Fiona Fernandez

Fiona Fernandez is a historian at heart with a time-traveller's soul. As Associate Editor at Mid-day and through her outspoken protagonists Sir PM and Lady Flora, in her weekly column Bombaynama, Fiona highlights Mumbai's multi-layered urban histories, the conservation of its UNESCO World Heritage Sites and its citizen champions. H for Heritage:

Firdous Ali

Firdous Ali was an accomplished linguist and translator. Hewas proficient in Kashmiri, Urdu, Persian, Punjabi and English, and had aprodigious knowledge of the poetry of Indian and Persian languages and anencyclopaedic knowledge of the history of Indian cinema. “

Firoz Meeran

Firoz Meeran is the vice chairman of Group Meeran, ME Meeran Foundation. He heads the family office of Group Meeran and is also the managing director of Scoreline Sports.

FLAP Books

HarperCollins brings you the FLAP series: a series that promises hours of fun, learning, activity and play for your child. The exciting range of activity book in this early learning series will develop basic concepts in young children. FLAP stands for fun, learning, activity and play.

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Foreword by ANDREW HARVEY Annotation by JACK MAGUIRE

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849–1924) was an English-American author and playwright. She is best known for her incredibly popular novels for children, including Little Lord Fauntleroy, A Little Princess, and The Secret Garden.

Francesca Gibbons

Francesca Gibbons worked as a copywriter at a marketing agency before leaving to focus on her career as a children’s author. The Shadow Moth is her debut novel. It was inspired by the gardens she visited as a child, and her love of folklore and monsters. It is the first

FRANCIS WHEEN

Francois Gautier

Francois Gautier is a French journalist who has been the South Asia correspondent for the largest French daily, Le Figaro, for over ten years. He is the author of a number of books and has written regular columns for publications such as Outlook and The Indian Express. Namrita Gautier is

Frank L Baum

Lyman Frank Baum (1856–1919) was an American children’s book author, best known for The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. He wrote thirteen novel sequels, nine other fantasy novels, and several other works (55 novels in total, plus four “lost” novels, 83 short stories, over 200 poems, an unknown number of scripts,

Frank Ryan

Originally qualified as a doctor, Frank Ryan is now one of the pioneers of the role of viruses in evolution. He is emeritus consultant physician at the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals, and Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, the Linnaean Society of London and the Royal Society of Medicine. He

Fraser Doherty

Fraser Doherty, named one of the ‘30 under 30’ entrepreneurs in the world by Inc. magazine, is one of the most successful young entrepreneurs in the UK today. His company SuperJam is a global success selling millions of jars a year. He was commended by the Queen for ‘services to

Frederic Martel

Frederic Martel has a doctorate in sociology and is a researcher. He is a columnist for France Info, and has, for eight years, presented Soft Power, a programme on French culture devoted to the creative industries and the Internet. He has written nine books, including Mainstream, which was an international

Frederick S. Starr

S. Frederick Starr is the founding chairman of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute/Silk Road Studies Program, a research and policy centre affiliated with Johns Hopkins’s School of Advanced International Studies and the Institute for Security and Development Policy in Stockholm. A past president of Oberlin College and the Aspen Institute, he

Friedrich Engels

Friedrich Engels (1820–1895) was a German philosopher and co-author of The Communist Manifesto alongside Karl Marx. Born in Barmen, Prussia, Engels played a crucial role in shaping Marxist theory. His works, including The Condition of the Working Class in England, explored class struggles and historical materialism. As a committed socialist,

FunOKPlease

FunOKPlease is a Mumbai-based publisher of children's books with a focus on contemporary Indian content.

G.B.S. Sidhu

After twenty-six years in the R&AW, G.B.S. Sidhu retired as special secretary in the R&AW in 1998. His book Sikkim: Dawn of Democracy (2018) talks about his role in the state's 1975 merger with India, when he was head of the R&AW station at Gangtok.

G. D. Bakshi

Major General Gagandeep Bakshi (retd) is a combat veteran of many skirmishes on the Line of Control and counter-terrorist operations in Jammu and Kashmir and Punjab. He commanded his battalion in active operations in Kargil and was awarded the Vishisht Seva Medal. Later, he commanded a Rashtriya Rifles brigade in

G R Gopinath

Captain G.R. Gopinath is the founder of Air Deccan, a retired army man, an award-winning farmer, an activist and the author of Simply Fly: A Deccan Odyssey.

G.R.K. Reddy

G.R.K. Reddy is the Chairman and Managing Director of MARG Group, a leading infrastructure development company with diverse projects such as ports, IT parks, malls, commercial and residential real estate, and an integrated city. An alumnus of the Kellogg School of Management in the United States, he recognized early on

G. Sampath

G. Sampath is the author of How to Make Enemies and Offend People, and the editor of The Pleasure Principle, an anthology of erotic stories. He lives in Delhi.

Gabriel Khan

Gabriel Khan is a writer based in Mumbai. 

Gabriel Krauze

Gabriel Krauze grew up in London in a Polish family and was drawn to a life of crime and gangs from an early age. Now in his thirties he has left that world behind and is recapturing his life through writing. He has published short stories in Vice. Who They

Gail Honeyman

Gail Honeyman’s debut novel, Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, won the Costa First Novel Award 2017, the British Book Awards Book of the Year and the Specsavers National Book Awards Popular Fiction Book of the Year. Since publication, translation rights have sold to over thirty territories worldwide, Reese Witherspoon has

Gail Omvedt

Gajra Kottary

Gajra Kottary is the award-winning story writer of serials like Astitva, Jyoti, Veera, Buddha and Balika Vadhu, among many others. She has published two collections of women-centric stories. This is her third novel after Broken Melodies and Once Upon a Star, both published by HarperCollins India.

Gandhi Sheila

Ganesh V.

Ganesh is a freelance writer and marketing professional. He has a distinct bias for the free life and loves to go off the beaten track. A great believer in human potential, he is always on the lookout for unusual stories around him. He has written for leading publications like Christian

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