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Sanjana Kapur is an author and editor with over fifteen years of experience in children’s publishing. She has written several books for children, including the award-winning Who Stole Bhaiya’s Smile? Sanjana has also hosted quiz shows and children’s events in schools across India. She makes futile attempts to make sense of the world but ends up making baba ganoush instead.

Aparna Kapur talks fast but writes slowly. Her recent books include What the Dark Sounds Like (illustrated by Krishna Bala Shenoi) and I Won’t Wash My Hair (illustrated by Ogin Nayam). She loves ice cream.

Fali S. Nariman is a leading constitutional expert and a practising lawyer. He is the president emeritus of the Bar Association of India.

Anna has twenty years’ experience in developmental work, counselling, coaching and mentoring. She is the first Certified Training and Supervising Transactional Analyst from Asia accredited to the International Transactional Analysis Association with a specialisation in counselling. Anna is also certified in Neuro Linguistic Programming and Art Therapy. She practices counselling privately and has worked with leading organizations like Titan Watches, NDTV, First Source Solutions, 247 Customer Ltd, WNS and with Catalyst Management Systems as a consultant.
Anna is also trained and certified in Mind, Body, Work. She has trained with Dr Brian Weiss and Louise Hay in Mind-Body Healing Work.
She currently works with Titan Watches, Mahindra Retail, LG Software, Foodworld Ltd, Health and Glow Ltd, Arvind Mills and Indian Institute for Human Settlements. Anna is the chairperson of the Live Love Laugh Foundation, a not for profit organisation, founded by actress Deepika Padukone, spreading awareness on mental health and offering support.

R. Kannan is a child of the Dravidian movement and has long been a commentator on Dravidian politics. Raised and educated at Chennai, Kannan completed his LLM from the University of Georgia and PhD in International Relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. He has served in various capacities with the United Nations in two continents for nearly a quarter of a century. He presently heads the Basra office of the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq. His latest book is MGR: M.G.Ramachandran, A Life.

R. Kannan considers himself as a child of the Dravidian movement and has long been a commentator on Dravidian politics. His book Anna: The Life and Times of C.N. Annadurai received critical acclaim.
Raised and educated in Chennai, Kannan completed his LLM from the University of Georgia and his PhD in International Relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. He has served in various capacities with the United Nations in two continents for nearly a quarter of a century. He presently heads the Basra office of the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq.
Kannan is married and has two children.

American Michael Burns is a university teacher, writing coach, actor, editor and storyteller. He has a BA from Georgetown University, an MS from UMass Amherst, and holds a PhD in documentary film history from the University of Birmingham in the UK. He has directed five films for international television and his work has been seen in over twenty countries. He moved to India in 2011, and founded Tall Tales, the country’s longest-running, live storytelling event series. He also conducts popular writing workshops around India.

Reba Som studied history at Presidency College, Kolkata, standing first class first both at the BA and MA examinations, and obtained a PhD from Calcutta University. She was the recipient of the prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru Fellowship in 2000-02, and served as the regional director of the Rabindranath Tagore Centre, ICCR, Kolkata, from 2008 to 2013. Her publications include Differences within Consensus: The Left-Right Divide in the Congress (1995), Subhas Chandra Bose and the Resolution of the Women’s Question (2002), Gandhi, Bose, Nehru and the Making of the Modern Indian Mind (2004) and Rabindranath Tagore: The Singer and his Song (2009).
Reba Som is a trained singer of Rabindrasangeet and Nazrul Geeti; her compact disc albums, Selected Songs of Rabindranath Tagore (Saregama, 2005) and Love Songs of Kazi Nazrul Islam (Times Music, 2016), include her English translations of the lyrics.

Pratibha Karan studied economics at Lady Shri Ram College. She is an IAS officer of 1967 batch and retired as Secretary, Ministry of Food Processing Industries in 2003. She is the author of A Princely Legacy: Hyderabadi Cuisine covering the history, culture and cuisine of Hyderabad and Biryani-India’s most beloved dish.