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Durreen Shahnaz has worked both in high finance on Wall Street and in microfinance in the back streets of rural Bangladesh. Following stints as an investment banker, development worker, educator, media executive and social entrepreneur, Shahnaz founded a pioneering impact investment firm that brings together investors, development agencies, and entrepreneurs to advance sustainable development and empower millions of women. Shahnaz has appeared on the Forbes 50 over 50 list and received the 2017 Oslo Business for Peace Award, often referred to as the Nobel Prize for Business. Shahnaz holds degrees from Smith College, the University of Pennsylvania, and Johns Hopkins University. She and her husband have two daughters and live in Singapore.

Zac Sangeeth is one of the world’s youngest historians. He is the author of World History in 3 Points (Hachette, 2022) and More World History in 3 Points (Hachette 2022), now translated into more than ten languages. He is a SCM Youth Fellow and a winner of the India Reading Olympiad. As a public speaker, he has spoken in forums such as the Global Shapers of the World Economic Forum.

R. Chidambaram is one of India’s most distinguished experimental physicists. He has made outstanding contributions to many aspects of basic science and nuclear technology. He joined the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in 1962 and became its director in 1990. He was chairman, Atomic Energy Commission of India, from 1993 to 2000.

Dr Chidambaram was the chairperson of the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency during 1994-95. He was a member and later vice-president of the Executive Committee of the International Union of Crystallography during 1990-99. He has won many scientific awards, including the Homi Bhabha Lifetime Achievement Award of the Indian Nuclear Society (2006), the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (2009) and the C.V. Raman Medal of the Indian National Science Academy (2013). Dr Chidambaram was awarded the Padma Shri in 1975 and the Padma Vibhushan, the second-highest civilian award in India, in 1999.

He is currently Chairman (Hon), School for Advanced Studies in Nuclear Science & Technology, BARC.

Suresh Gangotra is a gold medallist in metallurgical engineering from MS University Baroda. He graduated from BARC Training School in 1984. He has worked in nuclear fuel fabrication, post irradiation examination, nuclear safeguards, nuclear security, nuclear non-proliferation and negotiations of international cooperation agreements. He has represented India in many international forums, including the Nuclear Security Summit. He has co-authored the biography of Dr Anil Kakodkar titled Fire and Fury: Transforming India’s Strategic Identity.

John Stuart Mill was born on 20 May 1806, London. His Father, James Mill was a famous historian and utilitarian thinker. Further, John Stuart Mill won acclaim for his skill as a historian, philosopher, economist, visionary and political scientist.

Francis Scott Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and educated at Princeton. Stationed in Alabama, he met and later married Zelda Sayre. His first novel, This Side of Paradise published in 1920, was a tremendous critical and commercial success. Fitzgerald followed with The Beautiful and the Damned in 1922, The Great Gatsby in 1925 and Tender is the Night in 1934. He was working on The Last Tycoon (1941) when he died, in Hollywood, in 1940.

Janani Kannan is a US-based architect, translator, singer and marathon runner. She enjoys translating Tamil novels and short stories and most recently translated Rising Heat, Perumal Murugan’s very first novel. Her interests also include collecting and chronicling anecdotes, recipes and architectural nuggets from Tamil culture.

Durjoy Datta was born in New Delhi and completed a degree in engineering and business management before embarking on a writing career. His first book–Of Course I Love You . . .–was published when he was twenty-one years old and was an instant bestseller. His successive novels–Now That You’re Rich . . .; She Broke Up, I Didn’t! . . .; Oh Yes, I’m Single! . . .; You Were My Crush . . .; If It’s Not Forever . . .; Till the Last Breath . . .; Someone Like You; Hold My Hand; When Only Love Remains; World’s Best Boyfriend; Our Impossible Love; The Girl of My Dreams; and The Boy Who Loved–have also found prominence on various bestseller lists, making him one of the highest-selling authors in India.
Durjoy also has to his credit nine television shows and has written over a thousand episodes for television. Durjoy lives in Mumbai. For more updates, you can follow him on Facebook (www.facebook.com/durjoydatta1) or Twitter (@durjoydatta) or mail him at durjoydatta@gmail.com.

Durjoy Datta was born in New Delhi and completed a degree in engineering and business management before embarking on a writing career. His first book–Of Course I Love You . . .–was published when he was twenty-one years old and was an instant bestseller. His successive novels–Now That You’re Rich . . .; She Broke Up, I Didn’t! . . .; Oh Yes, I’m Single! . . .; You Were My Crush . . .; If It’s Not Forever . . .; Till the Last Breath . . .; Someone Like You; Hold My Hand; When Only Love Remains; World’s Best Boyfriend; Our Impossible Love; The Girl of My Dreams; and The Boy Who Loved–have also found prominence on various bestseller lists, making him one of the highest-selling authors in India.
Durjoy also has to his credit nine television shows and has written over a thousand episodes for television. Durjoy lives in Mumbai. For more updates, you can follow him on Facebook (www.facebook.com/durjoydatta1) or Twitter (@durjoydatta) or mail him at durjoydatta@gmail.com.