Mata Amritanandamayi

Born in India in 1953, Amma is a spiritual figure of international stature. Since 1975, she has hugged more than 34 million people, one by one, tirelessly, across 40 countries on all 5 continents. Through her international network of charitable initiatives, Embracing the World, she helps those most in need.

Matt Groening

Matt Groening, the creator and executive producer of the Emmy Award-winning series “The Simpsons”, as well as creator of the cartoon strip Life in Hell and the animated Fox tv series “Futurama”, is the man responsible for bringing animation to prime time. In addition, Groening formed Bongo Comics Group in

Matt McCarthy

Matt McCarthy is the author of two US bestsellers, The Real Doctor Will See You Shortly and Odd Man Out. He is an assistant professor of medicine at Weill Cornell and a staff physician at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, where he serves on the Ethics Committee.

Matt Richtel

Matt Richtel has been a reporter at the New York Times since 2000. He won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for a series that exposed the pervasive risks of distracted driving and its root causes, prompting widespread reform. He is the author of A Deadly Wandering, which the

Matt Ridley

Matt Ridley received his BA and D. Phil at Oxford researching the evolution of behaviour. He has been science editor, Washington correspondent and American editor of The Economist. He is the author of bestselling titles The Red Queen (1993), The Origins of Virtue (1996), Genome (1999) and Nature via Nurture

Matthew Hayden

Champion cricketer Matthew Hayden AM, now playing with the Chennai Super Kings in the IPL, is a powerful and aggressive left-handed opening batsman, known for his ability to score quickly at both Test and One-Day levels. He formed one of the most prolific opening partnerships in world Test cricket for

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Matthew Syed

Matthew Syed is an award-winning journalist for The Times, writing for both the sports pages and the comment pages.

Maulana W Khan

MAULANA WAHIDUDDIN KHAN is an Islamic spiritual scholar. Internationally recognized for his contributions to world peace, he has received the Demiurgus Peace Award, the Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavna Award and the Padma Bhushan. The World's 500 Most Influential Muslims named him 'Islam's Spiritual Ambassador to the World'. Well versed in

Maulik Pancholy

Maulik Pancholy is an award-winning actor whose career has spanned hit television shows (Only Murders in the Building, 30 Rock), animated favorites (Phineas and Ferb, Sanjay and Craig), the Broadway stage, and films. He is the co-founder of the anti-bullying campaign Act to Change. He lives in New York with

Maureen Child

Maureen Child writes for the Harlequin Desire line and can't imagine a better job.A seven-time finalist for a prestigious Romance Writers of America RITA Award, Maureen is the author of more than one hundred romance novels. Her books regularly appear on bestseller lists and have won several awards, including a

Maureen Johnson

Maureen Johnson is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of many YA novels. Maureen has an MFA in Writing from Columbia University. She has been nominated for an Edgar Award and the Andre Norton Award, and her books appear frequently on YALSA and state awards lists. Maureen lives in New York, and

Max Hastings

Max Hastings is the author of twenty-six books, most about conflict, and between 1986 and 2002 served as editor-in-chief of the Daily Telegraph, then editor of the Evening Standard. He has won many prizes both for journalism and his books, of which the most recent are All Hell Let Loose,

Max Lugavere

Max Lugavere is a filmmaker, media personality, and leading voice in health. He is the writer, director, and producer of an upcoming documentary titled Bread Head, the first millennial focused film exploring the impact of diet and lifestyle on brain health. His Kickstarter for the film was a viral sensation, and

Maya Banks

Maya Banks has loved romance novels from a very early age, and almost from the start she dreamed of writing them, as well. In her teens she filled countless notebooks with overdramatic stories of love and passion. Today her stories are only slightly less dramatic, but no less romantic. She

Maya Blake

Maya Blake's hopes of becoming a writer were born when she picked up her first romance at thirteen. Little did she know her dream would come true! Does she still pinch herself every now and then to make sure it's not a dream?

Maya Chandrasekaran

Maya Chandrasekaran is, in no particular order, an author, traveller, mother, investor, climate warrior and progressive. She lives in Bangalore with her husband and two sons, and is generally located lost in a good book.

Maya Shanbhag Lang

Maya Shanbhag Lang is the first-generation daughter of Indian immigrants and the author of The Sixteenth of June. She lives outside of New York City.

Mayank Austen Soofi

Mayank Austen Soofi is primarily a book lover, but also holds a day job with the Hindustan Times. He tries to make sense of the world through reading, writing and photography. He also runs five blogs including the extremely popular 'The Delhi Walla'. While he considers the sufi shrine of

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Medea Banjamin

Medea Benjamin is a co-founder of the peace group, CODEPINK, and the international human rights organization, Global Exchange. Described as 'one of America's most committed – and most effective – fighters for human rights' by New York Newsday, and called 'one of the high-profile leaders of the peace movement' by the Los

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Meena Harris was born into a family of strong women whose legacy continues to inspire her. Her grandmother, Shyamala Gopalan, was a cancer researcher and civil rights activist; her mother, Maya Harris, is a lawyer and policy expert, and her aunt, Kamala Harris, is a United States Senator. Meena is a

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Meena Kandasamy

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.

Meena Nayyar

Meena Nayyar is the mother of Capt. Anuj Nayyar, MVC. Tiger of Drass, the biography of her son, who was posthumously awarded the country's second highest gallantry award, is her first book. “

Meena Raghunathan

Meena Raghunathan is an expert in the Development Sector – and has decades' worth of experience in setting up and running Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) departments for major corporations.“

Meenakshi Ahamed

Meenakshi Ahamed is a freelance journalist and has written on American foreign policy for publications such as Foreign Policy, The Asian Age, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and Seminar. She was the London correspondent for NDTV from 1989-1996. Meenakshi holds a post-graduate degree from the School of Advanced