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Zia Mody is one of India’s foremost corporate attorneys. She co-founded AZB & Partners, one of India’s leading corporate law firms, and is senior partner at its Mumbai offices. Zia has been consistently ranked by renowned international business law journals as one of India’s and Asia’s best mergers and acquisitions lawyers, most powerful CEOs and commercial arbitration specialists. She was a vice president of the London Court of International Arbitration (2009-13) and is a director of the London Court of International Arbitration, India. She has also been a member of the World Bank Administrative Tribunal (2007-12). She is on several government committees on financial reforms and corporate governance. Zia read law at University of Cambridge and Harvard Law School, and is a member of the New York State Bar. She is the daughter of legal luminary Soli J. Sorabjee.

RUDRANGSHU MUKHERJEE is Chancellor and Professor of History at Ashoka University of which he was the founding Vice Chancellor. He holds a D. Phil. in Modern History from the University of Oxford. He taught at the University of Calcutta and has held visiting appointments at Princeton University and the University of California, Santa Cruz amongst others. He was the Editor, Editorial Pages, The Telegraph. He is internationally acclaimed as a historian of the revolt of 1857 in India, on which he has published six books. He has also written on other themes relating to the history of modern India. His most recent book is Tagore & Gandhi: Walking Alone, Walking Together.

Jaimini Bhagwati is a former IFS officer, economist and foreign policy expert. He was high commissioner to the UK and ambassador to the European Union, Belgium and Luxembourg. Bhagwati has served in senior positions in the Government of India, including in foreign affairs, finance and atomic energy. In the World Bank, he was a specialist in international bond and derivatives markets; he was the RBI chair professor at ICRIER; and is a Board member of IDFC’s holding company.

Bhagwati did his master’s in physics from St Stephen’s College, Delhi, master’s in finance from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA and received his PhD in finance from Tufts University, USA. He has published research papers in several books, ICRIER and at the World Bank. He has been a columnist for Business Standard since 2005.

Gaur Gopal Das studied electrical engineering but after a brief stint in business decided to live life as a monk in an ashram in downtown Mumbai. He has been there for twenty-two years, learning the antiquity of ancient philosophy and modernity of contemporary psychology, to become a life-coach. Since 2005 Gaur Gopal Das has been travelling the world sharing the wisdom that he has learnt with corporate executives, universities and charities.. With millions of views on his videos on social media, he has now begun to lead a movement to help others achieve happiness and purpose in their lives. Now one of the most famous monks in the world, Gaur Gopal Das holds the title of ‘The Ideal Young Spiritual Guru,’ conferred upon him by the Indian Student Parliament, MIT Pune.

Madhuri is a multifaceted media professional, having worked in all forms of the visual medium—as a senior producer with Zoom TV; on advertisements with White Light Motion Pictures; as a director in her own production house, Gray Matter Solution; as a freelancer on documentaries with PSBT; and as assistant director of commercial Bollywood films. She has worked with stalwarts like Subhash Ghai, Kaizad Gustad and Rohan Sippy, and music director Anu Malik. Madhuri graduated from Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi and she has a master’s in Mass Communication and Films from Jamia Millia Islamia. Her thesis film Between Dualities won her the National Award for best documentary on women’s issues. She is an avid reader, world traveller and film watcher. She gives relationship advice in a column called Love Guru in the Asian Age and Deccan Chronicle and writes a blog called Chastity Belt for CNN-IBN. Currently, she has finished work on a commercial film script. Madhuri’s debut novel Losing My Virginity and Other Dumb Ideas was a runaway bestseller. She blogs at www.madhuribanerjee.blogspot.com and tweets with the handle @Madhuribanerjee. Visit her at her website www.madhuribanerjee.com

Arundhathi Subramaniam is a poet and spiritual traveler. Her books include a volume on contemporary women on sacred journeys, Wild Women, Women Who Wear Only Themselves; the bestselling biography of a contemporary mystic, Sadhguru: More Than a Life; anthologies of Bhakti poetry, Eating God, and of essays on sacred journeys, Pilgrim’s India; the much-reprinted Book of Buddha, among others.

Widely translated and anthologized, she is a recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award 2020 and the Mahakavi Kanhaiyalal Sethia award in 2024.

Ravinder Singh is a bestselling author. His debut novel I Too Had a Love Story has touched millions of heart. Can Love Happen Twice? is his second book. After spending most of his life in Burla, Orissa, Ravinder has finally settled down in Chandigarh. Having worked as a computer engineer for about several years at some of India’s prominent IT companies, Ravinder is now pursuing his MBA at the world renowned Indian School of Business, Hyderabad. Ravinder loves playing snooker in his free time. He is crazy about Punjabi music and loves dancing to its beat.

Ravinder Singh is a bestselling Indian author known for romance novels, such as I Too Had a Love Story and Can Love Happen Twice? Since then, he has written and edited eleven books that have been translated into different Indian languages. A former IT professional and senior program manager with Microsoft, with an MBA from the Indian School of Business, he quit his job to become a full-time writer. He is the founder of Let’s Socialise—a hugely popular networking space for singles.

Harinder S. Sikka is currently the group director, strategic business, Piramal Group. After graduating from Delhi University, he joined the Indian Navy. He was commissioned in January 1981 and took premature retirement in 1993 as a Lieutenant Commander.

He recently produced a film, Nanak Shah Fakir, which won acclaim at the Cannes, Toronto and Los Angeles international film festivals. The film won three national awards including the Nargis Dutt Award for best feature film on national integration.

Calling Sehmat is his second book and has been made into a film, Raazi, by Meghna Gulzar.

Sikka lives in Delhi with his family.

Bilkees I. Latif is a social activist who has received national and international awards, including the Padma Shri in 2008. She is the author of The Andhra Cookbook, The Fragrance of Forgotten Years and O Dharavi._x000D_