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Navin Chawla is a former chief election commissioner of India. He is best known for his biography of Mother Teresa and for conducting the 2009 general elections in an even-handed manner to national and international acclaim.

A second-generation homeopathic physician, Dr Issac Mathai is a world-renowned holistic health consultant treating patients from more than eighty countries over the last thirty years. He studied Chinese pulse diagnosis and acupuncture at the WHO Institute, Nanjing, China, learnt yoga and transcendental meditation, and has participated in the Mind-Body Medicine programme by Harvard Medical School, USA. His rich experience started by interning with his mother, Dr Annamma Mathai, and working at speciality clinics, including Europe’s first and largest holistic health clinic, the 101 Clinic. He is a visiting consultant at holistic clinics in London, New York and Washington DC. Having addressed several conferences worldwide on holistic health, he has been invited by the World Health Organization into its committee for ‘The Renewal of the Global Health Policy for the 21st century’. He has treated people ranging from the royalty of the UK, Middle East and India to Nobel Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu, famous singers, industrialists, CEOs, villagers and tribals. His dream of offering holistic integrative medicine to all is being fulfilled through his establishments-the SOUKYA International Holistic Health Centre, the SAHAYA Holistic Integrative Hospital and his SOUKYA Foundation free clinics and charity centres.

Terry O’Brien is a writer, broadcaster, media consultant, quizmaster and academician.

At the age of sixteen, Anees dropped out of school and left home to become a writer. He travelled across India and worked as a bellboy, waiter, shop assistant and ghost writer before joining advertising. He currently works as a Creative Director with FCB India. His published works include Vanity Bagh (winner of The Hindu Literary Prize for Best Fiction 2013), The Blind Lady’s Descendants (winner of the Raymond Crossword Book Award for Best Fiction 2014 and the Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award 2018), The Small-town Sea (winner of the Atta Galatta-Banaglore Literature Festival Book Prize for Best Fiction 2017), and The Odd Book of Baby Names. His works have been translated into French, German and several Indian languages.

Nandana Dev Sen is an award-winning actor, writer and child-rights activist. She has authored five children’s books, including Mambi and the Forest Fire and Talky Tumble of Jumble Farm. Nandana lives in Kolkata, London and New York, and has starred in over twenty feature films in all three continents. After studying literature at Harvard University and film-making at USC, she worked as a book editor, a screenwriter, a translator, a script doctor, an advocate for child protection and as Princess Jasmine in Disneyland. Nandana works with children (and grown-ups) at RAHI, Operation Smile and UNICEF to fight against child abuse. She has been quoted as saying that she loves to eat, play, bike, dance and argue.

Suketu Mehta is a New York-based author and an associate professor of journalism at New York University. His book Maximum City won the Kiriyama Prize and the Hutch Crossword Award, and was a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize, the Lettre Ulysses Prize, the BBC4 Samuel Johnson Prize, and the Guardian First Book Award. He write an original screenplay for New York, I Love You, co-wrote Mission Kashmir, a Bollywood movie, as well as a novella What Is Remembered (2016).

Mark Tully was bornin Kolkata and educated in England. He was correspondent for the BBC in SouthAsia for twenty-two years and continues to write and present the popular BBCRadio 4 programme Something Understood.He lives in New Delhi with his colleague and partner Gillian Wright. Togetherthey have worked on a number of books including Mark Tully’s highly acclaimed No Full Stops in India, India’s Unending Journey and Non-Stop India, as well as two volumesof short stories The Heart of Indiaand Upcountry Tales. Gillian’s otherbooks include translations of the modern Hindi classics Raag Darbari by Srilal Shukla, AVillage Divided by Rahi Masoom Reza and MiddleIndia, the selected short stories of Bhisham Sahni. Her non-fiction includesThe Presidential Retreats of India, one of a series of commissioned byRashtrapati Bhavan. She has also authored the children’s book Mishti the Mirzapuri Labrador.
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JAYANTI S. RAVI is a scientist, civil servant, writer, speaker, educator, performing vocalist and thinker. With a master’s degree in nuclear physics from the University of Madras, an MPA
from Harvard University and a PhD in e-governance, she has authored books, published in international journals, guided doctoral students and also been a visiting faculty at Harvard University. Her professional experience includes serving as DDO in Sabarkantha, as collector in Panchmahals and as director of the National Advisory Council with
the Prime Minister’s Office.
As principal secretary and commissioner, rural development, Gujarat, she has championed the Swachh Bharat Mission for rural sanitation in the state. Her innovative and creative multidisciplinary approach to problem-solving has led to major transformational outcomes across various sectors. Presently, she serves in
Gujarat as the principal secretary and commissioner, health and family welfare.

Maya Bathija has been a journalist for more than a decade, contributing to magazines such as Mercedes-Benz India and Global Gujarati. Personality profiles have always been her forte and she ably headed her family magazine, the Sindhian, for thirteen years, compiling content and writing a popular column called ‘MayaSpeak’.
She has travelled the world to interview professionals in top positions and subject experts.
She currently travels extensively as a travel consultant with FWD Life and continues to write autobiographies and memoirs. This is her first business book.

Bhupen Patel is a journalist with nearly two decades of experience at Mid-Day, Mumbai Mirror and NDTV. He now heads the crime-reporting team at Mid-Day.