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MSN India celebrates all things women! The ‘MSN-Random House India Write A Story Contest’ is an attempt to reach out and connect with every Indian woman who is not afraid to live her life the way she wants to. The entries are woven around three coming of age themes that resonate with real women in the country: Woman in the City, Growing Up in India, and The Man in My Life. Contestants have also tackled the interesting challenge of growing the storyline around famous quotes from iconic writers and come up with their own lines that could make history one day. It’s all about inspiring a movement to bring change, make things better and help women hold up ‘half the sky’, the way they are meant to.

Charles DiSalvo is the Woodrow A. Potesta Professor of Law at West Virginia University, where he teaches one of the few law school courses in the United States on civil disobedience. He has represented civil disobedients in trial and appellate courts, written widely on civil disobedience and lectured on the subject in the United States and abroad.
Professor DiSalvo was educated at St. John Fisher College, Claremont Graduate University, and the University of Southern California School of Law, where he was a member of the Southern California Law Review. Upon his graduation from law school, he was awarded a Reginald Heber Smith Community Lawyer Fellowship to practise poverty law for the Appalachian Research and Defense Fund.
He served as a Bigelow Teaching Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School before joining the West Virginia faculty. In addition to teaching a course on civil disobedience and the law, he teaches courses on civil procedure and trial advocacy. He is the co-founder of the West Virginia Fund for Law in the Public Interest.
He is married to Kathleen Kennedy, with whom he has three children, Clare, Maura and Philip.

Pia Heikkila is a journalist with over fifteen years of experience with international media including Al Jazeera, CNN, CNBC, the National, and the Guardian. She has lived in South Asia since 2008 and has spent time in Afghanistan as a correspondent reporting for the international press. She currently lives in Mumbai where she covers news, lifestyle, and business stories for print and TV. This is her first book.

John Zubrzycki is the author of The Last Nizam. He is also an award-winning journalist whose long association with India has included stints as a Hindi student, diplomat, consultant and foreign correspondent. He is the world commentary editor at the Australian newspaper and lives in Sydney.