Vauhini Vara

Vauhini Vara has worked as a journalist and an editor for The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and the New York Times Magazine. Her fiction has been honored by the O. Henry Prize and the Rona JaffeFoundation. Her first novel, The Immortal King Rao, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and won the Atta Galatta–Bangalore

Vedashree Khambete-Sharma

Vedashree Khambete-Sharma is an award-winning ad-woman. Before that, she was a freelance reporter for several newspapers and wrote on a wide range of subjects from student suicides to types of boyfriends. She lives in Mumbai with her husband, daughter and the niggling feeling that she has forgotten something.

VEENA MUTHURAMAN

Veena Prasad

Veena Talwar Oldenburg

Veena Talwar Oldenburg is a professor of history at Baruch College and The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is the author of Dowry Murder: The Imperial Origins of a Cultural Crime and The Making of Colonial Lucknow, 1856-1877.

Venita Coelho

Venita Coelho is a writer, director and artist with several books to her name including Dungeon Tales, Tiger by the Tail, Boy No. 32, Dead as a Dodo and others.

VENKAT RAMAN SINGH & ANAND SHYAM

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.

Venkat Sundaram

Venkat Sundaram is a former first-class cricketer who played in and captained the Delhi and North Zone teams. He has worn many hats: a commentator on television and radio, a manager of the Indian cricket team, a coach, and chairman of the BCCI Grounds and Wickets Committee. He has authored

Venkatesh Parthasarathy

Venkatesh Parthasarathy lives in Bangalore. He is interested in the history of peninsular India and is learning Sanskrit. This is his first book.“

Venki Ramakrishnan

Venki Ramakrishnan is a structural biologist, who shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on the structure and function of the ribosome. He was knighted in 2012, and in 2015 was elected as President of the Royal Society. He works at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology

Vennells David

Venus Nicolino

Dr. Venus Nicolino (AKA “Dr. V”) is the host of Marriage Bootcamp Reality Stars, and previously starred on Bravo’s LA Shrinks. She's been featured on Real Housewives of New Jersey, Millionaire Matchmaker, Steve, Watch What Happens Live, The Dr. Oz Show, Rachael Ray and The Real. Dr. V holds a

Vera Hildebrand

Vera Hildebrand has a doctorate in Indian history and culture from Georgetown University, Washington, DC. She is a senior research fellow at the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies at University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Previously, she taught at Harvard University and University of Copenhagen. For Women at War, she travelled to

Veronica Rueckert

Veronica Rueckert is a Peabody Award-winning communications specialist. She was the host of Wisconsin Public Radio‘s state-wide news magazine Central Time and the state-wide call-in program, the Veronica Rueckert Show. She was also a senior producer and contributor on the national program To the Best of Our Knowledge, distributed by

Vibha Batra

Vibha Batra is an author, poet, advertising consultant, graphic novelist, lyricist, translator, playwright, scriptwriter, travel writer, columnist, speaker and creative writing mentor. She has published twenty-six books, including The Secret Life of Debbie G – a graphic novel forYoung Adults. Her books have won prestigious awards, bestseller tags and readers'

Vibha Surya

Vibha Surya is an illustrator and designer based in Bangalore, with a master's degree in Children's Literature: Children's Illustration from Goldsmiths, University of London, and a bachelor's degree in Visual Arts from Stella Maris College. She is interested in Indian art and diversity and inclusivity (especially disability) in picture books.

Vicky Ratnani

Vicky Ratnani is a chef, TV host and food connoisseur. He hosts a popular TV cookery show by the same name on NDTV Goodtimes, and is the corporate chef at Aurus, a fine dining restaurant in Mumbai.

Victor Hugo

Victor Marie Hugo (1802–1885) was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement and is considered one of the greatest French writers. Hugo’s best-known works are the novels Les Misérables, 1862, and The Hunchbak of Notre-Dame, 1831, both of which have had several adaptations for stage and screen.

Victoria Dahl

Victoria Parker

Victoria R. Montgomery Brown

Victoria R. Montgomery Brown is CEO and co-founder of Big Think, the knowledge company that makes people and companies smarter and faster through short-form video with the world’s best thinkers and doers. Since founding Big Think in 2007, Victoria has built the company from a fledgling thought-leadership media platform to

Vidit Taneja

Savi and Vid created Bruised Passports in 2013. Over the years, they have garnered a loyal following of viewers who follow their travels around the world through their beautiful photographs. Their work has appeared in a number of magazines, newspapers, and online portals such as BBC Good Food Magazine, National

Vidya Pai

Vidya Rao

For many years the disciple of Naina Devi, Vidya Rao is a performer of the delicate style of thumri-dadra singing. A recipient of fellowships from the Ford Foundation, and the Department of Culture, Government of India, she has written extensively on music and the performing arts. She has been visiting

Vijai Trivedi

Vijai Trivedi is currently the Editor (National Affairs) News Nation Network Ltd. He is among India's best known and most successful television anchors and journalists. Well regarded for his political and Parliamentary reporting and hard hitting style of interviewing top political leaders and celebrities, he has won several journalism awards.

Vijay Balan

Vijay Balan was born in India and moved to the United States for college. Vijay began his career in aerospace, including working on the Space Shuttle propulsion system. A rocket-scientist turned storyteller, he enjoys using the written and spoken word to make arcane concepts easily understood. “

Vijay Gokhale

Vijay Keshav Gokhale (b. 1959) was the thirty-second foreign secretary of India. He also served as Ambassador to Germany and China, and as High Commissioner to Malaysia. His three assignments in Beijing spanned an eight-year period over three decades. He now lives in Pune.

Vijay Gupta

Vijay Gupta is the former OSD to the late Congress politician Rajesh Pilot. He is a member of the Haidakhandi Samaj and a direct disciple of Haidakhan Baba. He is a lawyer by profession.                “

Vijay Mahajan

Vijay Mahajan holds the John P. Harbin Centennial Chair in Business at the McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin. He is a fellow of the American Marketing Association (AMA) and has received several lifetime achievement awards including the Charles Coolidge Parlin Marketing Research Award for visionary leadership

Vijay Prashad

Vijay Prashad is professor of international studies at Trinity College, where he holds the George and Martha Kellner Chair of South Asian History. Prashad is the author of fourteen books. His book, The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South (Verso, 2012), was commended by former UN Secretary-General