Archives: Authors

Born and raised in Chennai, Nandini Vijayaraghavan is a director and head of research at the Singapore office of Korea Development Bank. She holds master’s degrees in economics and finance from Tufts University and London Business School, respectively, and is a CFA charter holder. Unfinished Business is Nandini’s first India-centric business book. Her columns on finance and economy have appeared in BusinessLine, The Hindu, Economic & Political Weekly and Financial Express. Nandini’s blog address is www.litintrans.com.

Jennifer Moore-Mallinos was born and raised in Toronto, Canada, and is currently residing in the Cleveland area with her husband and three children. Jennifer graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Social Work from Ryerson University.

Jennifer’s work experience includes being a Child Welfare Social Worker, an Early Childhood Mental Health Consultant and Trainer, and a Guardian Ad Litem. Jennifer began her writing career in 2001. She writes non-fiction children’s books that focus on family situations, life skills, developmental disorders and everyday situations. Jennifer’s books are published in several countries and languages, and are available all around the world!

Jennifer enjoys sports, reading and spending time with her family.

Gustavo Mazali was born in 1961. He was drawing even as a little boy. But he dreamed of becoming a pilot, then a veterinarian, then a doctor … looking for something he would love. He worked as a cadet, office worker, salesman and travelling sales rep … until finally realizing that drawing was what he really loved to do.
He taught comic strip drawing workshops with Alberto Salinas and with Oswal. He started creating comic strips with scripts written by Carlos Albiac, Carlos Trillo and Guillermo Saccomanno.

He drew the comic strips for the characters Cybersix and Irsh Coffe, created by Carlos Trillo and Carlos Meglia. In 1998, he embarked on illustrating school textbooks and children’s literature. After so much drawing, sketching and painting, he realized his dream … had come true.

Abhijit Bhaduri is a Talent Management practitioner with global experience across various sectors. As Chief Learning Officer for Wipro, a role he worked in for seven years, Abhijit oversaw global initiatives across several countries. As an alumnus of PepsiCo, Colgate and Tata Steel, he has been exposed to globally acknowledged best practices in leadership, talent management and culture building. He heads Learning and Development for Microsoft globally. He has close to a million followers on social media who follow his articles and sketchnotes. His newsletter on LinkedIn has more than 280,000 subscribers.

Follow him on LinkedIn, Pinterest, Instagram and Twitter @abhijitbhaduri Email: abhijitbhaduri@live.com

Pranay Kotasthane is deputy director at the Takshashila Institution, where he is a researcher and teacher of public policy, foreign policy and public finance. Pranay is the co-author of the public policy best-seller Missing in Action: Why You Should Care about Public Policy (2023) and When the Chips are Down: A Deep Dive into a Global Crisis (2023). He co-writes Anticipating the Unintended, a newsletter on public policy ideas and frameworks and co-hosts Puliyabaazi, a popular Hindi-Urdu podcast on politics, policy and technology.

Raghu S. Jaitley is a public policy and political economy enthusiast. He co-writes Anticipating the Unintended, a popular newsletter on Indian public policy.

Greenstone Lobo worked as a human resource professional before turning into a full-time astrologer in 2019. He has tested and practised the principles of astrology in the corporate environment for over twenty-five years. He has a regular column ‘Octozone’ on sports astrology, in
the Indian daily, DNA, since 2008.

Greenstone was honoured with the WOW Award for his extraordinary contribution to the field of astrology in 2019. He has clients all across the globe and is a regular visiting astrologer at
Illuminations, Dubai.

LIEUTENANT GENERAL PVSM, UYSM, YSM, VSM (RETD), an alumnus of the National Defence Academy, is a 1983-commissioned Infantry Officer (Rajputana Rifles). Popularly known as ‘Tiny’ Dhillon, he served extensively in counter-insurgency and counterterrorism operational areas of Kashmir and the North-east. During the most challenging environment of the Pulwama IED blast and the abrogation of Articles 370 and 35A, he commanded the Srinagar-based 15 Corps in Kashmir. He is MSc, MPhil, PhD and superannuated as Director General, Defence Intelligence Agency, under the Chief of Defence Staff in January 2022. His debut book Kitne Ghazi Aaye, Kitne Ghazi Gaye, a national bestseller, was the winner of the popular choice award in the non-fiction category of the Crossword Book Awards 2024. His second book, Wafadari Imaandari Zimmedari, released in May 2025, is already a national bestseller. His third book Operation SINDOOR published in August 2025 continues to remain a bestseller.

The author can be reached at X, Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn at @tinydhillon and email: kjsdhillon15@gmail.com.

Lieutenant General Kanwal Jeet Singh Dhillon, PVSM, UYSM, YSM, VSM (Retd.) an alumnus of National Defence Academy, is a 1983 commissioned Infantry Officer (Rajputana Rifles). Popularly known as ‘Tiny’ Dhillon, he served extensively in Counter Insurgency/Counter Terrorism Operational areas of Kashmir and the north-east of India. During the most challenging environment of Pulwama IED blast and Abrogation of Article 370 and 35A, he commanded the Srinagar based XV Corps in Kashmir. He superannuated as Director General Defence Intelligence Agency under the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) in January 2022.

Dr. Arupa Patangia Kalita is regarded as one of the most prominent feminist writers from the North-East. A powerful storyteller of topics, such as insurgency, poverty and women’s issues, Dr Kalita’s novels speak about the ordinary lives of the common Assamese people. She has been awarded the Assam Valley Literary Award, Bharatiya Bhasha Parishad Award, Katha Prize among other prestigious recognitions. For her acclaimed novel Mariam Austin Othoba Hira Barua, she received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2014.

In 2016, Dr Kalita retired as Head of the English Department of Tangla College, Darrang, Assam. She has as many as twenty published books to her credit, mostly novels and short-story collections. Many of her books are also prescribed texbooks in academic institutions in Assam. While her stories have been widely translated into English, Hindi and Bengali, as a translator herself, Dr Kalita has worked on Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, besides collections of Russian and Chinese folk tales into Assamese.