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Saina Nehwal is an Indian badminton player, former world no.1 in Women’s Singles . She is the first Indian to win a medal in Badminton at the Olympics. She achieved this feat by winning the Bronze medal at the London Olympics 2012 on 4 August 2012.

Manish Gupta is a leadership consultant, facilitator and trainer. When not providing consultancy advice to companies, this ex-banker examines the vagaries and idiosyncrasies of the English language. He also likes trivia, travelling, adventure sports, delving into human psychology and giving professorial discourses to colleagues, family and friends-practically anyone who can give him a patient hearing. He debuted as an author with English Bites! (Penguin Books India, New Delhi, 2012)-an unconventional and fun way of gaining proficiency in English, with focus on vocabulary, pronunciation, and spoken skills.
An engineering graduate of PEC University of Technology, Chandigarh, and with an MBA degree from XLRI, Jamshedpur, he lives in Mumbai with his wife Deepali, a medical professional, and their daughters Tamanna and Prakriti.

Vivek Pandey has a BTech in computer science and an MTech in industrial
management, both from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, and an
MBA from the Indian School of Business. He has held leadership positions in
marketing and product development in the Internet industry and is currently
building a new product. He lives in Delhi with his wife, Ruchi, and their
children, Sipul and Rohin.

Paras Arora is an entrepreneur, a friend, a critic and a consultant, not
necessarily in that order. He has a BTech from the Indian Institute of
Technology, Guwahati, and an MBA from the Indian School of Business,
Hyderabad. He loves taking chances, making friends, connecting people
and learning continuously.

PARAS ARORA is an entrepreneur, a friend, a critic and a consultant, not necessarily in that order. He has a BTech from the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, and an MBA from the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad. He loves taking chances, making friends, connecting people and learning continuously.

Payal Gidwani Tiwari is the most famous fitness and yoga trainer of Bollywood. Her clients include Kareena Kapoor Khan, Saif Ali Khan, Rani Mukerji, Jacqueline Fernandes, Farah Khan, Tusshar Kapoor, Amrita Arora, Priya Dutt, Suzanne Roshan, Maria Goretti, Tulip Joshi and Zoa Morani. Her husband, Manish Tiwari, used to train the late actor Sridevi and currently trains Katrina Kaif.

Dr Arun Gadre is a gynaecologist. He practised in a drought-prone area of rural Maharashtra for twenty years. With the support of his anaesthetist wife, Dr Jyoti Gadre, he ran a small hospital on a private basis, witnessing first-hand the degeneration of the once noble medical profession. Unable to stem the rot and fatigued by practising in a resource-poor set-up with rising patient expectations, he left private practice to work as a coordinator of a Pune-based NGO, SATHI, which specializes in policy advocacy related to healthcare in India. Dr Gadre is the author of seventeen books in Marathi, including six novels, and is a recipient of several literary awards.

Dr Abhay Shukla is a public health physician, with a postgraduate degree in community medicine from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. He has worked on health issues in collaboration with people’s movements and grassroots NGOs in Maharashtra for two decades. He is Senior Programme Coordinator with SATHI, Pune, and is a member of advisory bodies for the National Rural Health Mission and the National Human Rights Commission. He is a national convener of Jan Swasthya Abhiyan (People’s Health Movement-India) and has facilitated public hearings on right to healthcare across the country. Dr Shukla has authored and edited several books on health system issues. He has contributed to developing the framework of community-based monitoring and planning of health services at the national level and in Maharashtra. He is involved in action and research for the promotion of patient’s rights, the social regulation of the private medical sector and universal healthcare.

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Dr Abhay Shukla is a public health physician, with a postgraduate degree in community medicine from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. He has worked on health issues in collaboration with people’s movements and grassroots NGOs in Maharashtra for two decades. He is Senior Programme Coordinator with SATHI, Pune, and is a member of advisory bodies for the National Rural Health Mission and the National Human Rights Commission. He is a national convener of Jan Swasthya Abhiyan (People’s Health Movement-India) and has facilitated public hearings on right to healthcare across the country. Dr Shukla has authored and edited several books on health system issues. He has contributed to developing the framework of community-based monitoring and planning of health services at the national level and in Maharashtra. He is involved in action and research for the promotion of patient’s rights, the social regulation of the private medical sector and universal healthcare.

Sidin Vadukut was born in a small town near Irinjalakuda in Kerala, and spent most of his growing years in Abu Dhabi eating falafel. Once even with sambar. He is an engineer from NIT Trichy, an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad and is currently pursuing a master’s in historical research at the University of London. Over the last decade he has made auto parts, developed online trading platforms, worked as a consultant and once had a sizeable portion of a tree fall on him. Sidin is an editor with the Mintnewspaper. He is also a full-time freelance Twitterer. He lives in London with his remarkably patient wife, a plethora of Apple products and a growing collection of Buddha statues.

Shonali Sabherwal is a gut health expert, chef and India’s first macrobiotic nutritionist. She uses food as medicine and works by strengthening the gut and focusing on immunity.

She is the author of the bestsellers The Beauty Diet, The Love Diet, The Detox Diet, Vipassana: The Timeless Secret to Meditate and Be Calm, and Finding Your Balance: Your 360-Degree Guide to Perimenopause and Beyond. She also has a podcast called Soulfood Conversations on Audible by Amazon.

V. Raghunathan taught at IIM, Ahmedabad for about two decades, where he also chaired the MBA programme. In 2001 he moved to ING Vysya Bank as President until 2004. For the next fourteen years he headed the GMR Varalakshmi Foundation. He is currently the director of the Hyderabad campus of Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto, Canada. He has been a Visiting Professor at Bocconi University, Milan, Italy for twenty five years and is at present an Adjunct Professor at Schulich School of Business, Toronto. He is a busy author with about 15 books and a columnist of long standing with national dailies with over 600 articles. He currently blogs for Times of India. Raghu is a serious hobbyist with one of the largest collection of old and antique padlocks in India. He has been a cartoonist briefly with a national daily and played chess at the all-India level. He lives in Bangalore with his wife Meena. His website is www.vraghuanthan.com.