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RN Bhaskar likes to describe himself as an educationist, teacher and journalist, with decades of experience in each of these sectors. He teaches at various management institutes in India and overseas, and is on the Board of Studies at several educational institutions. Many of his articles can be found at www.asiaconverge.com. He is also consulting editor with Free Press Journal.
This is Bhaskar’s second book. The first, titled Game India: Seven strategies that could steer India to wealth also had a few pages on Gautam Adani.
He likes analysing economic trends, looks closely at corporate strategy, and believes that India has enormous potential provided the right policies are pursued by the government. Most entrepreneurs fall by the wayside, and only the tenacious survive. Gautam Adani is one of them.

As a monk at the ISKCON, Swami Venugopal Acharya (whose spiritual name is Vraja Bihari dasa) pent eighteen years living with 100-plus people in a small monastery, he spent fifteen years counseling students, families, the elderly and children, and spent time observing and learning from the myriad problems facing a 4000-member community made up of various cultures.
He has an honours degree in economics, a Masters degree in international finance and an MBA in finance. He worked for an investment bank and, since 1999, has been a teacher and a counselor.
He travels around the world and puts together his thoughts on www.yogaformodernage.com.

Monish Gujral, a graduate from Delhi University, studied hotel management at the Institute of Hotel Management, Catering and Nutrition, Pusa, Delhi, before joining his illustrious grandfather, Kundan Lal Gujral, at his restaurant, Moti Mahal. Not only has Monish kept his grandfather’s legend alive, he has expanded the brand and launched the Moti Mahal Delux Tandoori Trail chain of restaurants, with pan-India and international operations, spread over a hundred franchises. Monish’s first cookbook was chosen as the finalist for the Tenth Gourmand World Cookbook Awards, 2004.

Arun Gandhi was born in 1934 in South Africa. At ten he was sent to India to stay with his grandfather, the Mahatma, for eighteen months, and witnessed Gandhi’s national campaign of nonviolence first-hand. In 1957 Arun returned to India to work as a journalist for the Times of India. With his wife Sunanda he founded the Centre for Social Unity and in 1991 they opened the MK Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence in Tennessee.

Kief Hillsbery is an American writer and Lambda Literary Award nominee. He has published two novels – War Boy and What We Do Is Secret – and teaches creative writing at Columbia University. He lives in Brooklyn and Maine.

Born in 1957, Mrinalini Patwardhan Mehra studied French literature and has a master’s degree in specialized interpretation and translation from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. A published novelist and poet, her first novel, By Which We See All Colours, was published by Full Circle Books in 2007. Mrinalini’s first biography, Bansi Lal Ka Jahaaz, on the life of Shri Bansi Lal Nijhawan, was brought out by Penguin Books in 2015. A Hero in the Chair Beside Me is her fourth biography. Mrinalini lives in New Delhi, India.
For more information: www.mrinalinimehra.com.

Kautuk Srivastava is a Mumbai-based writer and comedian. He is a member of the popular comedy collective SnG Comedy. As a screenwriter, he has written many successful TV and Web-based shows, including MTV Reality Stars, Sumit Sambhal Lega and Shaitaan Haveli. His previous stand-up special, Anatomy of Awkward, is featured on Amazon Prime Video. This is his debut novel.

Parismita Singh’s work has appeared in various publications including Time Out, the Sarai Reader and Katha Prize Stories 13. She was shortlisted for The Little Magazine New Writing award, 2006. She also works on the field of education.

Louis Brawley was born in Ohio and lived and worked in New York, where he met U.G. Krishnamurti in 2002. He works as an artist, photographer and freelance art handler worldwide—occupations which fund his travels around the world, writing and recording accounts and impressions from friends of the ‘Raging Sage’.