Adithi Rao

After a degree in Theater from Smith College, Massachusetts, Adithi Rao worked as an assistant director on the award-winning Hindi cult film Satya, and then as a writer / editor on the travel channel of Indya.com. Her short stories have appeared in anthologies and in English textbooks across India. Left

Aditi Anand

Dr Alka Pande is an art critic, cultural theorist, curator and lecturer who has published extensively on Indian art, aesthetics and visual cultures. An alumnus of Punjab University, Dr Pande completed her postdoctoral research in critical art theory at Goldsmiths College, University of London. She is presently curator of the

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Akhil Katyal is a poet, translator and teacher based in New Delhi. His second book of poems How Many Countries Does the Indus Cross came out in 2019. Aditi Angiras is the founder of Bring Back the Poets, a spoken word poetry initiative that deals with politics, sexuality and activism

Aditya Arya

Adita Arya started professional photography in 1980 after graduating in history from St Stephen’s College, Delhi. He has made a mark in advertising and corporate photography and has been exhibited all over the world, and published by well-known magazines. He is also the author of The Land of the Nagas,

Aditya Sinha

Aditya Sinha is an author and a journalist. His previous books include Kashmir: The Vajpayee Years, co-authored with former Research and Analysis Wing Chief A.S. Dulat, and The Spy Chronicles: RAW, ISI and the Illusion of Peace, co-authored with A.S. Dulat and former Inter-Services Intelligence Chief Asad Durrani. Aditya is

Aditya Sudarshan

Aditya Sudarshan is the author of A Nice Quiet Holiday(Westland Books, 2009) and Show Me A Hero (Rupaand Co., 2011). His short stories have been publishedin various magazines and anthologies. He is also theauthor of a number of produced plays, including TheGreen Room, winner of the Hindu Metroplus PlaywrightAward for

Admiral S.M. Nanda

Admiral Sardarilal Mathradas Nanda (1915-2009) was born in Manora, Karachi, on 10 October 1915. He rose up the ranks of the Indian Navy to attain the top post as the Chief of Naval Staff in March 1970, holding the position till February 1973. After retirement, he served as Chairman and

Adrian Gostick

Chester Elton has spent two decades helping clients engage their employees to execute on strategy, vision, and values. In his provocative, inspiring and always entertaining talks, #1 bestselling leadership author Chester Elton provides real solutions to leaders looking to manage change, drive innovation, and lead a multi-generational workforce. Elton’s work

Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott-Clark

Cathy Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy are the authors of highlyacclaimed books, including The Exile,Deception, The Siege, The Amber Room, and The Stone of Heaven. Writing for the Sunday Times and the Guardian,they have won the One World award for foreign reporting and in 2009 were votedOne World Media's Press Journalists

Adrian Newey

Adrian Newey OBE is arguably the greatest car designer in the history of Formula One. Newey has worked in both Formula One and IndyCar racing as an immensely successful race engineer, aerodynamicist, designer and technical director. After designing championship-winning Formula One cars for Williams F1 and McLaren, Newey moved to

Advaita Kala

Advaita Kala may be best described as rebellious (a result of the years spent at Welham's), confused (after four years of a liberal arts education at Berry College, Georgia, USA) and multi-faceted (having held jobs that range from being a librarian to a Tepanyaki chef). After calling three countries and

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Aesop

Aesop (620–564 BC) was an ancient Greek story teller credited with a number of fables now collectively known as ‘Aesop's Fables’, though no actual writings by him survive. Many of Aesop’s fables are characterised by anthropomorphic animals that speak and solve problems and end with important morals for the education

Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie was born in Torquay in 1890 and became, quite simply, the best-selling novelist in history. Her first novel, ‘The Mysterious Affair at Styles’, written towards the end of the First World War, introduced us to Hercule Poirot, who was to become the most popular detective in crime fiction

Ahmadi Arian Amir

The author, Amir Ahmadi Arian, is currently living in New York and teaching at the CUNY Graduate Center. He wrote this novel for his MFA at NYU under the mentorship of Joyce Carol Oates. He was the translator into Farsi for Cormac McCarthy among others, and a noted journalist. His

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Aishwaryaa Rajinikanth Dhanush

Aishwaryaa Rajinikanth Dhanush is a film director and a start-up entrepreneur. She is the daughter of the legendary actor Rajinikanth and is married to Dhanush, also one of India's best-known actors. She is the mother of two boys. She lives in Chennai, India. Aishwaryaa is a trained Bharatnatyam dancer (recognized

Ajai Chowdhry

Ajai Chowdhry, one of the six founding members of HCL, began an exciting journey more than four decades ago, with a dream to give India its very own microcomputer. The pioneers of digital electronics in India, they scripted three major milestones of the IT industry: the PC revolution, mobile telephony

Ajay and Soz Chhibber

Ajay Chhibber is Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the Institute of International Economic Policy, George Washington University, and Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council. He was Distinguished Visiting Professor at the National Institute for Public Finance and Policy and India's first Director General of Independent Evaluation with the status of

Ajay Chhibber

Ajay Chhibber is Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the Institute of International Economic Policy, George Washington University, and Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council. He was Distinguished Visiting Professor at the National Institute for Public Finance and Policy and India's first Director General of Independent Evaluation with the status of Minister

Ajay Kansal

Dr Ajay Kansal is a professor and consultant pathologist. It was during his medical practice that he encountered human suffering in a big way that made him question the concept of gods and drove him to write this book.

Ajay Lamba

An electronics engineer by training, Ajay Lamba worked in HCL Infosystems, Bharat Electronics Ltd (BEL), the Centre for Development of Telematics (CDoT), the Defence and Research Development Organisation (DRDO), Indian Railways and the Indian Revenue Service (IRS) before joining the Indian Police Service (IPS) in 2005. In August 2018, he

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Ajaz Ashraf

Ajaz Ashraf studied History at St Stephen's College and is now a journalist, based in New Delhi. In a career spanning over twenty-six years, he has worked for The Pioneer, Hindustan Times, and Outlook. Since the last two years, he has written opinion pieces for The Hindu, Mint, Tehelka, DNA,

Ajeet Sharma

Ajeet Sharma, the author of this book, is a marketing expert, a business school professor, and a keen follower of trends and action in the business world. He holds a PhD in Marketing and a Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management. In his career, spanning more than twenty years, he

Ajoy Podder

Ajoy is a retired Army officer who has travelled all over India and has been posted to offbeat places around the country. A qualified mountaineer, he has undertaken several mountaineering and bicycle, as well as trekking expeditions in the mountains and valleys all across the Himalayas. He is fond of

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Akbar Ahmed

Akbar Ahmed is the Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies at American University in Washington, D.C. He was the former Pakistani high commissioner to the United Kingdom, the first Distinguished Chair of Middle East Studies at the U.S. Naval Academy, and is a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.