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M. Asaduddin is a renowned author, critic and translator. His work has been recognized with the Sahitya Akademi Prize, and the Katha and A.K. Ramanujan awards for translation. Most recently, his translation of Ismat Chughtai’s A Life in Words:Memoirs, published in Penguin Classics, won The Economist Crossword Book Award 2013 for Best Indian Language Translation.

Cop by day, author by night, Brijesh Singh wears multiple hats. He started as an engineer before joining the coveted Indian Police Service, and now patrols the Internet as the head of cyber police, and also simultaneously handles the public relations department of the Maharashtra government. An avid reader of philosophy and Indology, he indulges in Western and Indian classical music too. When not writing, you can find him in the kitchen, cooking for his lovely wife, two daughters, his friends and the cat. His debut novel, Quantum Siege, was published in 2014 by Penguin Books.

Educated in India and America, SUDEEP BUDHIRAJA is a career banker having spent eighteen years with Citibank N.A. As a member of the bank’s international staff he has held challenging assignments in five countries across a range of areas including treasury, commercial banking, private banking, investment management and transaction banking. A visiting Research Fellow at the London Business School from 1997 to 1999, he worked with Sumantra Ghoshal on his India project, developing various case studies, which are included in this book.

CHRISTOPHER A. BARTLETT is Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, where he acts as chairman of the programme for global leadership. His focus is on the organization and management of multinational enterprises. Christopher is the author, co-author or editor of seven books, including the seminal The Individualized Corporation, co-authored with Sumantra Ghoshal.

Author of the best-sellers Business Maharajas and Business Legends, GITA PIRAMAL is one of India’s foremost business writers. A former freelance journalist with a Ph.D. in business history, Gita has been writing and commenting on Indian business for over twenty years for leading publications such as UK’s Financial Times and India’s Economic Times. She is now the managing editor of The Smart Manager, India’s first world-class management magazine.

Naresh Fernandes is also a journalist from Mumbai. He is an editor of Scroll.in, a digital daily and a consulting editor at National Geographic Traveler India. Fernandes has authored City Adrift: A Short Biography Of Bombay and Bombay Then And Mumbai Now. The author has worked with the print media publications including The Times of India, The Wall Street Journal in New York and The Associated Press in Mumbai.

Jerry Pinto began writing at the age of three. His first published work was Jerand’s Jovial Journal, in collaboration with his sister Andrea Pinto. This magnificent work of staggering genius, as it was described by the authors, has been lost to posterity. It is rumoured darkly, where dark rumours rumble, that Indiana Jones and Lara Croft are in a race to retrieve it. His other works include A Bear for Felicia (Puffin), Mowgli and the Bear (Disney) and When Crows are White (Scholastic).

Rahul Srivastava is involved in urban issues and knowledge practices. He writes fiction for younger readers. He is the author of the novel Murder on Kaandoha Hill (Puffin) and several short stories. He co-authors a blog www.airoots.org and can be contacted on rahul@airoots.org. He is based in Goa.

MANASH BHATTACHARJEE is a poet, writer, translator and political science scholar from Jawaharlal Nehru University, and adjunct professor in te School of Culture and Creative Expressions, Ambedkar University, New Delhi. His first collection of petry, Ghalib’s Tomb and Other Poems, was published by the London Magazine (2013). He has contributed to, among others, Los Angeles Review of Books, Guernica, Huffington Post, The Hindu, The Outlook, Biblio, Economic and Political weekly and the Wire.

Neha Dwivedi, a Kargil War martyr’s daughter is a doctor by profession and writer by passion. She is an alumnus of DPS RK Puram and Lady Hardinge Medical College, Delhi. Writing is what brought solace to her post her father’s martyrdom.
She now lives in Delhi, where she works as a childbirth educator and an infant and young child feeding specialist. She deeply believes in the healing and inspirational power of stories and hopes to continue bringing more untold stories to the forefront. Her first book was Vijyant at Kargil: The Biography of a War Hero.