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Anuvab Pal is an acclaimed playwright and screenplay writer. His screenplays include the awardwinning The Loins of Punjab and The President is Coming. His plays, which have been performed at numerous festivals, include Chaos Theory, Fatwa, Paris and Life, Love, and ETIBDA. Anuvab has also written for the acclaimed sitcoms Frasier and Law and Order. He currently lives and works in Mumbai.

Deepanjana Pal studied at St. Stephen’s College, Delhi, and the University of Warwick. She currently works with Time Out Mumbai and writes on art and literature.

Ibn-e safi was born in 1928 in india. He created two great mystery series, Jasoosi Duniya and the Imran series during the 1950s. Both gained massive popularity and were translated into several languages. Ibn-e safi died of pancreatic cancer on his birthday on July 26, 1980 in Karachi.

Rahul Mehta was born and raised in West Virginia, USA. He is currently a lecturer in English at Alfred University.

Narayan Wagle is an acclaimed journalist and was the editor of Kantipur Daily, Nepal’s largest circulating newspaper. Palpasa Café, his first novel, was published in 2005 and became a bestseller, selling over 40,000 copies and winning the Madan Puraskar, Nepal’s most prestigious literary prize. It was translated into English in 2008. Narayan Wagle lives in Kathmandu.

Jasmine Saigal was born and raised in Kolkata. As a dreamy teenager she went to a convent boarding school in Darjeeling where there were strict rules against reading romance novels. So Jasmine became a closet romantic, hiding the photo-romances under her pillow, reading under flashlights late into the night till she fell asleep, dreaming of her charming Mr Darcy. After school, she followed her passion into literature by studying creative writing in New York. Jasmine now lives happily with her two first loves-dog Toto and cat Felix. This is Jasmine’s first romance novel and she finally feels liberated from her convent upbringing and in openly displaying her tender, affectionate side.

Kiran Kohl grew up near East Africa’s mesmerizing Rift Valley. She was always fascinated by tales of strong and sensual women in Maharjah Ranjit Singh’s kingdom who accompanied him to battle during the day and entertained his men by night. She won the Bookworm Prize in school for reading the maximum number of books. Needless to say, most of these were romance novels. Kiran’s love for romance has ever since grown. Having found her ‘Mr Right’, she now lives on a farm in Uganda with her pet elephant Heera, writing romance novels. Kiran would love to hear from you. You can write to her at kirankohl@gmail.com

Sangita Rathore read her first romance novel at the impressionable age of thirteen in boarding school and has been hooked ever since. The next five years saw her breaking every rule in boarding school from bunking games and reading romance under the bed to hiding in her cupboard with a tiny torch to guide her through the magical story while the matron forced the others to eat inedible dinner. Sangita now lives in a dilapidated, crumbling fort atop a mountain somewhere in Rajasthan with her stubborn pet camel Mirchi who refuses to venture outside the fort into the hot desert. She spends most days reading or gossiping on her canopied terrace with a bottle of champagne and chocolate dipped fruit on the side, and the outline of the Aravalli range in the background. When she is not luxuriating, she is painstakingly carving romance stories into the dried up bark of wood to ensure tradition is preserved while her shiny new laptop begs to be used.

Rocky and Mayur are the highly popular anchors of ‘Highway on my Plate’ which is the hit TV show from NDTV Good Times.