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Audrey Truschke is a historian, author and activist. She is associate professor of South Asian history at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey. She is the author of two award-winning books: Culture of Encounters: Sanskrit at the Mughal Court and Aurangzeb: The Man and the Myth. Her next book project is a sweeping history of India, from the Indus Valley Civilization to the twenty-first century. For her public-facing work and activism on issues in South Asia and the academy, as well as scholarly commentary, follow her @AudreyTruschke on Twitter and Facebook.

Madhusree Mukerjee won a Guggenheim fellowship to write her previous book, The Land of Naked People. She is a senior editor with Scientific American and lives in New York City.

A journalist for thirty-seven years, Neena Gopal began her career in a Bangalore that was the hotbed of post-Emergency politics. Moving to the UAE in the 1980s, she worked for the Dubai-based daily Gulf News where, as foreign editor, she travelled the Middle East during and after Operation Desert Storm, the first Gulf War in 1990, covering war-torn Iraq and its neighbours through the Second Gulf War in 2003. Neena’s other news-hunting ground has been India and its immediate neighbourhood, both as a foreign affairs journalist and as a close observer of the life and times of many leaders in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Afghanistan. She currently edits the Bangalore edition of Deccan Chronicle.

Ina Puri is a writer, biographer, art curator and collector. She is the author of several books, including Faces of Indian Art and Journey with a Hundred Strings. She produced Meeting Manjit, a film on Bawa, which won the National Award. She currently occupies the position of editor at Art Varta and has recently published a pictorial memoir on Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma entitled The Man and His Music.
Her latest book is Raghu Rai’s Kolkata, the distinguished photographer’s fascinating narrative of the city and its people. Ina’s three-decade-long engagement with the arts embraces everything from tribal art and folk theatre to contemporary performing arts, visual arts and literature. She lives in Gurgaon with her husband, Ravi, son, Arjun, and canine soulmate, Leyla.

Raziuddin Aquil is associate professor, Department of History, University of Delhi. He was previously Fellow in history, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. He is the author of Lovers of God: Sufism and the Politics of Islam in Medieval India (2017) and Sufism, Culture, and Politics: Afghans and Islam in Medieval North India (2007), and co-editor, with Partha Chatterjee, of History in the Vernacular (2008).

Sakshama Puri Dhariwal is the critically acclaimed author of The Wedding Photographer and Man of Her Match. She was born in New Delhi and raised in a loud Punjabi family on whom she often bases (and blames) her characters.
Before she started writing romance, Sakshama worked as a brand manager in e-commerce, media, and telecom. She now lives in California with her husband, two kids, and about eleven copies of Pride and Prejudice.
Sakshama’s latest book is a funny, sexy romantic comedy called All That Sizzles.

Anurag Garg is an engineering graduate. He’s also the author of a national bestselling novel, A Halfbaked
Love Story. He finds himself close to nature and believes in creating circles of love and Service around him. He lives in New Delhi and works in the IT Industry.
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Shradha Sharma is the founder and CEO of YourStory, India’s biggest media tech platform. Available in twelve languages, it has published over 65,000 stories on entrepreneurs till date. She is an alumna of St Stephen’s College, Delhi, and MICA, Ahmedabad. Shradha has previously worked with the Times of India and CNBC TV18. In 2015, she made it to the list of the top-500 LinkedIn Influencers from across the world.

T.N. HARI wears different hats: co-founder of the Artha School of Entrepreneurship, author, angel investor, adviser at the Fundamentum Partnership, evangelist, thought leader and influencer in the start-up ecosystem. He is an alumnus of IIT Madras and IIM Calcutta. He
has co-authored eight books and is also a columnist at Mint. His books Saying No to Jugaad, From Pony to Unicorn and Diversity beyond Tokenism have been bestsellers. He has been part of the leadership teams at five start-ups and helped shape their growth until
successful exits, including an IPO on Nasdaq, and three of the five start-ups have gone on to become unicorns. He is also passionate about helping founders build great companies and supporting women leaders in discovering their potential.

Jyoti Shelar is an award-winning journalist who has been covering crime, healthcare and communities for over a decade. Currently an assistant editor with The Hindu, she has previously been associated with the Mumbai Mirror, Hindustan Times and Daily News and Analysis (DNA). Having closely mapped developments in public healthcare, she’s currently a fellow of the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) and has also been a Thomson Reuters Foundation fellow. When not on the field, she enjoys kicking back with a paperback or binge watching American sitcoms.