Archives: Authors

Matt Kahn is the best-selling author of Whatever Arises, Love That. His latest book, The Universe Always Has A Plan, will publish with Hay House in 2020. He is a spiritual teacher and highly attuned empathic healer who has become a YouTube sensation with his healing and often humorous videos. His more than 16 million YouTube channel viewers are finding the support they seek to feel more love, awakened, and opened to the greatest possibilities in life through the invitation to join the “Love Revolution That Begins with You.”

Surbhi Kakar, originally from India, works as a data scientist based in the Netherlands. Prior to delving into the realm of data, she inspired and shaped young minds as an assistant professor. As a PhD in computer science, she has enriched various international journals and conferences with her insightful research work. Her interests are vast and varied and include addressing challenges within data science, solving research problems, reflecting on age-old scriptures and philosophy, singing, and cherishing quiet moments within nature. In her quest for inner balance, she is also on a journey to become a yoga teacher.

Shailaja Menon is an author, certified 500-hr Manasa yoga teacher, and speaker. She grew up in Coimbatore, India, but has been based in Malaysia for the last twenty-six years. She has over twenty-four years of teaching experience and is the founder of ‘Mat and Beyond Yoga Studio’ in Malaysia. A sought-after speaker, she is regularly invited to present at educational institutions, corporate organisations, and international yoga events across Malaysia and India. A passionate advocate of mental wellness through yoga, she seeks to empower people through her books, classes, and talks.

Euny Hong is the author of The Birth of Korean Cool and a journalist who has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, and the Financial Times. A self-described ‘nunchi ninja’, at age twelve she moved with her family from suburban Chicago to South Korea, not knowing Korean, and within a year was at the top of her class – thanks to her nunchi. She divides her time between New York and Paris and is fluent in English, Korean, French, German – and nunchi.

दाजी, जिन्हें कमलेश डी पटेल के नाम से भी जाना जाता है, वैश्विक हार्टफुलनेस आन्दोलन के चौथे और वर्तमान स्प्रिचुअल गाइड हैं। उन्होंने बीते चार दशकों में दुनिया भर के लोगों को हार्टफुलनेस मेडीटेशन का प्रशिक्षण दिया है।
दाजी बेस्टसेलर्स डिजाइनिंग डेस्टिनी और (जोशुआ पोलॉक के साथ) द हार्टफुलनेस वे के लेखक हैं। उनके कामों की झलक टाइम्स ऑफ इंडिया, इकोनॉमिक टाइम्स, हिन्दुस्तान टाइम्स और प्रमुख टेलीविजन नेटवर्क्स पर दिखाई दे चुकी है। दाजी विश्वस्तरीय सम्मेलनों में मुख्य भाषण देते हैं और कार्यशालाएँ आयोजित करते हैं। उनका जुझारूपन उनके ज़मीनी स्तर के प्रयासों में नज़र आता है, विशेषकर मेडीटेशन को भारत के गाँवों तक ले जाने में। दाजी को भारत के कान्हा शान्ति वनम में अपने पोते-पोतियों के साथ प्राकृतिक सौन्दर्य के बीच सैर का आनन्द लेना भाता है, जहाँ वे अपने परिवार के साथ रहते भी हैं। 

Vanya Vaidehi Bhargav is an intellectual historian of modern South Asia. She completed her DPhil in history at St Antony’s College, University of Oxford. Her research has been published in leading peer-reviewed academic journals, such as the Journal of Asian Studies, Global Intellectual History, Studies in Indian Politics and Religions. She has been a research fellow at the M.S. Merian – R. Tagore International Centre of Advanced Studies ‘Metamorphosis of the Political: Comparative Perspectives on the Long Twentieth Century’ (ICAS: M.P.), New Delhi, India, and a senior research fellow with Kolleg-Forschungsgruppe ‘Multiple Secularities – Beyond the West, Beyond Modernities’, Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies, University of Leipzig, Germany. Committed to engaging with the public, Bhargav has written for the Indian Express, The Hindu and The Wire. She tweets at @vanyavaidehi.

Karthik Muralidharan is the Tata Chancellor’s professor of economics at the University of California San Diego (UCSD). He is also the co-founder and scientific director of the Centre for Effective Governance of Indian States (CEGIS), a non-profit that works with multiple states across India to improve state capacity, governance, and service delivery. He actively engages in policy advising at global, national, and state levels; and in public communication of research insights through op-eds, podcasts, and public lectures. Born and raised in India, he holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Harvard, an MPhil in economics from Cambridge (UK), and a PhD in economics from Harvard.

ARUNDHATHI SUBRAMANIAM is a poet and spiritual traveller. Her books include a volume on contemporary women on sacred journeys, Women Who Wear Only Themselves; the bestselling biography of a contemporary mystic, Sadhguru: More Than a Life; anthologies of Bhakti poetry, Eating God, and of essays on sacred journeys, Pilgrim’s India. She has also written the much-reprinted Book of Buddha.

Widely translated and anthologized, she is a recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award 2020. She was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize for poetry in 2015. Arundhathi has received several awards, including the inaugural Khushwant Singh Memorial Prize for Poetry, the Raza Award for Poetry, the Il Ceppo Prize in Italy, the Mystic Kalinga Literary Award, the Zee Indian Women’s Award for Literature, and the Homi Bhabha and Charles Wallace fellowships.

Kazi Nazrul Islam (1899–1976), the national poet of Bangladesh,
was a prolific Bengali poet, revolutionary, essayist, journalist, editor,
activist and composer of songs. Born into a humble family, he began
his career as a member of a band of itinerant folk performers, then
joined the army, and eventually rose to fame as the iconic ‘rebel poet’
who opposed colonial rule in India, promoted communal harmony
and was an outspoken critic of all forms of religious, political and
social discrimination. An extraordinarily versatile writer, he expressed
his talent in multiple genres, including poetry, fiction, prose, drama,
music and journalism. His writings reveal his broad humanism and
prophetic vision. He was one of the architects of modern Bengali
literature after Tagore.