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C.K. Prahalad is the Harvey C. Fruehauf Professor of business administration at the University of Michigan Graduate School of Business Administration and chairman of the board of Praja, a technology management company in San Diego. He lives in San Diego but travels extensively.
Venkat Ramaswamy is a professor of marketing at the University of Michigan Graduate School of Business Administration. He lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Anees Jung was born in Hyderabad. Her father, Nawab Hosh Yar
Jung, was one of the principal advisers to the last reigning Nizam
of Hyderabad. She was brought up as a child in strict purdah, but
later went on to study at Osmania University and the University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor, where she took a Master’s degree in sociology
and American studies.
She has been the editor of a magazine, Youth Times, and has
written for several of the world’s major newspapers. She has also
written two books—When a Place Becomes a Person and Poems
in Prose.
Anees Jung lives in New Delhi.

Born in 1899 in Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh, Saradindu Bandyopadhyay started his literary career by writing poems when he was a student in Vidyasagar College, Calcutta. Subsequently, he studied law, and then dedicated himself to writing. By 1932, when the first Byomkesh mystery appeared, he was already an established writer. He went on to become a popular and renowned writer of ghost stories, historical romances and children’s fiction in Bengali. He was the recipient of the Rabindra Purashkar in 1967 for his novel Tungabhadrar Tirey. He also received several other awards before his death in 1970.

Bimal Jalan is one of India’s well-known economists. He was Governor of the Reserve Bank of India from 1997 to 2003, demitting office on his nomination to the Upper House of Parliament by the President for distinguished service to the country. He has held several top positions in the ministries of finance and industry and in the Planning Commission. He was also Chairman of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister and represented India on the boards of the Internation Monetary Funds and the World Bank im Washington DC. his recent publications includes India’s Economic Crises: The Way Ahead (Oxford University press 1991) and, as editor ,The Indian Economy: Problems and prospects (Penguin 1993) Bimal Jalan was educated at Calcutta, Cambridge and Oxford Universities.

Jaishree Misra was born in Delhi and maintains an ambiguous relationship with the city. She has worked, variously and briefly, as a special needs teacher, social worker, Journalist, broadcaster, writer. She is also a wife and mother. Ancient promises, Her first novel, garnered her wide readership. She lives in London.

Anurag Mathur was born in Delhi and educated at Sciendia School, Gwalior, St. Stepen’s College Delhi, Delhiand The Unversity of Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA. He is a journalist in the print and electronic media and loves music, eating out and Tennis-besides reading ofcouse. His published books includ the best selling novels The Inscrutable Americans and Scene from an Executive Life.

Indira Srinivasan, educated in Delhi, Waltair, Chennai and Plymouth, is an English teacher with twenty years of teaching experience at the high school level. A resource person for teacher training programmers all over India, she is involved in the production of training materials. She is associated with the British Council’s Business English programs and is a trainer in business English courses from various corporate houses in Chennai. She is the author of several text books, including the Connect series, and is presently compiling another English textbook. She is married and lives in Chennai. Chetna Bhatt, educated in Chandigarh, Delhi and Plymouth, has been teaching English in a public school in Delhi for nearly twenty years. She has conducted teacher training workshops all over India for English teacher at the secondary school level and is a resource person for CBSE and the British Council. She is also associated with the British Council as trainer for the Business English Programs and is a course writer for Indira Gandhi National Open University. She is the author of Interactions in English and several other English textbooks for high school students. She is married and lives in Delhi.

Pavan K. Varma is a writer and former diplomat who most recently served as a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha. He earlier worked as Advisor to the Chief Minister of Bihar with the rank of Cabinet Minister. He joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1976 and has served as India’s Ambassador in several countries, Director of the Nehru Centre in London, Official Spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs, and Press Secretary to the President of India. Varma is the author of more than a dozen acclaimed and bestselling books, including Becoming Indian, Echoes of Eternity, The Great Indian Middle Class, and Adi Shankaracharya: Hinduism’s Greatest Thinker. He received an honorary doctorate from the University of Indianapolis in 2005 and the Druk Thuksey, Bhutan’s highest civilian award, in 2012.