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A novelist at heart, M.R. DATTATHRI is a seasoned IT professional who has worked for many multinational companies in India and the US, in various technology and management positions. He writes in Kannada and English, and his five published novels in Kannada have all garnered critical acclaim, winning him a loyal reader base. Dattathri has been honoured with several prestigious awards, including the Book Brahma Best Novel of the Year (2023), the Vardhamana Prashasti (2023), the Masti Prasasti (2019), the Dr Narahalli Award (2017) and the Karnataka Sangha Award (2006). Two of his novels have been translated into Telugu and have been well-received there. Dattathri is also a poet and a noted Kannada columnist.

Lt General Shakti Gurung, an alumnus of the National Defence Academy, Khadakwasla, and the Indian Military Academy, Dehradun, was commissioned into The Grenadiers in June 1975. He has had a distinguished career holding important staff and instructional appointments in the army as well as being India’s defence attaché in Myanmar. Having attended all the important courses, such as the Staff College, Senior Command, Higher Command and National Defence College courses, he retired as the military secretary, Army HQ, in October 2014.

Deepanshu Giri is an engineer by profession and an established name in the world of Underwater Robotics. In 2018, he started Lunar Astro Vedic Academy to share his learnings with other astrology lovers and to preserve India’s ancient system of knowledge, especially Vedic astrology. His revolutionary approach to astrology has garnered a following that is unprecedented in such a short span of time.

Kishore Ram is an academic and author from Kerala. He received the University Grants Commission Research Award (2015) for his scholarly contributions and has conducted UGC post-doctoral research on queer cinema. He is Professor of English at MMNSS College, Kollam. His work has appeared in Sahitya Akademi, Chalachitra Academy, and government journals, and his books are prescribed for university-level study.

Sylvia Plath, born on October 27, 1932, in Boston, Massachusetts was the first child of Otto Plath, a professor of biology, and Aurelia Schober Plath a teacher. Plath’s early childhood was marked by academic success, and she published her first poem at the age of eight in the children’s section of the Boston Herald. In 1950, Plath began attending Smith College on a scholarship and those years were pivotal in shaping her as a writer. he was mainly known for writing in the style of confessional poetry and as a genre, it often focuses on extreme experiences of emotion and taboo subjects such as sexuality, mental illness, trauma, and death or suicide.

FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY (1821-1881). He was one of the most influential novelists in Russian literature who was born in Moscow, Russia. Fyodor Dostoyevsky grew up in a middle-class family that valued education and culture. After completing his education at the St. Petersburg Military Engineering School, Dostoyevsky embarked on a career in the Russian army. However, his passion for literature led him to resign from the military in 1844 to pursue writing full-time. He published his first novel, Poor Folk, in 1846, which gained him critical acclaim and recognition as a promising young writer. Over the next few decades, he wrote some of his most famous works, including Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), and The Brothers Karamazov (1880). Dostoyevsky’s novels are known for their psychological depth, philosophical themes, and exploration of the human condition.