Archives: Authors

Lathika George is a Mumbai-born Syrian Christian from Kanjirappally in Kerala. She often refers to herself as ‘an accidental cookbook writer’, since a fortuitous meeting with a publisher in New York led to the writing of her cookbook memoir. A landscape designer, environmentalist and organic gardener, she also writes about travel, design and the environment for several publications. Her column on organic gardening, The Essential Kitchen Garden, is a monthly feature in The Hindu Metro Plus. Her next book, Mother Earth, Sister Seed, will be published by Penguin Random House in 2017.

Sam Pitroda (Author)
Sam Pitroda is an internationally recognized telecom inventor, entrepreneur, development thinker, and policy maker who has spent fifty years in information and communications technology (ICT) and related global and national developments. Credited with having laid the foundation for India’s telecommunications and technology revolution of the 1980s, Mr Pitroda has been a leading campaigner to help bridge the global digital divide. He was also the founder and first chairman of India’s Telecom Commission. Recently, Mr Pitroda served as adviser to the Prime Minister of India on public information infrastructure and innovation, with the rank of cabinet minister. In addition, Mr Pitroda is a serial entrepreneur having started several companies in the United States. He holds over fifteen honorary PhDs, close to 100 worldwide patents, and has published and lectured widely in the United States, Europe, Latin America and Asia.

David Chanoff holds a BA from the Johns Hopkins University, and a PhD in English and American literature from Brandeis University. He has written on literary history, foreign policy, refugee issues, education and other subjects for such publications as the American Scholar, the New Republic, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and the Journal of American Education. Dr Chanoff has authored and co-authored eighteen books, including several on the Vietnam War and the Holocaust.

Mathangi Subramanian, Ed.D., is a writer, educator, and activist. She previously served as senior policy adviser to former New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, an assistant vice president at Sesame Workshop, and a public school teacher in Texas and New York. She has received numerous honors, including a Fulbright-Nehru Research Fellowship and a Jacob Javits Fellowship.

Kiran Desai is the bestselling author of two novels, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard and The Inheritance of Loss, which won both the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Rajorshi is the author of five novels and a collection of short fiction. Or the Day Seizes You was shortlisted for the Crossword Book Award in 2006.

Scott Hartley is a Silicon Valley venture capitalist. He has worked for Google, Facebook, Harvard’s Berkman Klein Centre for Internet & Society, and the White House as a Presidential Innovation Fellow. He holds three degrees from Stanford University and Columbia University. He is a term member at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, and has traveled to over seventy-five countries.

His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama is the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhists. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989 for his non-violent campaign to end the Chinese occupation of Tibet. Since March 1959, His Holiness has been living in exile and currently resides in Dharamsala, India.

Devangana Dash is a New Delhi-based designer, illustrator and book maker. When she’s not designing books for a living, she reads, draws a little more and collects books for her dream library. For inspiration, she relies on nature (especially birds and sea turtles), picture books by her favourite artists and authors, different genres of music and a cup of chai.

She studied visual communication design at Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology after completing a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Lady Shri Ram College for Women. This is Devangana’s debut picture book, and she has previously worked with clients like Child Rights and You, WWF India, the Wildlife Trust of India and the Centre of Environment Education. She has also illustrated Ayesha and the Firefish (published by Puffin Books in 2016). She can be found on devanganadash.com and on Instagram @devanganadash.

Krishna Udayasankar is the author of The Aryavarta Chronicles (Govinda, Kaurava, Kurukshetra), Immortal and Objects of Affection. She lives in Singapore with her family, which includes three bookish canine children, Boozo, Zana, and Maya.