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ANURAG BHASKAR is a legal scholar who pursued LLM from Harvard Law School and BA LLB (Hons) from Dr Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University, Lucknow. For his research, the Bluestone Rising Scholar Award was conferred on him by Brandeis University, USA. He has also held fellowships at Harvard Law School and the University of Oxford. His articles have been published in various academic journals, newspapers and online platforms. He holds a faculty position at O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat, and is an affiliate faculty at Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession. Bhaskar is currently working on deputation as a deputy registrar at the Supreme Court of India.

Ishinna B. Sadana is a mother, parenting expert and trainer whose passion is working with parents with the aim of raising not only happier children but also happier parents. She has a PhD in human development and a master’s in human development and childhood studies.

Ishinna also runs a centre called ‘New Insights’ where she has helped thousands of parents through workshops and personal sessions.
She believes that it’s her life’s purpose to help and enlighten the lives of parents. Power to the Parent is an important step towards fulfilling that goal, for she aims to share her knowledge on a massive scale with many more parents who are searching for answers. She also shares her knowledge on social media, especially Instagram, where she has over a million followers.

Jayanath Pati (1890–1939) was born in Sadipur village of Nawada subdivision of Gaya district, Bihar. After completing his intermediate (10+2), he cleared the exam to become a mukhtar (a lawyer knowledgeable in British laws during the colonial Raj in India) and set up a successful practice in Nawada. He was well versed in Urdu
and Persian and knew Sanskrit, English, Bangla and Latin. His first novel, Sunita (1927), was about a woman who is married to an elderly man, the manuscript of which seems to be lost. His second novel, Fool Bahadur, was published on April Fool’s Day in 1928 followed by his third novel, Gadahnit, in the same year.

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।