Aditya Magal is 28, lives in Bangalore, grew up in Bombay and calls this awesome, mad place called India his home. Writing is the only thing he has wanted to do but bills force him to trade stocks and do other things. He is addicted to pizza, pav bhaji, dosa, and other junk foods. His ambition in life is to eat, sleep, and watch TV. He can also be found blogging at www.rakeshjhunjhunwala.in and tweeting as @jhunjhunwala on http://twitter.com/jhunjhunwala
This is his first book.
Mushtaq Ahmed Yousufi is an Urdu satirist and humour writer from Pakistan. Regarded by many as the best contemporary Urdu humorist, he was born into a learned family of Tonk, Rajasthan in 1923. He completed his early education in Rajputana and earned a BA from Agra University and an MA Philosophy and LLB from Aligarh Muslim University. After Partition his family migrated to Karachi. He was awarded the Quaid-i-Azam Memorial Medal for distinguished services in banking.
T.V. Paul is James McGill Professor of International Relations at McGill University, Montreal, and a leading scholar of international security, regional security, and South Asia. His 15 published books include: South Asia’s Weak States: Understanding the Regional Insecurity Predicament; The India-Pakistan Conflict: An Enduring Rivalry; India in the World Order: Searching for Major Power Status; Globalization and the National Security State, and Status in World Politics. He has also published over 55 journal articles and book chapters and has lectured at research institutions internationally. He is the editor of the book series: South Asia in World Affairs and was the founding director of the McGill/University of Montreal Center for International Peace and Security Studies (CIPSS). During 2013-14 Paul served as vice-president of the International Studies Association (ISA).
Abubakar Siddique is a journalist with Radio Free Europe in Prague, covering Afghanistan and Pakistan. He has spent the past decade researching and writing about security, political, humanitarian and cultural issues in Pakistan, Afghanistan and the Pashtun heartland along the border region where he was born. In 2006 he co-authored a report with Professor Barnett Rubin for the US Institute of Peace that was the first analytical work to address the importance of Pakistan’s tribal areas, ‘Resolving the Pakistan-Afghanistan Stalemate’.
Trevor is a research assistant in the South Asia program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he previously served as a Junior Fellow focusing on South Asian security and U.S. grand strategy. He completed his bachelor’s degree with honors at the University of Chicago.
