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RAMA BIJAPURKAR is a business adviser, independent director on boards of blue-chip corporate and academic institutions, researcher, and academic. She describes her work as ‘bringing the “people view” to business strategy and public policy’.
Rama is the author of influential books on Consumer India—We Are Like That Only: Understanding the Logic of Consumer India (2007) and A Never-Before World: Tracking the Evolution of Consumer India (2013). More information can be found at www.ramabijapurkar.com

Maloy Krishna Dhar was born in Kamalpur, Bhairab-Mymensingh in East Bengal and migrated to West Bengal with his family during Partition. After obtaining a Masters in Bengali Literature and Language and Comparative Literature from Calcutta University, he worked as a college teacher and a junior reporter. He joined the Indian Police Service in 1964 and worked with the Indian Intelligence Bureau (IB ) for three decades.
After retirement from a service that honed his ability to observe and understand people and their motivations, he has had an extremely successful career as a freelance journalist, contributing to all the major English dailies. He is also a best-selling author and his landmark books include Open Secrets: India’s Intelligence Unveiled, Fulcrum of Evil: ISI-CIA-Al Qaeda Nexus, Black Thunder: Dark Nights of Terrorism in Punjab and We the People of India: A Story of Gangland Democracy.
Dhar also manages the website www.maloykrishnadhar.com where research articles on security, terrorism and internal and international security are regularly updated.

Shaifali Sandhya holds a PhD from The University of Chicago. She is a Professor of Clinical Psychology, a practising clinical psychologist, and an expert in couple therapy and family systems.

Amit Bhaduri (Author)
Amit Bhaduri was educated in Calcutta, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Cambridge University, from where he received his Ph. D in 1967. Currently professor of economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, he has held professorial and research positions in many countries, including Austria (Vienna and Linsz University, Institute for Advanced Study, and Academy of Science), Germany (Bremen University, Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin), Italy (Bolognia University), Norway and Sweden (Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in Social Sciences, Uppsala University, and Trondheim University), and USA (Stanford University). He has served as research advisor and expert on many UN bodies and has been a member of various international commissions, including the European Commission on Unemployment and the Commission on Rural Finance.
Amit Bhaduri has written nearly fifty articles in international journals and three books, The Economic Structure of Backward Agriculture, Macroeconomics: The Dynamics of Commodity Production, and Unconventional Economic Essays. He is on the editorial board of five technical journals in economics published from Cambridge, the Hague, Karachi, Paris and Rome.

Deepak Nayyar (Author)
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.

TEMSULA AO is a professor at the department of English, and the
dean of School of Humanities and Education, North-Eastern Hill
University, Shillong. She is the author of eight books, including five
books of poetry and a collection of short stories, These Hills Called
Home: Stories from a War Zone, published by Zubaan-Penguin (2006).
A member of the General Council of the Sahitya Akademi, she was
awarded the Padma Shree in 2007.

A journalist and former civil servant based in Itanagar, Mamang Dai has written extensively about the culture and history of Arunachal Pradesh. She is a member of the North East Writers’ Forum, and has published several short stories and poems.
Her previous books include The Legends of Pensam; Mountain Harvest: The Food of Arunachal; River Poems; Arunachal Pradesh: The Hidden Land; and two children’s books, Once Upon a Moontime and The Sky Queen.
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Madhav Mathur divides his times between Delhi, his home-town, and Singapore, where he was educated and now lives and works as a banker. The Diary of an Unreasonable Man is his first book.