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Kristen Butler’s mission is to uplift the planet! She is the CEO and founder of Power of Positivity and the best-selling author of the 3 Minute Positivity Journal. She started PoP in 2009 after hitting rock bottom and bouncing back using the power of positivity. She is passionate about helping others boost their mood, train their brain and improve their life. Her interests and hobbies include spending time with her family, writing, health and fitness, nature, traveling, and plant-based nutrition. Kristen has dramatically transformed her life in many areas and has a strong desire to help others. Connect with her on social media!

Mukesh Singh is an Indian Police Service officer of the Jammu and Kashmir cadre. He is a BTech in civil engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (Delhi). He joined the Indian Police Service in 1996 and has headed several sensitive assignments as district superintendent of police at Reasi, Pulwama, Poonch and Jammu during the peak of terror activities. He was a part of the core team that set up the National Investigation Agency, which is now the premier counterterrorist investigation agency in the country. He served there in the capacity of superintendent of police, deputy inspector general and inspector general. He currently heads the police of Jammu Province as the additional director general of police.

During his service, Mukesh has always been at the forefront of counterterror operations, be it in the field in Jammu and Kashmir in various capacities or at the National Investigation Agency, where he investigated some of the most high-profile cases.

He has co-authored a book, Police Operations, and has also co-published three papers: ‘Investigation of Encounter Killings’ (2016); ‘Police Operations’ (2015) and ‘Conducting an Anti-Terrorist Operation’ (2014).

Anupama Pandey studied at some of the premier institutes of India and worked in the development, private and government sectors, before stepping down from the position of state nodal officer at Mission Swaraj, Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi, to pursue her passion. A traveller at heart and a person who enjoys both solitude and the company of others, she is a trained relationship and life coach, and heads anupamapandey.com. Curse of the Pir is her first book.

Ole Birk Laursen is an affiliated research fellow at the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin. His research focuses on South Asian history, anti-colonialism and anarchism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He is the editor of a collection of essays by M. P. T. Acharya, We Are Anarchists.

Ramesh Nair is one of the senior most professionals in the Indian real estate industry with over 25 years of expertise, today helming Mindspace Business Parks REIT as its CEO.

He has held offices in the capacity of CEO with both JLL India and Colliers India, managing teams of up to 12,000 people, steering them towards achieving targeted results.

A respected name in India Inc., Ramesh holds positions in several committees that shape industry developments. He has served as a non-executive director on the RICS Global Regulatory Board, the Chairman of the CII Real Estate and Infrastructure Conclave, Advisory Council member for Telangana State and member of the RICS South Asia board.

He has penned articles for several reputed publications and is a regular expert guest on business news channels. He is also a visiting faculty, sharing insights at some of the top Indian business schools.

Ramesh’s forte lies in delivering business growth in dynamic and changing markets through adept navigation of situations and empathetic leadership, traits which have earned him the position he holds today.

Born and raised in Chennai, and continuing to grow up in Mumbai, Shasvathi enjoys stringing words together. A divorce changed her life irrevocably and she takes pride in how she took it in her stride. A fervent advocate since, she battles to destigmatize divorce, envisioning a world where it’s embraced and accepted in every household. Her words have found homes in prestigious publications like Vogue India, The Quint, Vice India, and she has graced the TEDx stage as well. Wherever an opportunity arises to dismantle the stigma around divorce, she seizes it, using her voice to promote acceptance and understanding.

गोस्वामी तुलसीदास हिंदी साहित्य के महान संत कवि थे। इन्हें आदि काव्य रामायण के रचयिता महर्षि वाल्मीकि का अवतार भी माना जाता है।
तुलसीदास भक्तिकाल की सगुण धारा की रामभक्ति शाखा के प्रतिनिधि कवि, भक्त तथा समाज सुधारक तीनों रूपों में मान्य हैं। 

Srijato, one of the most celebrated Bengali poet-lyricists of our times, is the recipient of Ananda Puroskar in 2004 for his book Udanta Sawb Joker (All Those Flying Jokers).

Maharghya Chakraborty is a well-known translator. He teaches at St Xavier’s College in Kolkata.

नमिता गोखले ग्यारह फ़िक्शन समेत इक्कीस किताबों का लेखन और कई संकलनों का सम्पादन कर चुकी हैं। उनका लिखा पहला-पहल उपन्यास 1984 में प्रकाशित हुआ और ख़ासा सराहा गया था। उनकी लिखी घटोत्कच के मायाजाल में बच्चों और बड़ों के बीच समान रूप से लोकप्रिय रही है। गोखले जयपुर लिटरेचर फ़ेस्टिवल की को-फ़ाउंडर और को-डायरेक्टर हैं। लेखन के साथ ही बहुभाषी भारतीय साहित्य और अन्तर-सांस्कृतिक साहित्यिक संवाद के प्रति उनकी प्रतिबद्धता के लिए उन्हें जाना जाता है। उन्हें 2017 में साहित्य के लिए प्रतिष्ठित प्रथम शताब्दी राष्ट्रीय पुरस्कार (सेंटेनरी नेशनल अवॉर्ड) मिला, और वो 2021 के लिए साहित्य अकादमी पुरस्कार विजेता रहीं। हाल ही में उन्हें नीलिमारानी साहित्य सम्मान 2023 से भी सम्मानित किया गया।