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Mainak Dhar is an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and has spent over two decades in the corporate sector. He began his career with Procter & Gamble, spending close to eighteen years there in marketing and general management roles in India and across the Asia-Pacific region. In early 2014, after fifteen years abroad, he moved back to India as the CEO of the India operations of a major multinational consumer products company. A self-described cubicle dweller by day and writer by night, Mainak is also the author of over a dozen books, some of which have been bestsellers in India and abroad. These books have been translated into half-a-dozen languages. When he’s not at work or spending time with his wife, Puja and son, Aaditya, he can usually be found thinking of, or working on, his next book.

Donald R. Davis, Jr is an associate professor of Sanskrit and Indian religions at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of The Spirit of Hindu Law (2010) and The Boundaries of Hindu Law: Tradition, Custom, and Politics in Medieval Kerala (2004).

Anil Lamba is a bestselling author, financial literacy activist and an international corporate trainer.
A chartered accountant who holds degrees in commerce and law, as well as a doctorate in taxation, his training programmes are held internationally, with a client list exceeding 2000 large- and medium-sized corporations across India, USA, Europe, Russia, Africa, the Middle East and the Far East.
He has done pioneering work in the field of distance education and has created several series of blended e-learning and training videos on finance.
Anil has also conceptualized and is actively working on the implementation of ‘Financial Literacy for All’, an initiative aimed at providing financial literacy free of cost to a billion Indians.

Krish Ashok is not a doctor, but he understands biology with the curiosity of a first-principles thinker. He is not a nutritionist either, but he can read a randomized controlled trial. He trained to be an electronic engineer, works as a software engineer, and wrote the bestselling Masala Lab to understand what happens to food in the kitchen. This book exists because he then wanted to know what happens to it after you swallow. He likes the scientific method not because it offers him the ability to bully people with knowledge, but because it is the only method that persuades the smartest humans to admit mistakes and correct themselves. He lives in Chennai with his wife, who sagely prevents him from converting the living room into a gym, and his aviation obsessed son. You can follow him at @_masalalab on Instagram and @krishashok on YouTube.

A former parliamentarian in India, Rajmohan Gandhi currently teaches in the USA at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Apart from several biographies, his works include Understanding the Muslim Mind and Revenge and Reconciliation: Understanding South Asian History, both published by Penguin India.

M.M. Monippally is a Professor of communications at IIM Ahmedabad. A specialist in strategies of managerial communication, persuasion, and bad news delivery, he has designed and run training worksops for middle and senior managers at Morgan Stanley, Reuters India, ICICI Bank, MICO Bosch, Global Trust Bank, and many other organizations.