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AVINUO KIRE is a writer and teacher from Kohima, Nagaland. She has authored The Power to Forgive and Other Stories (2015), The Last Light of Glory Days and Other Stories (2021), a collection of poetry, Where Wildflowers Grow (2015), and co-authored an anthology of oral narratives titled Naga Heritage Centre-People Stories: Volume One (2016). Avinuo currently teaches English at Kohima College.

Ekta is a researcher turned entrepreneur living in Mumbai. She spent a decade studying Ecology, ranging from soil nutrient dynamics in the forests
of southern India to sustainable farming practices among communities in the Himalayas.
After finishing her PhD from the prestigious Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, she decided to make a career in digital media and edutainment through her own venture, Garden Up, a logical extension to a very successful Youtube channel.
Today, Garden Up content, services and products, cater to a wide-ranging Indian and international audience, helping them find greenery, sustainability and balance in their lives. You can find out more about her work at https://www.gardenup.in/

MUKESH BANSAL is a computer science engineer from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. After working in multiple early-stage start-ups in Silicon Valley, he returned to India to become a part of the first generation of tech entrepreneurs in the country. Bansal founded India’s largest fashion retailer, Myntra, and headed the ecommerce division for Flipkart after a highly successful acquisition. He is the co-founder and chairman of CureFit Healthcare Pvt. Ltd, where he is involved in building a next-generation health platform that makes holistic health easy and accessible.

Bansal is also an active investor in the Indian start-up ecosystem via his venture studio, Meraki Labs. His investments include Groww and Skyroot. His latest venture is Nurix, a generative artificial intelligence (AI) company focused on deploying enterprise grade AI agents. Bansal also hosts Sparx, a podcast in which he explores the latest research, strategies and insights for maximizing human potential. This is his third book.

Amit Sinha is a sports media professional who has been involved with multiple sports in the past few years because of his work, but his heart beats for cricket. A product of the University of Delhi’s Ramjas College, he is a keen storyteller, among other things, and loves to tell the not so well-known stories behind some iconic and even non-iconic photographs from the game of cricket on his Twitter handle @RandomCricketP1.

Joy Bhattacharjya spent many years covering Indian cricket on broadcast for ESPN Star Sports, including MS Dhoni’s debut match for India. He then spent 7 seasons as Team Director with the Kolkata Knight Riders worrying about Dhoni and his CSK team. Since then, he has moved on to commenting on Dhoni as an analyst, and can assure everyone that it is a far easier task to talk about Dhoni than plan against him. He also helped organize the first ever FIFA U17 World Cup and currently also runs a professional volleyball league.

Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee is a writer, political theorist and poet. He is the author of The Town Slowly Empties: On Life and Culture During Lockdown (2021), Looking for the Nation: Towards Another Idea of India (2018), and Ghalib’s Tomb and Other Poems (2013). His writings, apart from regular contributions to The Wire, have appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, Guernica, World Literature Today, the Economic and Political Weekly, The Hindu, the Indian Express and Outlook, among others. He has taught Lyric Poetry and Literary Journalism in Ambedkar University.

BALA SRINIVASA, a BITS Pilani alumnus, has had a diverse career as a Wall Street analyst, CXO in two global start-ups and as a venture capital investor. Bala’s fascination with markets and innovation started as an equity analyst in San Francisco during the first dot-com boom and bust. He was subsequently part of leadership teams at two start-ups where he ran global
sales and marketing teams leading to scale and exits. As an investor, Bala has partnered with entrepreneurs, reimagining and tackling complex problems for India’s largest markets, such as consumer lending, retail investing, marketplaces, digital-financial infrastructure,
blue-collar skilling and SaaS software, among others. Bala was previously partner at Kalaari Capital and is now managing director and co-founder at Arkam Ventures.

Durjoy Datta was born in New Delhi and completed a degree in engineering and business management before embarking on a writing career. His first book–Of Course I Love You . . .–was published when he was twenty-one years old and was an instant bestseller. His successive novels–Now That You’re Rich . . .; She Broke Up, I Didn’t! . . .; Oh Yes, I’m Single! . . .; You Were My Crush . . .; If It’s Not Forever . . .; Till the Last Breath . . .; Someone Like You; Hold My Hand; When Only Love Remains; World’s Best Boyfriend; Our Impossible Love; The Girl of My Dreams; and The Boy Who Loved–have also found prominence on various bestseller lists, making him one of the highest-selling authors in India.
Durjoy also has to his credit nine television shows and has written over a thousand episodes for television. Durjoy lives in Mumbai. For more updates, you can follow him on Facebook (www.facebook.com/durjoydatta1) or Twitter (@durjoydatta) or mail him at durjoydatta@gmail.com.

Nityanand Charan Das is a practising monk at the Sri Sri Radha Gopinath Temple, ISKCON Chowpatty, Mumbai, and a visionary who wishes to revolutionize the current urban scenario by aiding people to lead a life of purpose, fulfilment and satisfaction. He also specializes in guiding today’s youth to reconnect with their roots and lead a simple yet happy life.

Coming from an army background, Nityanand Charan Das’s childhood desire was to become an army officer. However, Krishna had other plans for him and orchestrated his life beautifully. Life led him to fail the NDA interview, despite being one of the best in the group; he took up engineering instead, and eventually became a monk when he was just twenty-four years old.

Nityanand Charan Das focuses on making the sacred teachings of our holy scriptures simple so they that resonate with anyone and everyone. His message is simple: ‘Spiritual life is not a life of rejection. It is a life of connection.’ He says, we do not have to give up anything, we simply have to add this valuable dimension to our life.

His divine radiance can be felt far and wide: his discourses are heard in every major city in India and in more than fifty countries across the globe.

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Aakar Patel is a syndicated columnist who has edited English and Gujarati newspapers. His translation of Saadat Hasan Manto’s Urdu non-fiction, Why I Write, was published in 2014. His study of majoritarianism in India, Our Hindu Rashtra: What It Is. How We Got Here, was published in 2020. And his analysis of India’s performance under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Price of the Modi Years, was published in 2021. He is chair of Amnesty International India.