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.
After twelve years as editor of Femina which was declared a Superbrand, Sathya Saran chose to be a full-time author, part time teacher and a columnist. Her books include the acclaimed biographies, Ten Years with Guru Dutt Abrar Alvi’s Journey, Baat Niklegi toh Phir: The Life and Music of Jagjit Singh, Sun Mere Bandhu Re: The Musical World of SD Burman and Hariprasad Chaurasia: Breath of Gold. She also has a book of short stories, The Dark Side. Caged is her first book as a translator.
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.
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.
