Archives: Authors

Abhay K. is the author of the bestseller Nalanda: How It Changed the World and several poetry collections. He 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). He has also translated the Magahi novel Fool Bahadur and Hanuman Chalisa. His paintings on the Buddhist philosophy of ‘Shunyata’ have been exhibited at the National Museum, New Delhi, Bihar Museum, Patna and Salarjung Museum, Hyderabad.

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.

Tony Saldanha is cofounder and CEO of Inixia, an organization dedicated to professionalizing and transforming business services. During a 27-year career at Procter and Gamble, Tony ran IT and GBS (Global Business Services) in every region of the world, helping create a multi-billion dollar best-in-class operation. He was named to Computerworld’s Premier 100 IT Professionals list in 2013. He is a sought-after thought leader and speaker on GBS and IT. His other activities include angel investing, advising non-profits and venture capitalists and start-up companies, and starting up technology companies of his own.

Filippo Passerini is cofounder and President of Inixia. He started and led one of the world’s first shared service organizations at Procter and Gamble. He has served as an advisor, board member, and operating executive at several companies, including The Carlyle Group, Mars Company, United Rentals, McKinsey and Company, and the Estée Lauder Company. He also has served as adjunct professor at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, is a visiting Professor for the Politecnico di Milano School of Management, and a Professor in Residence at Columbia University. He is a member of the CIO Hall of Fame.

Tony Saldanha is cofounder and CEO of Inixia, an organization dedicated to professionalizing and transforming business services. During a 27-year career at Procter & Gamble, Tony ran IT and GBS (Global Business Services) in every region of the world, helping create a multi-billion dollar best-in-class operation. He was named to Computerworld’s Premier 100 IT Professionals list in 2013. He is a sought-after thought leader and speaker on GBS and IT. His other activities include angel investing, advising non-profits and venture capitalists and start-up companies, and starting up technology companies of his own.

Filippo Passerini is cofounder and President of Inixia. He started and led one of the world’s first shared service organizations at Procter & Gamble. He has served as an advisor, board member, and operating executive at several companies, including The Carlyle Group, Mars Company, United Rentals, McKinsey & Company, and the Estée Lauder Company. He also has served as adjunct professor at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, is a visiting Professor for the Politecnico di Milano School of Management, and a Professor in Residence at Columbia University. He is a member of the CIO Hall of Fame.

मराठी भाषा की बेस्टसेलर पुस्तक अर्थसाक्षर वहा! के लेखक चार्टर्ड अकाउंटेंट अभिजीत कोलपकर को वित्त के क्षेत्र में दो दशकों से अधिक का कार्य-अनुभव है। 

Namita Gokhale is an award winning writer and festival director. She is the author of eleven works of fiction and has written extensively on myth as well as the Himalayan region. Her acclaimed debut novel, Paro: Dreams of Passion, was published in 1984. Her recent novel Jaipur Journals, published in January 2020, was set against the backdrop of the vibrant Jaipur Literature Festival. Betrayed By Hope, a play on the life of Michael Madhusudan Dutt, was also published in 2020.

A co-founder and co-director of the Jaipur Literature Festival, Gokhale is committed to supporting translations and curating literary dialogues across languages and cultures. She was conferred the Centenary National Award for Literature by the Asam Sahitya Sabha in Guwahati in 2017. She won the Sushila Devi Literature Award for her novel Things to Leave Behind, which also received the Best Fiction Jury Award at the Valley of Words Literature Festival 2017, and was on the longlist for the 2018 International Dublin Literary Award. The Blind Matriarch is her twentieth book.

Zachary Tumin is a member of the faculty at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. He has served in senior executive positions in public administration, industry, and academia, from Harvard Kennedy School to Wall Street’s Financial Services Technology Consortium to New York City government. With William Bratton, Tumin is coauthor of Collaborate or Perish! Reaching Across Boundaries in a Networked World (2012).

Madeleine Want is vice president of data at Fanatics Betting and Gaming. Her previous roles include product management for data at Audible and Axel Springer.

Francesc Miralles is a lecturer and award-winning author of bestselling books in the areas of health and spirituality. Born in Barcelona, he studied journalism, English literature and German philology, and has worked as a translator, editor, art therapist and musician. His novel Love in Lowercase has been translated into 28 languages.
Hector Garcia was born in Spain and worked at CERN in Switzerland before moving to Japan, his home of more than 15 years. In Japan he developed voice recognition software and the technology for young Silicon Valley companies to enter the Japanese market. His popular blog kirainet.com led to his internationally successful book A Geek In Japan.