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Rebecca Whittington (b. 1987) is a PhD student in the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research interests include Tamil and Bengali modern literature, comparative literature, literary modernism, and translation studies.

D. Senthil Babu (b. 1972) is a historian of science affiliated to the Department of Indology, French Institute of Pondicherry.

Kamala Das (1934-2009) was a major Indian English poet and an important Malayalam writer. She was born into a distinguished literary family. Her mother, Balamani Amma, was a well-known Malayalam poet and her grand-uncle Nalapat Narayana Menon was a renowned writer and translator. She grew up in Punnayurkulam, her ancestral village in Kerala, and in Calcutta where her parents lived. She was married off at the age of fifteen, and began writing and publishing while in her teens. With her taboo-breaking early poetry and her controversial autobiography, Kamala became an icon for Indian women. In English, she published six collections of poetry in her lifetime-Summer in Calcutta (1965), The Descendants (1967), The Old Playhouse and Other Poems (1973), Collected Poems vol. I (1984), Only the Soul Knows How to Sing: Selections from Kamala Das (1996), Encountering Kamala (2007)-and her autobiography, My Story (1976). She was recognized with many literary prizes, including the Sahitya Akademi and the Vayalar awards.

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.