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Atul Gawande is the author of three bestselling books: Complications, a finalist for the National Book Award; Better, selected by Amazon.com as one of the ten best books of 2007; and The Checklist Manifesto. He is also a surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, a staff writer for the New Yorker, and a professor at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health. He has won the Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science, a MacArthur Fellowship, and two National Magazine Awards. In his work in public health, he is Director of Ariadne Labs, a joint center for health system innovation, and Chairman of Lifebox, a charity making surgery safer globally. He lives with his wife and three children in Newton, Massachusetts.

Muzaffar Ali is an Indian film-maker, fashion designer, poet, artist, music lover, revivalist and social worker. He belongs to the royal family of Kotwara.

Beginning his career in advertising, he played a role in the incipient days of Air India before moving on to a successful career as a film-maker in Bollywood. His works include movies such as Umrao Jaan and Gaman, and several documentaries and short films. He has launched his own couture line, ‘Kotwara’, and is involved in several initiatives that celebrate art, foster the traditional handicrafts of Awadh and promote Sufism.
He received the Padma Shri in 2005 and the Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award in 2014.

Nimish Dayalu, ex-Moody’s, global head of people development, is passionate about bringing a positive change in people’s lives. A certified yoga teacher on a path of mind training, he has yoga in his DNA-his direct lineage is from the world-famous Iyengar yoga family. Nimish is the co-founder and CEO of Zoga Wellness, a high-tech mobile application designed to help users learn and practise ancient Indian yoga and meditation.

About the Author
Yatindra Mishra is the author of four collections of poetry and some well-received books on Indian music, cinema and arts in the Hindi language such as Girija, Devpriya, Sur Ki Baradari, Akhtari and Shahernama Faizabad (ed.).
The original Hindi version of this book, Lata: Sur-Gatha, won the 64th National Film Award and the MAMI Award for Best Writing on Cinema (2016-17).
About the Translator
Ira Pande is a writer, columnist, and an accomplished translator. Over the years, she has translated short stories, novellas, memoirs, autobiographies and literary portraits. She was awarded the Crossword and Sahitya Akademi award for her translation of Manohar Shyam Joshi’s novella T’ta Professor in 2010. She has also translated Shivani’s stories and memoir Amader Shantiniketan, as well as Apradhini: Women without Men, a work on jailed women.

Ashok Kumar Lahiri is a distinguished Indian economist and a member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly from Balurghat. He also serves as a member of the Fifteenth Finance Commission. Lahiri previously served as 12th Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India, reader at the Delhi School of Economics, executive director at the Asian Development Bank, chairman of Bandhan Bank and director of the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy. He has also had stints with the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, as a consultant and senior economist, respectively.

Daaji, also known as Kamlesh D. Patel, is the fourth and current spiritual guide of the global Heartfulness movement. He has spent the past four decades training people across the world in Heartfulness meditation.
Daaji is the author of the bestsellers The Heartfulness Way (with Joshua Pollock) and Designing Destiny. His work has appeared in the Times of India, Economic Times, Hindustan Times and on leading television networks. Daaji gives keynote addresses at conferences and conducts workshops around the world. His passion lies in grassroots efforts, especially in taking meditation to the villages of India. Daaji enjoys going on nature walks with his grandchildren in Kanha Shanti Vanam, India, where he lives with his family.

Tanuj Solanki’s last novel, The Machine is Learning, was longlisted for the JCB Prize for Literature 2020. In 2019, he was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar for his short-story collection, Diwali in Muzaffarnagar. He lives in Gurugram with his wife. He’s @tanujsolanki on Twitter and @tansol1986 on Instagram.

Andrew Otis holds a PhD in Journalism from the University of Maryland. He spent five years researching and writing this book, first as a Joseph P. O’Hern scholar and then as a Fulbright Fellow in Kolkata, India. He lives in Washington D.C. For more about him, you can visit andrewotis.com.

Nicholas Brookes is an English writer, who has been based in Colombo since April 2018. He has covered Sri Lankan cricket and its history for international publications including ESPN’s The Cricket Monthly and Wisden’s The Nightwatchman.

THE OLD SANAWARIAN SOCIETY (OSS®) is the alumni association of The Lawrence School, Sanawar. OSS® was founded in 1914 by Rev. George Dunsford Barne CIE OBE (Principal, 1912-1932). In its modern avatar, the OSS® formed a society with an executive headed by a president, the first of which was democratically elected in 1979 and over the last five decades, OS have stepped up and devoted their time and untiring effort into building the OSS® into an inclusive and contemporary organization with members swelling to over 6000 worldwide. The Executive Committee of the OSS® endeavors to foster camaraderie, transparency in its working and encourage active participation of members. In order to effectively manage this ever-growing fraternity and its global footprint, the OSS® operates eleven Chapters across India and 8 overseas.