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Shashi Deshpande is an award-winning Indian novelist.

Amrita Gandhi loves a good story and her encounters with princely India, the people inside and outside the places gates , have given her more tales than she can possibly ever recount. She has written and presented Royal Reservation on NDTV Good Times scince the cHannel was launched in 2007. Amrita has scripted other travel shows such as the award – winning Ten Things to Do and Warrior Tribes of Nagaland. Amrita has worked in creative format development in the United States. She ia stage actor , having trained at the American Conservatory Theatre and at Shakespeare & Company, with performancees on stage and in theatre festivals in California. Amrita studied in Rishi Valley, and at the University of Durham, UK, and read anthropology for her master’s degree at London School of economics.

Usha K.R. is the author of the novels Sojourn (1998), The Chosen (2003), A Girl and a River (2007) and Monkey-man (2010). Her novels have been listed for several awards, including the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, the Man Asia, and the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. A Girl and a River won the Vodafone Crossword Award, 2007. Monkey-man was shortlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, 2012. Her short story ‘Sepia Tones’ won the Katha Award for Creative Writing back in 1995. Usha K.R. She lives in Bangalore.

Itisha Peerbhoy continues to live in deep regret that she didn’t become a zookeeper. However, being able to write this book has done a considerable amount of soothing, elating and pep-talking to her animal-poo-deprived nerves. She lives in Bangalore, travels to Bombay as often as she can to visit her childhood home, and channels her inner Delhiite to any ‘Southie’ who will listen. This is her first book, and she is currently working on her next. She would love to hear from you at ipeerbhoy@gmail.com.

V. Raghunathan is director, India programme of Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto. He is a former professor of IIM Ahmedabad, former president of ING Vysya Bank and former corporate CEO. He is also an adjunct professor at Schulich School of Business, Toronto. He is an author and a columnist.

Eswar Prasad is the Tolani Senior Professor of Trade Policy at Cornell University. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, where he holds the New Century Chair in International Economics, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He was previously head of the China Division at the International Monetary Fund. He has co-authored and edited numerous books and monographs, including on financial regulation and on China and India. He serves on an advisory committee to India’s finance minister.

Sunil Mithas is a professor at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland and the author of Making the Elephant Dance: The Tata Way to Innovate, Transform and Globalize. He earned his PhD from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan and an engineering degree from IIT, Roorkee. Before pursuing his PhD, he worked for nearly ten years in engineering, marketing and general management positions with the Tata Group.
Identified as an MSI Young Scholar by the Marketing Science Institute, Mithas is a frequent speaker at industry events for senior leaders. His research focuses on strategies for managing innovation and excellence for corporate transformation. He has worked on consulting assignments with organizations such as Johnson & Johnson, Lear, A.T. Kearney, the Tata Group, the Social Security Administration and the US Census Bureau.
He can be reached at sunil.mithas@gmail.com or http://www.sunilmithas.com.

Sanjay Kulkarni is the former MD and country head of Stern Stewart and Co. in India-a boutique global consulting firm focused on value management. Subsequently, he mentored group businesses and investments at the chairman’s office, Reliance Industries Ltd. He is currently a partner at 7 Capital Ventures and director at Tranzmute Capital and Management.
His proprietary value-creation approach delivers about four to five times of the Sensex over a five-year period. He is a trained rock climber and enjoys writing poetry.