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Protima Bedi was born in Delhi in 1949. A prominent model in Bombay in the late sixties and early seventies, she married the film actor Kabir Bedi in 1969, and had two children, Pooja and Siddharth. She separated from Kabir in 1978. Protima started learning odissi dance in 1975 and within a few years, became an accomplished dancer. In 1989, she established Nrityagram, a dance village on the outskirts of Bangalore. Protima died in 1998.

Pooja Bedi was born in Bombay in 1970. She has been a successful film and theatre actress and a model and now designs bedroom accessories. She is currently working on a book on pregnancy. Pooja lives in Bombay with her husband and daughter.

Siddhartha Sarma is an author and journalist based in New Delhi. His first book The Grasshopper’s Run, won the Crossword Book Award (2010) and the Sahitya Akademi Award for children’s literature (2011).

Srijan Pal Singh is an engineer and management graduate from IIM Ahmedabad. While at the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, he worked with former Indian President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam as technology and policy adviser.

An English honours graduate from St Stephen’s College, Shreya
Prabhu Jindal currently teaches English in Vasant Valley School, Delhi.
She started writing in 2003, when, at age thirteen, she discovered
the existence of fan fiction. She has continued to read and write fan
fiction since, and enjoys it immensely.
Shreya has also dabbled in scriptwriting. In 2009 she co-scripted
a short film, Kuch Spice to Make It Meetha, for MadMidaas Films.
The film, which stars Purab Kohli and Nauheed Cyrusi, was an
instant hit on YouTube when it was uploaded in February 2012.
Another Chance at Life is her first book.
You can contact Shreya at shreyasnook@gmail.com.

Amrita Sharma has been associated with the world of media and literature for a long time now. She started her career with Sterling publishing house and has worked for Doordarshan, NDTV, Hindustan Times and is currently with the BBC in New Delhi.
She has published many books and her poems have come out in leading newspapers and magazines. She holds a BA and MA in English literature from Lady Shri Ram college, Delhi University. She enjoys reading, writing, music and travelling.

K.M. Munshi is one of Gujarat’s most well-known literary writers. His historical novels have contributed profoundly to the sense of past that Gujarat lives with. A multi-faceted personality, he was a prominent lawyer, freedom fighter and politician. He was also the founder of the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan.
Rita Kothari teaches at the department of English in Ashoka University, Sonipat. She is a leading theoretician in translation studies and has also written extensively on Sindhi, Gujarat and language politics in India. Her notable translations include Angaliyat: The Stepchild; Unbordered Memories: Sindhi Stories of Partition and the novel Fence.
Abhijit Kothari combines sociology, business and management in his research and teaching. He lives in Ahmedabad where he runs his own business.

Raj Kamal Jha is Chief Editor of The Indian Express group of newspapers which has won the Vienna-based International Press Institute’s Award for Excellence in Journalism five times. Jha led the newspaper’s team that investigated the Panama Papers with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists for which the consortium won the Pulitzer Prize in 2017. In 2021, Jha was awarded India’s Editor of the Year by the International Advertising Association for his “bold and exemplary leadership” of a national newsroom during the Covid pandemic. He has twice been a finalist for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. His most recent novel, The City and the Sea, won Tata Literature Live’s Book of the Year (Fiction), 2019 and the Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2020

Arita Sarkar is a journalist based out of Mumbai. Since 2011, she has been a reporter at The Hindu, Mumbai Mirror, the Indian Express and Mid-Day. Her interest in cases concerning the Juvenile Justice Act, the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act and child rehabilitation led her to research and write a book about the widespread kidnapping of children in India.
After completing her schooling from the American International School/Dhaka, she graduated from Delhi University with a degree in English literature and later attended the Asian College of Journalism in Chennai. Apart from being a writer, she is an ardent lover of music and food and loves to dabble in a bit of both.

MAHESH NEELKANTH BUCH was an urban planner, statesman and writer who focused on issues of governance and administration in India. He joined the Indian Administrative Service in 1957. An alumni of Pembroke College, Cambridge University, he was Parvin Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson School of the Princeton University. He opted for voluntary retirement in 1984, when he was principal secretary with the government of Madhya Pradesh. He founded the National Centre for Human Settlements and Environment in Bhopal and remained its chairman until his death in 2015.
He held several important portfolios, including vice chairman of the Delhi Development Authority, vice chairman of the National Commission on Urbanization, chairman of the Lutyens’ Bungalow Zone Committee of the Government of India and chairman of the Empowered Committee for the New Vidhan Sabha building in Madhya Pradesh.
He received the Aga Khan award for architecture in 1998 and the Padma Bhushan in 2011. Known as the architect of modern Bhopal, he wrote on wide-ranging issues and chalked out the way forward for effective legal and policy implementation. He published a number of books on governance, planning and environment, besides regularly writing for journals and newspapers.
He is survived by his wife, Nirmala Buch, and son, Vineet Buch.

N. RAVICHANDRAN retired from Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Ahmedabad in October 2018 after serving there for thirty-eight years. He was also director of IIM Indore from 2008 to 2013. His areas of interest include operations research, operations management and business strategy.