IsmitaVidyananda Om Tandon

Ismita Tandon is an award-winning poet and author. She graduated from Sophia College, Ajmer and went on to pursue an MBA degree. Ismita has published three novels, one with Penguin and two with HarperCollins. She shares her poems regularly on her Facebook page, A Lesser Known Poet. She’d thought she

Issac John

Issac John has led large direct-to-consumer teams spanning marketing, product, design and tech functions, with stellar consumer brands such as Discovery and PUMA. A big believer in re-shaping careers, he has taken two breaks over the course of his career of sixteen years, one of which took him back to

Issac Mathai

Dr Isaac Mathai is an internationally renowned holistic health consultant. He is the chairman, managing and medical director of Soukya, a holistic healing centre based in Bangalore. Dr Mathai hails from a family of homeopathic practitioners. He graduated from the A.N.S.S. Medical College, Kerala and completed his M.D. (Homoeopathy) from

Izabella Wentz

Dr. Izabella Wentz is one of the pioneering experts in lifestyle interventions for treating Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis. She was diagnosed with Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis in 2009. Trained as a pharmacist, Dr. Wentz was surprised at the lack of knowledge about lifestyle interventions for Hashimoto’s and autoimmune conditions, so decided to take on

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J.G. Ballard

J. G. Ballard was born in 1930 in Shanghai. After internment in a civilian prison camp, his family returned to England in 1946. His 1984 bestseller ‘Empire of the Sun’ won the Guardian Fiction Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. His controversial novel ‘Crash’ was made into a

J. M. Barrie

James Matthew Barrie was born in Kirriemuir, Scotland in 1860. He originally wrote ‘Peter Pan’ as a play and its first performance in 1904 was a hit. Barrie then adapted the play into the 1911 novel ‘Peter Pan and Wendy’. He was made a baronet in 1913 and awarded the

J. M Barrie

James Matthew Barrie was born in Kirriemuir, Scotland in 1860. He originally wrote ‘Peter Pan’ as a play and its first performance in 1904 was a hit. Barrie then adapted the play into the 1911 novel ‘Peter Pan and Wendy’. He was made a baronet in 1913 and awarded the

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J. Paul Nadeau

J. Paul Nadeau is a negotiations expert and business negotiations and conflict resolution keynote speaker. A highly decorated former police officer who had an exemplary career for over thirty years, Nadeau specialized in hostage and crisis negotiations, homicide investigations, interrogations, polygraph testing and counter-terrorism. He was also a peacekeeper in

J. R. R. Tolkien

J.R.R. Tolkien was born on 3rd January 1892. After serving in the First World War, he became best known for The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, selling 150 million copies in more than 40 languages worldwide. Awarded the CBE and an honorary Doctorate of Letters from Oxford University,

J R R Tolkien

J.R.R.Tolkien (1892-1973) was a distinguished academic, though he is best known for writing The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion and The Children of Hurin, plus other stories and essays. His books have been translated into over 60 languages and have sold many millions of copies worldwide.

Jack London

Jack London was born in San Francisco in 1876, and was a prolific and successful writer until his death in 1916. During his lifetime he wrote novels, short stories and essays, and is best known for ‘The Call of the Wild’ and ‘White Fang’.

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Jacqueline Brassey

Jacqueline (Jacqui) Brassey started at McKinsey & Company in 2013 as an expert consultant in the organization practice where she further specialized in transformational change, diversity & inclusion, human capital and leadership development. She has led the learning & development of McKinsey’s top 600 most senior leaders and serves on the

Jacqueline Novogratz

Jacqueline Novogratz is founder and CEO of Acumen Fund, a non-profit venture capital firm for the poor that invests in sustainable enterprises, bringing healthcare, safe water, alternative energy and housing to low-income people in the developing world. A serial entrepreneur in the social sector, she travels frequently and currently resides

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Jagjeet Lally

Jagjeet Lally is Lecturer in the History of Early Modern and Modern India at University College London, where he is also Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of South Asia and the Indian Ocean World.“

Jahnavi Misra

PROJECT 39A is a criminal justice research and litigation centre based out of National Law University, Delhi. It is inspired by Article 39A of the Indian Constitution, a provision that furthers the intertwined values of equal justice and equal opportunity by removing economic and social barriers. These are constitutional values

Jai Arjun Singh

Jai Arjun Singh (b. 1977) is a freelance writer and journalist based in Delhi. He has written for Yahoo! India, Business Standard, The Hindu, Tehelka, Outlook Traveller and The Hindustan Times, among other publications. His blog Jabberwock (http://jaiarjun.blogspot.com) is an unwieldy and ever-growing storehouse of his writings about films and

Jaideep Hardikar

Jaideep Hardikar is a Nagpur-based senior journalist, writer, researcher and a core member of the People's Archive of Rural India. He has worked with DNA and The Telegraph among other publications. He has reported extensively from Vidarbha on farmer suicides and the cotton crisis. The recipient of a number of journalism fellowships, he is

Jaime Thurston

52 Lives is a registered charity that aims to change someone’s life every week of the year, with the support of almost 100,000 strangers and 52 celebrities who spread kindness and collectively change lives. It was founded in 2013 by Jaime Thurston, who has been featured by request on Surprise

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Jaishree Misra

Jaishree Misra has written eight novels published by Penguin and HarperCollins, and edited a collection of writings about motherhood for Zubaan and Save the Children. She has an MA in English Literature from Kerala University and two postgraduate diplomas from the University of London, in Special Education and Broadcast Journalism.

Jaithirth Rao

James and Brown Reeves

James Reeves and Gabrielle Brown founded the yoga and meditation school Restful Being Ltd in 2014, specialising in yoga nidra, a transformative state of deep rest. James has been a practising yoga teacher since 2005 after completing his first teacher training in Kerala, India and is now recognised as a

James Breiding

R. James Breiding is the author of Swiss Made: The Untold Story behind Switzerland's Success. James is a graduate of IMD Lausanne and the Harvard Kennedy School. He has written articles for The Economist, The Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times.

James Crabtree

James Crabtree is a writer and journalist who spent five years in India as Mumbai bureau chief for the Financial Times. He is now an associate professor of practice at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore.

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