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Ram Prasad ‘Bismil’ (1897-1927) was a Hindi writer, poet and revolutionary who committed his life to the freedom struggle. He participated in the Kakori train robbery, to amass funds for his revolutionary movement against the British, for which he was arrested and executed. His landmark autobiography was written during his time in jail, just before he was hanged, on 19 December 1927.

Awadhesh Tripathi is a translator and literary critic based in Bhopal. He has translated several books into Hindi, including Ganesh Devy’s After Amnesia, Gyanesh Kudasya’s India in the 1950s and Richard Eaton’s India in the Persianate Age. His monograph Kavita Ka Loktantra is a study of post-Independence Hindi poetry and its critique of the newly established Indian democracy. He teaches at Azim Premji University, Bhopal.

पीयूष पांडे ने आजतक, एबीपी न्यूज और जी न्यूज समेत कई मीडिया संस्थानों में काम किया है। इससे पहले उनकी तीन पुस्तकें छिछोरेबाजी का रिजोल्यूशन (राजकमल प्रकाशन)धंधे मातरम् और कबीरा बैठा डिबेट में(प्रभात प्रकाशन) से प्रकाशित हो चुकी है। उन्होंने स्टार प्लस के सीरियल महाराज की जय हो के संवाद भी लिखे और वह फिल्म ब्लू माउंटेंस के एसोशिटएट डाइरेक्टर भी रह चुके हैं।

Franz Kafka (1883-1924) was born of Jewish parents in Prague. Several of his story collections were published in his lifetime and his novels, The Trial, The Castle and Amerika, were published posthumously by his editor Max Brod.

ANDIE POWERS is a writer for?Bravery?magazine (braverymag.com), an empowering educational magazine for children featuring a brave woman in each issue who has significantly impacted the world. Her love of children’s literature was kindled during a college internship at?The Horn Book?magazine. Since then, her work for children has been published by?Root & Star,?Brite Light, and?Bravery, and her recent writing and social media work includes clients Red Cap Cards and?Seattle’s Child ?magazine.

Vandana Vasudevan is a writer and researcher exploring how technology and urbanisation are reshaping everyday life in India and South Asia. Trained in management at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad and holding a PhD in Urban Studies from Université Grenoble Alpes, (France) she blends academic research with storytelling to illuminate complex social and economic changes for a wider audience. She is also the author of Urban Villager: Life in an Indian Satellite Town (SAGE, 2013) and Tough Customer (Westland, 2014) and has written extensively for Indian dailies.

CAROLYN KANJURO was a director, playwright, tutor for children, celebrated author of children’s books, and life-long Buddhist practitioner. She is the author of Sit with Me and The Monkey Mind Meditation Deck.

Sucheta Khanna is a master’s graduate in English literature and a passionate writer based in Singapore. Over the years, she has contributed thought-provoking articles and short stories to magazines and publications across Southeast Asia, captivating readers with her insightful narratives.
In addition to her writing, Sucheta is a certified life coach and career coach. She is dedicated to helping individuals unlock their potential, guiding them to navigate both personal and professional challenges with confidence and clarity.

David C. Engerman is a scholar of twentieth-century international history and the Leitner International Interdisciplinary Professor of History and Global Affairs at Yale University. In addition to writing two books on the place of Russia and the USSR in American intellectual and political life, he writes widely on the topic of international development assistance, starting with a co-edited volume, Staging Growth: Modernization, Development and the Global Cold War (University of Massachusetts Press, 2003), and most recently a monograph, The Price of Aid: The Economic Cold War in India. This research was also the topic of his presidential address for the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations in 2016. He is currently working on a one-volume history of international development, tentatively entitled International Development: A History in Eight Crises.

Dr Arun Krishnan has studied and lived in different cities across India, USA, Singapore and Japan, before putting down roots in Bangalore. He started off with a degree in Engineering and a doctorate, before going on to work in IT, High-performance computing, Bioinformatics, computational biology and HR analytics. He is a polyglot and is conversant in Tamil, English, Hindi, Bengali, Japanese and Kannada. He is an amateur historian and enjoys visiting historical places. He has previously written The Battle of Vathapi trilogy.