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KANCHA ILAIAH SHEPHERD is former director, Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy, Maulana Azad National Urdu University, and former head of the department of political science at Osmania University, Hyderabad. He is a social activist and political theorist and has been writing in English and Telugu for forty years. His well-known books, Why I Am Not a Hindu, God as a Political Philosopher, Post-Hindu India
and Buffalo Nationalism, have played a critical role in shaping Shudra/OBC/Dalit discourse in India and abroad.

KARTHIK RAJA KARUPPUSAMY is a first generation graduate from a Shudra family. Currently a doctoral candidate and senior research fellow at the Centre for Political Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University, his research focuses on the political, legal and socio-economic interface between Dalits and OBCs in the Kongunad region of Tamil Nadu. His MPhil dissertation, ‘The Nation in Historical Imagination’, theorizes how secular and communal conceptions of the ‘nation’ are constructed, operationalized and disseminated through state-sponsored NCERT history textbooks post-Independence.

Trisha Bora studied literature at Miranda House and started a career in publishing immediately after. She has worked as an editor and commissioning editor at Penguin Random House India, Rupa Books, Dorling Kindersley and Juggernaut Books. She was senior features editor at Conde Nast Traveller India. Her novel, What Kitty Did, was published by Harper Collins in 2018; she is currently working on the second book of the Kitty series. She lives in Mumbai with her husband, her cats, Lucky and Mowgli, and a hundred plants.

You can find her on Instagram @trisha.bora and follow her plantkeeping stories @aplantersdaughter. You can also catch her plant guides on her YouTube channel, Planter’s Daughter.

Surendra Mohan Pathak was born on 19 February 1940 in Khemkaran, Punjab. After graduating in Science, he began to work at the Indian Telephone Industries Ltd. By the time he grew up, he had already read many national and international writers and begun translating the novels of Ian Fleming, Mario Puzo and James Hadley Chase, after which he began his own writing.
His most popular novels were Asafal Abhiyaan and Khaali Vaar, which took Pathak to the very zenith of fame. Since then, he has never looked back. His novel, Painsath Lakh ki Dakaiti was also published in English and made news for selling hundreds of millions of copies.
You can contact him on:
smpmysterywriter@gmail.com
http://www.smpathak.com/

His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama is the spiritual leader of Tibetan people. In 1989, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his non-violent struggle for the liberation of Tibet.

Kevin Missal is a prolific author who started his writing career at the young age of fourteen with his debut novel, Damien Black: The Battle of Lost Ages. His literary works have topped the bestselling charts on Hindustan Times bestseller and Asian Age bestsellers. He has written fifteen best-selling novels which include the Narasimha Trilogy, Kalki Trilogy, Raavanputr Meghnad, Yama, Karna: The King of Anga, Sinbad Series, Devi Series, and many more. Some of his books have also been turned into audiobooks. Kevin has worked with top publishers in India including Fingerprint Publishing, Harper Collins India, Simon and Schuster India, and Penguin Random House India. Translated into six languages, his books have gained wide recognition and popularity.

A graduate from St. Stephen’s College with a B.A. Honours in History, Kevin is passionate about Indian mythology, history, and philosophy. He is dedicated to paving his way ahead with many more books to write in the future. Not only is he a prolific writer, but he is also a TEDx speaker and CEO of Hubhawks, a flourishing startup that aims to support budding authors by filling the gaps that exist in book marketing. Kevin has been featured in several reputed publications including Times of India, The Hindu, Telegraph India, The Hindustan Times, Mid Day, and The Indian Saga. You can follow him on Instagram, LinkedIn and Facebook.

An alumna of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Ruchira Chaudhary straddles the corporate and academic worlds—-she is a leading executive coach, adjunct faculty at several top tier business schools and runs a boutique consulting firm focused on organizational strategy solutions. Ruchira’s diverse and eclectic background in mergers & acquisitions, organizational effectiveness and strategy execution, coupled with two decades of experience in emerging markets in Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, helps her grasp challenging people issues.

During her corporate career, Ruchira held leadership roles in Medtronic and AIG in Singapore, Qatar Telecom (now Oredoo) in Qatar and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) in India. Her consulting repertoire spans multinationals, government agencies and leading local businesses across industries. Ruchira teaches and frequently coaches MBA students, and senior business executives as affiliate faculty at several business schools—-SMU, NUS and IMD in Singapore, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business in Asia and most recently, London Business School.

Ruchira frequently gets featured in and writes for leading business journals. She has authored a series of highly acclaimed leadership and coaching articles for the Mint and also writes a regular column for them. Ruchira earned a bachelor’s degree in Economics (Honours) from the University of Delhi, a master’s in communications management and an MBA from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business with a concentration in strategy. She divides her time between Singapore and India.

Nidheesh Tyagi was born in 1969 in Jagdalpur in Bastgar, Chhatisgarh. He loves writing Poems. He works with BBC Hindi as an Editor.