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SAADAT HASAN MANTO is the most widely read and controversial short story writer in the Urdu language. He was a writer and playwright, and a pre-eminent practitioner of the genre. He produced twenty-two collections of short stories.

Tim I. Gurung, was born in 1962 in a Gurung village called Dhampus in mid-western Nepal. He joined the British Gurkhas at the young age of seventeen, as his grandfathers and uncles did before him. He served for thirteen years and retired in 1993 as an Army Corporal, after which he became a businessman and worked in China for the next twenty years. Before his fiftieth birthday, Tim made a life-changing decision and became a full-time writer and has since written fifteen novels.
He currently lives in Hong Kong with his family.

Utkarsh Amitabh is the chief executive officer of Network Capital and the chief marketing officer of 5ire.org, a blockchain unicorn valued at $1.5 billion. 5ire.org acquired a stake in his company Network Capital (networkcapital.tv), one of the world’s largest mentorship platforms that empowers 1.6 million school students and 1,50,000-plus young professionals to build meaningful careers.

Educated at Oxford and INSEAD, Utkarsh worked at Microsoft for seven years across the US, Europe and India, leading business development for big-bet projects. He writes for Harvard Business Review and World Economic Forum.

Yogesh Maitreya is a writer, poet, translator and publisher. He is the founder and editor of Panther’s Paw Publication that is dedicated to publishing literature by Dalit-Bahujan writers (in English and as translations from other Indian languages). He is the author of Flowers on the Grave of Caste (2019), a collection of short stories, Singing/Thinking Anti Caste (2021), a book of essays on music and memories, and Ambedkar 2021 (2021), a book of prose poetry.

Coomi Kapoor is a pioneer political journalist who was the first woman chief reporter and female bureau chief in Delhi. She has been in the profession for nearly five decades, and has worked with The Indian Express, India Today, The Sunday Mail, The Indian Post, The Illustrated Weekly of India and The Motherland. She is at present consulting editor at The Indian Express, where her popular column, ‘Inside Track’, appears regularly. Her earlier book, The Emergency: A Personal History, was a bestseller.

Esha Chhabra is a writer who covers sustainability, international development and the rise of mission-driven brands. She has spent the last decade contributing to a number of international and national publications such as Guardian, New York Times, Wired UK, Washington Post, Atlantic, Fast Company, Forbes, Stanford Social Innovation Review and more. She has been awarded multiple fellowships from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting for her reporting. Esha is a graduate of Georgetown University and a Rotary Scholar from The London School of Economics.

Aashima Dogra is a freelance science writer and editor. Her time in a Pune lab pushed her to embrace her love for science stories and pursue a masters degree in Science Communication in 2009. Since then she has enjoyed researching and creating engaging science media published on various platforms for Indian as well as international audiences. She has been editor of Brainwave magazine, which is where she met Nandita. Aashima has people she calls home in Austria and India.

In 2016, Nandita and Aashima embarked upon a cross-country tour across Indian science laboratories, an exercise they dubbed ‘Lab Hopping’. This evolved into one of India’s most well-known (and one of the only science-centric) feminist media projects, thelifeofscience.com. The duo have worked on several projects; this is their second book together.

Indrani Majumdar is a researcher firmly rooted in the Bengali culture. Her explorations have included studying the various facets of Satyajit Ray’s work, as well as translating several texts from Bengali into English and vice versa. She lives and works in Delhi.

Nakashi Chowdhry’s fascination with foreign languages began when she first discovered French words in italics in the books she read as a child. She became determined to be fluent in French, and one day, she actually found herself teaching it! Originally from Delhi, she now lives in the gorgeous city of Str asbourg in France where she teaches English, translates and eats croissants every weekend.

Abdullah Khan is a Mumbai based novelist, screenwriter, literary critic and banker. Born in a village near Motihari, Bihar, he was initially educated in madarsa and Urdu-medium school. Abdullah’s writings have appeared in Brooklyn Rail, Wasafiri, Frontline, Mint, The Hindu and Friday Times, among others. His debut novel, Patna Blues, has been translated into 10 languages.