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Aakash Singh Rathore is a philosopher, author, and public intellectual of international repute. His 10 authored books span ethics, politics, law, literature, biography, and wine, with translations into multiple languages; he has also edited 15 more, including B.R. Ambedkar: The Quest for Justice (5 vols., Oxford) and Hegel’s India (Oxford, shortlisted for Tata Literature Live Non-Fiction Book of the Year, 2017). Notable titles include the bestsellers Becoming Babasaheb (HarperCollins, currently being adapted into a film) and Ambedkar’s Preamble (Penguin).
Rathore has been a professor of philosophy, politics, and law at premier institutions, including Jawaharlal Nehru University, Ashoka University and Jindal Global University (where he taught courses on AI/AE), as well as at UPenn, Rutgers, the University of Toronto, Humboldt University of Berlin, and LUISS University, Rome. Through the Book Series “Rethinking India” (Penguin), “Religion and Democracy” (Oxford), and “Ethics, Human Rights and Global Political Thought” (Routledge), Rathore endeavors to leverage his role as Series Editor to champion diverse voices.
He pens the monthly column “Poorva Paksha” for Deccan Herald and contributes to The Indian Express, Outlook, The Times of India, and more. A top Ironman triathlete with nine finishes (and earlier ranked as India’s #3 Ironman triathlete), Rathore appears on podcasts like The Seen and the Unseen, at litfests worldwide, and engages millions via YouTube and social media (Quora, X, Instagram). More at 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.

Abhinav Chandrachud is an advocate who practises at the Bombay High Court. He graduated from the LL.M. program at Harvard Law School where he was a Dana Scholar, and from the JSM and JSD programs at Stanford Law School where he was a Franklin Family Scholar. He has worked as an associate attorney at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, a global law firm. He is the author of Republic of Rhetoric: Free Speech and the Constitution of India (2017), Supreme Whispers: Conversations with Judges of the Supreme Court of India 1980-1989 (2018) and Soli Sorabjee: An Authorized Biography (2022). He has also written for several leading newspapers in India including The Hindu, Indian Express and Times of India, and taught at Cornell Law School and NALSAR University of Law.

Dr Karan Singh was born heir apparent to the then ruler of the state of Jammu and Kashmir and served successively as regent, Sardar-i-Riyasat and governor of the state. A Padma Vibhushan, Dr Singh has held the tourism and civil aviation, health and family planning and the education and culture portfolios in the Indian government and also served briefly as ambassador to the United States. He is currently a member of the Rajya Sabha and deputy leader of the Congress Parliamentary Party as well as chairman of the Committee on Ethics of the Rajya Sabha. Dr Karan Singh has been chancellor of Benaras Hindu University and Jammu and Kashmir University, and is currently the chancellor of Jawaharlal Nehru University. He has also served as chairman of the Indian Board of Wildlife and is associated with several cultural and academic institutions. He composes and recites devotional songs in Dogri and is a connoisseur of Indian classical music. Some of his published works include his Autobiography, As I See it and Essays on Hinduism.