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A certified Pilates instructor, Namrata started her career at the age of sixteen and is one of the youngest trained Stott Pilates instructors in the world. She runs her own fitness studio, The Pilates and Altitude Training Studio (www.pilatesaltitude.com), which enjoys the distinction of being the first studio in the world to offer both Pilates as well as a simulated altitude-training room under one roof, and which has been the Official Fitness Expert for The Femina Miss India International pageant from 2011 onwards. Namrata has played squash and football at the national and state levels, respectively.
She is the author of the bestselling book, The Lazy Girl’s Guide to Being Fit.

Subhadra Sen Gupta is a well-known children’s writer who has authored over twenty-five books, including mysteries, adventures, ghost stories and comic books.

REKHA KALINDI was born in a remote village in Bengal, 100 miles from Kolkata. Since her story was revealed, she has travelled all over India to speak and her international profile continues to grow. She is the recipient of India’s National Bravery Award.

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.