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Kia Scherr has spent 20 years studying, practicing and teaching at the Sanctuary Holistic Retreat Center in Virginia. After her husband and 13-year-old daughter were killed in the Mumbai terrorist attack of 2008, Kia co-founded One Life Alliance to teach peace education programs based on Love, Compassion and Forgiveness. Kia spent 6 years in Mumbai working with business, education and police. Forgiveness is a Choice is her debut non-fiction book.

Devashish Sardana is the author of the bestselling The Girl in the Glass Case and The Girl with Broken Dreams. The Girl on Fire is his third book in the Simone Singh series, inspired by a range of experiences: Devashish’s lifelong love affair with thriller fiction, his passion for suspenseful cinema, and his own struggles with mental health as a kid. The result, he hopes, is a psychological crime thriller in the vein of Gillian Flynn, Lisa Jewell and Shari Lapena, among others. Devashish lives in Singapore with his wife and college sweetheart, Megha. He flits across the globe selling hope in a jar (beauty creams).

TANUJ BHOJWANI is a storyteller who codes. He holds a chemical engineering degree from IIT Bombay. He also attended Ashoka University and studied liberal arts at the Young India Fellowship. His training in the sciences and humanities allows him to craft narratives about technology that are accessible without sacrificing technical depth. As a Fellow at iSPIRT Foundation, Tanuj works on policy issues related to digital identity, payments, data protection and drones. Prior to iSPIRT, Tanuj has been a VC and an entrepreneur. When not reading or writing, Tanuj spends his time obsessing over board games, digital productivity systems and magic. He lives and works in Bengaluru.

S. Hareesh won the JCB Prize for Literature in 2020 for his debut novel Moustache. He is the author of three short story collections: Rasavidyayude Charithram, Adam and Appan. He has received the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award twice (for Meesha in 2019 and Adam in 2016). He has also written the screenplays for the film Aedan, which received the Kerala State Award for Best Screenplay in 2017, and Jallikattu, which won a Silver Peacock at the International Film Festival of India and was India’s official entry in the Best International Feature category at the 93rd Academy Awards.

Dr. Sanjiv Mishra is a Climate Change Fellow, Cornell University, United States and has received several other journalistic fellowships in India.
During his experience of over 27 years in Hindi journalism, he has had a journey from being reporter to editor in Swatantra Bharat, Aaj, Dainik Jagran, National Duniya, Haribhoomi, Rajasthan Patrika Group.

He has been writing regular editorial column and doing consultations in Dainik Jagran, Amar Ujala, Lokmat Samachar, Aaj Samaj, Rajasthan Patrika, Jansatta, Zee News, Hindusthan Samachar etc. His stories have been published in major newspapers and literary magazines of the country.

Sonu Sood is an international film actor, producer, entrepreneur and social worker. He has won several awards for his work in films. He is also the recipient of the United Nations Development Programme’s SDG Action Award for his humanitarian work during the COVID-19 pandemic. The stories of his migrant rescue mission feature in school texts in Andhra Pradesh as lessons in ethics. A fitness enthusiast with exemplary people skills, Sonu is now a household name. He resides in Mumbai with his wife, Sonali, and their two sons, Eshaan and Ayaan.
Meena K. Iyer was the editor of Bombay Times, a film critic at the Times of India and edited DNA‘s ‘After Hrs’. She has been an active media professional for the last thirty-nine years. She co-authored Rishi Kapoor’s bestselling book, Khullam Khulla: Rishi Kapoor Uncensored. She resides in Mumbai and is currently heading a film company.

Roddam Narasimha was a Padma Vibhushan awardee, an aerospace scientist and a fluid dynamicist.

SUN TZU was an ancient Chinese military general and strategist, and one of East Asia’s most important historical figures. He had a successful military career and went on to write The Art of War, a treatise on warfare and military tactics that encapsulates his strategies and expertise in the subject. The book has been translated into numerous languages and sold millions of copies all over the world and remains, till date, one of the most influential titles on the subject.