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Dr Nandita Shah is the founder of Sanctuary for Health and Reconnection to Animals and Nature (SHARAN) and has thirty-six years of experience in treating patients. She started her career as a homeopath in Mumbai and was a part of the Sankaran group of homeopaths. As a homeopath, she prescribed the minimum number of medications. She taught advanced-level homeopathy internationally and was invited for seminars and international conferences in the US, Europe, South America and the Middle East.

Soha Ali Khan is an Indian film actor and an avid animal lover. After studying modern history at
Balliol College, Oxford, she went on to earn an MA in international relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her first book
The Perils Of Being Moderately Famous (Penguin, 2017) was greatly reviewed and is a bestseller.

With the Inni & Bobo series, actors, partners and parents Soha Ali Khan and Kunal Kemmu venture into the world of children’s books. This wonderful picture book series is based on their daughter’s love of animals.

Tamal Bandyopadhyay, consulting editor at Business Standard and senior adviser at Jana Small Finance Bank, is an award-winning journalist and author. One of the most respected business journalists in India, he has kept a close watch on the financial sector for two and a half decades and has had a ringside view of the enormous changes in the Indian finance and banking sectors. His other books-A Bank for the Buck, Sahara: The Untold Story, Bandhan: The Making of a Bank, HDFC 2.0: From Dawn to Digital and Pandemonium: The Great Indian Banking Tragedy-have all been non-fiction bestsellers.

Brijesh Singh is a senior IPS officer and principal secretary to the chief minister of Maharashtra. He was previously additional director-general of police in Maharashtra and has held the responsibility of Maharashtra Cyber, a unit looking after cybersecurity for the Government of Maharashtra for several years.
Brijesh contributes to newspapers and appears in the media on cybersecurity related issues. He has written the thriller Quantum Siege and co-authored Dangerous Minds of India with Hussain S. Zaidi.

S. Hussain Zaidi is India’s number-one crime writer. He is the author of several bestselling books, including Dongri to Dubai: Six Decades of the Mumbai Mafia, Mafia Queens of Mumbai, Black Friday and My Name Is Abu Salem. A veteran of investigative, crime and terror reporting in the media, he has worked for the Asian Age, Mumbai Mirror, Mid-Day and the Indian Express. He is also the associate producer of the HBO movie Terror in Mumbai, based on the 26/11 terror strikes. He lives with his family in Mumbai.

Shilpa Shetty Kundra is a popular Bollywood actor, model, entrepreneur and health enthusiast. A yoga believer, she produced a yoga DVD, and was first amongst actors making yoga ‘cool’. Since making her debut in the film Baazigar, she has appeared in nearly sixty Bollywood, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada films. Shilpa is the recipient of numerous awards and nominations, including four nominations at the Filmfare Awards.
Shilpa is also Chairman of Best Deal TV, India’s first celebrity home shopping channel, and IOSIS spa and salons that have seventeen centres across India.
Shilpa is the winner of the international reality television series, ‘Celebrity Big Brother 5’, which catapulted her to fame. She featured as a celebrity host for the 2008 reality show, ‘Bigg Boss 2’, and served as a talent judge for the reality shows, ‘Jhalak Dikhla Jaa’ (season 1) and ‘Nach Baliye’ (seasons 5 and 6). Shetty turned into a film producer with the 2014 action film, ‘Dishkiyaaoon’. She has always been a trendsetter, whether it be fashion or ideas, even designing her own line of sarees under the ‘SSK’ brand.
She lives in Mumbai with her husband, Raj, and her son Viaan-Raj. This is her debut book, co-authored with Luke Coutinho

Bharat Sundaresan is a world-renowned, award-winning cricket writer and commentator currently based in Adelaide, Australia. He is the Australian correspondent and senior writer for Cricbuzz, the No. 1 cricket website in the world, and also a colour commentator for SEN, the Melbourne-based sports radio station. He’s the author of The Dhoni Touch, the 2018 national bestseller in India, which is considered the most in-depth biography on Indian cricket superstar M.S. Dhoni, and Believe, which he co-wrote with Suresh Raina.

Bharat is originally from Mumbai and used to work for the Indian Express, a leading Indian national daily, covering cricket and other sports for over 10.5 years, from May 2008 to December 2018. He’s travelled to and covered series in every major cricketing nation in the world. He has also written for several world-class publications around the world and appeared on numerous TV-news and current-affairs shows in Australia.

Vasudha Rai is a bestselling author, columnist, podcaster and an award-winning journalist who has written on beauty and wellness for more than two decades. Her first book, Glow: Indian Foods, Recipes and Rituals for Beauty, Inside & Out, has revived the usage of traditional ingredients in everyday living. Her second book, Ritual: Daily Practices for Wellness, Beauty & Bliss, modernizes traditional practices, so they’re relevant for contemporary lifestyles. A yoga teacher with a 300-hour certification, Vasudha has taught yoga at The Yoga Studio in Delhi.

Her beauty column has appeared in The Hindu Weekend and HT Mint Lounge. Two seasons of her podcast, Holistic Healing with Vasudha Rai—in association with RedFM, India’s leading radio channel—are streaming across all major platforms including Spotify, Jio Saavn, Google Podcasts and Apple Podcasts. Her work has appeared in publications such as Vogue, Condé Nast Traveller and The Hindu Weekend. In the past, she has been the beauty director for Harper’s Bazaar, Cosmopolitan and Women’s Health, India.

In 2019, Vasudha was awarded the Beauty & Wellness Voice of The Year at the Cosmopolitan Blogger Awards. In 2022, she was awarded the Voice of Reason in beauty writing as part of the Vogue Beauty Festival, and the Future Forward Influencer in the Wellness category by Peaklife magazine. In 2024, Vasudha released her an audio book, an Audible Original, titled The Book of Holistic Beauty, streaming on Audible. These days, Vasudha enjoys writing books, interacting with her Instagram audience and gardening at her home in Gurugram, India.

In 2022, she was awarded the Voice of Reason award in beauty writing, as part of the Vogue Beauty Festival. She’s also been the beauty director for Harper’s Bazaar, Cosmopolitan and Women’s Health, India.

Dr Radhakrishnan Pillai is the bestselling author of Inside Chanakya’s Mind and Chatur Chanakya and the Himalayan Problem. He has researched Kautilya’s Arthashastra extensively and has a master’s degree in Sanskrit. He is the deputy director of the Chanakya International Institute of Leadership Studies (CIILS), University of Mumbai.