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Vanamala Viswanatha, professor of English Studies, has taught English for over four decades in premiere institutions in Bengaluru. A bilingual scholar, she has taught, published, and promoted Indian literatures in English translation, collaborating with Katha, Sahitya Akademi, and the National Translation Mission. An award-winning translator, she has translated important modern Kannada writers such as Tejasvi (1994), Vaidehi (1998), Sara Aboobacker (1999), U.R. Ananthamurthy (2001), Lankesh (2003), and Gulvadi Venkata Rao (2019). Her repertoire includes the translations of seminal pre-modern classics: Vachana (2012); The Life of Harishchandra (Harvard University Press, 2017); and Vaddaradhane, a 10th century Jaina text (HUP, forthcoming). A Translation Fellow at Ashoka University, she is currently translating L. Tolpadi’s essay collection, Musings on the Mahabharata.

Rachappa Shette is currently working as an associate professor in finance, accounting, and control area at the Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode. His interest areas for teaching, training and research are financial statements analysis, forensic accounting, and strategic cost management. He has been teaching for more than 20 years in post-graduate, executive post-graduate and PhD programmes. He has trained senior managers and junior managers from more than 100 companies. He also trained investigating officers of regulators on forensic accounting and credit analysts of credit rating institutions on credit rating. He was a member of Accounting Standard Board of India and Accounting Standard Board of India for Local Bodies in past. He attended faculty development programmes at the Harvard Business School Boston and Stanford Business School. Prior to current employment, he worked as a faculty at the National Institute of Securities Markets (established by Securities Exchange Board of India), Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies, and Osmania University. He was a visiting faculty at the Indian Institute of Technology Mandi and Indian Institute of Management Mumbai.

Anita Agnihotri is an Indian Bengali writer. She has authored over fifty books of poetry, short stories, novels, and essays on Development. her works have been translated into several Indian languages including English. Received many awards including the Crossword Economist award for the volume of translated stories Seventeen along with Arunava Sinha. Mahanadi, the Sickle , Mahuldiha Days are Anita’s recent works translated into English. Was a member of the Indian Administrative Service for over three decades.

Richard Lobo, chief people officer at Tech Mahindra, is a global management expert with over two decades of experience in transforming organizational people functions. He excels at aligning talent strategically to drive business success.
Beyond his corporate role, Richard advises India’s start-up ecosystem, focusing on organizational change, scalable people processes and leadership development. His contributions earned him the HR Leader of 2023 award from the Economic Times. Passionate about nurturing future leaders, Richard mentors young professionals and teaches at top management institutes. He also champions industry-government partnerships on human resources initiatives.
Previously, Richard was executive vice president and HR head at Infosys Ltd, and served on the boards of Infosys Consulting and Infosys China. He began his career with the Godrej Group in 1996. Richard holds an engineering degree from Manipal Institute of Technology and a management degree from Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneshwar.

Krishna Kumar is a bilingual author. Two of his earlier books, Prejudice and Pride and Battle for Peace, were published by Penguin India. Other books include What is Worth Teaching, Politics of Education in Colonial India, A Pedagogue’s Romance, The Child’s Language and the Teacher, and Smaller Citizens. Kaathgodam and Choori Bazaar Mein Larki are his recent books in Hindi. His children’s books include Princess Promila and Puriyon ki Gathari. Professor Krishna Kumar taught educational theory at Delhi University and served the NCERT as its Director. The Institute of Education, University of London, has awarded him an Honorary D.Litt.

Priya Arora is an author and spiritual enthusiast. She is particularly interested in Vedanta, promoting its beautiful philosophy of universal peace and oneness through her writings. Her journey includes learning Sanskrit to appreciate Vedic works in their original form.

VEERA HIRANANDANI, author of the Newbery Honor–winning The Night Diary, earned her MFA in creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College. She is also the author of The Whole Story of Half a Girl, a Sydney Taylor Notable Book and a South Asia Book Award finalist, and How to Find What You’re Not Looking For, winner of the Sydney Taylor Book Award and the New York Historical Society Children’s History Book Prize. A former editor at Simon & Schuster, she now teaches in the Writing for Children and Young Adults MFA program at the Vermont College of Fine Arts.