Archives: Authors

Chinmay Tumbe loves to laugh and learn. He is passionate about migration, cities and history, and is currently a faculty member at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad. An alumnus of the London School of Economics and Political Science; the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore; Ruia College, Mumbai; and Rishi Valley School, Madanapalle, he has been a faculty member at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Hyderabad. He was a 2013 Jean Monnet Fellow at the Migration Policy Centre, European University Institute, Florence, and the 2018 Alfred D. Chandler Jr International Visiting Scholar in Business History at Harvard Business School. He has published widely on migration for a decade and has served on policymaking groups. India Moving is his first book.

Alex Salkever is a technology leader and author. He has been a chief marketing officer, a Businessweek editor, a visiting researcher at Duke University, and a senior executive at leading technology companies. He pens columns regularly for Fortune and consults for numerous technology companies.

Vivek Wadhwa is a distinguished fellow at Harvard Law School’s Labor and Worklife Program, a professor at Carnegie Mellon’s College of Engineering, and a globally syndicated columnist for the Washington Post.

Ullekh N.P. is an author, journalist, columnist and political commentator based in New Delhi and Kerala. A bilingual writer and public speaker, his earlier books are Kannur: Inside India’s Bloodiest Revenge Politics (2018), The Untold Vajpayee: Politician and Paradox (2016) and War Room: The People, Tactics and Technology Behind Narendra Modi’s 2014 Win (2015). He is the subject of episode 1 of the documentary web series Love Storiyaan (2024) on Amazon Prime.

Rinku Paul:

A corporate career spanning over sixteen years with the news channel Aaj Tak, a part of the India Today Group, made up the first part of Rinku’s career. Till she decided to pursue her dream-impacting people’s lives!
She is now an internationally certified life coach, corporate trainer and neurolinguistic programming practitioner. In co-founding a writing studio, The Muse, she has also given her first love, writing, a professional outlet.
This is her second book. Her first, Dare to Be: 14 Fearless Women Who Gave Wings to Their Dreams, which she co-authored with Puja Singhal, was released to acclaim.
Rinku lives in New Delhi, with her husband and daughter.

Pooja Singhal:

With more than a decade spent in corporate life, strategizing how best to marry business and people as an HR specialist, Puja decided to take a break to focus on her family and other love, writing. Having co-founded a writing studio, The Muse, and published her first book, Dare to Be, along with Rinku Paul, she is now back to juggling corporate responsibilities along with family duties and of course, writing.
This book is proof of the fact that it is possible to make time for the things we value in life.

Puja holds an honours degree in political science and an MBA in human resource management.

Pooja Singhal: With more than a decade spent in corporate life, strategizing how best to marry business and people as an HR specialist, Puja decided to take a break to focus on her family and other love, writing. Having co-founded a writing studio, The Muse, and published her first book, Dare to Be, along with Rinku Paul, she is now back to juggling corporate responsibilities along with family duties and of course, writing. This book is proof of the fact that it is possible to make time for the things we value in life.

Puja holds an honours degree in political science and an MBA in human resource management.

Namita Devidayal was born in 1968 and graduated from Princeton University. The Music Room, her first book, was a winner of the 2008 Vodafone Crossword Popular Book Award and was named an
Outlook book of 2007. A journalist with The Times of India, Namita lives in Mumbai.

Arefa Tehsin grew up treading jungles with her naturalist father. She was often found trying to catch a snake or spin a yarn. Tehsin is the author of several fiction and non-fiction books and contributes columns and features to publications like Hindustan Times, The Indian Express, Conde Nast Traveller and The Hindu. She has been shortlisted for awards like The Asian Prize for Fiction, Godrej Lit Live! Fiction Book of the Year, NEEV Book Award, FICCI Best Book of the Year Award and The Hindu Young World Best Author Award. Her adult novel The Witch on the Peepul Tree will be broadcasted in 4 Indian languages on Kuku FM and translated in Sinhalese. The picture book The Elephant Bird was read at 3200+ locations in India from the slums to the Presidential library on the International Literacy Day, 2016 and translated in more than 35 languages. A few schools in India and Sri Lanka are using her books as textbooks and supplementary readers. She was appointed the Honorary Wildlife Warden of Udaipur district for a term and has pursued nature conservation through her writings and columns.

Saranya Rai spent most of her impressionable childhood binge-watching Hindi serials, reading romance novels despite her mother’s warnings and absorbing everything Bollywood through film magazines, late-night talk shows, the radio and, later, the Internet. She is now a reasonably well-adjusted adult, still heavily invested in pop culture.

Apurva is the chief revenue officer at RateGain. Previously, as the head of corporate marketing for HCL Technologies, he played an integral role in scaling up the company from US$700 million to US$8 billion.
Awarded ‘Marketer of the Year’ by World Leadership Forum, ‘Digital Marketer of the Year’ by IAMAI and ‘B2B Marketer of the Year’ by Paul Writer, Apurva was ranked one of the top ten Indian angel investors by the Economic Times.
An alumnus of Harvard Business School, International Management Institute, New Delhi, Indian Institute of Mass Communication, New Delhi and Mayo College, Ajmer, Apurva is currently pursuing PhD from IIT Delhi.
His first book, You Are the Key, was a national bestseller.