Tim Wigmore is a journalist for the Daily Telegraph, and a contributor to ESPNcricinfo, the New York Times and The Economist. He writes about all aspects of sport, especially cricket, sports analytics and the business of sport. Wigmore is a former winner of the Christopher Martin-Jenkins Young Cricket Journalist of the Year award, and among the shortlist for the Cricket Journalist of the Year award in the UK in 2019. His first book, Second XI: Cricket in Its Outposts, was named one of the Guardian‘s sports books of the year for 2015.
Freddie Wilde works as an analyst and is on the editorial team at the cricket data analytics company CricViz, which provides services to broadcasters, professional teams and players. Freddie is also a freelance journalist, specializing in T20 cricket. He has written for ESPNcricinfo, Cricket Monthly, All Out Cricket, CricBuzz, Wisden India and others.
Freddie Wilde works as an analyst and is on the editorial team at the cricket data analytics company CricViz, which provides services to broadcasters, professional teams and players. Freddie is also a freelance journalist, specializing in T20 cricket. He has written for ESPNcricinfo, Cricket Monthly, All Out Cricket, CricBuzz, Wisden India and others.
Raja Rao, a path-breaker of Indian writing in English, was born in Hassan, Mysore. He was awarded the Padma Vibhushan, the Sahitya Akademi Award and the Neustadt International Prize for Literature.
Abhijit Banerjee is the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at MIT and the author of Poor Economics. He has been named as one of Foreign Policy magazine’s top 100 global thinkers and has served on the U.N. Secretary-General’s panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda.
Esther Duflo, winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics, is the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics in the Department of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a co-founder and co-director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL). Duflo is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Science, and has received numerous academic honors and prizes including the Princess of Asturias Award for Social Sciences (2015), the Infosys Prize (2014), the Dan David Prize (2013), a John Bates Clark Medal (2010), and a MacArthur “Genius Grant” Fellowship (2009).
A bestselling author and motivational speaker,Priya Kumar is the CEO of Priya Kumar’s Training Systems. Apart from being a columnist for leading newspapers, Priya does several radio and television shows on motivation and peak performance. Her first book, I Am Another You, was an immediate success and remains an inspirational bestseller. Her second book, Licence to Live , won the prestigious Eric Hoffer Book Award in 2012. Priya is also a much-sought-after motivational trainer. Her interactive and, at times, unconventional methods of training continue to deliver tangible results.
Born in Mumbai, Pranay Gupte was educated at Brandeis and Columbia Universities. He worked for the New York Times as a staff reporter and as a foreign correspondent in Africa, the Middle East and Asia. He was a columnist for Newsweek and contributed to Forbes and other major international publications. He has written several books, produced documentaries for public television and published The Earth Times, an environmental newspaper. He divides his time between New Delhi and New York.
M.S. Ashokan is an author and senior journalist with over twenty years of experience. He currently works with the Deshabimani daily. Painting (in oil and water colours) is a passion that he pursues seriously. He lives in Kochi with his wife and two children.
Living between Manhattan and Kashi, Dr Bhaswati Bhattacharya is a licensed, board-certified physician, integrating ‘Good Medicine’ with Ayurveda for the past fifteen years. She is Clinical Assistant Professor of Family Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College and a PhD researcher in Ayurveda at Banaras Hindu University. She is a 2014 senior Fulbright-Nehru Scholar, recipient of American Medical Association’s Leadership Award and the first Indian to speak at Commencement Exercises at Harvard University. Her work is featured in the documentary, Healers: Journey into Ayurveda, on The Discovery Channel. Her website is: www.drbhaswati.com.
Amit Lodha is an IPS officer currently serving as ADGP of BSF. He has been awarded the prestigious Police Medal for Gallantry and the Internal Security Medal for his work, as well as the Utkrisht Seva Medal and the President’s Medal for meritorious service. He has previously authored Bihar Diaries: The True Story of How Bihar’s Most Dangerous Criminal Was Caught (2018) and Life in the Uniform: Adventures of an IPS Officer in Bihar (2022). This is his third book.
