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Frank L. Baum (1856-1919) was born in New York. He enjoyed making up stories, particularly for his own children. The Wizard of Oz, based on their favourite bedtime story about a land of Oz, was published in 1900 and it immediately became a huge international success. He wrote several sequels and numerous other kinds of books under a pseudonym.

Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was born in India, although educated in England. He was a prolific writer and recognized as a genius. In 1907 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. His many books for children includeJust So Stories and Kim.

Onir is an acclaimed Indie filmmaker, based in Mumbai. His first film, My Brother Nikhil, won several Indian and international awards, including the Montreal Jury Award. His film I Am won the 2011 National Award as well as several international awards, including Best Film at the London Asian Film Festival. Onir has received the Diversity Award from Film Victoria Australia and La Trobe University at the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne 2019, and the Jury special mention for outstanding work on LGBT issues at the Indus Valley International Film Festival October 2020. He is one of the few people of the Indian film industry who are open about their personal identity. Onir also writes poetry.

Irene Dhar Malik is an award-winning film editor, screenwriter and writer of short stories. Irene’s short stories have been published in magazines and anthologies, such as like a volume of Afro-Asian short stories, Behind the Shadows, short stories by Indian women, Ripples, and in the Chicken Soup for the Soul series.

Dr Satvinder S. Juss, Phd (Cantab) is a Professor of Law at Kings College London, a practising Barrister in London, and a Master of the Bench of Gray’s inn.

Ramya Subramanian is a well known anchor, actor and also a fitness icon based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.

She is the founder of Stay Fit With Ramya, a YouTube Channel and an online platform now that provides holistic health, fitness and nutrition programs for Indian women living all over the world.

After winning gold in the district and state level powerlifting championships, Ramya is so much more than a media celebrity today.

Ramya got her CPD credits and completed her certification course at IIN, New York last year and in now a certified Integrative Health Coach.

The illustrious economists among the editors and authors of this book include names like Harinder Kohli (Founding Director and Chief Executive, Emerging Markets Forum), Rajat Nag, Ieva Vilkelyte (eds.); Montek Ahluwalia, Manu Bhaskaran, Dr R.A. Mashelkar, Michel Camdessus, Soumitra Dutta, among others.

V. RAGHUNATHAN (popularly, Raghu) is an academic, author, corporate executive, columnist and a hobbyist. He is currently an adjunct professor at the Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto, Canada. He was a professor of finance at Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad for nearly two decades. He was also the president of a large private bank, first Vysya Bank and then ING Vysya Bank, Bangalore. For the next fourteen years, he headed GMR Varalakshmi Foundation-a large corporate foundation-as their CEO, and also served as the director of the India campus of Schulich School of Business for five years. He has served on many boards of corporates, banks, educational institutions, hospitals, regulators and stock exchanges.

Raghu has written over 500 articles as a columnist and has one of the largest collections of old and ancient Indian padlocks in India. He is a PhD in finance from Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. His previous books include: Games Indians Play (2019, revised edition); Return to Jammu (2018); The Good Indian’s Guide to Queue Jumping (2016); Beyond the Call of Duty (2015); Duryodhana (2014); Locks, Mahabharata and Mathematics (2013); Ganesha on the Dashboard (2012); The Corruption Conundrum (2010); Don’t Sprint the Marathon (2010); Stock Exchanges, Investments and Derivatives-Straight Answers to 250 Nagging Questions (2007).

A. Siddharth Pai is a co-founder of Siana Capital and a venture capital fund manager for deep-science and deep-technology start-ups that ideally
have social impact. He has led some of the most innovative technologysourcing transactions and has advised and completed over US$20 billion
in transaction value. Siddharth has over three decades of experience working in the US and Europe and moved to Asia/India in 2002. He has
held senior executive roles with IBM and KPMG Consulting/Bearing Point in the Americas, Asia-Pacific and Europe, and was partner and president
of TPI/ISG’s Asia-Pacific region. He holds an MBA in finance and an MS in applied economics from the University of Rochester as well as a BCom
from Bangalore University.

Daisy Rockwell is an artist, writer, and Hindi-Urdu translator living in Vermont. She is a recipient of the Vani Foundation Distinguished Translator Award and her translations have been honored with The International Booker Prize, the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation the MLA Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Translation of a Literary Work, and the Wisconsin Prize for Poetry in Translation. Her novel Alice Sees Ghosts and Mixed Metaphors, her collection of poems about translation, is forthcoming from Bloomsbury India, and her memoir Our Friend, Art is forthcoming from Pushkin Press (UK) in 2027.

Kavita Khosa is an Ayurvedic beauty specialist with over twenty years of experience and is a qualified organic cosmetics formulator. A former Wall Street firm lawyer and director at Deutsche Bank, she established Sachananda Yoga Shala, a non-profit yoga school in 2003. A womens’ rights activist, Kavita is the Founder and CEO of PUREARTH, an
award-winning Ayurvedic skincare and wellness brand established in 2012.