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Maherra Desai is a clinical psychologist and medical researcher. She has excelled in academics and psychometrics, and is the site manager of clinical research at the Jaslok Hospital & Research Centre, Mumbai. She is passionate about fitness, travel and voluntary social work.

Dr. Rajesh M. Parikh is the Director of Medical Research and Honorary Neuropsychiatrist at the Jaslok Hospital & Research Centre, Mumbai. He trained and taught at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions in the U.S. and at the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital in Mumbai. He has published research in leading international journals and is passionate about poetry, painting, photography, philosophy, linguistics, marine fish, and aviation. He has cumulatively won over 200 awards in academics and in his diverse activities.

SHASHI THAROOR is the bestselling author of twenty books, both fiction and non-fiction, besides being a noted critic and columnist. His books include the pathbreaking satire The Great Indian Novel (1989), the classic India: From Midnight to the Millennium (1997), the bestselling An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India, for which he won the Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence in Journalism, 2016, for Books (Non-Fiction), and The Paradoxical Prime Minister: Narendra Modi and His India. He has been Under Secretary-General of the United Nations and Minister of State for Human Resource Development and Minister of State for External Affairs in the Government of India. He is a three-time member of the Lok Sabha from Thiruvananthapuram and chairs the Parliament Information
Technology committee. He has won numerous literary awards, including a national Sahitya Akademi award, a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Crossword Lifetime Achievement Award. He was awarded the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, India’s highest honour for overseas Indians, in 2004, and honoured as New Age Politician of the Year (2010) by NDTV.

Diana R. Chambers is an internationally renowned writer who has also worked in Hollywood as a costumer and scriptwriter. She is a member of the Writers Guild of America, Mystery Writers of America, and president of Sisters in Crime-NorCal. She lives in a small San Francisco-area town with her fellow-traveller husband, arty daughter, brilliant mutt, and feral kitty, Marco Polo.

Nishi Grover is a dietician with over 30 years of experience in the fitness and nutrition industry. She has had over 1500 clients and a clinic in South Delhi.

Rabindranath Tagore, Renaissance man, reshaped Bengal’s literature and music, and became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. He introduced new prose and verse forms and the use of colloquial language into Bengali literature, thereby freeing it from traditional models based on classical Sanskrit. He was highly influential in introducing the best of Indian culture to the West and vice versa, and was a living institution for India, especially for Bengal.

Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962. She is the author of several novels and short story collections including, The Accidental, Hotel World, How to Be Both and the Seasonal Quartet. She has been four times shortlisted for the Booker Prize, has won the Goldsmiths Prize, Orwell Prize, Costa Best Novel Award and the Women’s Prize. Ali Smith lives in Cambridge.

Akash Verma is the co-founder of a fashion start-up centred around Indian designs, www.chokore.com, and a national bestselling author.
Akash has more than twenty-four years of experience in the FMCG sector and media, at senior levels with companies such as Coca-Cola, Red FM, Big FM and the Times of India. His work has taken him across the country, and he finds this experience very relevant while giving shape to his stories.
Akash has authored four books till now, and he has been covered by national media in publications such as the Pioneer, the Times of India, the Hindustan Times and Financial World.
Akash lives with his family in Gurgaon, Haryana. His parents are award-winning Hindi writers.

Sudha Murty was born in 1950, in Shiggaon, north Karnataka. Author, philanthropist, educator, public speaker and engineer, Sudha Murty completed her master’s in computer science from IISc, Bangalore. She is the founder of Infosys Foundation and the Chairperson of the Murty Trust. A bestselling author with more than three hundred titles to her acclaim, some of her most famous books are Three Thousand Stitches, Dollar Bahu and Wise and Otherwise. She writes in English and Kannada and her books have been translated into all the major Indian languages and have sold more than 60 lakh copies around the country.

Over the years, Sudha Murty has been recognized with many prestigious awards including the Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri from the Government of India in 2023 and 2006 respectively, Bal Sahitya Puraskar in 2023, the R.K. Narayan Award for Literature in 2006, the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Award in 2020, Lokmanya Tilak and Mahatma awards in 2024. She was also awarded the Rajyotsava and Attimabbe award for excellence in Kannada literature from the Government of Karnataka in 2000 and 2012. Sudha Murty has received 19 honorary doctorates from various universities across India. Currently, she is also serving as the President Nominated Member of Parliament in Rajya Sabha.

Bhakti Mathur took to writing in 2010 when she created the popular Amma, Tell Me series of children’s picture books about Indian festivals and mythology. After a long stint as a banker, she now juggles her time between her writing, her passion for yoga and long-distance running, and her family. She lives in Hong Kong with her husband, their two children and two dogs. She holds a master of fine arts degree in creative writing from the University of Hong Kong and freelances as a journalist. When not writing or running after her young boys, Bhakti is happiest curled up with a book in one hand
and a hot cup of chai in the other. To know more, visit her at www.bhaktimathur.com.