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Joseph Macwan (author) (1935-2010) lived and taught in Anand, Gujarat. He told the stories of Dalit lives in the region as vivid narratives told in the Charotari dialect. Angaliyat is his most acclaimed novel, and Joseph Macwan is Gujarat’s well-known Dalit writer. He won several state and national awards for literature.
Rita Kothari (tranlator) is Professor of English, Ashoka University, India. She is a multilingual scholar of translation (theory and practice), language politics and identity in India. Her ethnographic work is based out of western India, especially Gujarat and Sindhi-speaking parts of Kutch and Rajasthan. She writes especially on local and marginalized communities. One of her acclaimed works is a seminal book on translation studies, Translating India: The Cultural Politics of English.

Abhishek Mukherjee is the head of special content at Wisden.com. He co-authored Sachin and Azhar at Cape Town and The Great Indian Cricket Circus; won the Anandji Dossa Award for the Cricket Statistician of the Year in 2019-20; used to be the assistant editor at the Wisden India Almanack and the chief editor at CricketCountry; and has written for several media houses, including The Cricketer, Moneycontrol, The Quint, and Yahoo! Cricket.

Riri G Trivedi is a certified parenting coach, psychotherapist and trainer whose dedication to positive parenting extends beyond working with individual clients.