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Arvind Subramanian is currently a professor of public policy at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, having served as an economist at the IMF as well as a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development in Washington, DC, and the Peterson Institute for International Economics. He is the author and co-author of several books, including Eclipse: Living in the Shadow of China’s Economic Dominance and India’s Turn: Understanding the Economic Transformation, among others.

Khyrunnisa A. is an award-winning writer of children’s fiction and the author of the
hilarious Butterfingers books. Howzzat
Butterfingers! (2010) is the first novel in
the series. She created the popular comic
character Butterfingers for Tinkle. The Lizard
of Oz and Other Stories, The Crocodile Who
Ate Butter Chicken for Breakfast and Other
Stories, Baby and Dubdub, The Couch Potato
Who Said Ouch and Other Funny Stories and
Agassi and the Great Cycle Race are some of
her engaging books for children.

A curious mind with a love for science and a gift for storytelling, Sujata Kelkar Shetty bridges cutting-edge research and everyday wellness with warmth and wisdom. Trained in the US as a biological scientist, she holds a BS in genetics (University of Wisconsin–Madison) and a PhD in toxicology (University of Kentucky), she then dived into pioneering stress research at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, under Dr George Chrousos—a legend in the field. Her work revolves around decoding how stress tinkers with our immunity, one biomolecule at a time.

Back in India, she swapped lab coats for a pen, becoming a preventive health evangelist. For years, her lively columns in Mint (India’s top business daily) made complex science feel like a friendly chat—mixing modern medicine, ancient ayurveda and real-world doctor insights. Readers loved it so much, she turned her wisdom into the bestselling book 99 Not Out! Your Guide to a Long and Healthy Life (Penguin Random House India, 2019). The book was so popular that Penguin asked for an expanded edition which was published in 2023.

Sujata is also a certified life coach and resilience trainer on a mission to help people and organizations thrive. From Infosys to PricewaterhouseCoopers, her workshops crackle with energy, blending science, humour and practical tools to build unshakable well-being. She trained with Coaches Training Institute and Dr Amit Sood’s Resilient Option.

When she’s not writing or coaching, you’ll find her reading, practising yoga or walking nature trails with her husband, two sons and three dogs. If the mood strikes, she will unwind with Hindustani classical music because even scientists need soulful melodies.

Suraj Yengde is a Shorenstein Center inaugural post-doctoral fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School. He has worked with leading international organizations in Geneva, London and New York, and is associate editor of Caste: A Global Journal of Social Exclusion. His writings have featured in India Today, the Indian Express, Hindustan Times, Economic and Political Weekly, Huffington Post, the Conversation, Globe Post, Mail and Guardian, South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, and Social Transformations, among other leading publications.

Fatima Bhutto was born in Kabul, Afghanistan and grew up between Syria and Pakistan. She is the author of several books of fiction and nonfiction. Her debut novel, The Shadow of the Crescent Moon, was long listed for the Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction and the memoir about her father’s life and assassination, Songs of Blood and Sword, was published to acclaim. Her most recent books are The Runaways, a novel, and New Kings of the World, a non-fiction reportage on popular culture and globalisation.

Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh is Crawford Professor and Chair of the department of Religious Studies at Colby College in the USA. Her books include The Guru Granth Sahib: its Physics and Metaphysics (1981), The Feminine Principle in the Sikh Vision of the Transcendent (1993), The Name of My Beloved: Verses of the Sikh Gurus (2001), now published in Penguin Classics as Hymns of the Sikh Gurus, The Birth of the Khalsa: (2005), Of Sacred and Secular Desire: An Anthology of Lyrical Writings from the Punjab (2012).

Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh was born in India, and went for high school to the USA. She received her BA in Philosophy and Religion from Wellesley College, her MA from the University of Pennsylvania, and her PhD from Temple University. She is the Crawford professor and chair of the department of religious studies at Colby College in the USA. From The Feminine Principle in the Sikh Vision of the Transcendent (Cambridge University Press, 1993) to her latest The First Sikh: The Life and Legacy of Guru Nanak by Penguin Viking (2019), Nikky Singh has been publishing extensively in the field of Sikh studies.

Tanu Shree Singh is an Assistant Professor in Psychology. She completed her studies in Positive Psychology, a relatively new and promising branch of psychology devoted to cultivating contented, happy, fulfilling lives. She extensively writes on issues related to parenting and has been published in leading online dailies and communities. Her approach to parenting, rooted in her academic background, draws heavily from her experiences as a parent and a mentor.
Her passion for reading and getting more children to read led her to set up two libraries in Faridabad and Tirthan Valley. She also supports 13 other libraries in Himachal. She is the author of Keep Calm and Mommy On, DK Indian Icons: CV Raman and has contributed to the anthologies Flipped and I’d rather read.

This book is the result of a solo journey the author made retracing the old Silk Road. Along the way, amongst the mountains of Central Asia he stumbled across a landmark that, upon later researching the maps of Ptolemy, he came to realise was the geographer’s lost Stone Tower. Riaz Dean collects old books and maps about the exploration of this region, which also formed the basis for his first book Mapping the Great Game.

Sugata Bose is the Gardiner professor of history at Harvard University. He was educated at Presidency College, Calcutta, and the University of Cambridge where he obtained his PhD and was later a fellow of St Catharine’s College. Before taking up the Gardiner Chair at Harvard in 2001, he was professor of history and diplomacy at Tufts University. Bose was a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship and gave the G.M. Trevelyan Lecture at the University of Cambridge.

Bose, who is Netaji’s brother Sarat Chandra Bose’s grandson, is the author of many books, including Peasant Labour and Colonial Capital and the much-acclaimed The Nation as Mother and Other Visions of Nationhood and A Hundred Horizons: The Indian Ocean in the Age of Global Empire. He has also made documentary films on South Asian history and politics and published recordings of his translations of Tagore.