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Gary J. Bass is a professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University. He is the author of Freedom’s Battle: The Origins of Humanitarian Intervention and Stay the Hand of Vengeance: The Politics of War Crimes Tribunals. A former reporter for the Economist, he has written often for the New York Times, as well as writing for the New Yorker, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, New Republic, Foreign Affairs, and other publications.

Saskya Jain was born in Ahmedabad and grew up in New Delhi. Educated at Berlin’s Free University and at Columbia University, she holds an MFA in Fiction from Boston University, where she received the Florence Engel Randall Award and the Robert Pinsky Global Fellowship. Her writing has appeared in numerous literary magazines, and one of her stories was a finalist in the 2011 Asian-American Short Story Contest. She lives in New Delhi and Berlin. Fire Under Ash is her first novel.

Cyrus Broacha is the most famous MTV VJ in India. He is also a stand-up comedian and prankster. Best known for his show Bakra on MTV, he has interviewed almost everyone in the Hindi film industry, from Amitabh Bachchan to Shah Rukh Khan. Cyrus presently anchors a news satire show, The Week That Wasn’t on CNN-IBN, co-written and directed by friend Kunal Vijayakar. He is also a judge for MTV Roadies season 7.

Born in Mumbai, Sonja has lived in Africa, Middle East and USA. Copywriter, columnist and novelist, she co-hosted and successfully organized the Pune International Literary Festival 2013.
Sonja currently resides in Pune, India, with her three rambunctious children, a golf-crazy husband, Cheetos and OJ, the frisky family
cats, and madcap friends, always hoping to travel the world through her stories. Her books include Potion of Eternity, Pearls of Wisdom, Trouble at the Taj, Revenge of the Pharaoh, Full On Fashionista and ‘Graveyard Grouse’, a short story in the anthology Bad Moon Rising.
She truly believes that a sense of humour makes life sparkle and that a bit of dreaming can make magic happen! To know more about her upcoming work, do visit her author page on Facebook or at www.sonjachandrachud.com

Olivier Lafont is a French writer and actor of mixed origin. He lives in Mumbai with his wife.

An English honours graduate from St Stephen’s College, Shreya Prabhu Jindal currently teaches English in Vasant Valley School, Delhi.
She started writing in 2003, when, at age thirteen, she discovered the existence of fan fiction. She has continued to read and write fan fiction since, and enjoys it immensely.
Shreya has also dabbled in scriptwriting. In 2009 she co-scripted a short film, Kuch Spice to Make It Meetha, for MadMidaas Films. The film, which stars Purab Kohli and Nauheed Cyrusi, was an instant hit on YouTube when it was uploaded in February 2012.
Another Chance at Life was her debut novel.
You can contact Shreya at shreyasnook@gmail.com.

orn in Lahore in 1947, ARVIND KRISHNA MEHROTRA is the author of four previous collections of poetry, Nine Enclosures (1976), Distance in Statute Miles (1982),Middle Earth (1984) and The Transfiguring Places (1998); two of translation, The Absent Traveller (1991) and Songs of Kabir (2011); and editor of the ground-breaking The Oxford India Anthology of Twelve Modern Indian Poets (1992). His other edited books include An Illustrated History of Indian Literature in English (2003) and Collected Poems in English by Arun Kolatkar (2010). As editor, anthologist, and translator, Mehrotra has done much to bring the work of Indian poets to a wider audience. Along with Adil Jussawalla, Gieve Patel and Arun Kolatkar, he was a founder member of the iconic poetry collective Clearing House. His collected essays, Partial Recall: Essays on Literature and Literary History appeared in 2012. He lives in Allahabad and Dehradun.

Madhav Khosla, a graduate of Yale Law School and the National Law School, Bangalore, is currently a PhD scholar at Harvard University, where he studies modern Indian political thought. He is the author of The Indian Constitution (2012)

Gayathri Ramprasad is the founder and president of ASHA International, a nonprofit organization promoting personal, organizational, and community wellness. She received her first undergraduate degree in science from Bangalore University in India, a second undergraduate degree in management and business information systems, and a master’s in business administration from George Fox University in Newberg, Oregon. She is a member of the Global Speakers Federation and the winner of the prestigious Eli Lilly Welcome Back Award for Lifetime Achievement and the Voice Award for Con sumer Leadership sponsored by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

For more information about Gayathri Ramprasad and her mission to promote mental health awareness, and bring hope and healing to people’s lives, please visit www.gayathriramprasad.com and www.myasha.org, or email her at gayathri@myasha.org.

Dilip D’Souza trained as a computer scientist (BITS Pilani, Brown University) and spent many years in software. Somewhere along the way he tried his hand at writing and found that more interesting. He’s been a full-time writer for 15 years now. He’s won several fellowships and awards for his writing (Outlook/Picador prize, Newsweek/Daily Beast prize, Wolfson College Press Fellowship, and more). He has written for publications like Caravan, Hindustan Times, Mint, Outlook, the Hindu, Washington Post, NYT, Die Zeit, Salon, Newsweek, Daily Beast, among others. He writes a well-regarded mathematics column, A Matter of Numbers, for Mint.

Dilip’s interests are reading, music, playing tennis, and travel. He has travelled to some 25 countries, backpacking, driving, taking buses and trains. Born in Madras, he grew up in Bombay, lived in Delhi, Pilani and then in the US for ten years; he has been back in Bombay for 22+ years now. His wife Vibha Kamat teaches French; they have two children, Sahir (15) and Surabhi (10). They have two cats, Aziz and Cleo. They rule.

Final Test is Dilip’s fifth book.