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Tazmeen Amna is extremely passionate about animals. She ditched a corporate career and is currently working with the Federation of Indian Animal Protection Organisations. When not enjoying the company of the furry ones, Tazmeen paints portraits of them-her medium being watercolour and acrylics. A bookworm and feminist, she has been painting and writing since the age of four. She studied literature at Lady Shri Ram College for Women and also holds an MBA degree. She resides in New Delhi with her family and her many pets-Bagheera, the real-life
Mr Grey; a Madagascar lovebird; a Quaker parakeet; a grey cockatiel; and a Netherland Dwarf rabbit. Her future plans include adopting a kitten as well as penning down a sequel to this book.

Upendra Kumar Sinha is the former chairman of SEBI. He was also the chairman and managing director of UTI Mutual Fund. He headed the Capital Markets Division in the Ministry of Finance, Government of India. He was a member of Bihar Cadre of the Indian Administrative Services (IAS).

Shraddha Soni is a spiritual teacher and healer. Stemming from this innate calling are her manifestations as an inspirational speaker and writer.

For over twenty years, Shraddha has been working, helping people heal. Her clientele includes people from various walks of life – celebrities, corporate head honchos, and the guy or girl next door. They have found in her a guide, a light, a hand that has helped steady their minds. She has guided them to find meaning in their lives and set them on the path to inner peace and greater fulfilment.

Her work is a reflection of her own quest for the soul’s purpose. Her faith in herself manifests in her gift that imparts to others, this magic of transformation.
Shraddha considers life as her biggest mentor. She looks upon the fabulous job it does for her as her greatest personal gift. She believes that when you trust life, it speaks to you and mystical experiences become a part of everyday life. It is part of her personal spiritual awakening process.

I Am Life is Shraddha Soni’s foray into the world of writing. One read of I Am Life and she convinces you that although this book is her first, she is here to stay!

Parashar Kulkarni was raised in Mumbai. He teaches at the intersections of religion, politics and utopias and experiments with fiction, film and performance. His work appears in journals such as Granta, Boston Review and Sociological Review, and has received several awards, including the British Academy Brian Barry Prize, Commonwealth Writers Short Story Prize and the Boston Review Aura Estrada Prize. Cow and Company was his first novel. He has a PhD from New York University and teaches at Yale-NUS College.

Satyarth Nayak is an author and screenwriter based in Mumbai. A former SAARC Literary award-winning correspondent with CNN-IBN, Delhi, he holds a master’s in English literature from St Stephen’s, New Delhi. Satyarth’s debut novel, The Emperor’s Riddles, released in 2014 and became a bestselling historical thriller, earning comparisons with Dan Brown. His short stories have won the British Council Award and appeared in Sudha Murty’s Penguin anthology Something Happened on the Way to Heaven. Satyarth has also scripted Sony’s epic show Porus, touted as India’s biggest historical TV series. A regular speaker at various literature festivals, he has been named as one of the Top 51 authors to follow on Facebook. Satyarth is currently writing a fantasy web series for Amazon Prime, working on books on Indian mythology and exploring scripts in Bollywood. A self-confessed cinephile, this is his first non-fiction book.

NIRAJA GOPAL JAYAL is professor at the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Her book, Citizenship and Its Discontents (Harvard University Press, 2013), won the Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Prize of the Association of Asian Studies in 2015. She is also the author of Representing India: Ethnic Diversity and the Governance of Public Institutions (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006) and Democracy and the State: Welfare, Secularism and Development in Contemporary India (OUP, 1999). She has co-edited The Oxford Companion to Politics in India, and is the editor/co-editor of, among others, Democracy in India (OUP, 2001) and Local Governance in India: Decentralisation and Beyond (OUP 2005).

She is currently working on a book on the decline of the public university in India. She has held visiting appointments at, among others, King’s College, London; the EHESS, Paris; Princeton University; and the University of Melbourne. In 2009, she delivered the Radhakrishnan Memorial Lecture at All Souls College, Oxford.

Jairam Ramesh, a Rajya Sabha MP, was Union minister between 2006 and 2014, holding several key portfolios including environment and forests. He is the author of several well-known books including Indira Gandhi: A Life in Nature and Intertwined Lives: P.N. Haksar and Indira Gandhi. His last book, A Chequered Brilliance: The Many Lives of V.K. Krishna Menon won the Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize 2020.

Best known for her long association with Femina, which she edited for twelve years, Sathya Saran is also the author of a diverse variety of books that include fiction and biographies. Currently Consulting Editor with Penguin Random House, Sathya also teaches fashion journalism at NIFT Mumbai, Kangra and Srinagar.

Srinath Raghavan is professor of history and international relations at Ashoka University, New Delhi. He is the author of several acclaimed books, including India’s War: The Making of Modern South Asia and Fierce Enigmas: A History of the United States in South Asia.

Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati lives and teaches at the Parmarth Niketan Ashram on the banks of the Ganga. She is a graduate of Stanford University and holds a PhD in psychology. She is also vice-chair of the United Nations Faith Advisory Council on Religion. She spearheads many social development projects as secretary-general of the Global Interfaith WASH Alliance and president of the Divine Shakti Foundation.