Archives: Authors

Rana Dasgupta is the author of two novels and a non-fiction portrait of twenty-first century Delhi. Dasgupta was a visiting fellow in the humanities at Princeton University and has taught as a visiting lecturer at Brown University. His essays have been published in The Guardian, New Statesman, and BBC.com, and his writing has won the Windham Campbell Prize, the Commonwealth Prize, and the Ryszard Kapuscinski Award. He lives in Delhi.

Dr Amiett Kumar is a renowned Law of Attraction coach with 18 years of experience in manifestation and mindset transformation. Founder of the Readers Books Club with 3 million subscribers and his own channel, Dr Amiett Kumar, with 740k subscribers, his journey from IT Head to global influencer has inspired millions, turning knowledge into a powerful movement of self-growth.

Shivranjana Rathore is a writer and artist based in Goa. With a central theme of existentialism, leaning towards the absurd and surrealist, her practice spans across multiple mediums—books, comics, zines and installations. Currently, devoted to exploring the embodied existence, she is building Sense of a Place, a multi-medium project exploring place-making through the critique of constructed versus the embodied.

Tino de Sa, an IAS officer, is twice winner of the Times of India National Short Story Competition. He has three books to his credit and was shortlisted for the 2025 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Several of his poems have appeared in anthologies in India and abroad.

Sunanda Verma is a cross-cultural global storyteller exploring diversity and connection. Born in Bulgaria, raised in Fiji and India, and nurtured in South Africa and Singapore, she is a translator, documentary film- maker and former television news producer, the author of the Namaste! series of books and Hindu Gods and Goddesses: An Introduction, and co-editor of Index: Sriramacaritamanasa of Goswami Tulasidasa and the Learner’s Hindi–English Thematic Visual Dictionary. Her writings on the Indian diaspora explore questions of identity, belonging and the emotional ties that bind language, memory and culture. Her website is www.sunanda.net.

Avi Asthana is an engineering student at Imperial College London, and has a deep interest in language, technology, innovation and cultural preservation. His work in phonetic transliteration enhances linguistic accessibility, making sacred texts more approachable across scripts.