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Rashmi Govind was born in Chhapra, Bihar, into a scholarly family. She took her degrees in English at the University of Delhi, and in Linguistics at Jawaharlal Nehru University. She taught English at Zakir Husain Delhi College for over four decades and has translated several texts into English from Hindi and Urdu.
The Song of the Loom, her translation from the original Hindi Jhini Jhini Bini Chadariya by Abdul Bismilla, has been published by Macmillan. She has translated Hindi short stories by Rajendra Yadav, Bhisham Sahni, Nirmal Verma and Anwar Qamar, and an Urdu one by Zaheda Hina, into English.

Aakash Karkare is a writer and translator based in Mumbai. He has worked across film, photography, and journalism, with experience in documentary filmmaking and as a former film critic with Scroll. His debut memoir is forthcoming from Rupa.

BISWAMIT DWIBEDY is the author of six collections of poetry, including Ancient Guest (HarperCollins, 2017), Ozalid (1913 Press, 2010), MC3 (Essay Press, 2018) and Erode (Litmus Press, 2025). Originally from Cuttack, India, he lives in Paris, France, where he directs the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at The American University of Paris.

Jaya Kishori is a spiritual orator and musical artist. She has had spiritual leanings since she was a young child, and is now popularly known as Kishori ji and the Meera of the modern era. She has built a huge following offline and online (12.3 million followers on Instagram). She has lent her voice to several religious music albums and gives spiritual discourses (she’s done more than 350 of them). She also has an app which features her spiritual sessions.

She talks often about youth, the lessons we should impart to them, and how to grow as a person.

She was awarded the Youth Spiritual Leader by Bharatiya Chhatra Sansad; celebrated as a Youth Spiritual Icon by Fame Magazine, and Inspiring by Women’s Era. Recently, she was awarded the Iconic Women Motivation of the year by Iconic Gold Awards.