Archives: Authors

Alaa Al Aswany was born in 1957. A dentist by profession, Al Aswany is the author of the bestselling novel The Yacoubian Building, Chicago and the novella and short story collection Friendly Fire.

N. Ravichandran graduated from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras in 1980. In the same year he joined IIM Ahmedabad as a faculty in production and quantitative methods (P&QM) area at IIMA. He has taught several courses in the areas of operations research, operations management and competitive strategy. He provided transformational leadership to IIM Indore in the capacity of director during November 2008-January 2014. He is the founder president of Case Research Society of India (CRSI) which is created to promote case method of teaching in Indian business schools. He has also founded a not-forprofit foundation, Management Research Foundation (MRF), to improve quality of management education in India.

Gayathri Ponvannan’s first book, Time Racers, was published by Puffin India in 2016, and her second book, Unstoppable, was published by Hachette India in 2019. She has also written for several newspapers, anthologies and magazines. Gayathri holds an MSc in Creative Writing from the University of Edinburgh, and is currently working on two more books for children, as well as a work of historic non-fiction.

Karishma Attari, author of I See You, is curious to know everything about everything, and writing is a way for her to find out. She reviews books and has a background in theatre, journalism and literature. She runs Shakespeare for Dummies, a workshop series for everyday adults, and travels every chance she gets.

Reeja Radhakrishnan is a former journalist and columnist who writes for children on environment, wildlife conservation, heritage and mythology. She is the author of The Big Book of World Mythology (Puffin Books 2015). She lives in Mumbai.

Ronojoy Sen is senior research fellow at the Institute of South Asian Studies and Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. He is the author of Articles of Faith: Religion, Secularism, and the Indian Supreme Court, and has co-edited several books, including Being Muslim in South Asia: Diversity and Daily Life. He has a Ph.D. in
political science from the University of Chicago, and read history in Presidency College, Calcutta. He has been an editor with the Times of India.

Diptakirti Chaudhuri has been a salesman for more than a decade now. He was born and brought up in Calcutta but currently lives in Gurgaon. He loves books, trivia and books on trivia. You can find him at his blog, Calcutta Chromosome, at http://diptakirti.blogspot.com. He is married with a four-year-old son. This is his first book.

Celebrity chef Rakhee Vaswani is a cookery expert and a Cordon Bleu-trained chef who is successfully leading Palate Culinary Studio, a first-of-its-kind initiative equipped with a state-of-the-art kitchen. Her celebrity students include Malaika Arora Khan, Mini Mathur, Radhika and Shaan, Gauri Tejwani, Manasi Joshi Roy and Rakshanda Khan. She writes an online column for I-Diva and has also been featured in various newspapers, magazines and TV shows (including The Foodie on Times Now hosted by Kunal Vijaykar and The Khan Sisters on Bindass). She is currently hosting her own TV show Rewind with Rakhee on Living Foodz, India’s first foodtainment channel.
She is passionate about food and believes that it’s the perfect remedy for all problems. She also believes strongly in sharing the art of cooking. She uses the best quality ingredients to replicate international cuisines at home with ease. She feels at peace and is happiest when in a kitchen.
This is her first book.
www.palateculinarystudio.com/cooking-studio.php

Mirza Waheed was born and brought up in Kashmir. His debut novel The Collaborator was an international bestseller and was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and the Shakti Bhatt Prize, and longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize. It was also book of the year for Telegraph, New Statesman, Financial Times, Business Standard and the Telegraph (India), among others. Waheed has written for the BBC, Guardian, Granta, Guernica, Al JazeeraEnglish and the New York Times. He lives in London.