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Kalpana Sharma has been a journalist since 1972 and has worked with Himmat, The Indian Express, The Times of India and The Hindu. She has specialized in writing on environmental and developmental issues, with a special focus on the concerns of women. With Ammu Joseph, she has written and edited Whose News? The Media and Women’s Issues. For her column, ‘The Other Half’, which first appeared in The Indian Express (and appears currently in The Hindu, where she is a Deputy Editor), Kalpana Sharma was awarded the Chameli Devi Jain Award for an Outstanding Woman Journalist in 1987. She lives in Mumbai.

Priti Narain belongs to an old family of Delhi and a community which has a tradition of taking great pains over the preparation and serving of good food. She ran a gourmet restaurant in Delhi for two years, in partnership with a friend. For several years, she also supplied cakes on order. Currently Priti leads a relaxed life, bird-watching and taking the occasional order for chocolate cake.

Carl Muller was born in 1935 in Kandy. As a young man he joined the Royal Ceylon Navy, then briefly served in the Ceylon Army and later joined the Colombo Port Commission. He moved into journalism and worked in the Middle East. He is a prolific writer having written poetry, fiction, a children’s book, short stories, historical fiction, a collection of essays and monographs. He has won many awards and prizes for his writing. He is best known for The Jam Fruit Tree (1993), which won the Gratiaen Prize for that year. He lives in Kandy.