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Rajdeep Sardesai is one of the country’s most recognized and respected journalists. In a career that started in 1988, he has been anchor, editor and columnist across TV and print. He was city editor of the Times of India in Mumbai at twenty-six, became the managing editor of NDTV and later set up the IBN 18 network, including CNN IBN, IBN 7 and IBN Lokmat. He is currently consulting editor to the India Today Group. A former president of the Editors Guild, Sardesai has won several national and international awards, including the Padma Shri, in 2008. He lives in Delhi with wife Sagarika, children Ishan and Tarini, and their beagle, Nemo. This is his first book.

Salman Anees Soz is an international development expert and an economic and political commentator. He is a former World Bank Group staff member with experience across a range of economic development issues in many countries around the world. He serves as a consultant to different World Bank teams and has in the past been a consultant at the Asian Development Bank. His professional interests include emerging market economics, political economy and South Asian politics. He writes op-eds for numerous media outlets. He is a member of the Indian National Congress and, as a party spokesperson, appears on television debates, focusing mostly on economic affairs. He holds a master’s degree in business administration from Yale University (New Haven) and a master’s degree in economics from Northeastern University (Boston). He received a BA (Hons) in economics from St. Stephen’s College (Delhi), where he was elected president of the Students’ Union Society in 1992-93.

Ritu G. Mehrish is an executive coach and speaker with twenty years of corporate experience in companies such as Procter & Gamble, GE Capital and its spin-off, Genpact. Throughout her career, she has worked with, coached and conversed with leaders from diverse industries across the globe. In her most recent role, she ran a multimillion-dollar business vertical with 1000 people across eight countries and five continents. Her experience has, in fact, enabled her to bring in a pragmatic approach to leadership development.
Her client list-which includes Google, PayPal, Swiss Re, J.P. Morgan, Applied Materials, Intel, Knight Frank, Johnson & Johnson, AIA Group, Medtronic and Wharton Executive Education-highlights her expertise. Currently based in Singapore, she completed her bachelor’s degree in commerce from India and is a chartered certified accountant from the UK.

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.