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Aruna Chakravarti has been principal of a prestigious women’s college of Delhi University for ten years. She is also a well-known academic, creative writer and translator with eighteen published books on record. They comprise five novels, two books of short stories, two academic works and nine volumes of translation.
Her first novel, The Inheritors (published by Penguin Random House), was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and her second, Jorasanko, received critical acclaim and became a bestseller. Daughters of Jorasanko, a sequel to Jorasanko, has sold widely and received rave reviews. Her novel Suralakshmi Villa was adjudged ‘Novel of the year (India 2020)’ by Indian Bibliography published in The Journal of Commonwealth Literature U.K. Her other well-known works include The Mendicant Prince which has been shortlisted for the Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize, and
Through a Looking Glass: Stories.Her translated works include an anthology of songs from Rabindranath Tagore’s Gitabitaan, Saratchandra Chattopadhyay’s Srikanta and Sunil Gangopadhyay’s Those Days, First Light and Primal Woman: Stories. Her most recent work is titled Rising from the Dust.
Among the various awards she has received are Vaitalik Award, Sahitya Akademi Award and Sarat Puraskar.
She is also a scriptwriter and producer of seven multi-media presentations based on her novels. Comprising dramatized readings, interspersed with songs and accompanied by a visual presentation by professional artists and singers, these programmes have been widely acclaimed and performed in many parts of India and abroad.

Swarnavo Datta is an illustrator and author based in Bengaluru, India. Born into a Bengali family that loved travelling and eating, he developed a passion for food in the 1990s, while religiously watching Sanjeev Kapoor’s Khana Khazana on TV with his mother.

His corporate stint as a learning and development (L&D) specialist gave him the opportunity to live in different parts of the country, where he met fellow food lovers who introduced him to regional cuisines.

When he isn’t travelling (usually to explore new places to eat), he can be found in the kitchen, trying out new recipes to feed his wife, friends and two adorable cats.

Reena Shah is a writer, editor, and teacher. Her work has been featured in the Masters Review, Electric Literature, Joyland, BBC, the American Prospect, National Geographic, and the Guardian, among other publications. She has been awarded fellowships and residencies from the Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies, Millay Arts, Tin House, Sustainable Arts Foundation, Cuttyhunk Island Residency, and the Fulbright Foundation. She received an MFA in fiction from the Michener Center for Writers, where she won the Keene Prize for Literature. For many years she was a kathak dancer in New York and India. She now lives on Roosevelt Island, NY with her family and teaches in a public school.

Dr Sophia Pathai is a British-Indian medical doctor with a PhD in the biology of aging. Trained at University College London and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, her research was among the first to identify biological markers of accelerated aging in diverse populations. She has led global medical teams at companies including AbbVie and Johnson & Johnson, and most recently helped advance longevity innovation in the Gulf. The Longevity Code is her first book—blending cutting-edge science with real-world insight to show how we can build resilience, improve healthspan, and live not just longer, but better.

Pullela Gopichand is one of India’s most respected sports leaders and a pioneer in high-performance coaching. A former All England Champion and Chief National Coach of Indian badminton, he has guided multiple Olympic medalists and reshaped the nation’s sporting mindset through his philosophy of discipline, resilience, and balance. Honoured with the Padma Bhushan, Padma Shri, and Dronacharya Award, he continues to redefine athlete wellbeing and human potential. The Longevity Code is his first book, co-authored with Dr. Sophia Pathai, uniting science and sport in the pursuit of vitality, purpose, and enduring performance.

Sanjiv Mehta is one of the most respected business leaders of his generation, having spent over two decades at the helm of Unilever businesses across diverse markets. During his transformative decade as CEO and chairman of Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL), he orchestrated a period of historic value creation, cementing the company’s position as one of India’s most valuable and admired enterprises. A staunch advocate for ‘growth with purpose’, Sanjiv is recognized for his commitment to sustainability, women’s empowerment and pioneering institutional capabilities. He continues to shape the consumer landscape as the executive chairman (India) at L Catterton while serving on several prestigious global and Indian boards.

SHINJINI KUMAR has three decades of experience in leadership roles in Indian financial services. From approving foreign direct investments at the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in the 1990s to setting up Paytm Payments Bank as its first CEO to leading Citibank’s consumer businesses as country business manager and co-founding @mysaltapp, a personal finance start-up, she has done it all. In between, there was more central banking experience at the RBI Mumbai, a brief stint handling regulatory matters at Bank of America Merrill Lynch and five years leading banking and capital markets practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers India. She has master’s degrees in English literature from the University of Delhi and in public policy from the University of Texas at Austin, USA. This is her first book.