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ASHIS NANDY has worked on the topics of mass violence, human potentialities, cultures of knowledge systems, and alternative visions of the future. He is best known as the author of Alternative Sciences, The Savage Freud and Other Essays on Possible and Retrievable Selves, The Intimate Enemy, The Romance of the State and Traditions, Tyranny and Utopias. He won the Grand Prize category of the Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize (2007) and the Hans-Kilian Prize (2019). In 2008, he was elected one of the top 100 public intellectuals of the world by the magazine Foreign Policy and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Dr B.S. Ajaikumar is chairman and CEO of HealthCare Global (HCG). He founded HCG to realize his vision of making advanced cancer care accessible to all. Dr Ajaikumar’s contribution to the field of cancer care in India and his achievements as a first-generation physician-entrepreneur have been widely recognized. He has been given the EY Entrepreneur of the Year Award, the CII Regional Emerging Entrepreneur Award and the BC Roy Award by Indian Science Monitor. He is also a recipient of the Karnataka Rajyotsava Award. Dr Ajaikumar has been a practicing oncologist in the United States and India for more than three decades. He completed his residency training in radiotherapy from the MD Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute of the University of Texas, and his residency training in oncology from the University of Virginia Hospital, Charlottesville. He received his MBBS from St John’s Medical College, Bengaluru.

Aakash Singh Rathore is a philosopher of international repute and the author of seven books, including A Philosophy of Autobiography: Body & Text. He is also India’s number three Ironman triathlete and a social media influencer.
Rathore has taught at Jawaharlal Nehru University and University of Delhi, as well as at Rutgers University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Toronto, Humboldt University of Berlin and LUISS University in Rome.
He is an international fellow at the Centre for Ethics and Global Politics in Rome and a fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study in Shimla. He is the series editor of Rethinking India (fifteen volumes) and is the co-editor of its first volume, Vision for a Nation: Paths and Perspectives (with Ashis Nandy). Rathore is also the series editor of Ethics, Human Rights and Global Political Thought (Routledge), and Religion and Democracy: Reconceptualizing Religion, Culture, and Politics in a Global Context (Oxford University Press). His eighteen books, some of which he has edited, have been published by leading international publishers. These books range from political philosophy, law and religion to literature, sports and wine. His website is www.aakashsinghrathore.com.

Roshan Ali is thirty years old. He started writing soon after dropping out of college. His work has been published in the Huffington Post India and blogs at www.thesapota.com. He lives in Bengaluru with his wife and two dogs. This is his first novel.

Vir Sanghvi is a veteran journalist who was the editor of Hindustan Times from 1999 to 2004, before being promoted to editorial director, a post he held till 2007, after which he continued at the paper as a columnist. His television career has included several award-winning shows on the Star TV network, NDTV, Discovery and other channels. He has a parallel career as India’s leading food and travel writer.

PRASHANT KIDAMBI is associate professor of colonial urban history at the University of Leicester. After completing postgraduate degrees in history from the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, he was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to pursue a doctorate at the University of Oxford. Kidambi’s research explores the interface between British imperialism and the history of modern South Asia. He is the author of The Making of an Indian Metropolis: Colonial Governance and Public Culture in Bombay, 1890-1920 and the lead editor of Bombay before Mumbai: Essays in Honour of Jim Masselos.

Jasmin Kaur is a writer, illustrator and spoken word artiste living in Vancouver, BC. Her writing, which explores feminism, social empowerment, love and survival, acts as a means of healing and reclaiming identity. As an arts facilitator and fourth-grade teacher, Jasmin has been leading creative-writing workshops for young people across North America, the UK, and Australia over the past five years. Visit her online at www.jasminkaur.com.

Shehan Karunatilaka was born in Galle, Sri Lanka. He grew up in Colombo, studied in New Zealand and has lived and worked in London, Amsterdam and Singapore. He emerged on the world literary stage in 2011 when he won the Commonwealth Prize, the DSL and Gratiaen Prize for his debut novel, Chinaman. Karunatilaka is considered one of Sri Lanka’s foremost authors. In addition to novels, he has written rock songs, screenplays and travel stories, publishing in Rolling Stone, Gentleman’s Quarterly and National Geographic. He
currently lives in Sri Lanka.

Naomi Datta has been a television producer, presenter and writer working with a number of leading channels. She counts Times Now, CNBC TV 18 and MTV among her employers over a long television career. This was her debut novel.

Pranay Lal is a biochemist who works in the spheres of public health and environment. His first book Indica: A Deep Natural History of the Indian Subcontinent won the 2017 Tata Lit Prize, the World Book Fair Award, among others, and was named by Mint Lounge as one of the fifty must-read books about India since Independence. You can reach him at invisible.empire@tutanota.com.