Minakshi Dewan

Dr Minakshi Dewan is a researcher and writer with a PhD degree in social medicine and community health from Jawaharlal Nehru University and masters in social work from TISS Mumbai. She possesses extensive experience in health, gender, and community mobilization with grassroots and international development organizations. She has contributed chapters

Minakshi Thakur

Minakshi Thakur's first book, An Indian Evening, a collection of poems in English, was published by Writers' Workshop in 2002. She has since published two collections of Hindi poems: Jab Utthi Yavanika (2003) and Neend Ka Akhiri Pul (2010), which was shortlisted for the Sahitya Akademi Young Writers' Prize, 2011.

Ming-Dao Deng

Deng Ming-Dao is the author of eight books, including THE LIVING I CHING, CHRONICLES OF TAO, EVERYDAY TAO, and SCHOLAR WARRIOR. His books have been translated into fifteen languages. He studied qigong, philosophy, meditation, and internal martial arts with Taoist master Kwan Saihung for thirteen years, and with two other

Minhaz Merchant

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

Mini Menon

Mini Menon is an award-winning journalist and author. She is currently the co-founder and editor at Live History India, the product of her fascination for India and its history.

Minita Sanghvi

Minita Sanghvi loves reading, writing and learning. She was a curious child and continues to seek answers to her ‘but why?' questions even today. She was born in Bombay and loves Bollywood movies and street foods. She's a professor at a college in Upstate NY where she lives with her

Mira Hashmi

Mira Hashmi is an assistant professor teaching film studies at the Lahore School of Economics. A graduate of the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema at Concordia University in Montreal, Mira has also been writing about film for various publications for over 25 years.

Mira Kulkarni

Mira Kulkarni, founder and managing director of Forest Essentials, is considered a farsighted leader in the beauty industry for creating a revolutionary new segment in the market that did not exist earlier. From handmade soaps to award-winning Indian Ayurvedic beauty products, nature-derived hair and skincare products have been a way

Miranda Lee

Born and raised in the Australian bush, Miranda Lee was boarding-school-educated, and briefly pursued a career in classical music before moving to Sydney and embracing the world of computers. Happily married, with three daughters, she began writing when family commitments kept her at home. She likes to create stories that

Mirza Athar Baig

MIRZA ATHAR BAIG is one of the most important contemporary writers in the Urdu language. A veteran professor of postmodern and postcolonial philosophy at Government College University, Lahore, Mirza announced his entry into fiction with avant-garde works that completely reshaped the field of contemporary Urdu fiction. He is the author

Mishi Saran

Mishi Saran is the author of the best-selling book Chasing the Monk's Shadow: A Journey in the Footsteps of Xuanzang, a chronicle of a year spent retracing a seventh-century Chinese Buddhist monk's travels to India on the Silk Road. After a BA in Chinese Studies from Wellesley College (USA), she

Misra Subimal

Subimal Misra (b. 1943) has written exclusively for little magazines since 1967. An antiestablishment writer, Misra is considered the father of the experimental novel in Bengali. He has written over twenty volumes of stories, novels, plays and prose.

Mistunee Chowdhury

Mita Kapur

Mita Kapur is the founder and CEO of Siyahi, India's leading literary consultancy. She also conceptualizes and produces literary festivals and events. Her first book, The F-Word, is a food book, memoir and travelogue. As a freelance journalist, she writes regularly for different newspapers and magazines on social and development

Mitali Meelan

Mitali Meelan works for Shemaroo Entertainment. She's also the author of Coffee and Ordinary Life and The Guest.

Mitali Mukherjee

Mitali Mukherjee is one of the most well-known faces in the world of business journalism. With close to two decades of experience in journalism, she has handled a wide range of subjects, from politics to global and local economic reportage. She is a Chevening fellow for the South Asia Journalism

Mitali Perkins

Mitali Perkins was born in Kolkata, then lived in Cameroon, Ghana, Mexico, London and New York before settling in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she studied political science at Stanford University and public policy at U.C. Berkeley. Her books include Monsoon Summer, The Not-So-Star-Spangled Life of Sunita Sen, Rickshaw

Mitchell Zuckoff

Mitchell Zuckoff is a professor of journalism at Boston University and the author of five previous books, including the New York Times bestseller Lost in Shangri-La, which won the Winship/PEN Award for Nonfiction. As a reporter for the Boston Globe, he was a Pulitzer Prize finalist and won the Distinguished

Mithila Mehta

MJ Ryan

Mohamed Thaver

Mohamed Thaver is a Mumbai-based journalist and has reported on crime for over a decade. He has worked with The Free Press Journal, Hindustan Times and has been with The Indian Express for the past five years. He has reported on gang wars in the city, terror attacks and followed crime trends closely. His work reporting

Mohammed Wajihuddin

Mohammed Wajihuddin is a Senior Assistant Editor with The Times of India, Mumbai. Earlier, he worked with the Indian Express and the Asian Age. A passionate lover of Urdu poetry, he is also a blogger and writes prolifically on issues that are of interest to Indian Muslims. He lives in

Mohan Deora

Born in Fatehpur (Shekhawati), Rajasthan, in 1943, Mohan Deora moved to America in 1964. He has a master's degree in chemical engineering and an MBA and has worked for thirty-five years with DTE Energy at their Nuclear Power Plant Fermi-2. From 1975 to 1998, Deora and his team organized over

Mohan Gudipati

MohanGudipati is the founder andCEO of Prolearner, a design-led edtech startup.           “

Mohan Kumar

Mohan Kumar is dean, Office of International Affairs & Global Initiatives, and professor of diplomatic practice at OP Jindal Global University. He also serves as chairman of the Delhi-based policy think-tank, Research and Information System (RIS), for developing countries. Kumar received his bachelor's degree in business administration from the University

Mohan Rakesh

Mohan Rakesh (1925-1972) was one of the pioneers of the Nai Kahani literary movement of Hindi literature in the 1950s. He wrote the first modern Hindi play, Ashadh Ka Ek Din (1958), and made significant contribution to the forms of the novel, short story, travelogue, criticism, memoirs and drama. Carlo

Mohan Varma

Mohan Varma is a Hindi poet and translator. He has translated three of Perumal Murugan's novels, One Part Woman and its sequels, and his book of poetry, Songs of a Coward. “

Mohandas Gandhi

Mohinder Khetarpal Singh

Mohinder Singh, a member of the Indian Administrative Service for 35 years, retired as Secretary to the Government of India. He has authored a book on road transport and another on health and food, besides writing extensively for newspapers and magazines. He is married to a well-known beautician and lives

Mohit Parikh

Mohit Parikh's works have published in Identity Theory, Specs Journal of Arts and Culture, Out of Print, The Bombay Literary Magazine and others. He was shortlisted for Toto Awards 2014 for Creative Writing in English. Presently he is filming a movie based in Mcleodganj, India. Manan is his first book.