Bhaskar Chattopadhyay

Bhaskar Chattopadhyay has had a successful corporate career as a statistician and a management professional. He hasrecently launched his own company ArtSquare (www.artsquare.in), which is India's largest online art gallery. He has translated Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay's novels Bonny (published as No Child's Play) for HarperCollins and Jhiler DhareBari for Scholastic India.

Bhaskar Ghose

Bhaskar Ghose was educated in Mumbai and Delhi; he was a civil servant and then a writer, whose columns appeared regularly in a number of major Indian newspapers and journals. He has been involved with theatre for the last fifty-odd years and acted in, and directed over forty plays. He

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Bhattacharya Sipra

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was a poet, visual artist, playwright, novelist, educationist, social reformer, nationalist and composer whose works reshaped Bengali Literature and music in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was awarded the Noble Prize for literature in 1913-the first Asian to have won the prize.

Bhavdeep Kang

BHAVDEEP KANG is a journalist of thirty-three years' standing. She has worked with the Times of India, the Sunday Observer, the Indian Express, the Pioneer, the Telegraph, Outlook and India Today. She is a freelance columnist and lives in Delhi. NAMITA KALA is a freelance editor and former reporter. She

Bhavna Roy

Bhavna Roy was educated in Mussoorie, Pune and Mumbai. After graduating in psychology from Mumbai University, she qualified for the Indian Administrative Services. Having trained partly at the LBSNAA, she quit and then worked first as a volunteer in a school for special children in Malegaon, and then in an NGO

Bhavya Singh & Navya Singh

Minhaz Merchant is the biographer of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and the late industrialist Aditya Birla. He founded the pioneering media firm Sterling Newspapers Pvt. Ltd, which was later acquired by the Indian Express group. Recipient of the Lady Jeejeebhoy scholarship for physics, Minhaz lives in Mumbai with his

Bhawana Somaaya

Bhawana Somaaya, a film critic for thirty years, is on the advisory panel of the Censor Board of Film Certification. She has many books on cinema to her credit. Journalist-turned author.

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Bhushan Korgaonkar

Bhushan Korgaonkar is a multilingual writer, director theatre producer and translator. Celebrated for his engaging stories on Storytel and popular songs on YouTube, Bhushan is also a featured contributor to Loksatta and Mint Lounge, sharing tales of his culinary adventures. He has engaged with traditional Lavani artistes and written the

Bibhu Padhi

Bibhu Padhi has published eleven books of poetry. They have been included in numerous anthologies, including Language for a New Century (Norton), 60 Indian Poets (Penguin) and The HarperCollins Book of English Poetry (HarperCollins). He lives with his family in Bhubaneswar.

Bibhutibhusan Bandyopadhyay

Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay was born in 1894 in Muratipur, a small village out hundred miles north of Calcutta . Bandopadhyay attended a local village school, his education would have ended there but for the assistance of a local benefactor whose generosity made it possible for him to attend high school. In

Biddu

Biddu was born in India and began his career playing in a pop band influenced by the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Following early success, he headed West and moved into the international music arena where he quickly struck gold, signing the unknown Carl Douglas and producing the hit 'Kung

Bijal Vachharajani

When Bijal Vachharajani is not reading a children's book, she is writing or editing one. Her books include the much loved and critically acclaimed novel, A Cloud Called Bhura, winner of the prestigious TOI Auther Children's Book Award 2020; You Want to Know About the Environment, and Kitten Trouble. She

Bikram Chaudhury

Bikram Choudhury, who won the prestigious National India Yoga Competition at the age of thirteen, is the founder of the Yoga College of India, which has its headquarters in Beverly Hills. There are more than 1700 Bikram Yoga studios worldwide that teach his exclusive style of Hatha Yoga.

Bilgrami Shahbano

Shahbano Bilgrami is a published poet, children's book author, and freelance editor whose debut novel, Without Dreams, was long listed for the inaugural Man Asian Literary Prize in 2007. She lives in Upstate New York with her husband and three daughters.

Bill Bryson

Bill Bryson's internationally bestselling books include ‘A Short History of Nearly Everything’ (shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize), ‘A Walk in the Woods’, ‘Neither Here Nor There’, ‘Made in America’, ‘Notes from a Small Island’, ‘The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid’ and, most recently, ‘At Home’. Born in

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Bimal Jalan

Dr Bimal Jalan is former Governor, Reserve Bank of India. He has held several positions in the government,including those of finance secretary and chairman of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister. He has represented India on the boards of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.

Biman Nath

Biman Nath is an astro-physicist by profession and writes regularly for the Hindu. He lives in Bangalore with his wife and son. This is his first novel.

Bina Nayak

Bina Nayak is an author and graphic designer based out of Goa. She was head of Walt Disney's design team in India. Her first novel, Starfish Pickle: A Goan Adventure, has been adapted into a major motion picture. After graduating from Sir JJ School of Art she worked in FCB

Binoo K. John

Binoo K. John is the author of the best-selling Entry from Backside Only: Hazaar Fundas of Indian-English. His travelogue Under a Cloud: Life in Cherrapunjee, Wettest Place on Earth was termed 'one of the finest pieces of Indian travel writing ever'.

Biswamit Dwibedy

Biswamit Dwibedy is the author of Ozalid and Eirik's Ocean. He has an MFA from Bard College, New York. He is a co-editor for the journal 1913 and the founder of Anew Print, an independent press devoted to translations from India. He teaches at the Srishti Institute of Art, Design,

BK Shivani

Brahma Kumari (BK) Sister Shivani, a Rajyog Meditation practitioner for over 25 years has become a household name for her refreshing and pragmatic take on life. The Government of India has honoured her with 'Nari Shakti Puraskaar', the highest civilian award for women in the country, for transforming human behaviours.

Blanchard Ken & Miller Mark

Ken Blanchard is the coauthor of several best-selling books, including the blockbuster international bestseller The New One Minute Manager and the giant business bestsellers Raving Fans and Gung Ho! His books have combined sales of more than twenty million copies in forty-two languages. Mark Miller is a business leader, best-selling

Bob & Lingling Davis

Bob Davis is a Pulitzer Prize-winning senior editor covering economic issues at the Wall Street Journal’s Washington D.C. bureau, and continues to write about China, where he was posted from 2011 to 2014. He has served as the Journal’s bureau chief in Brussels covering the European Union, and as the

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Bonnie MacBird

Bonnie MacBird is passionate about Victorian London and Sherlock Holmes. She lives in an 1890 building right off Baker Street, and fell in love with Holmes as a schoolgirl in her native California. After many years in the entertainment industry as a film executive, Emmy winning producer and screenwriter, she

Boria Majumdar

Boria Majumdar, a Rhodes scholar, is a historian by training who went to St John's College, Oxford University, to do a DPhil on the social history of Indian cricket in October 2000. His doctorate was published as Twenty-Two Yards to Freedom: A Social History of Indian Cricket in December 2004.