Arvind Kejriwal

Arvind Kejriwal is a social activist fighting for transparent and participatory governance. He is considered to be one of the main architects of the Jan Lokpal movement or the Anna movement, which shook the nation in 2011. He graduated in mechanical engineering from IIT Kharagpur in 1989 and joined Tata

Arvind Krishna Mehrotra

ARVIND KRISHNA MEHROTRA is the translator of The Absent Traveller: Prakrit Love Poetry, Songs of Kabir and Treasurer of Piggy Banks, a selection of Vinod Kumar Shukla's poems.

Arvind Lal

Honourary Brigadier Dr Arvind Lal, Padma Shri, is a pioneer in bringing laboratory services in India at on par with the Western world. In 1977, he took charge of Dr Lal Pathlabs, the medical diagnostics laboratory. Under his leadership, Dr Lal Pathlabs has become a household brand in India.

Arvind Panagariya

Arvind Panagariya is a professor of economics and the Jagdish Bhagwati Professor of Indian Political Economy at Columbia University. He is also the Director of the Raj Center on Indian Economic Policies at Columbia University. He served as the first vice-chairman of the NITI Aayog from January 2015 to August

Arvind Sharma

Formerly of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), Arvind Sharma is the Birks Professor of Comparative Religion in the School of Religious Studies at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He has also taught in universities in Australia (Queensland, Sydney), the United States (Northeastern, Temple, Boston, Harvard) and India (Nalanda). He has

Asad Durrani

Lieutenant General Asad Durrani is a former director-general of the Inter-Services Intelligence directorate of Pakistan. He is the author of The Spy Chronicles: R&AW, ISI and the Illusion of Peace (2018; co-authored with A.S. Dulat and Aditya Sinha) and Honour Among Spies (2020).

Ashdin Doctor

Ashdin Doctor is a Mumbai-based popular habit coach who has been transforming the lives of many who feel stuck by creating habits that can be easily incorporated into daily life. He is the founder of Awesome 180, a habit coaching programme. He also hosts a popular podcast, The Habit Coach.

Ashiish V. Patil

Ashiish V. Patil is a writer, producer, director and Autism Dad. He’s the ex-CEO of MTV India and former Head of Youth Films, Digital Originals and Talent at Yash Raj Films. He is a Cannes Grand Prix Glass Lion winner and was on the Ad Age Global Creativity 50 List

Ashish Bagrecha

Ashish Bagrecha is a best-selling author and one of the most loved Instagram poets in India. His books ‘Dear Stranger, I Know How You Feel' & ‘Love, Hope and Magic' have sold lakhs of copies. Ashish is also a popular audio creator and you can listen to his podcasts and

Ashish Kate

Visual artist Ashish Kate works with shoe polish as a medium to paint. He dropped out of college to pursue a career in art and music journalism. He is also a poet, and published his first book Effortless as Clouds in 2009. His other interests include culinary adventures, astronomy and

Ashish Kundra

Ashish Kundra is an Indian Administrative Service Officer of the 1996 batch from the Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, Mizoram Union Territory cadre. Over the last twenty-six years, he has served in various leadership roles in the governments of Chandigarh, Mizoram, Arunachal Pradesh, Daman, Dadra Nagar Haveli and New Delhi. He has

Ashish Ray

Born in Vienna and educated in Darjeeling and Kolkata, Ashis Ray is an award-winning broadcaster and print journalist, who became a test match commentator on cricket on All India Radio at the age of 24. As a member of BBC’s Test Match Special commentary team, he covered the 1979 and

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Ashok Amritraj

Ashok Amritraj is an internationally renowned, award-winning film producer. He has produced box-office hits like Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, Bringing down the House and Double Impact. As Chairman and CEO of Hyde Park Entertainment Group, Amritraj has developed his company into a cutting-edge alternative to the traditional Hollywood studio

Ashok Bajaj

Ashok Bajaj has owned and operated award-winning restaurants in London and the United States for over 25 years. He has opened several highly successful landmark restaurants in Washington, D.C. including The Oval Room and the four-star restaurant Rasika. His restaurants have been nominated for numerous James Beard Awards and are

Ashok Bhowmick

Ashok Bhowmick graduated from the Government College of Art and Craft, Kolkata with a diploma in Fine Art. He has had several group and solo shows in India and has been granted many awards and honours. Well known for his cross hatching technique, Ashok Bhowmick is an artist with high

Ashok Chakravarti

Ashok Chakravarti is an economist who has been providing policy advice to countries, mainly in the African region, for the past forty years. He is the author of books published in the UK and USA, which focus on the central role of institutions in economic development. He is currently Senior

Ashok Chopra

Ashok Chopra has been executive editor of Vikas Publishing House, vice-president of Macmillan India, publishing director of UBS Publishers, executive director and publisher of the India Today Book Club and Books Today as well as chief executive and publisher of HarperCollins Publishers India. Currently, he is the chief executive of

Ashok K Banker

Ashok K. Banker is the author of the internationally acclaimed Ramayana Series and other books. His books have been published in fifty-six countries, a dozen languages, and have seen several hundred reprint editions with over 1.2 million copies currently in print. He lives in Mumbai with his family. Visit him

Ashok Lavasa

A sports enthusiast, an avid reader, a passionate traveller in love with nature, a compulsive writer who has an eye for photography, Ashok Lavasa is also a former civil servant. He was born in Jaipur, received his primary education in Gujarat, completed his schooling at the Belgaum military school, studied

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Ashok Soota

Ashok Soota is the founding chairman of Happiest Minds Technologies and was the founding chairman of MindTree.   “

Ashok Srinivasan

Ashok Srinivasan's collection of short stories, Book of Common Signs, which was longlisted for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, went on to win The Hindu Prize 2014. His fiction has been compared to the works of Franz Kafka, Bruno Schulz and Haruki Murakami.Once Upon a Time is the

Ashok Vajpeyi

Ashok Vajpeyi is a Hindi poet-critic with fifteen books of Hindi poetry to his credit. He has published many volumes of criticism, in both Hindi and English, on poetry, literature, the visual arts and Indian classical music. Book-length translations of his poetry have appeared in French, Polish, German, English, Bengali,

Ashutosh

From being an editor for eight years to fighting the Lok Sabha elections, Ashutosh has seen it all. One of the best-known faces of Hindi journalism, Ashutosh began his career as a journalist in the print media, went on to be a part of the original Aaj Tak team that

Ashutosh Bhardwaj

Ashutosh Bhardwaj is a journalist, fiction writer and literary critic. He won the Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence in Journalism for four consecutive years (2012-15). In 2015, he was shortlisted for the Reuters' Kurt Schork Awards in International Journalism. He is the author of several novellas, a short story collection,

Ashutosh Garg

Ashutosh Garg has worked in the corporate sector for twenty-five years including seventeen years in ITC Limited and eight in the aerospace industry. In April 2003, the entrepreneurial bug bit him and he started a chain of health and beauty retail outlets under the name Guardian. He sits on several

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Ashutosh Salil

Ashutosh Salil is a serving bureaucrat, a Maharashtra cadre IAS officer. He is an alumnus of National Law School and Harvard Law School, and a Fulbright scholar. During his postings in the interiors of Maharashtra, he came across the people profiled in Being the Change. Their selfless work and courage in

Ashwin Desai & Goolam Vahed

Amita Kanekar lives in Mumbai, where she teaches architectural history and comparative mythology. This is her first novel.