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O.P. Manocha is a postgraduate in physics (electronics) and has thirty-five years of experience in DRDO, the research wing of the Ministry of Defence, where he executed various defence projects. He has six publications to his credit in various international and national journals and conferences, including the Defence Science Journal, the International Conference of Image Information Processing and the proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Computer Sciences. He is a life fellow of the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunications Engineers and a life member of the Computer Society of India and the Indian Society of Remote Sensing. He is a former chairman of IETE, Dehradun Chapter. He retired from DRDO, where he was working as Scientist ‘G’, in 2018, to pursue his passion for travelling and writing. He is a runner, a cyclist, a nature lover, a yoga practitioner and a poet. He is an active blogger at the Times of India.

Siddarth Shrikanth grew up in India and studied conservation biology at Oxford. He then worked in corporate sustainability for McKinsey before moving to Hong Kong to be a foreign correspondent for the Financial Times. He gained a joint MPA/MBA from the Harvard Kennedy School and Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, during which he co-founded a natural carbon removal start-up and consulted for the World Bank on environmental policy. Siddarth lives in London and works in climate and nature investing.

Harsh Gupta ‘Madhusudan’ is an India-based public markets investor. He has written extensively on economics, finance and politics for Mint, Swarajya, The Wall Street Journal, The Hindu Business Line, The Indian Express and other publications.

Harsh enrolled to study at IIT Delhi, before dropping out. He graduated from Dartmouth College with an AB degree in economics. He also holds an MBA from INSEAD. He is on Twitter at @harshmadhusudan.

Rajeev Mantri is an India-based entrepreneur and investor, investing in public companies and early-stage technology ventures. He has contributed articles on political economy, technology, investing and entrepreneurship to Mint, Swarajya, India Today, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, The Indian Express and other publications.

Rajeev graduated with a BS in materials science and engineering from Northwestern University, and an MBA from Columbia University, specializing in private equity and value investing. He is on Twitter @RMantri.

Tenzin Dickie is a writer and a translator. She is editor of Old Demons, New Deities: Twenty One Short Stories from Tibet, the English language anthology of modern Tibetan fiction.

Sunanda Kulkarni followed in her illustrious father’s footsteps to become a celebrated doctor. She is currently associated with the Chinmaya Mission Hospital, Bengaluru. Dr Kulkarni has won several awards for her contribution to women’s health and her humanitarian work. She has published widely in Kannada, with her stories and articles being regularly featured in popular magazines and journals. This is her first collection of stories in English.

Sandeep Das is a business storyteller. An MBA from IIM Bangalore, Sandeep has been a consulting and FMCG leader for over fifteen years. He is a guest faculty at IIM A, IIM B and IIM L.. He is the bestselling author of How Business Storytelling Works.

Avik Chanda is a bestselling author, columnist, and business advisor, with two decades of Global Big 4 Consulting experience. His book, From Command To Empathy, featured in Amazon India’s best reads for Business, Strategy and Management, and Dara Shukoh: The Man Who Would Be King, reached the #1 spot in the National Non-Fiction Bestsellers list. Avik is Founder-CEO of NUVAH, and Director of the international literature festival, CANTO.

Siddhartha Bandyopadhyay is Professor of Economics at the University of Birmingham, where he leads the multi-disciplinary Centre for Crime, Justice and Policing, as well as the 21st Century Transnational Crime theme at the Institute for Global Innovation. A multi-disciplinary scholar, he has published in internationally leading journals in Economics, Politics, Law and Medicine. He has a special interest in translating his research into policy and practice.

Neil Borate is Deputy Editor at Mint, where he heads the personal finance team. Neil is a graduate in law and economics. He also has a post graduate diploma in investments from the University of Birmingham, UK and has passed the CFA Level 1 exam. He started writing about personal finance in 2016, at Value Research a mutual fund research portal. After a few stints at fintechs, Neil joined Mint in 2019 as a reporter covering mutual funds and other investments. He was made editor in 2021.