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Maneesh Dangi has over two decades of experience in the fields of investing and research with more than 15 years in the asset management industry. He has an extensive experience in managing portfolios and has been termed as one of ‘the most astute investors’ by the Asset (HK) 10 times during 16-year stint as a portfolio manager. Dangi was also awarded as the Best fund manager by S&P CRISIL (2011), Wealth Forum (2012), Outlook Money (2011-13) and Best CIO by Asia Asset Management (2016, 2018). In addition to the aforementioned, he has received multiple honours and recognitions from Aditya Birla Group. Dangi is a management graduate in finance and a certified financial risk manager. He founded a money management and advisory company in 2021 with the goal of resolving the problems associated with maintaining exposures in USD vs. INR and allocating capital between equity vs bond.

Anil Yadav is a writer and a journalist well renowned for both his fiction and non-fiction, the novella Gausevak and the travelogue Keeda Jadi being his best-known works. For the former, he was awarded the coveted Hans Katha Samman in 2019. For his research centred on Naxalism and tribal life, he travelled to remote regions in the north-eastern part of India. He was also awarded a media fellowship by the Centre for Science and Environment. His other published
works include Is That Even a Country, Sir!, an account of his travels in North-east India; Sonam Gupta Bewafa Nahi Hai, a collection of editorials; and Anya Kahaniyan aur Aprem, a short story collection. He has translated Indians: A Brief History of a Civilization into Hindi as well. Courtesans Don’t Read Newspapers is his second work to appear in English.

Thomas Rain Crowe is an internationally published author, editor, and translator of more than thirty books, including the multi-award-winning nature memoir Zoro’s Field: My Life in the Appalachian Woods (2005); an anthology of contemporary Celtic-language poets titled Writing the Wind: A Celtic Resurgence (1997); two volumes of translations of the poetry of the Sufi poet Hafiz—In Wineseller’s Street (Iran Books) and Drunk on the Wine of the Beloved (Shambhala Publications); and The Perfect Work: Poems of Hafiz, a work of poetry and music (Fern Hill Records, 1999).

Thomas Cleary is the preeminent translator of classic Eastern texts, including The Essential Tao, The Essential Confucius, The Secret of the Golden Flower, and the bestselling The Art of War.

Andrew Harvey is an internationally acclaimed poet, novelist, translator, mystical scholar, and spiritual teacher. He is the Founder/Director of the Institute for Sacred Activism in Oak Park, Illinois, where he lives.