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Deepak Nayyar was educated at St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University and went on to study at Balliol College, Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes scholar. He was, for some time, in the Indian Administrative Service and later served as Economic Advisor in the Ministry of Commerce. More recently, he served as Chief Economic Advisor to the Government of India and Secretary in the Ministry of Finance. Currently professor of economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, he has taught economics at Oxford University, the University of Sussex and the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta.
Deepak Nayyar’s previous books are India’s Exports and Export Policies, Economic Relations Between Socialist Countries and the Third World, Migration, Remittances and Capital Flows and Economic Liberalization in India. He has also published several articles in professional journals.

Kavery Nambisan was born in Coorg district, Karnataka. She went to school in Delhi and graduated from St John’s Medical College, Bangalore. She stood first in surgery and was sponsored by the University of Liverpool for higher training. She obtained the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons when she was twenty-four.
Kavery Nambisan has written several award-winning books for children. She is also the author of two novels, The Truth (Almost) About Bharat and The Scent of Pepper, both published by Penguin.
Kavery Nambisan is married to journalist and poet Vijay Nambisan. She currently lives and works in Kerala.

Sumita Ghose is a development worker and activist, who has lived and worked for several years in rural Rajasthan, and for a while in Assam. Currently, she is involved with and is researching on issues of peace and development. She lives in Gurgaon, Haryana, with her children and parents-in-law.

Kuvempu (Author)
Kuppali Venkatappa Puttappa, known as Kuvempu (1904-94), is a cultural icon who powerfully influenced the course of Kannada literature in the twentieth century. Born in a remote hamlet near Thirthahalli, in the Malnad region of Karnataka, he moved to Mysore for his education. He had a master’s degree in Kannada, taught Kannada literature in the University of Mysore, and retired as its vice-chancellor.

Kuvempu’s prolific and versatile oeuvre, with more than seventy-five published works, includes poetry, plays, essays, short stories, children’s literature, novels, literary criticism, translations, and autobiography. The English translation of his classic novel ‘Kanur Heggadati’ (1936) was published by Penguin (1999), and made into a film by Girish Karnad. Kuvempu reimagined Indian epics in light of modern ideals of equality and freedom. His poetic epic ‘Ramayana Darshanam’ (1949) was a radical rewriting of the Valmiki epic, which won the first Sahitya Akademi award in 1955 and the Jnanpith in 1967. He has been conferred Padmavibhushan and Padmabhushan, the highest civilian awards. Inspired by Tolstoy’s expansive canvas, and Aurobindo’s philosophy, Kuvempu sculpted a modern yet entirely desi epic novel in Bride in the Hills.

Vanamala Vishwanatha (Translator)
Vanamala Viswanatha, professor of English Studies, has taught English for over four decades in premiere institutions in Bengaluru. A bilingual scholar, she has taught, published, and promoted Indian literatures in English translation, collaborating with Katha, Sahitya Akademi, and the National Translation Mission. An award-winning translator, she has translated important modern Kannada writers such as Tejasvi (1994), Vaidehi (1998), Sara Aboobacker (1999), U.R. Ananthamurthy (2001), Lankesh (2003), and Gulvadi Venkata Rao (2019). Her repertoire includes the translations of seminal pre-modern classics: Vachana (2012); The Life of Harishchandra (Harvard University Press, 2017); and Vaddaradhane, a 10th century Jaina text (HUP, forthcoming). A Translation Fellow at Ashoka University, she is currently translating L. Tolpadi’s essay collection, Musings on the Mahabharata.

Vikram A Chandra is one of the India’s best –Known TV journalists. He anchor prime time news on Star TV network, and is news editor of NDTV, India’s leading TV news organisation. He reports extensively from Kashmir.
Educated at St. Stephen’s college and at New College, Oxford University, Vikram lives in New Delhi. This is his first book.