Y.B. Satyanarayana

Dr Y.B. Satyanarayana has a doctorate in chemistry and was the principal of a leading college in Hyderabad for twenty-five years. He is involved in active work with Dalits, and is co-founder of the Centre for Dalit Studies.

Y.V. Reddy

Dr Y.V. Reddy is a former IAS officer of the 1964 batch who served as the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India from 2003 to 2008. He was awarded the Padma Vibhushan in 2010.

Yamini Ravichandran

Yamini Ravichandran wears many hats: educator, doodler, baker and Mani Ratnam evangelist. And even though she's super into fashion, she doesn't actually own any hats. “

Yamini Ravichandran

Yamini Ravichandran wears many hats: educator, doodler, baker and Mani Ratnam evangelist. And even though she's super into fashion, she doesn't actually own any hats. “

Yashodhara Dalmia

Yashodhara Dalmia is an art historian and an independent curator based in New Delhi, India. She has written several essays, articles and reviews on contemporary Indian art. She is the author of Amrita Sher-Gil, The Making of Modern Indian Art and Buddha to Krishna. She has also co-authored Memory, Metaphor,

Yashodhara Lal

Yashodhara Lal is an author of six bestselling novels, mother of three children, marketing professional, and fitness instructor. She lives in Gurgaon with her family, her husband Vijay and three kids – Peanut, Pickle and Papad – who never fail to provide her with material for her blog.

YASHWANT & SINHA SINHA

Arshia Sattar holds a PhD in South Asian Languages and Civilizations from the University of Chicago. She teaches classical Indian literature at several institutions in India and writes for a number of journals and magazines.

Yasmeen Premji

Born and raised in erstwhile Bombay, Yasmeen Premji graduated from St. Xavier’s College before completing her master’s degree from Smith College, USA. She worked as assistant editor for the Indian design magazine, Inside Outside, for many years before moving with her husband Azim to Bangalore, India’s IT capital, which she

YASSER USMAN

Yatindra and Taneja Mishra

Yatindra Mishra is a poet, editor, and scholar of music and cinema. He has written Girija (2001), Devpriya (2007) and Sur Ki Baradari (2009) about the life and work of thumri singer Girija Devi, dancer Sonal Mansingh, and shehnai maestro Ustad Bismillah Khan. He has also published a book on playback

Yefei Lu

Yefei Lu is a portfolio manager at Shareholder Value Management AG, a value-investment company based in Frankfurt, Germany. Previously, he worked for a single-family investment office in Munich and for McKinsey & Company in Berlin. He holds an MBA from the London Business School.

Yeifei Lu

Yeifei Lu is a portfolio manager at Shareholder Value Management AG, a value-investment company based in Frankfurt, Germany. Previously, he worked for a single-family investment office in Munich and for McKinsey & Company in Berlin. He holds an MBA from the London Business School.

Yogi Cameron

Yogi Cameron left the world of high fashion to seek the higher path available to all of us. In 2003, he began his ongoing studies in Ayurveda at Arsha Yoga in India after completing the training at the Integral Yoga Institute in New York City. Since then, Yogi Cameron has

Yolanda Gampp

Yolanda Gampp is a self-taught master cake artist who started out baking novelty cakes from her mother’s kitchen, and is now the host of the successful YouTube channel How to Cake It! Formerly on the Food Network show SugarStars, Yolanda’s work has been featured on Today, The Social, Cityline, Breakfast

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You Need Character Company

The You Need Character Company is a global character creation and animation production company that creates and sells unique and quality products using various characters.“

Yudhanjaya Wijeratne

Yudhanjaya Wijeratne was born in Ratnapura, Sri Lanka, and grew up in Colombo, writing about local technology and politics on the controversial Icaruswept blog.

Yudhi Raman

Yudhi Raman is the pen-name of an author who is a managing director of a leading international bank in London. He was educated in India, Singapore and the UK and has also worked in New York and Mumbai. While in Mumbai, he was ranked by Business World as one of

Yugal Kishore Das

Yugal Kishore Das is a globally renowned speaker, monk, lifestyle mentor, and coach. He holds a masters degree in mathematics, and bachelors degrees in science and law from various Indian universities. He has also studied software programming. He is based in Michigan, but has travelled all over the US, imparting

Yvonne Lindsay

A typical Piscean, USA TODAY bestselling author Yvonne Lindsay has always preferred her imagination to the real world. Married to her blind-date hero and with two adult children, she spends her days crafting the stories of her heart, and in her spare time she can be found with her nose

Zakir Hussain

Ustad Zakir Hussain (born 9 March 1951) is an Indian tabla player, composer, percussionist, music producer and film actor. He is the eldest son of tabla player Alla Rakha.[1] He is widely considered as one of the greatest tabla players of all time.[2] He was awarded the Padma Shri in

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Zara Raheem

Zara Raheem received her MFA in Fiction from California State University, Long Beach and has been teaching English and Creative Writing for the past eight years. She resides in Southern California and the Marriage Clock is her first novel.

Zarrar Said

Zarrar Said is a finance professional working and living in New York City. Pureland is his first book.

Zarreen Khan

After working for Pepsi, Hindustan Times and ACNielsen for 10 years, Zarreen Khan Chopra decided to take a break and raise two children, who are sometimes kind enough to let her role-play as a marketing consultant. She lives in Delhi with her husband. Koi Good News? is her second book.

Zeyad Masroor Khan

Zeyad Masroor Khan is a journalist, writer and documentary film-maker based in New Delhi. In his decade-long journalistic career, he has worked with national and international media companies like Reuters, Vice, Brut and Deccan Herald. A South Asia Speaks fellow, he primarily writes on politics, marginalized communities, crime and culture.

Ziya Us Salam

Ziya Us Salam has worked with The Hindu for more than two decades, and is currently Associate Editor, Frontline. He writes on socio-political and literary issues and has authored thirteen books till date.“

Zorian Cross

  Zorian Cross is a multi-award-winning theatre professional based in New Delhi. Since 2009, he’s acted in over thirty-five productions, written over fifteen scripts, and directed ten productions – including a jukebox musical, a cabaret, and an original ballet that he conceived. His plays have been performed in over thirteen

Zuni Chopra

Zuni Chopra is a seventeen-year-old author who has published two poetry collections. Her first novel, The House That Spoke, released in January 2017. This is her fourth published work. She has contributed articles to Vogue India and Hindustan Times. Zuni has a passion for writing, especially fantasy and poetry, and