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Sheetal Ranganathan is an alumna of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, from where she obtained her BSc (Hons) degree in Human Biology, and her Master’s in Medical Biotechnology, after which she pivoted into business strategy and consulting with an MBA from Xavier Institute of Management. In her corporate career of over twenty years, she has held several leadership positions in global organisations in the healthcare and biotech sectors. She also works closely with the life sciences start-up community within India as a mentor and an investor. Passionate about improving healthcare access in India, and in India’s potential to contribute to world-class medical research and innovation, Sheetal has been an active contributor to the evolving narrative on digitalization of medicine and healthcare delivery, featuring on think-tank panels and TV debates. Her op-eds have featured in publications such as Mint, Financial Express, India Today.

Rashmi Govind was born in Chhapra, Bihar, into a scholarly family. She took her degrees in English at the University of Delhi, and in Linguistics at Jawaharlal Nehru University. She taught English at Zakir Husain Delhi College for over four decades and has translated several texts into English from Hindi and Urdu.
The Song of the Loom, her translation from the original Hindi Jhini Jhini Bini Chadariya by Abdul Bismilla, has been published by Macmillan. She has translated Hindi short stories by Rajendra Yadav, Bhisham Sahni, Nirmal Verma and Anwar Qamar, and an Urdu one by Zaheda Hina, into English.