian Poems and The Bloomsbury Anthology of Great Indian Poems.
His poems have appeared in over a hundred literary magazines, including Poetry Salzburg Review and Asia Literary Review. His ‘Earth Anthem’ has been translated into over 160 languages. He received the SAARC Literary Award (2013) and was invited to record his poems at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., in 2018. His translations of Kalidasa’s Meghaduta and Ritusamhara from Sanskrit won him the KLF Poetry Book of the Year Award (2020–21). His translation of Magahi novel Fool Bahadur has been published by Penguin Random House, India. His paintings on the Buddhist philosophy of ‘Sunyata’ have been exhibited at Bihar Museum, Patna.

प्रियंका चोपड़ा बहुमुखी प्रतिभा की धनी और विश्व स्तर पर एक बेहद जाना-माना चेहरा हैं। भूतपूर्व मिस वर्ल्ड, उन्होंने बॉलीवुड और हॉलीवुड में, राष्ट्रीय और अंतर्राष्ट्रीय स्तर पर, अपनी साठ से भी अधिक फिल्मों में अभिनय और निर्देशन के लिए कई पुरस्कार प्राप्त किए है। उन्हें भारत सरकार की ओर से पद्मश्री भी प्राप्त हुआ है। उन्हें अपनी फ़िल्म फैशन के लिए श्रेष्टतम अभिनय का पुरस्कार भी मिला है, और वेंटिलेटर और पानी, पर्पल पेबल्ज़ पिकचर्स द्वारा निर्मित, इन फ़िल्मों के लिए चार राष्ट्र फ़िल्म पुरस्कार भी मिले हैं। एबीसी द्वारा निर्मित सीरीज़, क्वान्टिको में भारतीय मूल की पहली मुख्य महिला पात्र होने के साथ-साथ दो पीपलज़ चॉइस अवार्ड जीत कर उन्होंने एक नया कीर्तिमान स्थापित किया। उन्हें टाइम्स मैगज़ीन के ‘टाइम्स 100’ संस्करण के कवर पर विश्व के सबसे प्रभावशाली लोगों में से एक और फ़ोर्ब्स द्वारा विश्व की सबसे शक्तिशाली महिलाओं में से एक होने का गौरव भी प्राप्त हुआ है। चोपड़ा जोनस, ग्लोबल यूनीसेफ़ की गुडविल एंबेसडर होने के साथ-साथ बेहद प्रतिष्ठित डैनी केय सम्मान भी पा चुकी हैं। वे एक ग्लोबल सिटिज़न एंबेसडर भी हैं और विश्व में बच्चों के अधिकार और लड़कियों की पढ़ाई के लिए कार्यरत हैं। वे लॉस एंजेलिस में अपने पति निक और तीन कुत्तों डायना, जीनो और पैंडा के संग रहती हैं। 

David Beaver is professor of linguistics and philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin and director of the UT Cognitive Science Program. His books include Presupposition and Assertion in Dynamic Semantics and Sense and Sensitivity: How Focus Determines Meaning.
Jason Stanley is the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. He is the author of How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them and How Propaganda Works (Princeton), among other books.

Durjoy Datta was born in New Delhi and completed a degree in engineering and business management before embarking on a writing career. His first book–Of Course I Love You . . .–was published when he was twenty-one years old and was an instant bestseller. His successive novels–Now That You’re Rich . . .; She Broke Up, I Didn’t! . . .; Oh Yes, I’m Single! . . .; You Were My Crush . . .; If It’s Not Forever . . .; Till the Last Breath . . .; Someone Like You; Hold My Hand; When Only Love Remains; World’s Best Boyfriend; Our Impossible Love; The Girl of My Dreams; and The Boy Who Loved–have also found prominence on various bestseller lists, making him one of the highest-selling authors in India.
Durjoy also has to his credit nine television shows and has written over a thousand episodes for television. Durjoy lives in Mumbai. For more updates, you can follow him on Facebook (www.facebook.com/durjoydatta1) or Twitter (@durjoydatta) or mail him at durjoydatta@gmail.com.