Syna Dehnugara is a journalist and television producer based in Delhi. Associated with business news channels for eight years now, her area of work includes interpreting the impact of economic and social policies on business and, in turn, the impact on livelihood, education, healthcare and social progress. Her other big focus has been co-producing Young Turks, India’s longest running show on entrepreneurship on CNBC-TV18. The show keeps her optimistic and inspired.
She’s been planning a big year of travel for years now and hopes to make 2015 that year with her husband and very own Young Turk in tow.
KALIDAS DESAI, born in a farming family of modest means in a village in Gujarat state, studied at Bombay’s celebrated Elphinstone College on a scholarship. He started teaching English literature in Surat at the M.T.B. College, which was managed by the philanthropic Savarjanik Education Society that sent him to Cambridge in 1926. He later served as the principal of the college.
PADMA DESAI is the Gladys and Roland Harriman Professor of Comparative Economic Systems at Columbia University, New York. A leading scholar on the Russian economy, her publications include Conversations on Russia: From Yeltsin to Putin (2006), which was the Financial Times’ Pick of the Year in 2007, and From Financial Crisis to Global Recovery (2011). Her memoirs,Breaking Out: An Indian Woman’s American Journey, were published by Penguin/Viking in 2012, and subsequently brought out by the MIT Press. Her awards include the Padma Bhushan and an honorary doctorate from Middlebury College, USA. She is married to the economist Jagdish Bhagwati.
Janice Pariat is a writer from Shillong, India. Her work, including poetry, fiction and articles on art and culture, has featured in a wide number of national magazines and newspapers. She edits Pyrta, an online literary journal, and spends most of her time walking city streets in search of stories. This is her first book.
J DEVIKA is a feminist historian, social researcher and translator, currently with the Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. She translates literary writing from Malayalam to English and social science writing from English to Malayalam. She has translated the literary writings of K.R. Meera, Sarah Joseph, Unni R., Ambikasuthan Mangad and Lalithambika Antharjanam, among others. Her website, www. swatantryavaadini.in, is a collection of translations of the writings of early twentieth century feminists in Malayalam-speaking regions.
As a member of the Indian Police Service, Kirpal Singh Dhillon served
as director general of police in Punjab and Madhya Pradesh, and as
joint director, Central Bureau of Investigation, among other challenging
assignments. After retirement, he served a tenure as vice chancellor of
Bhopal University and has also been a hockey administrator and a human
rights advocate. He is the author of Defenders of the Establishment, Police and
Politics in India and Identity and Survival: Sikh Militancy in India 1978-1993,
and has written essays on the Indian Constitution, human rights, minority
issues and the Bhopal gas disaster. He is a fellow of the Indian Institute of
Advanced Study, Shimla.
