General N.C. Vij

General N.C. Vij was the Chief of Army Staff of the Indian Army from 2003 to 2005. Previously, he was the Director General of Military Operations during the Kargil War in 1999 and was responsible for coordinating the withdrawal of Pakistani troops from the war zone. After his retirement, he

General (Retd.) J. J. Singh

General (Retd.) J.J. Singh, a highly decorated soldier, has served as the Chief of Army Staff and the Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee. He was closely associated with the planning and execution of the Kargil War at the army headquarters. After retirement, he was appointed as the governor

Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343–1400) is often considered the the father of English literature and the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages. He wrote The Book of the Duchess, The House of Fame, The Legend of Good Women, and Troilus and Criseyde, but his most famous work remains The Canterbury

George Beahm

George Beahm has published more than thirty books, including I, Steve: Steve Jobs in His Own Words (Collins Business, 2011), Billionaire Boy: Mark Zuckerberg in His Own Words (Collins Business, 2013), and a book on media mogul Rupert Murdoch.Beahm is a former US army major, a field artillery officer who

George Editor Beahm

GEORGE BEAHM has published more than thirty books, which have been translated into more than two dozen languages worldwide and have appeared on numerous bestseller lists including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, and Publishers Weekly. A former Army major in the field artillery

George Eliot

Mary Ann Evans was born in November 1819, in Warwickshire, England, to a local mill-owner, Robert Evans and his wife Christiana Evans. Mary adopted the male pseudonym, George Eliot, to ensure that her works were taken seriously. Eliot’s first major literary work was an English translation of the Life of

George Orwell

Eric Arthur Blair, better known by his pen name George Orwell, was a British novelist, essayist and journalist. He was born in the city of Motihari in Bihar, India, where his father was working as an opium agent in the Indian civil service. Orwell was most famous for his dystopian

George R. R. Martin

George R.R. Martin is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of many novels, including the acclaimed series A Song of Ice and Fire— A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and A Dance with Dragons. As a writer-producer, he has

George R.R. Martin

George R.R. Martin is the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of many novels, including those of the acclaimed series A Song of Ice and Fire—A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and A Dance with Dragons—as well as related works such

George Skaria

George Skaria is a senior journalist, communications specialist and author. He has been an editor with Businessworld, Business Today, Financial Express and Business Standard, where he edited two management magazines, Indian Management and Asian Management Review. He has written for more than twenty publications in India and overseas. This is

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Geraldine Brooks

Geraldine Brooks was born and raised in Australia. After moving to the USA she worked for eleven years on The Wall Street Journal, where she covered crises in the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. Her first novel, Year of Wonders, was an international bestseller and she was awarded the

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Ghalib Islam

GHALIB ISLAM was born in Bangladesh and immigrated to Canada at age seven. He has a B.A. in political science from McMaster University, where he focused on international relations, and is a graduate of the University of Toronto's creative writing M.A. program. Fire in the Unnameable Country is his first

Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla

Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla is an accomplished film-maker and author of the critically acclaimed novel, Ode to Lata. He wrote and produced the film adaptation of Ode to Lata, and has just completed his forthcoming film, Embrace. Dhalla's work has been celebrated at The Lincoln Center for Performing Arts in New

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Gideon Haigh

Gideon Haigh is an award-winning writer, described by The Guardian as 'the most gifted cricket essayist of his generation'. “

Gina Wilkins

Author of more than a hundred titles for Mills & Boon, native Arkansan Gina Wilkins was introduced early to romance novels by her avid-reader mother. Gina loves sharing her own stories with readers who enjoy books celebrating families and romance. She is inspired daily by her husband of over thirty

Girish Karnad

Girish Karnad (1938–2019) was a playwright, actor and director. His notable plays include, among others, Yayati, Tughlaq, Hayavadana, Naga-Mandala and The Dreams of Tipu Sultan. He worked in films and in TV across various languages – Kannada, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, English and Assamese – and in a number of

Girish Kuber

Girish Kuber is the editor of the Marathi daily Loksatta of the Indian Express Group. He is the author of The Tatas: How a Family Built a Business and a Nation. His forthcoming book is Maha Rashtra: The Making of a Renaissance State. He has written six books in Marathi and lives in Mumbai.“

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GirishPande Kuber

Girish Kuber is the editor of Loksatta and a regular columnist in the Indian Express. He is also the author of six books in Marathi. He lives in Mumbai. Vikrant Pande is President of Northern Arc Foundation, Capital. He has translated several books from Marathi to English, including Raja Ravi

Girvani Dhyani

GIRVANI DHYANI is an attorney based in New York City. She has a masters' degree in Corporate Law from the London School of Economics and Political Science, London, and another masters in Intellectual Property Law from Cardozo School of Law, New York City. She has lived, worked and travelled to

Gita Aravamudan

Gita Aravamudan started her journalistic career at Hindustan Times, New Delhi, at a time when there were very few women in journalism. She has also worked with and written for Indian Express, India Today, Sunday, Filmfare, Femina, Illustrated Weekly and Sunday MidDay.Her books include non-fiction (Voices in My Blood, Disappearing Daughters

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Gita Subramanian

Sharmila Seyyid is a writer, a social activist and a fearless critic of the injustices in society. She has two books of poems and this novel to her credit. Gita Subramanian, who took up translation after a long teaching career in Hong Kong, has published four translations of Tamil novels.

Gitanjali Banerjee

Gitanjali Banerjee is a journalist and the founder of Fertility Dost, an online infertility support group that has over 50,000 members. She struggled with infertility for almost a decade before conceiving through IVF. 

Githa Hariharan

Githa Hariharan has written novels, short fiction and essays over the last three decades. Her highly acclaimed work includes The Thousand Faces of Night which won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book in 1993, the short story collection The Art of Dying, and the novels The Ghosts of

Godfrey Joseph Pereira

Godfrey Joseph Pereira was born in Pali Village, Bandra, Bombay. He was the assistant editor, Society magazine, Sunday magazine and India Today. Pereira also covered the first Gulf War from Israel. Several years later, he migrated to the United States, and worked as a reporter/writer with News India, India Abroad