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Sampurna Chattarji is a poet, novelist and translator.

K.R. Meera, an independent journalist and writer, made her mark in Malayalam journalism when she won the PUCL Human Rights National Award for Journalism in 1998 for an investigative series on the plight of women labourers in Kerala. She started writing fiction in 2001 and her first short story collection Ormayude Njarambu was published in 2002. Since then she has published four collections of short stories, a novella and three novels. Meera is one of the most widely read authors of her generation in malayalam and has won many prestigious literary prizes.

Poile Sengupta has written several books for children. Her published works include The Exquisite Balance, The way to my Friend’s House, Story of the Road, How the Path grew (CBT), Waterflowers ( Scholastic), Role Call and Roll Call Again(Rupa). Her stories have appeared in various anthologies like The Puffin Treasury of Modern Indian Stories, Sorry, Best Friend, One world ( Tulika), and The Best of Target. Her column, “Aletter to you, ran in Children’s World for nearly three decades. Polie is also a playwright. She has written several plays for adults, of which Manglam has been publishing by Seagull Books, Calcutta. She has also written one full – length musical and a number of short plays for children. She has been a teacher at school and college and is a well- know threatre person in Banglore, which is her home. Polie has recently moved to Delhi to be with her husband who is a senior civil servant.

Amita Sarin is a teacher and a writer based in the US.

Jerry Pinto is a writer of prose, poetry and children’s fiction in English and also a journalist. Some of Pinto’s noted titles include Helen: The Life and Times of an H-Bomb, Surviving Women, Leela: A Patchwork Life and Asylum and Other Poems. Pinto has translated rare works of Marathi into English, like Cobalt Blue and Baluta. His first novel, Em and the Big Hoom received the Sahitya Akademi Award (2016), the Windham-Campbell Literary Prize, The Hindu Literary Prize and the Crossword Book Award.
Of Goan origin, Pinto grew up in Mahim, Mumbai, and received his Liberal Arts degree from the Elphinstone College and a law degree from the Government Law College in Mumbai.

Naresh Fernandes is a journalist, an editor of Scroll.in and a consulting editor at National Geographic Traveler India. Fernandes is the author of Taj Mahal Foxtrot: The Story of Bombay’s Jazz Age, City Adrift: A Short Biography of Bombay and Bombay Then/Mumbai Now. He has worked with the print media publications including the Times of India, the Wall Street Journal in New York and the Associated Press in Mumbai. He won the Shakti Bhatt First Book Award for Taj Mahal Foxtrot.

Kaare Sørensen is an investigative journalist who has covered Islamic terrorism and international affairs extensively. He has lived in New York, travelled to Pakistan, Yemen and Iran, and covered the Arab Spring during the violent clashes in Tahrir Square in Egypt in 2011. For many years a reporter on politics, terrorism, surveillance, and the intelligence agencies for the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, he is now with the national television station TV2. For The Mind of a Terrorist, Kaare Sørensen won the 2014 FUJ-Prisen, the prestigious award for best investigative book from the Danish Association for Investigative Journalism. He lives in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Hridayesh Joshi is senior editor, National Affairs, NDTV India.

Vibhuti Narain Rai, former police officer, is an eminent novelist in Hindi.

Duvvuri Subbarao served as governor of the Reserve Bank of India for five years (2008-13). Prior to that, he was finance secretary to the Government of India (2007-08), and secretary to the prime minister’s Economic Advisory Council (2005-07).
Topping the civil services examination in 1972, Subbarao joined the Indian Administrative Service. In a career spanning thirty-five years, he held various positions in the state Government of Andhra Pradesh and in the federal Government of India, and was actively involved in formulating and implementing economic and financial sector reforms at the national and subnational levels.
Subbarao is currently a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the National University of Singapore where he spends six months of the year.

Dave Besseling was born and raised in Canada, and has lived pretty much everywhere but there after skipping his college graduation to go travelling for a decade, which led to his memoir, The Liquid Refuses to Ignite. He landed in India for the first time in 2008 and has been in and out of the subcontinent ever since, working as a writer and journalist in Bangalore, Delhi and now Bombay, where he is the deputy editor of GQ India.