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Ruthvika Rao is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was a Truman Capote Fellow and recipient of the Henfield Prize in fiction. She was born in Warangal district, Telangana, and grew up in Hyderabad. Her short fiction has appeared in the Georgia Review, the Southern Review, New Letters, StoryQuarterly, and elsewhere.

Mashrur Arefin is an award-winning Bengali novelist, poet, and translator from Bangladesh, with four published novels, three volumes of poetry, and Bengali translations of Homer’s Iliad, and The Complete Stories of Franz Kafka.

Albert Rutherford is an internationally best-selling author, celebrated for his exceptional contribution to unraveling the intricacies of complex topics. His main goal is to make learning accessible and enjoyable, transforming dense subject matter into content that’s digestible for all readers. He excels at breaking down barriers between people and the knowledge they seek, making his books a favorite among lifelong learners.

Rutherford has an academic background in both the sciences and humanities, fostering his unique, multi-disciplinary approach to authorship. His range of subjects spans from systems thinking and game theory to mathematical and critical thinking. This breadth of topics underpins his mission to expand horizons, challenge perspectives, and foster intellectual growth.

Siddharthya Roy is an independent journalist focusing on political strife and insurgencies in South Asia. With an engineering background and years spent coding, he moved to professional journalism in 2011. After earning an MA in politics and global affairs from Columbia University in 2018, he bagged the Pulitzer Centre in Crisis Reporting Grant for his reporting of neo-jihadist groups in South Asia, investigating human trafficking and narco trade in the Rohingya camps. He introduced India’s first data and computational journalism programme at the Symbiosis Institute Of Media and Communication. He splits his time between being a digital nomad and daydreaming of becoming an analogue one.

Avinash Paliwal is a reader in international relations at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, specializing in South Asian strategic affairs. A former journalist and foreign affairs analyst, he is the author of India’s Near East: A New History and My Enemy’s Enemy: India in Afghanistan from the Soviet Invasion to the US Withdrawal.