Sushant Singh: A film and television actor, Sushant Singh hosted the crime-based reality show Savdhaan India for almost seven years. He is the honorary general secretary of the Cine & TV Artistes’ Association. This is his first book.
Kulpreet Yadav: A bestselling author and motivational speaker, Kulpreet Yadav retired voluntarily from the armed forces to pursue a career in writing in 2014. He was the winner of the Best Fiction Writer for 2018 award at the Gurgaon Literature Festival. He lives in New Delhi.
Amit Chaudhuri is the author of seven previous novels, one work of nonfiction, and a number of books of literary criticism. His many honors include the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize; most recently, he became the first recipient of the Infosys Prize for Humanities-Literary Studies. A contributor to the London Review of Books, Granta, and The Times Literary Supplement, he is currently professor of contemporary literature at the University of East Anglia and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He is also an internationally acclaimed musician, and lives in Calcutta, India, and Norwich, England.
Keya Ghosh retired early as an English teacher at a girls’ school in the hills. Tired of confiscating trashy romance novels from the girls, which ‘did nothing for either their idea of adult relationships or their ability to write English’, she decided to take up the challenge of reinventing the chick-lit novel. She is working on a trio of novels in the calm environs of the Velliangiri mountains. Her early retirement also allows her to pursue her hobby of tracing the lost works of the early female Bhakti poets. Terror@Twelve, her collection of urban ghost stories, was published by Juggernaut.
NASEERUDDIN SHAH is an iconic stage
and film actor who has won major
national and international awards.
He was awarded the Padma Bhushan
in 2008.
Sonia Singh has been a journalist for the last 27 years and is currently the Editorial Director of NDTV.
A graduate of St Stephens College in English Literature, reading is her passion with an unexplained fondness for Irish romantic novelists
She divides her time between Delhi and Padrauna in Eastern Uttar Pradesh. She is the full-time mother of 3 daughters, which is ‘the most difficult and rewarding job in the world’, as she puts it.
Sanjeev Sanyal is the principal economic adviser to the Government of India and an internationally acclaimed economist and urban theorist. He lives in New Delhi and writes on a wide array of topics, ranging from economics to history. A Rhodes Scholar and an Eisenhower Fellow, Sanjeev spent two decades working in international financial markets and was named Young Global Leader in 2010 by the World Economic Forum. He is the author of the bestselling books The Ocean of Churn: How the Indian Ocean Shaped Human History (2016), Land of the Seven Rivers: A Brief History of India’s Geography (2012) and The Indian Renaissance: India’s Rise After a Thousand Years of Decline (2008), published by Penguin. This book is an adaptation of the second.Sowmya Rajendran has written several books for children, from picture books for toddlers to young adult fiction. She won the Sahitya Akademi’s Bal Sahitya Puraskar in 2015 for her children’s novel Mayil Will Not Be Quiet, co-authored with Niveditha Subramaniam. Sowmya works as a journalist for a news publication and writes on gender, culture and cinema. She lives in Pune.
Anirban Bhattacharyya is the author of India’s Money Heist, The Deadly Dozen and other books, two of which are soon to be adapted for the screen. He is also a stand-up comedian, actor, director and producer.
Often called the ‘Rupert Murdoch of India’, Raghav Bahl is a journalist, entrepreneur, media baron and one of the most respected business leaders of India. He was the founder of Network 18, a highly diversified media company which he headed until 2014, when he exited to focus on his dream of creating a new-age digital media company, besides spending more time on public affairs. Raghav has been felicitated at various national and international forums. In 1994, the World Economic Forum named him a Global Leader of Tomorrow and he won India’s Sanskriti Award for Journalism. Ernst & Young named him the Entrepreneur of the Year for Business Transformation in 2007.
Ali Gripper has written features for more than two decades for newspapers and magazines including Good Weekend, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Australian, the Daily Telegraph, the South China Morning Post and Country Style Magazine. She worked closely with Dr Ruit for three years to write his life story.
Tanya Khubchandani Vatsa has five kids: her thirty-twoyear-old is the one she married, her ten-year-old Coco and three-year-old Tizzy have four legs and love to play fetch, and her human babies Riaan and Kiara are four-and-a-half and two years old, respectively. Each one has brought with them learning experiences and a tonne of love.
Tanya spent most of her adult life in New York City after graduating from the University of Pennsylvania and
completing her master’s in public health at Columbia University. She studied, worked, played there, and fell in love there too (and not just with Manhattan), then turned it all on its head by moving to India.
