Max Lugavere

Max Lugavere is a filmmaker, media personality, and leading voice in health. He is the writer, director, and producer of an upcoming documentary titled Bread Head, the first millennial focused film exploring the impact of diet and lifestyle on brain health. His Kickstarter for the film was a viral sensation, and

Maya Banks

Maya Banks has loved romance novels from a very early age, and almost from the start she dreamed of writing them, as well. In her teens she filled countless notebooks with overdramatic stories of love and passion. Today her stories are only slightly less dramatic, but no less romantic. She

Maya Blake

Maya Blake's hopes of becoming a writer were born when she picked up her first romance at thirteen. Little did she know her dream would come true! Does she still pinch herself every now and then to make sure it's not a dream?

Maya Chandrasekaran

Maya Chandrasekaran is, in no particular order, an author, traveller, mother, investor, climate warrior and progressive. She lives in Bangalore with her husband and two sons, and is generally located lost in a good book.

Maya Shanbhag Lang

Maya Shanbhag Lang is the first-generation daughter of Indian immigrants and the author of The Sixteenth of June. She lives outside of New York City.

Mayank Austen Soofi

Mayank Austen Soofi is primarily a book lover, but also holds a day job with the Hindustan Times. He tries to make sense of the world through reading, writing and photography. He also runs five blogs including the extremely popular 'The Delhi Walla'. While he considers the sufi shrine of

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Medea Banjamin

Medea Benjamin is a co-founder of the peace group, CODEPINK, and the international human rights organization, Global Exchange. Described as 'one of America's most committed – and most effective – fighters for human rights' by New York Newsday, and called 'one of the high-profile leaders of the peace movement' by the Los

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Meena/ Gonz¤lez Harris

Meena Harris was born into a family of strong women whose legacy continues to inspire her. Her grandmother, Shyamala Gopalan, was a cancer researcher and civil rights activist; her mother, Maya Harris, is a lawyer and policy expert, and her aunt, Kamala Harris, is a United States Senator. Meena is a

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Meena Kandasamy

Meena Kandasamy is a poet, fiction writer, translator and activist who is based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. She has published two collections of poetry, Touch (2006) and Ms Militancy (2010). The Gypsy Goddess is her first novel.

Meena Nayyar

Meena Nayyar is the mother of Capt. Anuj Nayyar, MVC. Tiger of Drass, the biography of her son, who was posthumously awarded the country's second highest gallantry award, is her first book. “

Meena Raghunathan

Meena Raghunathan is an expert in the Development Sector – and has decades' worth of experience in setting up and running Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) departments for major corporations.“

Meenakshi Ahamed

Meenakshi Ahamed is a freelance journalist and has written on American foreign policy for publications such as Foreign Policy, The Asian Age, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and Seminar. She was the London correspondent for NDTV from 1989-1996. Meenakshi holds a post-graduate degree from the School of Advanced

Meenakshi Lekhi

Meenakshi Lekhi is a politician from the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) and she's also its national spokesperson. She is currently the Member of Parliament from New Delhi constituency and the Chairperson of the Privilege Committee of the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the parliament. She's also the Chairperson of

Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan

Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan was born in Hyderabad, but grew up in New Delhi. Formerly a journalist, Madhavan's first book You Are Here was commissioned in 2007 on the basis of her hugely popular blog Compulsive Confessions. This is her seventh book and the second in the Girls of the Mahabharata

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Meera Khanna

A social activist and freelance writer, Meera Khanna has been working with militancy-affected widows and children in Kashmir for over a decade. She is the trustee of the Guild for Service and helped found the Women's Initiative for Peace in South Asia. She has written extensively on gender-related issues and

Meera Naidu

Meera Naidu is an artist and textile designer who has settled in Bangalore after growing up all over India. When her son lets her, she works on reimagining traditional craft and design with communities across India. She is a keen scuba diver, lover of golden shoes and chow-chow baath, and

Meera Sanyal

Meera Sanyal is one of India's most highly respected bankers who stepped down from her role as CEO and Chairperson of RBS India in December 2013, to enter public service. She joined the Aam Aadmi Party and is a member of the National Committee on Economic Policy.

Meera Subramanian

Meera Subramanian is an award-winning journalist whose work has been published in the New York Times, Nature, Virginia Quarterly Review, Orion and multiple anthologies. She was a Fulbright-Nehru fellow, is an editor for Killing the Buddha, and earned her graduate degree in journalism from New York University. She lives on

Meg Waite Clayton

Meg Waite Clayton is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of six novels, including BEAUTIFUL EXILES, the Langum-Prize honored THE RACE FOR PARIS, THE WEDNESDAY SISTERS, which Entertainment Weekly's named one of the 25 Essential Best Friend Novels of all time, and THE LANGUAGE OF LIGHT, a

Megan Angela

Megan Angelo was, until recently, an editor at Glamour magazine, and now regularly contributes entertainment-focused pieces to The New York Times, Elle, and Glamour. She is a graduate of Villanova University and lives in Pennsylvania with her family.

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Megan Reid

Nick Greene and Megan Reid have been friends, brunch companions, and enthusiastic co-conspirators since they met as book publishing assistants in 2011. A graduate of Brown’s creative writing program, Nick has worked on the editorial and product development teams for outlets such as the Atavist, n+1, and McSweeney’s, and BuzzFeed.

Megha Rao

Megha Rao is a confessional performance poet and a surrealist artist. Her work has been featured on platforms such as Penguin Random House India, Firstpost, The Open Road Review, New Asian Writing, The Alipore Post, Spoken Fest, Why Indian Men Rape and Thought Catalog. Megha is a postgraduate in English

Meghna Gulzar

Meghna Gulzar began her professional career in 1989 as a freelance writer for The Times of India. A graduate in sociology from St Xavier's College, Mumbai, Meghna assisted noted film-maker Saeed Akhtar Mirza on the National Award-winning film Naseem; and then went on to do a short course in film-making

Meghnad Desai

Meghnad Desai is an economist by profession and taught at the London School of Economics for forty years. He is a keen observer of British politics and participates in it from his perch in the House of Lords. He has written books on economics, Marxism, Islamist terrorism, Ezra Pound and

Meghnad S

Meghnad is a columnist, public policy professional and podcaster. He has his own show, Consti-tution, on the Newslaundry and is an influencer on Twitter with the handle @memeghnad. He also travels all over the country to conduct civics classes under the banner Democracy IRL. His articles have appeared and gone