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MONISH GUJRAL is a restaurateur, chef, cookbook author and a popular blogger.

Aruna Chakravarti is a keen academician and a scholar and translator
of repute. She has presented papers at several national and international
seminars and contributed articles and reviews in many collections and
journals. Her translation of Saratchandra Chatterjee’s Srikanta,
published by Penguin Books India in 1993, fetched her the prestigious
Sahitya Akademi Award. Those Days, a translation of Sunil
Gangopadhyay’s Sei Samai, published by Penguin Books India in 1997,
received rave reviews and became a best-seller. This was followed in
2001 by First Light, a sequel to Those Days.
Aruna Chakravarti is the principal of Janki Devi Memorial College,
Delhi, and has taught in this college for over forty years.
This is her first novel.

Dr Mickey Mehta is a leading holistic health guru and life coach to billionaires, top Bollywood super stars, top supermodels (Miss World and Miss Universe), top politicians and members of the Maharashtra Police. He has a double honorary doctorate in holistic health and life sciences from International Medicina Alternativa, and has been a pioneer in promoting holistic health in India through radio and TV shows too. Mickey was invited to talk at Harvard University at the Inspire series in February 2017 and at IIT Mumbai Bombay in 2015. He has held holistic health workshops in Oman, Thailand, USA, Hong Kong, Dubai, Turkey and Sri Lanka. Dr Mickey Mehta Mickey is also a leading social media influencer in the health and wellness space.
He has interwoven Zen, Tao, Tantra, Ved, Greek and many more philosophies to develop holistic health systems to self-heal, transform and transcend. His healing focuses on mingling with our five elements and skillfully balancing them. Throughout his 35thirty-five-year-long career, he has striven to promote a disease-free world through his wellness commandants.

Vinay Sitapati is a political scientist, lawyer and journalist. He has a PhD from Princeton University, and degrees from Harvard University and the National Law School of India University, Bangalore. His first book, Half Lion, was a best-selling biography of P.V. Narasimha Rao. Sitapati teaches at Ashoka University, near Delhi.

Sudeep Chakravarti attended Mayo College, Ajmer and St. Stephen’s College, Delhi. He began his career in journalism at the Asian Wall Street Journal, and subsequently worked at Sunday, India Today and the Hindustan Times. Sudeep is also a professional futurist affiliated to the World Future Society. His debut book, Tin Fish (Penguin), was published in 2005 to both popular and critical acclaim. His second novel, Once Upon a Time in Aparanta (also by Penguin), was published in 2008.

Paro Anand can’t stop writing books for children, young adults and adults, although many people tell her she should slow down. She also works with children in schools and NGOs, through her programme Literature in Action. She is a world record holder for helping children
make the World’s Longest Newspaper. She has been awarded for her contribution to children’s literature by The Russian Centre for Science and Culture. On Republic Day 2007, Dr Kalam, the President of India, honoured her for her writing. Her book, No Guns at My Son’s Funeral was on the IBBY Honour List and The Little Bird who Held the Sky Up with His Feet was one of three books from India selected for the 1001 Books to Read Before you Grow Up , a listing of the gold standard for children’s literature worldwide.

Paro Anand writes for children, young adults and adults. She won the Sahitya Akademi Bal Sahitya Puruskar in 2017 for her anthology Wild Child (now published as Like Smoke). She has spoken about and written extensively on children’s literature in India. She headed the National Centre for Children’s Literature, The National Book Trust, India, the apex body for children’s literature in India. She also runs a podcast on HubHopper called Literature in Action and was an invitee to the India Conference at the Harvard University in 2018. She was awarded the Kalinga Karubaki Award for fearless writing, 2019. She is on the visiting faculty of Riyaaz Academy for children’s illustrators.
She is well-known for her work with children in difficult circumstances, including those impacted by violence in Kashmir, and has written extensively on the subject.

Priya Kuriyan is a children’s book writer-illustrator and a comics maker. In an earlier avatar as an animator, she directed educational films for the Sesame Street show (India) and the Children’s Film Society of India (CFSI). She has illustrated numerous children’s books for publishers like Tulika Books, Penguin, Scholastic and Hachette to name a few. In 2019, she was the recipient of the Big Little Book award, instituted by Parag, an initiative of Tata Trusts, in recognition of her contribution to Indian children’s literature. She lives and works in the city of Bangalore.

TRIPTI PANDEY is a well-known name in the field of tourism, culture and travel writing. Often termed as Rajasthan’s cultural ambassador, she has been a pioneer in researching and presenting living heritage. With her innovative approach, she has set many a milestone creating international events like the Desert Festival, Jaisalmer. Her books on heritage include Where Silence Sings, Rajasthan’s Silver Jewellery, Pushkar: Colours of the Indian Mystique and India’s Elephants: A Cultural Legacy. She is a recipient of many awards,
including the prestigious Gold Cross of the President of Austria and the Maharaja Bishan Singh Award of the Sawai Man Singh II Museum Trust, Jaipur. Connect with her on Instagram, @triptipandey1.

Bruce Rich isan author and lawyer who has worked with major US environmental groups as wellas with international organizations over the past three and a half decades. Hereceived the United Nations Global 500 Award for environmental achievement forhis research and advocacy concerning multilateral development banks. He is theauthor of Mortgaging the Earth, awidely acclaimed critique of the World Bank and reflection on the philosophicaland historical evolution of the project of economic development, as well as Foreclosing the Future, which examinesthe World Bank, climate change, governance and corruption.

Rich haswritten for publications such as the FinancialTimes, the Ecologist, and the Nation, as well as for EnvironmentalForum, the policy journal of the Washington DC Environmental Law Institute,where he is currently a Visiting Scholar. His analysis of Ashoka was selectedand published in 2012 in a collection of the best Buddhist writing in Americafor that year.

Hisprofessional focus on finance and ethics, as well as numerous visits to SouthAsia, inspired this book.