Usha Narayanan

Usha Narayanan has been a creative director, jingle-writer, web editor, journalist and communications manager. The Madras Mangler, a suspense thriller, was well received. Her next, Pradyumna: Son of Krishna, an action-packed fantasy, has been published by Penguin Random House. To know more about Usha, visit www.ushanarayanan.com or email her at

Uzma Aslam

Uzma Aslam Khan is the author of three previous novels, including The Geometry of God, named one of Kirkus Reviews' best books of 2009. Her fiction and non-fiction have been published around the world. An excerpt from Thinner than Skin was featured in Granta magazine's widely celebrated issue on Pakistan.

V.K Shukla

V.K. Thajudheen

V.K. Thajudheen was born in Kannur, north Kerala. After his BCom degree from Calicut University, he worked in Kannur, Mumbai, Dubai and Dammam. Thereafter, for ten years, he was a businessman in Doha, Qatar. He returned to India in 2019 and presently works for the textile company Urban Design in

V. Krishnamurthy

V. Krishnamurthy is the doyen of Indian management, having headed the country's largest and most challenging public sector companies.He was Chairman and CEO of Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited, Maruti Udyog Limited and Steel Authority of India Limited. He has been Chairman of IIM Bangalore and Ahmedabad; IIT Delhi; Xavier Institute

V.P. Malik

General V.P. Malik was Chief of the Indian Army from 1 October 1997 to 30 September 2000. Concurrently, he was Chairman, Chiefs of Staff Committee, for two years. He planned, coordinated and oversaw the execution of Operation Vijay to evict Pakistani military intrusion in Kargil in 1999.

V.P. Sandlas

Ved Prakash Sandlas was one of the first fifty engineers who joined ISRO during the formative years of 1962-67 and rose to head SLV-3 as Project Director during 1980-84. Subsequently, he shifted to DRDO and worked as Director, Defence Electronics Applications Laboratory (DEAL), from 1986 to 1996 and later served

V. Ponraj

V Raghunathan

Raghu is an academic, corporate executive, author, columnistand a hobbyist. He taught finance at IIM, Ahmedabad, for nearlytwo decades before turning a banker as the president of INGVysya Bank in Bengaluru. He is currently the CEO of GMRVaralakshmi Foundation. He is also an adjunct professor at theUniversity of Bocconi, Milan,

V. Ramaswamy

V. Ramaswamy has translated Subimal Misra's The Golden Gandhi Statue from America: Early Stories, Wild Animals Prohibited: Stories, Anti-Stories, and This Could Have Become Ramayan Chamar's Tale: Two Anti-Novels, Manoranjan Byapari's novel The Runaway Boy, and Memories of Arrival: A Voice from the Margins by Adhir Biswas. His translation of

V. SANJAY KUMAR

V. Vijayendra Prasad

Vijayendra Prasad is an Indian screenwriter and film director who has worked in  Telugu, Tamil  and Hindi cinema for more than four decades. A screenwriter for more than twenty-five films, most of his movies have been blockbusters that have set new records at the box office. A few of his

VAASANTHI

VAASANTHI is a renowned author and journalist who writes in English and Tamil. She has been writing in Tamil for more than forty years and has published thirty novels, six short-story collections and four travelogues. Her books in English include Cut-outs, Caste and Cine Stars: The World of Tamil Politics,

Vaibhav Purandare

Vaibhav Purandare is the author of Savarkar: The True Story of the Father of Hindutva, Bal Thackeray and the Rise of the Shiv Sena and Sachin Tendulkar: A Definitive Biography. He works as a senior editor with The Times of India.

Vaiju Naravane

Vaiju Naravane is a journalist, broadcaster, lecturer and publisher. Based in Paris, she is the Europe correspondent of the Hindu and foreign fiction editor at the French publishing house Albin Michel. This is her first novel.

Vaishali Shroff

Vaishali Shroff is the author of two multilingual NCERT- and CBSE-recommended books. Her work has been featured in magazines, anthologies, school texts, and children's readers across Indian publishing houses. When she's not writing, you can find her hiding behind the couch from her two boys who are waiting to pounce

Valeria Luiselli

Valeria Luiselli was born in Mexico City in 1983. She is the author of the novels Faces in the Crowd and The Story of My Teeth, which won the 2016 LA Times Book Prize for Fiction; the essay collection Sidewalks; and Tell Me How It Ends, an essay about the

VAMNICOM

Vaikunth Mehta National Institute of Cooperative Management (VAMNICOM) was conceived as an intellectual nerve centre for the cooperative movement. VAMNICOM is a national institute under the aegis of the National Council for Cooperative Training (NCCT) and promoted by the Ministry of Cooperation, Government of India. The institute is responsible for

Vandana Luthra

VANDANA LUTHRA is an expert on wellness and healthy lifestyles. As founder and mentor, she is the guiding force behind VLCC, the iconic health, beauty and wellness brand with 300 centres across 121 cities in sixteen countries. Vandana opened India's first transformation centre in 1989 in New Delhi, which seamlessly

Vandana V. Prakash

Dr Vandana V. Prakash is a senior consultant clinical psychologist practising for the past thirty years. She has an MPhil in medical and social psychology from NIMHANS, Bangalore. She has several research papers to her credit and has co-authored chapters on suicidal behaviour in adolescents for various international publications. She

Vanessa de Haan

Vanessa de Haan is a freelance journalist and editor. She has worked in-house for various media companies and spent most of her career at The Spectator magazine. In 2005 Vanessa moved temporarily from London to Devon to concentrate on her own writing and never left. She completed the MA in

Vani Mahesh

Vani Mahesh writes mytho fiction, witlit and historical fiction. Her endeavour is to raise awareness and build pride in India's culture and heritage, especially amongst the youth of India. Vani is a consultant for the JIO Digital Library, in charge of building a special collection for Indian art, history, culture

Vappala Balachandran

Vappala Balachandran is a former IPS officer and a security and intelligence specialist. He retired as Special Secretary, Cabinet Secretariat, Government of India, in 1995. He was also a member of the high-level committee which looked into the police performance in response to the terror attacks in Mumbai on 26

VARIOUS

Authors featured in this anthology include Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, Rabindranath Tagore, Rudyard Kipling, Louisa May Alcott and Anton Chekhov.

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Varun Gandhi

Second-term Member of Parliament and General Secretary of the BJP, Feroze Varun Gandhi is a regular columnist for India's leading national and regional dailies. An economics graduate from the London School of Economics (LSE), he is a respected policy analyst and opinion leader. He published his first collection of poems,

Varun Sood

VARUN SOOD is a Bengaluru-based technology journalist. He started his career with Business Standard and in the past fourteen years has worked with a number of publications, including Financial Times and The Economic Times. In his last role, he was a National Editor in charge of breaking stories at Mint.

Varuna Shunglu

Varuna Shunglu is an international yoga teacher, wellness entrepreneur and lawyer. She has a MSc in Yogic Sciences and is certified by Yoga Alliance International. Varuna has written for publications such as The Telegraph, Asia Spa, Men's Health and the Business Standard. “

Vasant Purushottam Kale

VASANT PURUSHOTTAM KALE (1932–2001), or ‘VaPu' as he was popularly known, was one of the most prolific writers in Marathi, with more than sixty books to his credit. His short stories are known for their insightful character studies, gentle satire and observations on life. Apart from his short stories, some

Vasudev Murthy

Vasudev Murthy writes in multiple genres: classical music, management, crime and humour. He draws inspiration from the violin, yoga, animal rights and insane poets. His work has been translated into Japanese, Portuguese, Hindi and Kannada. He lives in Bangalore.