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Hajra Masroor (1930-2012) is remembered as one of the most celebrated Pakistani writers of Urdu short stories and narrative fiction. Deeply influenced by the Progressive Writers’ Movement, she made a place for herself among writers like Ismat Chughtai, Saadat Hasan Manto, Krishan Chander, and Rajinder Singh Bedi. Masroor wrote with great energy and wit. Her stories possess an elegant prose style, strong female characterization, and a little twist at the end that keeps her readers baffled and engaged.

IRA PANDE started her career as a lecturer in Panjab University, later switching to editing and publishing, and later worked with several prominent English-language publishing houses. Her last editorial stint was as chief editor of the India International Centre’s (IIC) Publication Division. In 2005, she wrote a memoir of her mother titled Diddi: My Mother’s Voice, documenting the life and times of Shivani. In 2010, she got the Sahitya Akademi Award for her translation of Manohar Shyam Joshi’s T’ta Professor, which also won the Crossword Book Award for translation. She writes a regular column for the Tribune.

An alumnus of Centre for Historical Studies, JNU, New Delhi, Queeny Pradhan is a professor of History at GGS Indraprastha University, New Delhi. She teaches Indian History, Legal History, and Women in History. She was awarded the doctoral scholarship from Teen Murti Memorial Fund. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla. She was also an ICCR Visiting Professor at the University of Vienna. She has authored a book, Empire in the Hills: Simla, Darjeeling, Ootacamund and Mount Abu, 1820-1920, OUP in 2017. She has also co-edited a volume, Identities in South Asia: Conflicts and Assertions, Routledge, 2019. Presently, she is the Dean of the University School of Mass Communication, GGSIP University.

Trilochan Sastry is Professor at IIM Bangalore and a former Dean. He did his B Tech from IIT Delhi, MBA from IIM Ahmedabad and Ph D from MIT. He is the founder of ADR, an NGO that works on Electoral and Political reforms and also of CCD and Farmveda that work with tens of thousands of small farmers. He has received various Awards for his academic work and for his work in society. He has been interested in Hinduism since early adolescence and has lived in monasteries, studied the sacred texts, attended classes from various teachers and visited various pilgrimage sites.

Ravinder Kaur is Associate Professor of Modern South Asian Studies and Director of the Centre
of Global South Asian Studies at the University of Copenhagen. Her core research focuses on the processes of capitalist transformations in 21st century India. This is the subject of her most
recent book, Brand New Nation . This work was selected as the ‘Financial Times Best Book of the Year’ in 2020 and longlisted for the Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize in 2021. She is also the author of Since 1947: Partition Narratives among the Punjabi Migrants of Delhi.

Nayanika Mathur is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of the South Asian Studies Programme at the University of Oxford.
She is the author of Paper Tiger: Law, Bureaucracy, and the Developmental State in Himalayan India (2016) and Crooked Cats: Beastly Encounters in the Anthropocene (2021). Educated at the Universities of Delhi and Cambridge, Nayanika is currently interested in
questions of method opened up by the climate crisis and her long-standing research in the Indian Himalayas.

Alok Kejriwal is a Mumbai-based serial digital entrepreneur and is currently the CEO and co-founder of Games2win. His first two companies, contests2win.com and Mobile2win, pioneered digital gaming and promotions in the world. The Walt Disney Company later acquired Mobile2win.
Besides being a businessperson, Alok is an Art of Living teacher and regularly facilitates meditation and breathing workshops. He has
been practising meditation for the last thirty years.
Alok’s first book, Why I Stopped Wearing My Socks, was a bestseller and won the C.K. Prahalad Best Business Book prize at the
2019 Bangalore Business Literature Festival. He is also a motivational speaker and has spoken at various corporate conferences, as well as
at the Wharton School, the Harvard Business School, IIMs and IITs.
Alok takes a keen interest in mentoring emerging entrepreneurs and writes a popular daily blog #dhandhekibaat on Facebook and LinkedIn.
Website: http://games2winmedia.com
X (formerly Twitter): https://twitter.com/rodinhood
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alokkejriwal/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rodinhood/
Email: alok@rodinhood.com

Anirban Bhattacharyya is the author of India’s Money Heist, The Deadly Dozen and other books, two of which are soon to be adapted for the screen. He is also a stand-up comedian, actor, director and producer.