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Rita Kothari is Professor of English, Ashoka University, India. She is a multilingual scholar of translation (theory and practice), language politics and identity in India. Her ethnographic work is based out of western India, especially Gujarat and Sindhi-speaking parts of Kutch and Rajasthan. She writes especially on local and marginalized communities. One of her acclaimed works is a seminal book on translation studies, Translating India: The Cultural Politics of English.

Nirupama Subramanian is a leading executive coach and leadership development expert with over twenty-five years of experience in this field. She has earlier worked with Citibank, AchieveGlobal and Genpact. She is the founder and CEO of Powerfulife Solutions. She has worked with more than 25,000 leaders across over sixty organizations to help them to live their potential. Nirupama is the author of two best-selling novels and her recent non-fiction book, Powerful: The Indian Woman’s Guide to Unlocking Her Full Potential, has become a go-to guide for women leaders. Nirupama is also a TEDx speaker and a board member. She loves yoga, travelling, reading all kinds of books and going for long walks amid nature.

Rajesh Ramakrishnan has worked in the corporate world for the last thirty years across organizations, such as Reckitt, Marico, PepsiCo, Hindustan Times and Perfetti. His last role was that of managing director for Perfetti Van Melle India from 2018 to 2023. He was awarded the Economic Times Inspiring CEO Award in 2022 and the ET Ascent CEO of the Year Award in 2023. Rajesh is a certified executive coach, focusing on CXO–CEO coaching and mentoring, advisory consultant and leadership development facilitator. He is also an award-winning photographer who has had many photography exhibitions. Rajesh has been on treks to Mt Kilimanjaro, Everest Base Camp and Annapurna Base Camp. He is a regular yoga practitioner, an avid foodie and traveller.

MONICA RANA grew up in Kathmandu and went to Harvard before working in banking in the UK. At Harvard, she took multiple creative writing courses and won three short story prizes including the Edward Eager and Cyrilly Abels prizes for fiction.

B. Rathinasabapathy has been an ecologist at the Coimbatore Zoological Park for the past twenty years and was involved in restoring the Nilgiri Biosphere Nature Park. He has authored more than fifty research papers and ten books on biodiversity. He was the recipient of the Gerald Durrell Memorial and BGCI Plant Conservation awards and has participated in several international conferences. Rathinasabapathy is a consultant ecologist at Kanha Shanti Vanam, Heartfulness Institute, Hyderabad.