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Mrs K. M. Mathew (1922-2003) is the bestselling author of Flavours of the Spice Coast and more than twenty other authentic and highly popular cookbooks in Malayalam and English. She was the founder editor of Vanitha, the leading Malayalam magazine for women.

A devotee of Sai Baba of Shirdi, Ruzbeh N. Bharucha is one of the most influential spiritual writers of our times. He is the author of nineteen books, including the bestselling Fakir trilogy, which has been translated into several languages.
In 2014, Rabda: My Sai . . . My Sigh, published by Penguin Random House India, was an instant bestseller.
A former journalist, Bharucha is also a documentary filmmaker. His documentary, Sehat . . . Wings of Freedom, on AIDS and HIV in the Tihar jail, was screened at the XVII International AIDS Conference in 2008. His collaboration with Zambhala, a yoga, music and life spirit festival in India-the first of its kind-gave birth to a series of powerful videos collated under the name Ramblings with Ruzbeh N. Bharucha.
His articles have been published in the Times of India, Free Press Journal, the Indian Express, Maharashtra Herald, Sunday Observer, Jam-e-Jamshed and Afternoon.
His book, My God Is a Juvenile Delinquent, has been included in the reading list of all judicial academies in India. Ruzbeh is the 110th Master for the ‘Speaking Tree’, where he writes popular blogs on spirituality.
ICE with Very Unusual Spirits, a bestseller in 2017 published by Penguin Random House India, is still on Amazon’s ‘Best Reads’ list.
Bharucha’s Facebook page has reached out to thousands in a very short span of time. The daily affirmations and messages are a source of inspiration to many.
He can be reached at:

Email: sairuzsai@rediffmail.com
Website: www.ruzbehbharucha.net
Facebook: www.facebook.com/ruzbehbharucha
Twitter: @ruzbehnbharucha
YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCo-rFxiF7R9qaMMWdpj5fJQ
Speaking Tree: https://www.speakingtree.in/ruzbeh-bharucha/

A devotee of Sai Baba of Shirdi, Ruzbeh N. Bharucha is one of the most influential spiritual writers of our times. He is the author of nineteen books, including the bestselling Fakir trilogy, which has been translated into several languages.
In 2014, Rabda: My Sai . . . My Sigh, published by Penguin Random House India, was an instant bestseller.
A former journalist, Bharucha is also a documentary filmmaker. His documentary, Sehat . . . Wings of Freedom, on AIDS and HIV in the Tihar jail, was screened at the XVII International AIDS Conference in 2008. His collaboration with Zambhala, a yoga, music and life spirit festival in India-the first of its kind-gave birth to a series of powerful videos collated under the name Ramblings with Ruzbeh N. Bharucha.
His articles have been published in the Times of India, Free Press Journal, the Indian Express, Maharashtra Herald, Sunday Observer, Jam-e-Jamshed and Afternoon.
His book, My God Is a Juvenile Delinquent, has been included in the reading list of all judicial academies in India. Ruzbeh is the 110th Master for the ‘Speaking Tree’, where he writes popular blogs on spirituality.
ICE with Very Unusual Spirits, a bestseller in 2017 published by Penguin Random House India, is still on Amazon’s ‘Best Reads’ list.
Bharucha’s Facebook page has reached out to thousands in a very short span of time. The daily affirmations and messages are a source of inspiration to many.
He can be reached at:

Email: sairuzsai@rediffmail.com
Website: www.ruzbehbharucha.net
Facebook: www.facebook.com/ruzbehbharucha
Twitter: @ruzbehnbharucha
YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCo-rFxiF7R9qaMMWdpj5fJQ
Speaking Tree: https://www.speakingtree.in/ruzbeh-bharucha/

Nemat Sadat is a prominent activist and journalist currently based in the USA. He was the first native from Afghanistan to have publicly come out as gay, and he has been bravely campaigning for LGBTQIA rights in Muslim communities worldwide. While teaching at the American University of Afghanistan, he secretly mobilized a gay movement off campus but was then persecuted by the Afghan authorities and deemed a national security threat for allegedly subverting Islam. Sadat has previously worked at ABC News Nightline, CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS, and The UN Chronicle, and has earned six university degrees, including graduate degrees from Harvard, Columbia and Oxford. The Carpet Weaver is his first novel.

Osho was an Indian thinker and spiritual leader, who spear-headed the Rajnish movement. All his life, he was viewed as a controversial mystic and spiritual teacher.

J. Krishnamurti (1895-1986) was born in Madanapalle, a small town west of Chennai, to Brahmin parents. In 1909, at the age of fourteen, he was proclaimed as a saviour and subsequently taken to England by Annie Besant. There, he was educated privately and groomed for the role of World Teacher. In 1929, however, he rejected the mantle and disbanded the organization of which he was the head, declaring that he did not want disciples, thereby unleashing a storm of controversy.

A gentle, unassuming teacher, over the next half-century Krishnamurti would travel the world giving public talks and private interviews, inspiring the likes of Jawaharlal Nehru, Aldous Huxley, George Bernard Shaw and the Dalai Lama. The essence of his teaching is that only through a complete change of heart in the individual can there come about a change in society and so peace to the world.

He believed that this radical change could take place in every individual, not gradually but instantaneously. He helps us to see ourselves as we really are, for it is in seeing with absolute clarity that the inward revolution takes place.

Santosh Mehrotra is professor of economics at the Centre for Labour, Jawaharlal Nehru University. After an MA in economics from the New School for Social Research, New York, and a PhD in economics from Cambridge University, Mehrotra spent fifteen years with the United Nations (1991-2006) in research positions, heading UNICEF’s global research programme at the Innocenti Research Centre, Florence, and as chief economist of the global Human Development Report, New York. He returned to India to head the rural development division and development policy division of the Planning Commission (2006-09). He advises the NITI Aayog, the Ministry of Labour and the Ministry of Skill Development. His writings have been translated into Hindi, Spanish, French, Russian, German and Portuguese.

Satyajit Ray (1921-92) was one of the greatest film-makers of his time. In 1992, he was awarded the Oscar for Lifetime Achievement by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. In the same year he was also honoured with the Bharat Ratna. Ray was also a writer of repute, and his short stories, novellas, poems and articles, written in Bengali, have been immensely popular. He has published several books in Bengali, most of which became bestsellers. He is also the author of the famous Feluda stories, the translations of which are available in Penguin.

Shravya loves to find hidden stories around her and write novels about them. Formerly a corporate employee, she managed to flee the madness after a few years of boredom to become a full-time writer. She is a sucker for romance and strives to pen down exciting stories.
When she is not reading and writing, she is out enjoying nature, playing with her dogs or cooking for her family.
She lives in Melbourne with her family, in a house with a barren backyard and a lifetime’s collection of books.

Pooja Pande is a writer, TED speaker, and currently the Co-CEO of Chambal Media, home to Khabar Lahariya. Her books include Red Lipstick (Penguin 2016), a literary-styled memoir of celebrity transgender rights activist Laxmi, and Momspeak‘ (Penguin 2020), a first-of-its-kind feminist exploration of the institution and experience of motherhood in India.