Ramona Braganza

Hollywood celebrity trainer Ramona Braganza is best known for sculpting fit A-list bodies like those of Jessica Alba, Halle Berry, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Biel, Kate Beckinsale, Amanda Seyfried and Scarlett Johansson among women, and Zac Efron, Ryan Reynolds and Bradley Cooper among men. As a global fitness expert originally of

Ramsey Dave

Dave Ramsey is a #1 national bestselling author, personal finance expert, and host of The Dave Ramsey Show, heard by more than 16 million listeners each week. He’s authored seven national bestselling books including, The Total Money Makeover, EntreLeadership, and Smart Money Smart Kids. Since 1992 Dave has helped people regain control of their money, build

Rana Dasgupta

Rana Dasgupta is the author of the short story collection, Tokyo Cancelled, which was shortlisted for the 2005 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize (UK) and the Hutch Crossword Book Award (India), and the novel Solo, which won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize 2010 for Best Book. His non-fiction work, Capital, was shortlisted

Rana Safvi

Rana Safvi is a renowned writer, scholar and translator. She is the author of Where Stones Speak: Historical Trails in Mehrauli, the First City of Delhi, The Forgotten Cities of Delhi and Tales from the Quran and Hadith. Her blog, www.ranasafvi.com, is a repository of her writings on Indian culture,

Ranbir Sidhu

Ranbir Singh Sidhu is the author of the short story collection Good Indian Girls and his fiction appears in The Georgia Review, Fence, Zyzzyva, The Missouri Review, Other Voices, The Literary Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Barcelona Review and other journals and anthologies. He is a winner of the Pushcart

Ranbir Singh Sidhu

Ranbir Singh Sidhu is the author of Good Indian Girls and is a winner of a Pushcart Prize and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship. His stories and essays appear in Conjunctions, Vice, Salon, The Nation, Zyzzyva, The Missouri Review, The Literary Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, the Los

Randy Boyagoda

Writer, critic and scholar Randy Boyagoda  is chairman of the Department of English at Ryerson University. He has written for a variety of publications, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Paris Review and Harper's Magazine. His debut novel, Governor of the Northern Province, was longlisted for

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Ranjana Srivastava

Dr Ranjana Srivastava is a medical oncologist, Fulbright scholar, award-winning author and a columnist for The Guardian. After an upbringing in Bihar, India, and the United States, she graduated from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, with first-class honours. Ranjana is the winner of the Monash University Distinguished Alumni award and

Ranjit Biswas

Ranjita Biswas is a journalist, fiction writer and translator. She contributes to national and international publications on gender issues, development, travel, and art and culture. As a translator she has won a number of awards and has to her credit three published books. She also researches on socio-cultural aspects of

Ranjit Desai

Ranjit Desai (8 April 1928-6 March 1992) was born in Kolhapur district, Maharashtra. Biographical novels were his forte. His most famous works are Morpankhi Sawalya, Shriman Yogi and Swami, based on the life of Madhavrao Peshwa, the third Peshwa. He won the Maharashtra Rajya Award (1963), Hari Narayan Apte Award

Ranjit Lal

Ranjit Lal is the author of around 45 books for children and adults . He was awarded the Zeiss Wildlife Lifetime Conservation Award for 2019 for writing 'with exceptional literary skills' on the conservation of wildlife, especially birds. As a journalist, he has had well over 2000 articles published in

Ranjit Sabikhi

Born in 1935, Ranjit Sabikhi is the Principal, Ranjit Sabikhi Architects. He was the Head of the Department of Urban Design at the School of Planning and Architecture in New Delhi in the 1970s, has written extensively on India's urban condition, and has been designing buildings for close to sixty

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Ranveer Brar

Chef Ranveer Brar is a celebrity chef and TV show host.Born in Lucknow, Ranveer began cooking at seventeen as an apprentice to one of Lucknow's legendary street kebab vendors, Ustad Munir Ahmed, before enrolling in a catering college. At twenty-five, he became the youngest executive chef of his time in

Rasheed Kidwai

Rasheed Kidwai is a journalist, author and political analyst.  He is a visiting fellow at the Observer Research Foundation [ORF]. A former associate editor of The Telegraph, Kidwai tracks government, politics, community affairs and Hindi cinema, and has written several books on these topics. A graduate of St Stephen's College,

Rashi Sharma

Rashi Sharma is an Indian Postal Service officer and worked in Department of School Education and literacy, Ministry of Education for almost seven years. She was involved in formulation of National Education Policy 2020 and the implementation thereafter, NIPUN Bharat mission that focuses on foundational learning and revamping of Samagra

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Rashmi Bansal

RASHMI BANSAL is a writer, entrepreneur and motivational speaker. She is the author of ten bestselling books on entrepreneurship – Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish, Connect the Dots, I Have a Dream, Poor Little Rich Slum, Follow Every Rainbow, Take Me Home, Arise, Awake, God's Own Kitchen, Touch the Sky and Shine Bright – which together have sold more than twelve lakh copies and been translated

Rashmi Palkhivala

Rashmi is married into the Palkhivala family who were amongst Yogacharya B.K.S. Iyengar's early students in Mumbai and shared a warm relationship with the Iyengars. Her family now has three established teachers of yoga: her husband, Jehangir, her mother-in-law, Dhan, and and her brother-in-law, Aadil, and perhaps some more in

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Rashmi Uday Singh

Food and health — Rashmi Uday Singh has done trailblazing work in both fields for over two decades. India's first health show on TV, Health Today, was produced, scripted, directed and presented by her. Her weekly health column in The Indian Express was popular for fifteen years. World Gourmand cookbook

Rati Malaiya

Rati Malaiya has a degree in business studies from the University of Delaware (USA), in addition to a Diploma in Mass Communications from S.C.M (Mumbai). Having dabbled in various professional endeavours over the years, from research to strategy consulting, Rati is yet to discover that one true passion. She lives

Ratnakar Matkari

RATNAKAR MATKARI (born 1938) is a Marathi writer, a movie and play producer-director, and a self-taught artist. He worked as a columnist for newspapers and magazines in the 1970s. Matkari's works thus far include a number of plays, collections of one-act plays, books of his short stories, novels, and poems

Ravi Arora

RAVI ARORA is vice president, innovation, at Tata Sons and manages the innovation programme at the Tata group worldwide. He was the key member of the Tata Group Innovation Forum (TGIF) and has created well-known programmes like Tata InnoMeter, Tata InnoVista and, Tata InnoVerse and Challenges Worth Solving to foster

Ravi Buleiy

Ravi Buleiy is a journalist with Amar Ujala. His first collection of stories Aaina Aur Vasantsena was published by Bhartiya Gyanpeeth, followed by a second collection, Yun Na Hota Toh Kya Hota, published by HarperCollins in 2012. It received brilliant reviews. This is his first novel.

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Ravi Kapoor

Ravi Kapoor is the author of the best-selling Scholastic Quiz: Incredible Records. In addition to his day (and night) job as an airline pilot, he has been a screenwriter, script editor, radio jockey and voiceover artist. In his spare time he enjoys worrying about life, the universe and everything. He

Ravi Mantha

Ravi Mantha is a health writer and activist. After eighteen years as a professional investor, Ravi realized that life is not just about jet-setting and making boatloads of money (although there is no harm in doing that), it is also about doing something to improve society. Ravi has spent several