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Vibhuti Narain Rai, former police officer, is an eminent novelist in Hindi.

Duvvuri Subbarao served as governor of the Reserve Bank of India for five years (2008-13). Prior to that, he was finance secretary to the Government of India (2007-08), and secretary to the prime minister’s Economic Advisory Council (2005-07).
Topping the civil services examination in 1972, Subbarao joined the Indian Administrative Service. In a career spanning thirty-five years, he held various positions in the state Government of Andhra Pradesh and in the federal Government of India, and was actively involved in formulating and implementing economic and financial sector reforms at the national and subnational levels.
Subbarao is currently a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the National University of Singapore where he spends six months of the year.

Dave Besseling was born and raised in Canada, and has lived pretty much everywhere but there after skipping his college graduation to go travelling for a decade, which led to his memoir, The Liquid Refuses to Ignite. He landed in India for the first time in 2008 and has been in and out of the subcontinent ever since, working as a writer and journalist in Bangalore, Delhi and now Bombay, where he is the deputy editor of GQ India.

Guru Madhavan is a biomedical engineer and senior policy adviser. He conducts research at the National Academy of Sciences and has been named a distinguished young scientist by the World Economic Forum. He lives in Washington, DC.

The Early Learning Program of Penguin Books offers a diverse collection of children’s books designed to support curriculum learning across various age groups, from infants and toddlers to pre-schoolers, ensuring engaging and age-appropriate content. These thoughtfully crafted books cater to the developmental needs of young learners and promote essential cognitive skills such as problem solving, critical thinking, and creativity, fostering a love for reading from an early age.

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A third year undergraduate in B.A. English from Madras Christian College, Chennai, Megha Rao spent the first decade of her life in Singapore, only moving to Kerala when she was in her sixth grade.
Megha started writing when she was six, beginning with comic books. What started as speech bubbles soon turned into short stories, and then novels.
Apart from her writing, Megha is also a traveller and painter, and an avid fan of Josephine Wall.
Megha published her first novel Alice: The Netherworld in 2012 and its sequel Alice: The Inferno Conspiracy in 2014.

Muhammad Iqbal ‘Allama’ (Author)

Muhammad Iqbal ‘Allama’ (1877-1938) is best remembered in India for ‘Saare jahaan se acchha’, recited to this day as an alternate anthem. A pre-eminent poet of India in the early twentieth century, he eulogized the land and its peoples with his mellifluous verse. He published several collections, including Baang-e-Daraa (1924), Javed-Naama (1932) and Baal-e-Jibreel (1935). In his later years he became the voice of Islam in India, advocating its causes through his writings, particularly The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam (1930), his poetry and public speeches. In Pakistan today, he is regarded and cherished as a founding father.

Arunava Sinha (Translator)
Arunava Sinha translates classic, modern and contemporary Bengali fiction and non-fiction into English. Twenty-eight of his translated works have been published so far. Born and brought up in Calcutta, he lives and works in Delhi.

Pavitra Kumar was born in Deolali, Maharashtra, in 1985. An army officer’s daughter, she travelled across India from a young age and developed a keen appreciation of people and places. She completed her undergraduate degree in journalism from Delhi University in 2003 before a short stint with CNN-IBN in Delhi. In 2006, Pavitra went to London to pursue a career in marketing and worked for digital marketing agencies in management roles, spending much of her time liaising with the press and writing professional articles representing her firm. At the same time, her love for writing pushed her to freelance with the-nri.com. She completed her MBA from the Carlson Institute of Management in May 2016, and continues to pursue her love for business and passion for writing. Pavitra lives in Lakeville, Minnesota, with her husband, Dr Aditya
Raghunathan, and mini goldendoodle, Lily. Trekking, swimming, reading and coffee keep her going when she isn’t writing.

Laxmi, transgender rights activist, Hindi film actor and Bharatanatyam dancer, is a celebrity.
Pooja Pande is a writer and editor with a keen interest in gender issues.

Khaled Ahmed is the consulting editor for Newsweek Pakistan, and former consulting editor for the Daily Times and the Friday Times. In a thirty-year-long career in journalism, he has written extensively on the ideology and politics of Pakistan.

His books include Pakistan: Behind the Ideological Mask (Lahore: Vanguard Books, 2000) and Pakistan: the State in Crisis (Lahore: Vanguard Books, 2001). His book on Pakistan, Sectarian War in 2011 is now in its third edition. His book Word for Word won the best book of the year award of the Academy of Letters Islamabad in 2012. Khaled Ahmed was awarded Presidential Pride of Performance Medal, 2013.