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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.

Renuka Narayanan writes on religion and culture. She was the Arts Editor of the Indian Express, where she also wrote a column on religion for the editorial page. She was editor, Religion & Culture, Hindustan Times and the start-up director of the Indian Cultural Centre, Embassy of India, Bangkok.

Her published books include The Book of Prayer, Faith: Filling the God-sized Hole, The Little Book of Indian Wisdom and The Path of Light-Tales from the Upanishads, Jatakas and Indic Lore. She lives in Delhi.

Anita Nair is the author of seven books for children.

Her books for adults include eleven works of fiction, a collection of poems titled Malabar Mind, and a collection of essays titled Goodnight and God Bless. She has also translated into English T.S. Pillai’s Malayalam cult classic Chemmeen and edited a book of writings on Kerala titled Where the Rain Is Born.

Anita Nair has also written two plays and the screenplay for the movie adaptation of her novel Lessons in Forgetting, which won the National Film Award in 2013. Among other awards, she was also given the Central Sahitya Akademi Award and the Crossword Prize. Her books have been translated into over thirty-three languages around the world. Her writing is included in both school and university syllabi. She is the founder of the creative writing mentorship program, Anita’s Attic, and is a High-Profile Supporter of the UNHCR.

Anita’s last book for children, Bipathu and a Very Big Dream, has been shortlisted for numerous children’s fiction prizes.

Arun Sinha was born in 1953 in Patna and studied engineering at Patna University. He started his career in journalism with reports from Bihar fo rthe Economic and Political Weekly and went on to work for the Indain Express ( 1979-85) and the Times of India, Bihar edition. in Patna (1985-87), and the Free Press Journal in Mumbai ( 1990- 92). In 1980 his expose of the Bhagalpur blindings proved a turning point in investigative journalism in India. In 1983 he became the first fellow of the Reuters Foundation from India to research at Oxford University for his first book, Against the Few: Struggles of India’s Rural Poor. He was assistant director to the well- known film – maker Shyam Benegal for his acclaimed television series Bharat Ek Khoj, from 1986 to 1990. He is currently editor of the Navhind Times, Panaji, Goa, which he joined in 1993. He has published a novel, The Hedonist Empire, and acritical portrait of post- Liberation Goa, Goa Indica. His scholarly articles are part of several anthologies.

IKRAMULLAH ( CHAUDHARY) was born in 1939 in Jandiala, A small village in the Nawan Shehr district of Jhalandhar in India. He finished high school in Amritsar. After Partition his family moved to Multan where he did his BA in 1953 and two years later took a law degree from University Law College at Lahore. He has been writing fiction since 1962 and published several collections of short stories and novellas, one of which, Gurg-e Shab( Nocturnal Wolf), was banned soon after its publication in 1978. More recently, he has published a novel, Saa’e Ki Awaaz ( The Shadow Speaks ).

Rujuta Diwekar is one of India’s top dieticians and fitness trainers. In addition to Bollywood’s fittest, she has also worked with Anil Ambani, training him for the Mumbai Marathon. Winner of the Best Personal Trainer Award 2005, Rujuta is an expert in nutrition, sports science and yoga.

A collection of stories by celebrated children’s authors and illustrators including Meera Nair, Menaka Raman, Niyati Sharma, Priya Kuriyan, Pia Alize Hazarika and Suvidha Mistry.

Soma Das has been a business journalist for over a decade with publications like the Economic Times and the Financial Express. Pharmaceuticals’is one of her areas of specialization. Before entering journalism, she worked as a lecturer in Delhi University and also authored a bestselling work of fiction.