Ashutosh Salil

Ashutosh Salil is a serving bureaucrat, a Maharashtra cadre IAS officer. He is an alumnus of National Law School and Harvard Law School, and a Fulbright scholar. During his postings in the interiors of Maharashtra, he came across the people profiled in Being the Change. Their selfless work and courage in

Ashwin Desai & Goolam Vahed

Amita Kanekar lives in Mumbai, where she teaches architectural history and comparative mythology. This is her first novel.

Ashwin Sanghi

Ashwin Sanghi is among India's highest-selling English fiction authors. He has written several bestsellers in the Bharat Series (The Rozabal Line, Chanakya's Chant, The Krishna Key, The Sialkot Saga, Keepers of the Kalachakra, The Vault of Vishnu, and The Magicians of Mazda) and two New York Times bestselling crime thrillers with James Patterson, Private India (sold

Ashwitha Jayakumar

Ashwitha Jayakumar has loved stories all her life, especiallyones set in different times and worlds. Born in Chennai, shestudied English literature and medieval studies at the universitiesof Edinburgh and Leeds in the United Kingdom and has workedfor over a decade in the Indian publishing industry. Her work hasbeen published by

Asra Q. Nomani

Asra Nomani, was born in Mumbai and moved to the United States at the age of four. She has written for the Washington Post, New York Times and Time magazine, and has covered the war in Afghanistan for salon.com. She is the recipient of a reporting fellowship from the South

Aswath Damodaran

Aswath Damodaran is the Kerschner Family Chair in Finance Education and professor of finance at New York University's Stern School of Business.

Ather Zia

Augustine Kaitharath

Auroville Consulting

Founded in 2010, Auroville Consulting is a unit of the Auroville Foundation, set up in 1991 by the Government of India. It provides comprehensive consulting and advisory services to project developers, manufacturers and policy makers engaged in ecologically and socially responsible development areas. Based on the universal values of respect,

Ausma Zehanat Khan

AUSMA ZEHANAT KHAN holds a Ph.D. in International Human Rights Law with a specialization in military intervention and war crimes in the Balkans. She is the award-winning author of The Unquiet Dead. She is a former adjunct law professor and was Editor-in-Chief of Muslim Girl magazine, the first magazine targeted

Avik Chanda

Avik Chanda holds degrees in economics from Kolkata’s Presidency College and the Delhi School of Economics. With two decades of global Big 4 Consulting experience, he is a business adviser, entrepreneur, trainer and a speaker at the Outstanding Speaker’s Bureau. He has published two poetry collections, Jokhon Bideshe, in Bengali

Avinash Paliwal

Avinash Paliwal is a lecturer in Diplomacy and Public Policy at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. Specializing in the strategic affairs of South Asia and Afghanistan, he holds a doctorate in international relations from King's College London, and an economics degree from the University

Avirook Sen

Avirook Sen has had a twenty-year career in media. He has written with passion and insight on subjects as varied as terrorism, science and sports, for India Today, New Scientist and the Hindustan Times, where he was editor of the Mumbai edition. He read English at Presidency College, Kolkata. He

Avishek Biswas

Avishek Biswas is Assistant Professor of English literature at Vidyasagar College, Calcutta University. He has a PhD from Jadavpur University, and works on oral narratives of Partition history. “

Avni Doshi

Avni Doshi was born in New Jersey. She completed her BA in art history from Barnard College and her MA in the history of art from University College London. Avni has been awarded the Tibor Jones South Asia Prize and a Charles Pick Fellowship. She lives in Dubai.

Avril Tremayne

Avril Tremayne is happily settled in her hometown of Sydney, Australia, where her husband and daughter try to keep her out of trouble-not always successfully.When she’s not writing or reading she can generally be found eating-although she does not cook! Check out her website: www.avriltremayne.com. Or follow her on Twitter:

Avtar Singh

Avtar Singh is an author and editor. His previous novel, The Beauty of These Present Things, was published by Penguin India. He has worked as an editor with Man's World, the Outlook Group, Time Out Delhi and The Indian Quarterly. He lives with his family in New Delhi.

Ayaan Ali Khan

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a Somali-born women’s rights activist and free speech advocate and the New York Times bestselling author of Infidel, The Caged Virgin, Nomad, Heretic, and Challenge of Dawa. Born in Mogadishu, Somalia, she grew up in Africa and the Middle East, before entering the Netherlands as a refugee. Today she lives in the

Ayesha Jalal

Ayesha Jalal is the Mary Richardson professor of history at Tufts University. Her books include Partisans of Allah: Jihad in South Asia, Self and Sovereignty: Individual and Community in South Asian Islam since 1850, and The Sole Spokesman: Jinnah, the Muslim League, and the Demand for Pakistan.

Ayesha S. Chaudhry

Azad Essa

Azad Essa is a journalist with the Al Jazeera Network. He completed a multinational MA programme in sociology in 2005, studying in Germany, India and South Africa, and spent several years in academia before launching his journalism career. He has reported on the scars of the conflict in Kashmir, human

Azra Raza

Azra Raza is the Chan Soon-Shiong professor of medicine and the director of the MDS Center at Columbia University. In addition to publishing widely in basic and clinical cancer research, Raza is also the coeditor of the highly acclaimed website 3QuarksDaily.com. She lives in New York City. Website: https://azraraza.com “

B A Paris

B A Paris is the internationally bestselling author of Behind Closed Doors, The Breakdown and Bring Me Back. Now approaching 1.5 million copies sold in the UK alone, she is a New York Times bestseller as well as a number one bestseller on Amazon and iBooks. Her books have sold

B. D. Garg

B.D. Garga (1924-2011) was one of India’s most eminent film scholars and a founder member of the National Film Archive, Pune. He is the author of So Many Cinemas: The Motion Picture in India, now considered a seminal text on Indian cinema; The Art of Cinema: An Insider’s Journey through

B. K. S. Iyengar

B. K. S. Iyengar is the world’s most revered living teacher of yoga. He was the first person to bring Yoga to the West, and his teaching has been hugely influential over the last 3 decades. He now lives and teaches in Pune, India.

B. Krishna

Balraj Krishna began his career as a journalist with the Civil & Military Gazette, Lahore, in 1944. Post-Partition in New Delhi, he was with the Publicity Division of the External Affairs Ministry and the British Information Services. His articles, book reviews, and photo-features appeared in several newspapers and magazines.

B. Manjamma Jogathi

B. Manjamma Jogathi is a Padma Shri awardee and a transgender folk artist. Hailing from the Vijayanagara district in Karnataka, she was the first transwoman to be the president of a government academy in India. Her contribution to the preservation and promotion of Jogathi nritya won her Karnataka's Rajyotsava Award,

B.R Ambedkar

B Ramakrishnan

An MBA from XLRI in Jamshedpur, B. Ramakrishnan is a restless entrepreneur. After eight years of experimentation, the Chennai-based chef and restaurateur believes he has unlocked the pressure cooker's secret to cooking flavourful food. The OPOS technique is the greenest, healthiest, tastiest and fastest way to cook just about anything”.”