Col V. N. Thapar is the father of Capt Vijyant Thapar, VrC, who was a fourthgeneration army officer. At the early age of fifteen, he was selected for the National Defence Academy and commissioned on 12 December 1962 in the
Maratha Light Infantry. He commanded a battalion of the Jammu and Kashmir Rifles. He was part of the 1965 War and Bangladesh War, and has operated in counter-insurgency operations. He is an alumnus of the prestigious Defense
Services, Staff College, Wellington. He has written for media publications and is a motivational speaker at various forums, universities, colleges and schools.
Neha Dwivedi, a Kargil War martyr’s daughter and an Armoured Corps Officer’s wife, is a doctor by profession. She is an alumnus of DPS RK Puram and Lady Hardinge Medical College, Delhi. She sought solace in writing and found her
strength post her father’s martyrdom. She now lives in Mumbai, where she works as a childbirth educator and an infant and young child feeding specialist. She deeply believes in the healing and inspirational power of stories. This is her first book.
Yoga Guru Dheeraj is the founder of Vashistha Yoga Charitable Foundation Trust based at Ahmedabad. He is a pass out of Delhi based renowned journalism institute IIMC (Indian Institute of Mass Communication) and has worked in three major national news channels as TV journalist. He has been a Yoga practitioner Since 2009 and has been awarded Social Media Influencer Award in 2019 for his YouTube Channel Yoga Guru Dheeraj.
Vashistha Pranayam is considered his one of the major contributions in modern times.
He has also started a national campaign called Yogabali to create awareness for the Yoga.
These books were put together by Penguin India Editorial team, a dedicated band of editors striving to create the finest Indian children’s books, perfect for every reading level and requirement. Each book is meticulously researched and exquisitely designed to enrich a reader’s interaction with the book. Your introduction to the imaginative and magical world of learning and storytelling starts here!
Mir Yar Ali “Jan Sahib” (1818-1886), the “glory of rekhti”, was an Urdu poet from Lucknow. After 1857, he settled in Rampur where he wrote the Musaddas Tahniyat-e-Jashn-e-Benazir. He also published a diwan of poems during his lifetime.
Sandeep Dayal is the managing director of the marketing powerhouse Cerenti Marketing Group, which has been rated by Forbes as one of America’s top management consulting firms for the past six years in a row. Previously, he has worked for McKinsey and Booz, two of the world’s top strategy consulting firms. In his twenty-five-plus-year consulting career-nearly 100 engagements with more than thirty companies-he has had a unique vantage point from where he could work with and shape some of the world’s most amazing brands.
Dayal is a marketing visionary, and many of his articles, including those on building trust online, creating digital brands and deciphering consumers’ behavioural bounds, have proven to be remarkably prescient in predicting major marketing shifts. It is through this work right in the trenches, alongside some of the world’s top marketing executives, that he has developed a practical and game-changing framework for building what he calls ‘cognitive brands’.
Gurudutt was the novelist along with freedom fighter and social activist. He was great writer of 20th centuries besides of a science student and a doctor, who has written around two hundred novels, memoir and given many research materials on Indian history, religion, philosophy, culture, science, politics and socialism.
Bhagawaticharan Verma was a great freedom fighter, discussed Hindi scholar, veteran editor and film script writer. Initially he was writing poem, but he got popularity on the basis of his novel. He was awarded Padma Bhushan by the Government of India in 1971 for literary and education.
Bankim Chandra Chatarjee was the famous novelist, poet, story writer & a journalist. He was the first scholar to get space to the Indians with Bangla literature. He had gotten fame on world forum. His first novel was Durgesh Nandini & published in Sanskrit. But the best novel of him is Anand Math.
Amritlal Nagar was the famous scholar of Hindi. He was awarded with Padm Bhushan in 1981 by the Government of India. He has written poetry with name of Meghraj Indra in primary stage. His language is very simple, easy and the fit to situation.
Kavita Kané is the bestselling author of eight novels. Today, she is considered a revolutionary force in Indian writing mainly because she has brought in feminism where it is most needed—mythology.
All of her novels—Karna’s Wife (2013), Sita’s Sister (2014), Menaka’s Choice (2015), Lanka’s Princess (2016), The Fisher Queen’s Dynasty (2017), Ahalya’s Awakening (2019), Sarasvati’s Gift (2021) and Tara’s Truce (2023)—are based on lesser-known women in Indian mythology.
For one who confesses that the only skill she knows is writing, her word journey, not unexpectedly, began as a journalist, with twin postgraduate degrees in English literature and mass communication and journalism from the University of Pune. With a career of over two decades in Magna Publishing and DNA, she eventually quit her job as assistant editor of the Times of India to devote herself to being a full-time author.
Passionate about theatre, cinema and the arts, she is also a columnist, a screenplay writer and a motivational speaker, who has given several talks all across the country’s educational and research institutes, corporate and management fora and literary festivals.
Born in Mumbai, with a childhood spent largely in Patna and Delhi, she now lives in Pune, with Prakash, her mariner husband; two daughters, Kimaya and Amiya; two dogs, Chic and Beau; and Cotton, the uncurious cat.
