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Rahul Kumar is a 4th year undergraduate student at IIT Kharagpur pursuing Mathematics and Computing. His area of interest includes applied mathematics, Indian history, and sociology. He hails from Bokaro Thermal, a very small town in Jharkhand.

Alok Kothari is an alumnus of IIT Kharagpur. He graduated with an Integrated Masters in Mathematics and Computing in 2009. He was one of the founding members of Entrepreneurship Cell, IIT Kharagpur and one of the first editors of The Entrepreneur. He currently works as a project associate at a research organisation in Germany and hails from the city of Pune..

Yuvnesh Modi (Author)
Yuvnesh Modi is a 4th year undergraduate student at IIT Kharagpur pursuing Mathematics and Computing. He has also been a National finalist at the Informatics Olympiad in the year 2007. He hails from the city of Kolkata.

Rahul Kumar (Author)
Rahul Kumar is a 4th year undergraduate student at IIT Kharagpur pursuing Mathematics and Computing. His area of interest includes applied mathematics, Indian history, and sociology. He hails from Bokaro Thermal, a very small town in Jharkhand.

Alok Kothari (Author)
Alok Kothari is an alumnus of IIT Kharagpur. He graduated with an Integrated Masters in Mathematics and Computing in 2009. He was one of the founding members of Entrepreneurship Cell, IIT Kharagpur and one of the first editors of The Entrepreneur. He currently works as a project associate at a research organisation in Germany and hails from the city of Pune..

Anuradha Goyal wears many hats to pursue her three prime passions-innovation, travel, and books. She studies business innovation, especially business models, and blogs about them. She has earlier co-authored the India Innovates Series published by CII showcasing innovations from across the country. She was a jury member for Economic Times Power of Ideas Contest in 2010. Her papers on business innovation have appeared in various journals and forums.She is one of India’s leading travel bloggers, writing a popular travel blog for a decade now. Her travel story has been published as part of an anthology ‘Celebrating India’ and her paper on ‘in-city travel’ appeared in travel journal Earth. Her stories regularly appear in various print and online publications. She has close to 400 book reviews to her credit on her book reviews blog. She is a keen student of Indian art history. She regularly speaks on these topics at various conferences and institutes.In her earlier avatar she worked in the IT industry for over a decade. She studied computer applications for her master’s degree and physics for her graduate degree at Panjab University. She currently lives in Goa.

Ajeet N. Mathur teaches Strategic Management and International Business in the Business Policy Area, IIM Ahmedabad. His inter-disciplinary interests are at the crossroads of economics, law, and strategic management of organizational knowledge. These are reflected in his work in international business with corporates and as an expert with ILO, WHO, ADB, and the European Commission. A significant focus of his research is on pervasive uncertainty and systemic risks, how motives and powerbases combine, group relations and the unconscious dynamics of large groups, linking strategy to organization development and co-evolution of capabilities in cross-border value chains, politics of disharmony in the management of gender differences, missing markets, market barriers, and the management of institutional diversity in cross-border value chains.
He has been a member of the Board of Directors with Corporates in India and Europe and is consulted by businesses, governments, international organizations, and the policy research community. He served a term as the Director and Chief Executive, Institute of Applied Manpower Research with the rank of Secretary to the Government of India in the Planning Commission. He is Chairperson, Centre for Gender Equity, Diversity and Inclusivity, IIM Ahmedabad and a member of the Board, School of Inter-disciplinary studies, Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU).
You can write to him at anmathur@iimahd.ernet.in

With more than half a century of work experience behind him, ‘Bala’ has a unique blend of exposure to industry and academia that is not easy to come by. Three and a half decades of senior and board level responsibilities in companies like Imperial Chemical Industries, Britannia, and Wipro are complemented by teaching and research activities at the Indian Institutes of Management Ahmedabad and Bangalore over the last two decades, and still counting.

A non-practising Chartered Accountant with a PhD in Business Finance, his interests span corporate governance, business ethics and responsibility, and board level counselling. He has been on statutory and advisory boards of listed companies as well as early-to-mid-term start-ups, served as a member of the Government-sponsored National Advisory Committee on Accounting Standards, CII’s National Council on Corporate Governance, the Advisory Committee of the National Stock Exchange’s Centre for Excellence in Corporate Governance, and also a Government Committee on Corporate Excellence through Governance, many of whose far-seeing recommendations have found their way in to corporate legislation. He serves on the Editorial and Advisory Boards of some Indian and International scholarly journals.

He has been privileged to design and deliver training programmes for several hundred incumbent directors of public and private sector corporations, and teaching courses to a much larger number of management students and executives. He has authored and/or edited several books and research papers. This is his seventh book, and first with Random House.

Bala lives with his wife, son, daughter-in-law and a charming granddaughter in Thane, near Mumbai.

Rohini Chowdhury writes for both children and adults and has more than twenty books and several short stories to her credit. Her published writing is in both Hindi and English, and covers a wide spectrum of literary genres including translations, novels, short fiction, comics and non- fiction. Her most recent publication is the translation of the seventeenth- century Braj Bhasha text Ardhakathanak, widely regarded as the first autobiography in an Indian language, into modern Hindi and into English. Her forthcoming works include an exploration of mathematics in India from ancient times to the modern, and a translation of the Hindi novel Tyagpatra by Jainendra, into English.

Rohini Chowdhury writes for both children and adults and has more than twenty books and several short stories to her credit. Her published writing is in both Hindi and English, and covers a wide spectrum of literary genres including translations, novels, short fiction, comics and non- fiction. Her most recent publication is the translation of the seventeenth- century Braj Bhasha text Ardhakathanak, widely regarded as the first autobiography in an Indian language, into modern Hindi and into English. Her forthcoming works include an exploration of mathematics in India from ancient times to the modern, and a translation of the Hindi novel Tyagpatra by Jainendra, into English.

Narayan Gangopadhyay, also known as Narayan Ganguly, was a renowned South Asian novelist, poet, essayist, and short story writer who was born at Baliadingi in Dinajpur in undivided Bengal, on 4 February 1918, son of Pramathanath Gangopadhyay

Narayan Gangopadhyay, also known as Narayan Ganguly, was a renowned South Asian novelist, poet, essayist, and short story writer who was born at Baliadingi in Dinajpur in undivided Bengal, on 4 February 1918, son of Pramathanath Gangopadhyay