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David Aaker is the vice chairman of a global brand and strategy consultancy, Prophet, and Professor Emeritus of Marketing Strategy at the Berkeley-Haas School of Business. He is the winner of four career awards for contributions to the science of marketing (Paul D. Converse Award), marketing strategy (Vijay Mahajan Award), the theory and practice of marketing (Buck Weaver Award) and outstanding contributions to the field of marketing (the NYAMA Marketing Hall of Fame). He has published more than a hundred articles and seventeen books that have sold over one million copies and been translated into eighteen languages.
Named as one of the top ve most important marketing/business gurus in 2007, Professor Aaker has won awards for the best article in the California Management Review and in the Journal of Marketing. A recognized authority on brand strategy, he has been an active consultant and speaker throughout the world. A columnist for AMA’s Marketing News and Germany’s Absatzwirtschaft, he regularly blogs at davidaaker.com and LinkedIn. His Twitter handle is twitter.com/davidaaker. An avid biker and struggling golfer, he lives in Orinda, California.

Akhileshwar Pathak is a professor of business law at IIM Ahmedabad. He holds a doctorate in law from the University of Edinburgh, UK, and an LLB from Delhi University. His areas of interest are corporate law and the globalization and liberalization of India.

Neelum Saran Gour is the author of six novels, four short story collections, two works of non-fiction and a translation of her own work into Hindi. She has been an active columnist and book reviewer and an academic by profession. Her most recent novel, Requiem in Raga Janki won The Hindu Fiction Prize and also the Sahitya Akademi Award. Her other books include Grey Pigeon and Other Stories, Speaking of ’62, Winter Companions, Virtual Realities, Sikandar Chowk Park, Song without End Allahabad: Where the Rivers Meet, Invisible Ink, Allahabad Aria, Three Rivers and a Tree and Messers Dickens, Doyle and Wodehouse, Pvt. Ltd.

Meena Menon is an independent journalist and former deputy editor of The Hindu. She has been a journalist since 1984, starting out in Bombay Magazine and has worked for the United News of India, Mid-Day, the Times of India and The Hindu. She was the chief of bureau of The Hindu, Mumbai, before being posted to Islamabad from August 2013 till May 2014, when she was expelled, and was later based in New Delhi as environment correspondent till March 2015. She is the author of Riots and After in Mumbai, Organic Cotton: Reinventing the Wheel, co-author of The Unseen Worker: On the Trail of the Girl Child, and the forthcoming A Frayed History: The Journey of Cotton in India.

Born in 1966, Venkateshwaran (Venkat) Iyer is a science graduate and acertified project management professional. He last worked with IBM in Mumbai asa project manager for software implementation. After seventeen years in the ITindustry, he quit in 2003 to live on his organic farm in Peth village in Dahanutaluk, Palghar district, Maharashtra. This is his first book.

He can be reached at moongovermicrochips@gmail.com.

Ruth Vanita (Author)
Ruth Vanita taught at Delhi University for twenty years and is now professor at the University of Montana. She was founding co-editor of Manushi 1978-90. She is the author of several books, including Sappho and the Virgin Mary: Same-Sex Love and the English Literary Imagination (1996); Love’s Rite: Same-Sex Marriage in India (2005); Gandhi’s Tiger and Sita’s Smile: Essays on Gender, Sexuality and Culture (2005), Gender, Sex and the City: Urdu Rekhti Poetry in India 1780–1870 (2012); Dancing with the Nation: Courtesans in Bombay Cinema (2017). Her first novel, Memory of Light, appeared in 2020.

She is the author of over sixty articles on British and Indian literature, and has translated many works of fiction and poetry from Hindi and Urdu to English, most notably Chocolate: Stories on Male-Male Desire by Pandey Bechan Sharma ‘Ugra’ (2008). She divides her time between Missoula and Gurgaon.

Saleem Kidwai (Author)
Saleem Kidwai is a historian and independent scholar, who taught at Ramjas College, Delhi University, for twenty years. He has published several academic essays on medieval and modern India, and translated several works, including Song Sung True: A Memoir by Malka Pukhraj and a collection of Syed Rafiq Hussain’s short stories, The Mirror of Wonders. Apart from the author herself, he is the only person to have translated the novels of Qurratulain Hyder, Chandni Begum and Ship of Sorrow.

Born in India, educated in the US and currently living in Europe, SUMANTRA GHOSHAL is a teacher, author and consultant in the field of international management. He is also founding dean of the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad. He has published eight books, over forty-five articles and several award-winning case studies. Managing across Borders: The Transnational Solution, co-authored with Christopher A. Bartlett, has been listed as one of the fifty most influential management books.

Shuchi Singh Kalra is the Amazon bestselling author of two novels-Done with Men and I’m Big. So What!? Her short stories have appeared in Love across Borders, Stories for Your Valentine and NAW Anthology 2013. In her freelancing career of over a decade, Shuchi has written for major print and online publications such as Femina, Good Housekeeping, Hotelier International, Huffington Post and Home Review, among others. She has also been listed among the top women authors to follow on Twitter.
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