Archives: Authors

Chitrita Banerji grew in Calcutta, studied at Harvard University, and now lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is the author of several books on the food history of Bengal and India. Mirror City is her first novel.

Swami Vishnudevananda (1927 -1993), a disciple of Swami Sivananda, was the founder of the International Sivananda yoga Vedanta Centres. He established the Sivananda Yoga Teachres’ Training Course, a unique program in the West at the time. His book The Complete Illustrated Book of Yoga is considered to be the bible for yoga practitioners. Swami Vishnudevananda was a Karma Yogi and a peace actvist who flew on several ‘peace flights’ over places of conflict, bombarding war-torn areas with flowers and pamphlets while repeating the peace Mantra: Om Namo Narayanaya.

Sangeeta Shah was born and raised in India, and now lives in Canada with her husband and daughter. She works in one of Canada’s largest insurance companies and has been an avid reader all her life. She developed a passion for writing a few years back and penned down Kindled lives — creating the kind of tender love story that she had always wanted to read.

Ambi Parameswaran has spent a large part of his thirty – five – year working career in advertising at Draft FCB Ulka where he rose to be Executive Diretor and CEO. An engineer from IIT Madras University in 2012 . Ambi has authored/ co – authored six books on topics ranging from brand building and advertising to consumer behaviour. When he is not busy at work, reading, writing or teaching , you can find him at a music concert. His wife, Nithya, is an ex- marketer turned stock market investor. His, son, Aditya, is an alumnus of IIt Bombay and Standford.

Lynne Kelly is a sign language interpreter and a writer. Chained is her first novel. She lives in Houston, Texas.

Aseem Srivastava holds a doctorate in enviromental economics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He has taught econimics for many years in India and the US, and has also taught philosphy at Nordic College, Norway. Since 2005, he has been working independently, reserching, writing and lecturing internationally on issues associated with globalization and its impact. He was a speaker at the 2012 World Conservation Congress,in South Korea, and at the 2013 World Social forum, in Tunisia. He lives in Delhi.

Kunal Kapur is the Executive Sous Chef at The Leela Ambience, and is recognized among the Best Chefs in India by National Weekly Magazine – India Today. He is a judge on the hit show MasterChef India and Junior MasterChef India.

Juhi Pande has been a Television Presenter for the last 8 years working with channels such as Channel V, Times Now and NDTV Goodtimes. She is currently shooting a show for National Geographic.

She has written for publications such as Mtv Noise Factory, Motherland and also has a column with the website Homegrown.in. She co-wrote the show ‘Sound Trek’ that aired on Fox Traveler in July of 2013.