Archives: Authors

C.S. Krishna is a self-proclaimed legendary development consultant. He wants to make it big as a public policy guru but three years of writing satire for The UnReal Times under the pseudonym Unreal Mama has rendered him incapable of thinking seriously. He has an engineering degree from IIT Bombay, MS from Ohio State University and an MBA from IIM-Ahmedabad.

Saurabh Mukherjee is the founder of Marcellus Investment Managers and a bestselling author.
Anupam Gupta is a chartered accountant, investment research consultant and podcast host.

Meghaa Gupta’s exploits in history are the outcome of an irrepressible urge to contextualize the challenges of the present with the past and make greater sense of the times we live in. She works in children’s publishing and firmly believes that all change begins with getting children to read books that demystify the world and its infinite possibilities. Meghaa has contributed to the history book On this Day (Dorling Kindersley, 2021) and is the author of the widely-acclaimed Unearthed: An Environmental History of Independent India (Puffin, 2020). She curates the children’s and youth section of the Green Lit Fest and the online magazine Sustainability Next.

Jayant Vishnu Narlikar is an Indian astrophysicist, emeritus professor at the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics and a prolific writer. Together with Sir Fred Hoyle, he developed the the conformal gravity theory, known as the Hoyle-Narlikar theory. His work on astrophysics has been published in many books, such as From Black Clouds to Black Holes and also features in his science fiction novels The Return of Vaman, The Adventure and The Comet.

Robert Edwin Svoboda is an American ayurvedic doctor and author. He gives lectures and courses to students around the world. He teaches on topics like ayurveda, tantra, jyotish, and Eastern religion. He also has a private consulting practice with clients in India, Australia, Europe, Canada, and the USA. He has received several awards such as National Merit Scholarship, University of Oklahoma Merit Scholarship, U.S. Office of Education Scholarship, National Endowment for the Humanities Youthgrant, and Marsden Foundation Grant.

Madhuri Banerjee is the director of a creative production house that can do almost anything in the media from making brochures to producing TV shows. She is a complete media professional, having worked in all forms of the visual medium – TV, advertisements documentaries. She has worked as a senior assistant director for film – makers like Subhash Ghai, Kaizad Gustad and Rohan Sippy, and music director Anu Malik. Madhuri has an MA in Communication anfd films from Jamia Millia Islamia – her thesis film, Between Dualities, won her the National Award for best documentary on women’s issues in 1999. Besides media, she is passionate about travelling, yoga and reading. She is currently working on commercial film scripts and her next book. She is active on Twitter Facebook and writes a blog ( http:// madhuribanerjee. blogspot.com/).

Ira Trivedi has lived in nine different cities, across four countries and three continents. She has studied Economics and International Relations at Wellesley College, and been a student of French in Aix-en-Provence in the South of France. She took part in the Femina Miss India contest in 2004.

Shobasakthi lives in France. He is a Sri Lankan Tamil refugee and a former LTTE child-soldier. He has published two novels, a collection of short stories, three plays and many essays. His first novel, translated in English as Gorilla, was published to immense acclaim. For the last twenty years, he has worked as a dishwasher, cook, supermarket shelver, room boy, construction worker and street sweeper, among other things. He blogs at www.satiyakadatasi.com.

Anushiya Ramaswamy is a professor of English at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville. She completed her MA from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and PhD from University of Nevada, Reno. She specializes in the translation of Dalit writing and has translated the poetry of the Tamil Dalit poet, N.D. Rajkumar. She has also translated Shobasakthi’s novels, Gorilla and Traitor.

DIVYA DUTTA is an actor, author and now a poet too.

Noted for playing a wide variety of roles in different genres, she has featured in more than 150 Hindi and Punjabi films. Her performance was highly acclaimed in films like Veer-Zaara, Bhaag Milkha Bhaag, Delhi-6 and Badlapur.

She has won several accolades in the film industry, including a National Award in 2018 as well as Filmfare, IIFA and Zee Cine awards.

Her memoir, Me and Ma, published in 2017, received rave reviews and was turned into an audiobook, narrated by Divya herself. Her first poem, penned about the COVID-19 lockdown, ‘Jab Sab Theek Hoga Na’, was much appreciated and widely shared.