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Ashok K. Banker began his career in market research, advertising and direct marketing before working as a successful journalist breaking front-page news stories for Times of India and Outlook, scripting award-winning documentaries and television serials before returning to his first love, writing books. His Epic India Library is an attempt to retell all the major myths, legends and itihasa of the Indian subcontinent in one enormous story-cycle comprising over 70 volumes. It includes his internationally acclaimed and bestselling Ramayana Series, Krishna Coriolis, and Mahabharata Series. His books have sold over 1.2 million copies in 56 countries and 12 languages worldwide. The Valmiki Syndrome is the first book in his Vedic Wisdom series that applies the insights of ancient puranic texts to modern-day problems.

V.S. Ramachandran is the Director of the Center for Brain and Cognition, Professor in the Psychology Department and Neurosciences Programme at the University of California, San Diego, and Adjunct Professor of Biology at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. He has also been elected to fellowships at All Souls College, Oxford, and the Royal Institution, London (which also awarded him the Henry Dale Medal), and has received the Padma Bhushan. Newsweek named him a member of ‘The Century Club’, and one of the ‘one hundred most prominent people to watch’ in the twenty-first century.

This anthology is published in collaboration with Plan India, one of the oldest and largest children’s development organizations. ‘Because I am a Girl’ is Plan’s global campaign designed to fight gender inequality, promote girls’ rights, and lift millions of girls out of poverty.

Rahul Bhattacharya was born in Bombay in 1979, and was part of a St. Xavier’s College team that comfortably failed to carry forward the legacy of Sunil Gavaskar and Ashok Mankad. He covered this tour for the Guardian and Wisden. Pundits from Pakistan won the 2005 Crossword Popular Book Award and was voted fourth-best cricket book of all time by the Wisden Cricketer, London, in 2010. His first novel, The Sly Company of People Who Care, won the Hindu Literary Prize for Best Fiction in 2011 and was shortlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize. He lives in Delhi.

Brett Lee is a former Australian Test bowler and recipient of the prestigious Allan Border medal. He currently plays ODIs and T20 for Australia and is part of the IPL franchise-Kolkata Knight Riders. Apart from cricket, he is passionate about music and has his own fashion label-Brett Lee.

James Knight began his media career in 1988 as a radio journalist. Since then his work has spanned television, newspapers, magazines, the internet and guest speaking. He lives in Sydney with his wife, Clare, son, Iggy, and dog, Tango. This is his sixth book.