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SAAD S. KHAN is a historian and a political
scientist. For the past five years, he has been a faculty member at the National School of Public Policy in Lahore, Pakistan. Khan was a Cambridge-OSI Trust scholar at the University of Cambridge, the UK, and a Fulbright non-degree professional scholar at the Institute for Training and Development, Amherst, Massachusetts, the US.

SARA S. KHAN holds a master’s degree in public administration. She has mainly worked in the social sector, including as the head of the Mohammad Ali Jinnah Academy, Quetta; at the Red Crescent Society, Lahore; and at Averox, Islamabad.

Amaru was a Sanskrit poet who probably wrote around the 9th century. Although virtually nothing is known about his life, his Amaru Shatakam is one of the most admired collections of love lyrics in the Sanskrit language.

Evan Purcell is an American teacher who has worked in Zanzibar, Kazakhstan, China and Russia. He’s spent two years in the beautiful kingdom of Bhutan. He’s published six novels for both adults and children. You can read about his writing and travels at evanpurcell.blogspot.com.

His much-loved series for children, Karma Tandin, Monster Hunter, has three books: Karma Fights a Monster, Karma Meets a Zombie and Karma vs the Evil Twin.

E.M. Forster was an English author and essayist. He studied at King’s College, Cambridge, and volunteered with the International Red Cross during the First World War. He became the secretary of the Maharajah of Dewas, India, in the 1920s. He then returned to London and established himself as a BBC Radio broadcaster. He was selected as an honorary fellow of King’s College and became a Companion of Honour and a member of the Order of Merit. Forster has written novels like A Room with a View, Maurice, The Longest Journey, Where Angels Fear to Tread, and Howards End.

Pt. Satyanarayan Sharma is born on 2nd January 1947 if village Papnawa in Haryana. He has worked 32 years in Delhi as teacher and during this period he has written dozens of books. He has written specially on martyrs and got his writing pen ironed.

Priyanka Champaneri received her MFA in creative writing from George Mason University and has been a fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts numerous times. She received the 2018 Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing for the manuscript of The City of Good Death, her first novel.

Sahar Mansoor is the founder and CEO of Bare Necessities, a zero-waste social enterprise. She is a circular-economy nerd, a voracious learner and a curious traveller. Sahar has obtained accredited degrees on environmental topics in India, the USA and England, becoming a University of Cambridge alumni.
Her business offers zero-waste personal care, lifestyle, home care and educational products and services, including online sustainability courses called ‘Zero Waste in 30’ and ‘Sustainability in 30’. She has also volunteered in Guatemala, Jamaica and the Democratic Republic of Congo for humanitarian projects. Her time
working at the World Health Organization in Geneva and SELCO Foundation, on implementing decentralized renewable energy projects in rural Karnataka, enabled her to build Bare Necessities from the ground up. Her work has been recognized by Google India, Al Jazeera, NDTV, Vogue, Elle, Femina, India Today, among others.
Sahar has a 500-gram jar of waste that she brings to the sustainability workshops she conducts, which is all the waste she has produced in the last five years. For more, visit https://barenecessities.in/.

Tim de Ridder began his environmental career in Australia, prior to moving to South East Asia and South Asia. He has a master’s degree in environmental management and sustainability from Monash University, Australia. He has organized a wide range of workshops on sustainability, with a focus on the circular economy, the creation of an online education course on waste in India and communityengagement initiatives in Cambodia and Malaysia. He has also written widely on environmental topics, including a research paper on the livelihoods of low-income communities and the benefits of carbon farming for indigenous Australians. Bare Necessities is the second book he has authored after his self-published Tales from the Roadside, a memoir about a solo bicycle trip across Europe that connected him to the world in profound ways.

Zarin Virji, a creative writing graduate from the University of Sheffield, follows her passions of teaching and writing.

For over three decades she has played the role of a teacher, teacher trainer and head of school. From 1996 to 2006, she edited the journal Classroom, a safe space for all matters related to education. Her writing is as much about expressing spontaneous feeling as it is about grappling with socio-economic realities of our times. Her poetry and short stories have been featured in publications such as the Research Scholar, Route 57 and The Best Asian Short Stories (2018).