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Award-winning foreign correspondent Pallavi Aiyar has reported from
China and Europe for over a decade. Her China travelogue, Smoke
and Mirrors, won the Vodafone-Crossword Popular Book Award for
2008. Her novel, Chinese Whiskers, a modern fable set in China, was
published in America, Italy, Belgium and India. She is also the lead
author of the Lonely Planet guide China: For the Indian Traveller.
Pallavi Aiyar is now based in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Sanjeev Ranjan is an ardent lover of western classical and instrumental music. He enjoys reading and has a keen interest in understanding human behaviour and relationships. He is currently pursuing his MBA from the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), Kolkata. He is the author of It’s No Longer a Dream (2014) and In Course of True Love! (2012). This is his third novel. Follow him at www.facebook.com/sanjeev.ranjan91 and www.twitter.com/sanjeevranj or email him at sanjeevranj91@gmail.com.

Ilina Sen has been active in the women’s and other rights-based movements for over three decades. Educated at Shillong, Kolkata and at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, her research, writing and action has focused on women’s politics and livelihood issues, as well as issues of sustainable development, agro-biodiversity and peace.

During the years her husband, Dr Binayak Sen, was in prison on charges that many considered were trumped up, she was actively involved in the campaign for his release. She has been professor of women’s studies at the Mahatma Gandhi Antarrashtriya Hindi Vishwavidyalaya [International Hindi University], Wardha, and at the Tata institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. Currently, she is senior fellow, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi. Her major publications include A Space within the Struggle (1990) and Sukhvasin: The Migrant Woman of Chhattisgarh (1995).

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Dr. Kallam Anji Reddy was born in 1941 at tadepalli, a small town in present – day Andhra Pradesh, and completed his schooling in a neighbouring village. After graduating in chemistry from Guntur and in pharmaceutical technology from the University Department of Chemical Technology, Bombay, he earned his doctorate from the National Chemical Laboratory in Pune. Dr. Anji reddy started his career in the state – owned Indian Drugs and Pharmaceuticals Limited, Hyderabad, in 1967 . He founded Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Limited in 1948 and was its chairman till he passed away in 2013. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan by the Government of India in 2011 for his services to trade and industry.

Aarya Babbar is an Indian actor who has appeared in several Hindi and Punjabi films . Coming from a film and theatre background, acting obviously runs in his veins. He has also been a closet writer from a very young age and has always written in his free time. Be it plays for his mother’s theatre group Ekjute, or poems, random thoughts and short stories – writing has been an intrinsic part of his life.

Tina Sharma Tiwari is an author, award – winning sports jounalist and prime – time news anchor. Through her fifteen – year – career she has worked as a reporter, anchor, producer and commentator with Hindustan Times, Aaj Tak, Headlines Today, Zee Sports, BBC and DD Sports. She is currently a senior news anchor and consultant with Times Now. Over the years she has covered landmark events, like the Olympics, the Asian Games, the cricket World Cups and the Commonwealth Games. In 2010 she embarked on a parallel writing career with her bestselling debut novel, Running on Full. She feels her writing reflects her cosmopolitan upbringing in Delhi, Mumbai and Hong Kong, and also her varied intersts, ranging from sport to art, current affairs to travel. Tina lives in New Delhi with her husband, two sons and two dogs.

Kalyana Malla was an esteemed poet at the court of the Lodhi prince Lad Khan, in eastern Uttar Pradesh at the beginning of the sixteenth century. His works describe him as of a royal lineage from the Karpura warrior clan of the lunar line, and his father, Gaja Malla, and grandfather, Trailokya Chandra, as respected rulers and military commanders. Writing in classical Sanskrit, he is known to have composed two still-extant works for his princely patron. One is the celebrated sex manual Ananga Ranga, and the other is the remarkable story collection Suleiman Charitra, drawn from Islamic and Biblical stories.

Günter Blamberger is the professor of German philology at the University of Cologne and, since 2009, has been the director of the Internationales Kolleg Morphomata (Centre for Advanced Study in the Humanities, Cologne). A renowned scholar and writer, he is the author of several works including Figuring Death, Figuring Creativity: On the Power of Aesthetic Ideas. He has received visiting scholarships in Stanford, Melbourne, Parma, Adelaide and Krakow, and was awarded the Humanities International for the best book in the humanities in Germany in 2011.

Isabella Tree is a writer and journalist based in the UK. She is the author of three other non- fiction books and writes frequently for publications such as Conde Nast Traveler, the Sunday Times and the Observer. She has been travelling regularly to Nepal since the 1980s.