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Dr Darren J. Player is a scientist and an academic. He studied personal training, exercise referral and sports science before completing his PhD in muscle cellular and molecular physiology. Dr Player has also undertaken professional qualifications in nutritional coaching and sports massage. He is an external examiner for a UK Sport Science degree and personal training qualifications. Combining his scientific background and professional qualifications, he has a unique view of health, fitness and exercise. A published author, he has contributed chapters in two scientific textbooks and has published numerous articles in prestigious scientific journals. Dr Player has also been invited to speak at scientific conferences and acclaimed academic and medical institutions, including AIIMS, IIT Delhi and the University of Washington. As a teenager, he was a competitive 200-metre and 400-metre runner. Now he just trains for health and well-being.

Vasu Eda is the co-founder and CEO of RiseSharp, a social impact venture whose mission is to change the college-to-job trajectory for India’s college students. He has written a very timely book, Get Job Ready: How to Land Your Dream Job out of College, targeted at 30 million college students in India.

N. Dayasindhu is an avid researcher focusing on innovations in globally distributed R&D and IT. He is the co-founder and CEO of itihaasa Research and Digital. He anchored high-impact R&D and capability development programs as an Infoscion.

Author of five novels and five short story collections, Geetanjali Shree’s work has been translated into English, French, German, Serbian, and some Indian languages. She has received and been shortlisted for a number of national and international awards and fellowships, and she lives in New Delhi.

Atul Gawande is the author of three bestselling books: Complications, a finalist for the National Book Award; Better, selected by Amazon.com as one of the ten best books of 2007; and The Checklist Manifesto. He is also a surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, a staff writer for the New Yorker, and a professor at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health. He has won the Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science, a MacArthur Fellowship, and two National Magazine Awards. In his work in public health, he is Director of Ariadne Labs, a joint centre for health system innovation, and Chairman of Lifebox, a charity making surgery safer globally. He lives with his wife and three children in Newton, Massachusetts.

Running barefoot and climbing trees, Pamela Gale Malhotra spent every moment of her childhood in the woods. Rooted in the spiritual culture of her Native American heritage, her ‘love affair’ with Nature coincided with her lifelong journey with her beloved husband, Anil. A graduate of Colorado State University, Pamela worked with a major pharmaceutical company before training in natural healing methods.

Pamela’s love of Nature has impacted everything she has done, the sanctity of Creation coupled with respect and devotion for the Creator being the key tenets she and Anil shared. Both enjoyed exploring wild places whenever they could, creating their first wildlife sanctuary on the Big Island of Hawaii. Eventually shifting to India, they established a model
private wildlife sanctuary in Kodagu, Karnataka, with hundreds of acres of reclaimed, rewilded and preserved forests under their protection. The
sanctuary was the fulfilment of Pamela’s childhood dream, with Anil transforming that dream into reality. They also founded the non-profit charitable trust SAI (Save Animals Initiative) Sanctuary Trust to promote their cause. For more information, please visit www.saisanctuary.com.

Over the years, Pamela’s environmental work and her efforts for women’s empowerment have been recognized globally. She has received awards like India’s Nari Shakti Puraskar (2017); Karnataka State’s Environment and Conservation Award (2017-18); the International Institute for Peace through Tourism Women’s Empowerment Award (2015); TOFTigers Wildlife Tourism Initiative (2014); lifetime achievement awards from Cauvery College and Kolkata’s International Wildlife and Environment Film Festival (2016); Animal Activist in Defense of Animals award (2016); Indian Confederation of NGOs Karmaveer Noble Laureates (2008 and 2019); the Ramnath Goenka Social Service Award (2016); the Dharma Seva Trust Award (2016); and the Giraffe Heroes award (2021).

Pamela’s goal is to inspire others to join the mission of protecting Mother Nature and rewilding the Earth for the benefit of the present and future generations.

Jibanananda Das was an indian poet, writer, novelist and essayist in the Bengali language. Popularly called ‘Rupashi Banglar Kabi’, Das is the most read poet after Rabindranath Tagore and Kazi Nazrul Islam in Bangladesh and West Bengal.

Nikhil Menon is assistant professor of history at the University of Notre Dame. He grew up in Chennai and studied at Delhi University as well as Jawaharlal Nehru University. His PhD in history is from Princeton University. He lives in South Bend, Indiana.

Manthan Shah is a young author, podcaster, athlete, student and Schwarzman Scholar.
He is a two-time Under-18 SGFI Indian Table Tennis National Champion, and he won medals for India at the Pacific School Games 2015 in Adelaide, Australia. He hosts Planet Impact, the podcast that shares the stories of young changemakers with its 10,000 listeners.
He is set to pursue a master’s degree in global affairs at Tsinghua University, Beijing. He was a Dean’s List student and Global Citizenship awardee at the SP Jain School of Global Management, Sydney. He has a diploma in creative writing from Symbiosis College of Distance Learning, Pune.
He had the privilege of meeting HH Pope Francis in a private sitting at Vatican City in 2019 and meeting HH the Dalai Lama at Dharamshala in 2018. Manthan Shah is from Ahmednagar, Maharashtra. Unstoppable is his first book.

JAYASREE KALATHIL is a writer and translator.