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Bhawana Pingali is a mother of a teen and has been a fashion writer and academic for over two decades. After a stint as fashion features editor with Femina (Times Group), she contributed independently to The Hindu, Mint Lounge, Time
Out, Lonely Planet, Travel + Leisure, Maxim, Orissa Post and Signature Oman, among others. She has taught at the National Institute of Fashion Technology (Mumbai), Pearl Academy, Symbiosis Institute of Design, CEPT University,
Ahmedabad, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, British Council, and GD Goenka and Ansal universities.
Her heart now lies in teaching yoga pranayama, restoring old saris and old-world practices and rituals through the spiritual fashion-learning platform Revastra.

AMRITA MAHALE was born in Mumbai and grew up in five cities across India. Milk Teeth, her first novel, was published to widespread acclaim in 2018 and was longlisted for the JCB Prize for Literature and shortlisted for the Crossword Book Award for Fiction. She was trained as an aerospace engineer at IIT Bombay and Stanford University.

Farrukh Dhondy is a highly acclaimed British-Indian author, dramatist and screenwriter. His books include Prophet of Love, Rumi: A New Collection and an autobiography entitled Fragments against My Ruin: A Life. He is a recipient of numerous prizes, including the prestigious Whitbread Book Award for his novel Bombay Duck. He lives in London, England.