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VEERA HIRANANDANI, author of the Newbery Honor–winning The Night Diary, earned her MFA in creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College. She is also the author of The Whole Story of Half a Girl, a Sydney Taylor Notable Book and a South Asia Book Award finalist, and How to Find What You’re Not Looking For, winner of the Sydney Taylor Book Award and the New York Historical Society Children’s History Book Prize. A former editor at Simon & Schuster, she now teaches in the Writing for Children and Young Adults MFA program at the Vermont College of Fine Arts.

Gowri Ramnarayan is a playwright, theatre director, journalist, and vocal accompanist to legendary musician M.S. Subbulakshmi. She has translated two plays by Marathi playwright Vijay Tendulkar, and the Tamil short stories and biography of Kalki Krishnamurthy.

Arvind Panagariya is chairman of the Sixteenth Finance Commission, Government of India, with the rank of a cabinet minister. He is also a professor of economics at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. He was the first vice chairman of the NITI Aayog, Government of India. He has authored over twenty books, published professional articles in all the top economics journals, and written for Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy and the Wall Street Journal. In 2012, the Government of India awarded him with the Padma Bhushan, its third-highest civilian honour.