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Romesh Gunesekera is the author of five highly acclaimed novels, including Reef, which was shortlisted for the 1994 booker Prize.

Parikshat Sahni, son of Balraj Sahni, is a well-known Indian actor, writer and producer who has acted in Lage Raho Munna Bhai, PK and 3 Idiots. After finishing high school at the Lawrence School Sanawar, he graduated in English Honours from St Stephens College, Delhi. He then studied film direction and acting at the Moscow Film Institute (VGIK).
He lives in Mumbai and likes to paint in his free time.

Jacen Greene works with social entrepreneurs around the world and has helped launch new social enterprises, university programmes and a university research centre.

Kazi I. Huque is the founding CEO of Grameen Intel Social Business. He started his career as a software engineer at a start-up and found his way into finance and entrepreneurship at Intel, where he is currently a finance director in mergers and acquisitions.

Joseph Allchin is a journalist who has covered Bangladesh for the Financial Times, The Economist and other publications.

Narayan Sundararajan is the CTO of Grameen Intel Social Business. Also a senior principal engineer and director at Intel, he is passionate about applying cutting-edge technologies to address global social issues.

Jhelum Biswas Bose is the founder of the flower-based eponymous beauty brand Jhelum Loves. She was the beauty editor of lifestyle magazines such as Harper’s Bazaar, Good Housekeeping and Women’s Health.

Edward W. Said was a university professor at Columbia University. He was born in Jerusalem in 1935 and educated in Egypt and the United States. His other books include The Question of Palestine, Culture and Imperialism and Out of Place: A Memoir.

RAHUL CHANDRA has been investing in technology startups as a venture capitalist for more than twenty years. His investing journey has taken him through venture ecosystems in India and Silicon Valley. He was the first employee in the 1998 vintage, $30-million India-dedicated Walden International Fund. He moved with Walden to work out of Palo Alto, California, evaluating Silicon Valley startups. He saw India transforming with booming domestic consumer consumption and conceived a new India-dedicated venture fund. In 2006, he co-founded Helion Ventures and relocated back to India. His investments at Helion in SMS Gupshup, Equitas Small Finance Bank (IPO), Spandana (IPO), Shubham Housing Finance, UnitedLex, Toppr, RailYatri and MoEngage led to the creation of many market leaders. His Helion journey was captured in his previous book, The Moonshot Game. In 2020, he started Arkam Ventures, a technology venture fund that invests in companies serving middle-India consumers and India-born SaaS startups for the world. Some of the companies he has invested in at Arkam include smallcase, Jar, Jai Kisan, BharatAgri, Fyno, Trential and Skyroot. Rahul has an undergraduate degree from BITS Pilani and an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley. He lives in Bengaluru, Karnataka.

Kavikankan Mukundaram Chakravarti birth ranged from 1537 to 1547 and the scholars agree that Mukundaram died first few years of the seventeen century.