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SHASH TREVETT is a Tamil from Sri Lanka who came to the UK to escape the civil war. She is a poet and a translator of Tamil poetry into English. Her pamphlet From a Borrowed Land was published in 2021 by Smith|Doorstop.
Shash has been on judging panels for the PEN Translates awards and the London Book Fair, and was a Visible Communities Translator in Residence at the National Centre for Writing. Shash is a Ledbury Critic, reviewing for PN Review and the Poetry Book Society and is a Board Member of Modern Poetry in Translation. She lives in York.

Shenaz Treasury, India’s OG MTV VJ and Bollywood’s charismatic ‘it’ girl from Ishq Vishk and Delhi Belly, has become India’s hottest travel vlogger. A dynamic entertainer, Shenaz has moved beyond acting over the years. She wrote, produced and hosted Culture Shock for Discovery Travel Channel, US, and sold a screenplay to Yash Raj.
In the US, Shenaz acted in 107 episodes of One Life to Live on ABC and added her humour to The Nightly Show on Comedy Central, produced by Jon Stewart. She played a memorable role in the Oscar nominated The Big Sick, produced by Judd Apatow, and starred in Brown Nation on Netflix.
Back in India, Shenaz reigns as the country’s top travel vlogger. Her debut book, All He Left Me Was a Recipe, ventures into relationship dramas, aiming for an exciting web series adaptation.

John Vater is an American literary translator and writer. He is co-translator of The Play of Dolls: Stories by Hindi author Kunwar Narain and co-author of More Than the Eye Can See: Memoirs of Gopinath Pillai. He is now translating the Hindi novel Register the Name Kulbhushan, Please by Alka Saraogi (forthcoming). His translations have appeared in several literary journals, such as Ploughshares and Words Without Borders. He was a resident translator at the Banff International Literary Translation Centre (BILTC) in Banff, Canada, and has an MFA in Literary Translation from the University of Iowa

Apurva Narain is Kunwar Narain’s son and translator. His books include a collection of poetry translations, No Other World, and a co-translated collection of short stories, The Play of Dolls. His work has appeared in several literary journals over the years. Educated in India and at the University of Cambridge, he writes in English, consults in the field of international development, and has professional interests in ecology, public health and ethics.

Sohail Rekhy was born in Mumbai to actors Waheeda Rehman and Kamaljeet and spent several summers and countless weekends on the shores of Raigad District. He grew up in Bangalore, fascinated by Indian history, and went on to study literature at the University of Toronto. Sporadic journalism and freelance copywriting always kept him by his pen, as he worked in advertising and television industries and dabbled in sustainable furniture. This is his first novel, a fruit of years of research and writing. He currently lives with his wife and daughter in Bhuta.

Lieutenant General SATISH DUA, PVSM, UYSM, SM, VSM, retired as the chief of Integrated Defence Staff in 2018. As the Corps Commander in Srinagar, he planned and executed the surgical strikes in Kashmir in 2016. A counter-terrorism specialist from 8 JAKLI (Siachen), he has operated extensively in Jammu and Kashmir and the North-east during his four decades of service. He has also been a commando instructor and India’s defence attaché in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos.

डेरियस फ़रु एक उद्यमी, ब्लॉगर, और पॉडकास्टर हैं । 2015 से वे ज़िन्दगी, बिज़नेस और उत्पादकता के बारे में अपने विचार अपने ब्लॉग पर साझा करते आए हैं। अब तक 40 लाख से अधिक लोगों ने उनके लेख पढ़े हैं। 2010 में, मार्केटिंग में अपनी मास्टर्स डिग्री पूरी करते हुए उन्होंने अपने डैड के साथ मिलकर वारटेक्स नामक एक लॉन्ड्री टेक्नोलॉजी कंपनी की शुरुआत की थी। अपने पॉडकास्ट, ‘द डेरियस फोरोक्स शो’ के लिए उन्होंने रेयन हॉलिडे, रॉबर्ट सुटन, जिमी सोनी और बहुत सारे विचारकों के इंटरव्यू लिए हैं।  

योगी, रहस्यवादी और युगद्रष्टा सद्गुरु एक अलग तरह के आध्यात्मिक गुरु हैं। बोध कि पूर्ण स्पष्टता उन्हें आध्यात्मिक संदर्भों में ही नहीं, बल्कि व्यावसायिक, पर्यावरण और अंतरराष्ट्रीय मामलों में भी एक विशिष्ट स्थान प्रदान करती है। उनकी विदेशी मामलों की गहरी समझ और मानव-कल्याण के प्रति नितांत वैज्ञानिक दृष्टिकोण का वर्ल्ड बैंक, हाउस ऑफ लॉर्ड्स (यूके), वर्ल्ड प्रेजिडेंट्स ऑर्गेनाइजेशन, मैसाचुसेट्स इंस्टीट्यूट ऑफ टेक्नोलॉजी, लंडन बिजनेस स्कूल, गूगल और माइक्रोसॉफ्ट जैसी संस्थाओं पर रूपांतरकारी प्रभाव रहा है। सद्गुरु पिछले तीन दशकों से व्यक्ति और विश्व की भलाई के प्रति समर्पित एक नॉन-प्रॉफिट संगठन ईशा फाउंडेशन के संस्थापक भी हैं।