A.S. Panneerselvan
A.S. Panneerselvan is fellow at Roja Muthiah Research Library, Chennai and head of its Centre for Study in Public Sphere. Earlier, he was the Readers’ Editor (an independent internal news ombudsman) of The Hindu, , for nearly a decade. Apart from being a regular columnist, he is also an adjunct faculty member of the prestigious Asian College of Journalism, Chennai.
Panneerselvan is the author of Karunanidhi: A Life, published in 2021 by Penguin Random House. He was conferred the G.U. Pope award by the Government of Tamil Nadu for his literary and journalistic contributions. He was the head of the jury for the 2022 JCB Prize for Literature.
Murali Balaraman has been a lifelong student and practitioner of customer experience and customer centricity. As a consultant and advisor his work has taken him across geographies and industries to meet with key influencers of respective Industries. As a professional his work experience spans across consulting (EY), IT services (IBM and Polaris), financial services (HDFC Bank and Citibank), and professional services (Lovelock & Lewis, now a member firm of PWC and Shaw Wallace).
Trained to be a chartered and cost and works accountant, Murali, quickly drifted away to his first love-customers. His passion for analytical reasoning has never died down though.
Murali currently lives in Bengaluru with his wife and daughter.
Gautam Sen is an Indian journalist, writer and automotive design consultant and expert. He is also the Vice President External Relations at Fédération Internationale de Véhicules Anciens FIVA, the international federation for historic vehicles. Sen founded India’s first newsstand car magazine Indian Auto in 1986.
Vismaya Mohanlal is an artist whose interests lie in the realms of fine art, poetry and performance. She is from the south of India. Grains of Stardust is her first book.
Sadashiv Pandurang Sane was a writer and a poet. He was such a fine teacher that he was given the title of National Teacher and came to be known as Sane Guruji. He wrote seventy-three books in all, mostly for children, of which the most famous and loved is Shyamchi Aai. Editor, playwright, orator, film-maker Acharya Atre made a film on the book that won the President’s Gold Medal for Cinema in 1954 at the first edition of the National Film Awards.
Stuti Agarwal is a writer (duh!), a self-proclaimed home chef and illustrator. When she is not nestled into her couch, dreaming of magical adventures in her hometown of Darjeeling and one day being called Roald Dahl’s prodigy, she is participating in pasta cook-offs with herself while listening to Harry Potter audiobooks or practising for when she wins the Pulitzer.
Stuti Changle is a bestselling author. She won notable mentions in Amazon Kindle’s Pen to Publish 2018 competition for her first book On the Open Road. Her second book, You Only Live Once, became a national bestseller. Where the Sun Never Sets is her third book.
Stuti has a master’s degree in management from IMI New Delhi. She quit her corporate career to inspire people by sharing life-changing stories. She is often invited by prestigious institutions for speaker engagements, where she encourages young people to follow their dreams. She made her TV debut in 2019 as a host of the TV series Kar Ke Dikhaenge.
Stuti has sailed to the Andamans, camped with Indian jawans in Arunachal Pradesh, scuba-dived in the Indian Ocean, swum with the dolphins in the Mediterranean, floated free for hours on the island of Mallorca, and wishes to travel the world before she dies. Every year, she spends time in the coastal village of Palolem in Goa. She currently shuttles between India and the US, where she lives with her husband, Kushal Nahata, co-founder and CEO of FarEye.
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Urvashi Bahuguna is the author of the poetry collection Terrarium and writes regularly on books, culture and mental health.
UTTAM KUMAR SINHA is one of India’s leading commentators on transboundary water issues. After a brief stint in the print media and a doctoral degree from Jawaharlal Nehru University, he joined the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses in 2001 (now renamed as Manohar Parrikar-IDSA) where he heads the non-traditional security centre and is the managing editor of Strategic Analysis, the institute’s flagship journal, published by Routledge.
He is a recipient of many fellowships, including senior fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (2018-20); an academic visitor at the Harvard Kennedy School (2015); Chevening ‘Gurukul’ scholar at the London School of Economics and Political Science (2008); and a visiting fellow at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (2006).
His noted works include Riverine Neighbourhood: Hydro-Politics in South Asia (2016) and Climate Change Narrative: Reading the Arctic (2014).
Suhas Munshi was born in Srinagar and has spent over a decade reporting on politics, culture and conflict from across India, including Jammu and Kashmir. This World Below Zero Fahrenheit is his first book.
