Bela Bhatia lives in Bastar, a predominantly tribal area of south Chhattisgarh, and works there as an independent human rights lawyer, researcher and writer. After completing her post-graduation in social work from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, and securing a law degree from the University of Gujarat, Bela also pursued a doctorate in social and political sciences from the University of Cambridge. She then began her work life as a full-time activist organizing labourers and marginal farmers in rural Gujarat. The people there, and in other parts of rural India where her concerns took her later, have been—she believes—her best teachers.
Bela spent two years doing peace and human rights work in Iraq and Palestine. She is the co-author (with Miriam Shaheen and Mary Kawar) of Unheard Voices: Iraqi Women on War and Sanctions and the co-editor (with Jean Drèze and Kathy Kelly) of War and Peace in the Gulf: Testimonies of the Gulf Peace Team. Bela loves nature, books, jazz and dogs.
Kushal Lodha is the founder of KAGR, an ed-tech platform in finance upskilling. He is a qualified CA (with All-India ranks across all levels). He is a part-time creator with over 500k+ followers on social media cumulatively. He was awarded the LinkedIn’s Top Voice for 2022.
He is the author of Acing CA, which is #1 Amazon Bestseller, which talks about his CA journey and opportunities for CAs in and outside India.
Ishan Sharma is the co-founder of MarkitUp, a content agency and is a content creator with over 1.5 Mn+ followers across social media. He has delivered speeches at colleges like IIT Jodhpur, among others.
Ishan is also the author of Crush It on LinkedIn, a book where he shares how to get opportunities using LinkedIn. He has taught Python programming and full stack development on Unacademy, having taught 1000+ students for over 350 hrs.
Dr Deepak Dhayanithy is associate professor of Strategic Management at IIM Kozhikode. He has been at IIM Kozhikode since 2011, offering and teaching elective courses to MBA and PhD students on sports, analytics, decision-making, poker and strategy. His research includes sports phenomena and the natural environment. During the first decade of this century, he completed his PhD (Fellow, IIM Lucknow) and witnessed the unfolding of the sub-prime crisis from his perch in the sub-prime mortgages industry. In the 1990s he studied architecture and worked as an architect before turning to management studies.
Miliind helps corporate clients with creative solutions and working professionals build successful careers that they love, using strategic creativity.
This book is an outcome of his twenty-four years of learning and experience in the field of creativity. From a newbie struggling for creative ideas to an idea person, who helps corporate clients with creative solutions, it had been a long journey for Miliind. His struggle with creative ideas started in 1997, after his elevation from a sales manager to marketing head. For him, becoming creative was a non-negotiable option. In his desperation, he read every book on the subject of creativity and innovation that he could lay his hands upon. Attended workshops and tried to apply every learning in his work. Slowly his brain started getting rewired and he started seeing the results.
Since then creativity is his main source of livelihood
Jai Chakrabarti is the author of the novel A Play for the End of the World, which won the National Jewish Book Award for debut fiction, was long-listed for the PEN/Faulkner Award and short-listed for the Tagore Prize. His short fiction has received both an O. Henry Award and a Pushcart Prize and has been anthologized in the Best American Short Stories and performed on Selected Shorts by Symphony Space. His nonfiction has been published in The Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, and elsewhere. Born in Kolkata, India, he now lives in New York with his family.
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Prof. M.D. Nalapat was appointed India’s first Professor of Geopolitics & the UNESCO Peace Chair by Manipal University in 1999, positions he still holds. An Executive Committee Member of the Editors Guild of India, Member of Indian School of Social & Economic Sciences and Associate Member of the National Institute of Advanced Studies and the United Services Institution, Prof Nalapat is also the Editorial Director of ITV Media Network, having previously edited the Mathrubhumi and the Times of India. He writes extensively in national and international publications and has authored nine books.
Prof. Nalapat has lectured extensively in India, the US, the UK, Austria, China, Taiwan and other countries and has originated several concepts, including that of the constrainment of China, Asian NATO, Southern Asia rather than only South Asia as India’s hinterland and the concept of the proxy nuclear state.
Ajai P Mangattu is a well known novelist, essayist and translator in Malayalam. He lives between Kottayam and Kozhikode in Kerala. He completed his studies from the Maharajas College in Ernakulam, and started his career as a journalist in 1998.He is currently the assistant editor with Malayala Manorama, and has been writing literary criticism in various magazines in Malayalam for the last 25 years. His translations include Gail Ombedt’s Ambedkar-Towards an Enlightened India, Elie Wiesel’s Night, Elif Shafaq’s Forty Rules of Love. He has published books on the life and works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Noam Chomsky.
Catherine Thankamma is a writer and translator based in Kochi, Kerala. Narayan’ Kocharethi was her first full length translation which won the Crossword Book Award (2011). She has also translated Pulayathara by Paul Chirakkarode in 2019.
Joya Chatterji is a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, Emeritus Professor of South Asian History at the University of Cambridge and sometime Reader in International History at the London School of Economics. From 2010 to 2021, she was first Editor then Editor-in-Chief of Modern Asian Studies, a leading scholarly journal in the field. Between 2014 and her retirement in 2019, she was Director of the Centre of South Asian Studies at Cambridge. She was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2018.
