K. A. Abbas
Khwaja Ahmad Abbas (1914-87) was a prolific political commentator, short-story writer, novelist, scriptwriter and a film-maker who preferred to call himself a communicator. He published seventy-three books in English, Urdu and Hindi, including an engaging autobiography, I Am Not an Island, and two semiautobiographical novels, Inquilab and The World Is
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K.C. Singh joined the Indian diplomatic service in 1974 and retired in May 2008 as secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs. Besides serving in Cairo, New York and Ankara, he was deputy secretary to the President of India (1983-87). He was Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates (1999-2003) and
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K.G. Kannabiran (1929–2010) was Senior Advocate, Andhra Pradesh High Court, and an architect of the civil liberties movement in India. He was President of Andhra Pradesh Civil Liberties Committee (1978–1993) and National President, People's Union for Civil Liberties (1995–2009). “
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K. Hari Kumar
K. Hari Kumar is an Indian author and screenwriter who has written seven books including the widely popular India's Most Haunted, which earned acclaim as a must-read book and secured a spot in HarperCollins India's list of Hundred Best Books by Indian Authors. Hari's narratives, deeply rooted in Indian folklore
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K.M. Chandrasekhar
K.M. Chandrasekhar is a former IAS officer of the 1970 batch, who served as the Cabinet Secretary of India from 2007 to 2011. In a career spanning five decades, he has traversed many sectors—district administration, public finance, taxation, national security and international diplomacy, among others. He was the Founder Chairman
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As an enthusiastic mentor, Kavita Mehta has advised applicants on MBA and undergraduate admissions for over ten years. Prior to co-founding The Red Pen, Kavita worked for PaineWebber (acquired by UBS) on Wall Street, Yahoo! in Silicon Valley and GroupM (a division of WPP) in Singapore. Kavita has an MBA
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K. Natwar Singh is a well-known author, diplomat and politician. He has been ambassador to Pakistan. He was attached to the office of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi from 1966 to 1971, and was secretary general of the NAM Summit held in Delhi in March 1983. He has been a member
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KUSHAL PAL SINGH, popularly known as K.P. Singh, has been the chairman of DLF Ltd for several decades and is a trustee and a member of the governingboards of various educational and philanthropic institutions. He was conferred the Padma Bhushan by the President of India in 2010 in recognition of
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K. Pradeep Chandra
K. Pradeep Chandra is an IIT-Madras graduate. He also holds an MBA from IIM-Calcutta and a PhD in Public Administration from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. In 1982, he was selected for the Indian Administrative Services and allotted to the Andhra Pradesh cadre. His academic and governance interests
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K.R. Meera is the author of five novels, six novellas, six collections of short fiction, two novels for children, and two collections of essays in Malayalam. She has been the recipient of numerous literary prizes, such as the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award (for best novel and best short fiction), the Vayalar
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Born in Denmark, K. Renato Lings holds degrees in Spanish, translation studies and theology. In addition to studying Latin, Greek, Hebrew and Nahuatl (Aztec), he has written and taught extensively on biblical interpretation, translation, and issues relating to gender and sexuality. He lives in Spain. “
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Satchidanandan is an ace observer of human race, its traits and traditions, culture and history. His pen moves from the impressionistic to the surrealistic, from the revolutionary to the existential with admirable ease. Translated from Malayalam by the poet himself, While I Write is something to cherish for all poetry
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K. Srikrishna
K. Srikrishna is a veteran of four entrepreneurial ventures and a professor at Northeastern University, USA, where he teaches entrepreneurship and innovation. He holds a PhD in engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. He grew his first startup from a bootstrapped organization to a global leader in wireless
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K. Srinath Reddy has lived in a multiverse of medicine, public health, sustainable development and public policy. Trained as a cardiologist and epidemiologist, he has been a passionate public health advocate at national and global levels. He was head of cardiology at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi,
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K. V. Rajan
Krishna V. Rajan is a retired diplomat and former member of the Indian Foreign Service. He has served in senior diplomatic assignments, including as ambassador in France, the US, the UK, Zambia, Algeria and Nepal. He has also held senior positions in the Ministry of External Affairs, and served as
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Kahlil Gibran (1883–1931), a Lebanese-American poet and artist, achieved enduring fame through his masterpiece, The Prophet, published in 1923. Born in Bsharri, Lebanon, Gibran immigrated to the United States in 1895. His literary and artistic talents flourished, leading to a prolific career that included not only The Prophet but also
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Captain Kailash Limbu was born in 1981 in a remote village in Nepal. He joined the 2nd Battalion Royal Gurkha Rifles of the British Army in 1999 and has been on operations in Bosnia, Sierra Leone and Afghanistan.
Kainaz M Harchandrai
Kainaz Messman Harchandrai
Kainaz Messman Harchandrai and Tina Messman Wykes are co-owners and founders of Theobroma Patisserie India. Kainaz is currently the Creative Director at Theobroma. An alumna of The Institute of Hotel Management (IHM), Mumbai and the Oberoi Centre of Learning & Development (OCLD), Delhi, she was a pastry chef at the
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Kakanadan
Known for their bold and powerful yet poetic language, George Varghese Kakanadan's (1935-2011) works are considered landmarks in modernist Malayalam literature. Rishi Kakanadan is a journalist living in New Delhi.
Kala Krishnan Ramesh
Kala lives and works in Bangalore, where all but five years of her life have been spent; she loves the city and thinks it allows her to be the poet she is. She teaches in an undergraduate course, has three children. Her second book of poetry Offer Him All Things
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Kala Ramesh
Founder and director of Triveni Haikai India and haikuKATHA Journal, and a Pushcart Prize nominee, Kala Ramesh conceptualised Triveni Gurukulam Mentorship Program 2021; editor-in-chief of the award-winning Naad Anunaad: An Anthology of Contemporary World Haiku (Vishwakarma 2016); author of Haiku! an award-winning illustrated children's book (Katha 2010, reprinted in 2017.)
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Kalli Purie
KALLI PURIE is a self-diagnosed chocoholic and a self-confessed serial dieter. It has taken her years of therapy, diets, workouts, trainers and dieticians to get hold of her life and face her weight. Her two deliciously edible kids are the only treat she is allowed. Though she has achieved many
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Kallol Bhattacherjee has been a journalist since 2001 and has reported extensively on South Asian affairs and about the conflicts in West Asia and North Africa. He is currently a Senior Assistant Editor with The Hindu where he reports on diplomatic affairs. His Twitter handle is @janusmyth.
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Kallol Bhattacherjee
Tripura-born Kallol Bhattacherjee grew up in the hills of Northeast India, where he had his first glimpse of India's relentless interaction with the world. In the mid-1990s, on a summer day, he boarded the Kalka Mail from Calcutta (now Kolkata) – a move that eventually led him to the classrooms
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Daughter of well-known painter Lalitha Lajmi and niece of Guru Dutt, Kalpana Lajmi directed six critically acclaimed films, a documentary and a TV serial. Kalpana is a graduate of St. Xavier's College, Bombay.
Kalpana Raina
Kalpana Raina was born in Kashmir and lives in New York. She is a senior executive, board director and adviser with over thirty years of experience in both corporate and not-for-profit sectors. This is her first work of translation.
Kalpish Ratna
Ishrat Syed and Kalpana Swaminathan write together as Kalpish Ratna. Writing science is their passion, and they believe it has its true place in the arts. Their Compendium of Family Health offers a quick logic to understanding symptoms, crises, and confusing medicalese. Their novel The Quarantine Papers was shortlisted for the 2010
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