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Lorraine Marchand is general manager of life sciences at IBM Watson Health and has three decades of experience in new product development. She has held leadership positions at Bristol Myers Squibb, Covance, Cognizant, and IQVIA, and she cofounded four companies. Marchand is an adjunct professor of management and serves on the Healthcare and Pharmaceutical Management Program Advisory Board at Columbia Business School.

James W. Cortada is a senior research fellow at the Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota–Twin Cities. He spent nearly forty years at IBM in various sales, consulting, management, and executive positions. His many books include IBM: The Rise and Fall and Reinvention of a Global Icon (2019) and Birth of Modern Facts: How the Information Revolution Transformed Academic Research, Governments, and Business (2023).

CATHERINE ANN JONES’s connection with India began with her marriage to the novelist Raja Rao who (with Mulk Raj Anand and R K Narayan) helped establish the international reputation of Indian fiction in English.

She lived in India for a year as a Fulbright Research Scholar, and lives in India for substantial amounts of time each year.

An award-winning author, she has published seven other books. She is also a playwright, screenwriter, writing consultant, and actor, having played major roles in some 55 plays on Broadway and off-Broadway. The films she has written include The Christmas Wife (with Jason Robards and Julie Harris), which gained four Emmy nominations, Unlikely Angel (with Dolly Parton), and the popular TV series, Touched by an Angel. Twelve of her plays have won awards (including one from the National Endowment for the Arts). These continue to be produced both in an and out New York.

This book was put together by Team Puffin, a dedicated band of editors striving to create the finest Indian children’s books, perfect for every reading level and requirement. Each book is meticulously researched and exquisitely designed to enrich a reader’s interaction with the book. Your introduction to the imaginative and magical world of learning and storytelling starts here.

Isabel Huacuja Alonso is an assistant professor in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University.

Dr. Mike Dow, Psy.D., Ph.D., is a New York Times best-selling author and is America’s go-to therapist. As a brain health, mental health, relationship, and addiction expert, Dr. Mike has hosted hit shows on several networks including TLC, Disney+, E! and VH1. He wasa core team expert on The Dr. Oz Show, a recurring guest co-host on The Doctors, and has made regular appearances on Today, The Talk, Rachael Ray, Wendy Williams, Nancy Grace,Dr. Drew on Call and Canada’s The Marilyn Denis Show. Dr. Mike began his career working with the Los Angeles Department of Mental Health before transitioning to private practice. He has a M.S. in Marriage and Family Therapy, a Psy.D. in Psychology, and a Ph.D. in Clinical Sexology. He is a graduate of USC where he was a Presidential Scholar and currently practices Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy at Field Trip.

Inspired by his own journey of personal growth, Ronan Levy co-founded Field Trip Health Ltd. (NASDAQ: FTRP, TSX: FTRP), the world’s largest provider of psychedelic-assisted therapies, in 2019. Ronan’s entrepreneurial endeavours in health and wellness have been seen on or featured in The New York Times, CNBC, Forbes, Cheddar, Yahoo!, Bloomberg, Fast Company, Report on Business, Robb Report, The Economist, Science and more. He is the host of the leading psychedelic podcast, Field Tripping, Executive Producer of the documentary Ordinary Trip and Co-author of The Trip Journal (Presentation Publishing). Trained and qualified as a lawyer, Ronan started his career as a securities lawyer at Blake, Cassels and Graydon LLP but left after realizing he was much too creative for the profession of law. He holds a Juris Doctor and a Bachelor of Commerce degree, both from the University of Toronto.

Eric Matthes was a high school science, math, and programming teacher, now full-time author, living in Alaska. He has been writing programs since he was five years old and is the author of the Python Flash Cards, also from No Starch Press.

Poet, playwright, musician and artist, close friend of the great Surrealists Salvador Dalí, Joan Miró and Luis Buñuel, Federico García Lorca was one of the most distinctive and beloved writers of modern times. His writing has inspired generations of writers and artists, from Pablo Neruda to Leonard Cohen and Patti Smith.

Born in Andalusia, Spain, in 1898, Lorca studied in Madrid as a young man and soon became prominent in artistic circles; in 1928 his book of Gypsy Ballads catapulted him to literary stardom. He escaped to New York for a year in 1929, where he found he was able to focus on his poetry and immerse himself in the thriving gay culture of Harlem; upon returning to republican Spain he became increasingly politicized, devoting himself to radical works of theatre that rebelled against the bourgeois status quo.

Just after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936, he was murdered at Granada by Nationalist partisans. He was thirty-eight years old.