Akhil Katyal

Akhilesh

Akhilesh is an acclaimed short-story writer. He edits the reputed literary magazine Tadbhav for which he has received the Katha Award and the Ayodhya Prasad Khatri Sammaan

Akhtar Badshah

Akhtar Badshah was head of Microsoft’s philanthropy program from 2004-2014. He is himself a prime example of the kind of engaged alumni that will be featured in this book, currently serving as the Chair of the Board of Global Washington, and also serving on the boards of the Microsoft Alumni

Akil Kumarasamy

Akil Kumarasamy is a writer from New Jersey. Her fiction has appeared in Harper's Magazine, American Short Fiction, Boston Review, and elsewhere. She received her MFA from the University of Michigan, and has been a fiction fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and the University of East

Akshay Manwani

Akshay Manwani's first book, Sahir Ludhianvi: The People's Poet, was critically acclaimed and has been a bestseller. He writes on Indian cinema and popular culture for a variety of publications such as the Caravan, The Indian Quarterly, Scroll.in, Mint, Business Standard and Mumbai Mirror.

Akshaya Mukul

Akshaya Mukul is an independent researcher and a Homi Bhabha Fellow. Journalist for over two decades, he has contributed to A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures in English (2005) edited by Prem Poddar and David Johnson, Edinburgh University Press. He lives in Gurgaon with wife Jyoti, daughter Jahnavi and Dalmatian

Al Ries

Al Ries is one of the world's best-known marketing strategists. He is the author of such bestselling books as POSITIONING and THE 22 IMMUTABLE LAWS OF MARKETING. His daughter and co-author Laura Ries is a partner in their consulting firm, Ries & Ries, which works with many Fortune 500 and

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Alanna Collen

Alanna Collen is a science writer, with both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in biology from Imperial College London, and a PhD in evolutionary biology from University College London and the Zoological Society of London. She is a well-travelled zoologist, an expert in bat echolocation, and an accidental collector of tropical

Alasdair Ross

Alasdair Ross is a journalist and consultant with thirty years' experience as a foreign correspondent and a senior executive and editor at The Economist Group. Alasdair is currently working on writing projects for several publications, including the Financial Times in London. He is a keynote and TEDx speaker in global

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Alexa Shoen

Alexa Shoen is the internet's leading confidant for panicking jobseekers. She is the founder of #ENTRYLEVELBOSS, an online education company that helps people successfully navigate big career moves. She previously worked in design for Facebook, in her spare time, Alexa is an acclaimed recording artist.   “

Alexander Masters

Alexander Masters lives in London. His second book, ‘The Genius in My Basement’, was published in 2011.

Alexander Norman

ALEXANDER NORMAN has collaborated with the Dalai Lama on several of his bestselling books, including the autobiography Freedom in Exile, and Beyond Religion. He is the author of a critically acclaimed history of the Dalai Lamas, Holder of the White Lotus.

Alexandre Dumas

Frequently imitated but rarely surpassed, Dumas is one of the best known French writers and a master of ripping yarns full of fearless heroes, poisonous ladies and swashbuckling adventurers. His other novels include The Three Musketeers and The Man in the Iron Mask, which have sold millions of copies and

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Ali Madeeh Hashmi

Ali Madeeh Hashmi is the grandson of Faiz, a psychiatrist practising in Lahore and a trustee of Faiz Foundation Trust and Faiz Ghar, Lahore.

Ali Mahmood

Ali Mahmood has degrees in politics, economics and law. His political activities in Pakistan have taken him from jail to parliament. His business interests have included ownership of companies in the business of television in Pakistan and Dubai, construction in Abu Dhabi and oil trading in Kuwait, giving him substantial

Alice Feeney

Alice Feeney is a writer and journalist. She spent fifteen years at the BBC where she worked as a reporter, news editor, arts and entertainment producer and One O’clock news producer. Alice has lived in London and Sydney and has now settled in the Surrey countryside, where she lives with

Alicia Keys

Alicia Keys is a 15-time GRAMMY®Award-winning singer, songwriter, musician, producer, accomplished actress, New York Times best-selling author, film/television and Broadway producer, entrepreneur, and a powerful force in the world of activism. Since the release of her monumental 2001 debut album, SONGS IN A MINOR, Keys has sold over 65 million

Alisa Vitti

Alisa Vitti, HHC, is a functional nutritionist, women’s hormone expert, and best-selling author of WomanCode. She is the founder of FLOLiving.com, a virtual health center that has been treating the root causes of hormone imbalance and supporting women’s hormonal and reproductive health for over a decade, and she recently launched

Alisha ‘Priti’ Kirpalani

Alisha Kirpalani is based in Mumbai, India. She is the daughter of Asha Ramsay and the grand daughter of FU Ramsay. She has previously authored two fiction books, Out With Lanterns and A Smattering of Darkness, this is her first foray into nonfiction.

Alison Roberts

Alistair MacLean

Alistair MacLean, the son of a Scots minister, was brought up in the Scottish Highlands. In 1941 he joined the Royal Navy. After the war he read English at Glasgow University and became a schoolmaster. The two and a half years he spent aboard a wartime cruiser were to give

Alka Joshi

Alka Joshi is the New York Times bestselling author of The Henna Artist. Born in India and raised in the United States since the age of nine, she has a BA from Stanford University and an MFA from California College of the Arts. She lives in Pacific Grove, California, with

Alka Pande

Dr Alka Pande is a consultant arts advisor and curator of the Visual Arts Gallery at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. In December 2006, she was awarded the Chevalier dans lOrdre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government. She also received the Charles Wallace Award in 1999-2000.