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Gardiner Harris previously served as the public health and pharmaceutical reporter for the New York Times and is now a freelance investigative journalist. He also served as a White House, south Asia and international diplomacy reporter for the Times. Before that, he was a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, covering the pharmaceutical industry. His investigations there led to what was then the largest fine in the history of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Previously, he was the Appalachian reporter for the Courier-Journal of Louisville, Kentucky. He won the Worth Bingham Prize for investigative journalism and the George Polk Award for environmental reporting after revealing that coal companies deliberately and illegally exposed miners to toxic levels of coal dust. Harris’s novel, Hazard, draws on his experience investigating these conditions. He has also been a Pulitzer Prize finalist with a team of others at the Times. He lives in San Diego, California.

Rita Kothari 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.

Nirupama Subramanian is a leading executive coach and leadership development expert with over twenty-five years of experience in this field. She has earlier worked with Citibank, AchieveGlobal and Genpact. She is the founder and CEO of Powerfulife Solutions. She has worked with more than 25,000 leaders across over sixty organizations to help them to live their potential. Nirupama is the author of two best-selling novels and her recent non-fiction book, Powerful: The Indian Woman’s Guide to Unlocking Her Full Potential, has become a go-to guide for women leaders. Nirupama is also a TEDx speaker and a board member. She loves yoga, travelling, reading all kinds of books and going for long walks amid nature.

Rajesh Ramakrishnan has worked in the corporate world for the last thirty years across organizations, such as Reckitt, Marico, PepsiCo, Hindustan Times and Perfetti. His last role was that of managing director for Perfetti Van Melle India from 2018 to 2023. He was awarded the Economic Times Inspiring CEO Award in 2022 and the ET Ascent CEO of the Year Award in 2023. Rajesh is a certified executive coach, focusing on CXO–CEO coaching and mentoring, advisory consultant and leadership development facilitator. He is also an award-winning photographer who has had many photography exhibitions. Rajesh has been on treks to Mt Kilimanjaro, Everest Base Camp and Annapurna Base Camp. He is a regular yoga practitioner, an avid foodie and traveller.

MONICA RANA grew up in Kathmandu and went to Harvard before working in banking in the UK. At Harvard, she took multiple creative writing courses and won three short story prizes including the Edward Eager and Cyrilly Abels prizes for fiction.