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T.G.C. Prasad is the founder and CEO of mSupply.com, one of India’s largest B2B commerce companies for construction, infrastructure, interiors, industrial, manufacturing, MRO related products and materials. He was also the country head and board member of Misys, India, a USD 4 billion global IT software product company. He is a civil engineer from NIT, Calicut and has done his master’s from Tata Institute, Mumbai. He attended and delivered programmes at Stern School of Management (NY), Fordham School (NY), IIMA and IIMB.

Krupakar and Senani are wildlife film-makers by profession and conservationists by passion. On a voluntary basis, they run a non-profit society called Namma Sangha, which is dedicated to conservation by reducing human pressure on the forests of Bandipur tiger reserve in south India. This is now considered one of the most successful nature conservation movements in India. They work together under the name Krupakar-Senani Features.Together, they have travelled extensively, studying, photographing and filming birds and animals of the Western Ghats. More than forty of their photo-essays have been published in popular Kannada magazines. Their work has won acclaim from peers worldwide, and state and central governments in India. They have contributed over one thousand photographs to leading books on birds the world over, and to magazines such as Natural History Magazine, Geo, London Times and BBC Wildlife. Two of their recent films on Asiatic wild dogs, for National Geographic and Discovery channels, have achieved international acclaim. The Pack, which they shot for Discovery Communications, won the ‘Green Oscar’ 2010, the first ever Asian film to have won this award. They hail from Mysore, and call the forests of the Nilgiri foothills home.

Gopalkrishna Gandhi is the grandson of Mahatma Gandhi. He is an acclaimed Indian writer, diplomat and historian, with extensive experience in public service, including serving as the Governor of West Bengal. He has contributed significantly to India’s political landscape and is widely respected for his scholarship on the moral and political philosophy of his grandfather. Gopalkrishna brings a deep understanding of Gandhi’s ideas, particularly in the context of modern political thought.

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Buddhadeva Bose (1908-1974) is widely considered to be the successor to Rabindranath Tagore for the versatility and breadth of his literary work. A multifaceted writer and one of the leading lights of modern Bengali literature, Bose combines lyricism with a style of writing uniquely his own to create an unmatched legacy.

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Arunava Sinha translates classic, modern and contemporary Bengali fiction and non-fiction from Bangladesh and India into English. He also translates fiction from English into Bengali. Over eighty of his translations have been published so far in India, the UK and the USA. He teaches creative writing at Ashoka University, where he is also the co-director of the Ashoka Centre for Translation, and is the Books Editor at Scroll.in.