Alka Joshi

Alka Joshi is the New York Times bestselling author of The Henna Artist. Born in India and raised in the United States since the age of nine, she has a BA from Stanford University and an MFA from California College of the Arts. She lives in Pacific Grove, California, with

Alka Pande

Dr Alka Pande is a consultant arts advisor and curator of the Visual Arts Gallery at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. In December 2006, she was awarded the Chevalier dans lOrdre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government. She also received the Charles Wallace Award in 1999-2000. 

Alladi Uma

Alladi Uma taught and supervised research in the areas of American, African-American and Indian literatures. She has been collaboratively translating from Telugu to English with M. Sridhar for thirty years. She is involved in the activities of The Alladi Memorial Trust that takes care of the legal, medical and educational

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Rajeev Balasubramanyam was born in Lancashire in 1974. He is a graduate of both Oxford and Cambridge universities, and has a Ph.D in contemporary British literature. He currently lives in Hong Kong. Rajeev's first novel, In Beautiful Disguises, was the winner of a Betty Trask Prize in 1999 and was

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Allen Shaw

Allen Shaw is an Indian artist, illustrator, animator and a storyteller based in Berlin. He spent a couple of years at St. Stephen's College, Delhi before joining the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, from where he graduated in communication design, specializing in animation filmmaking. Allen loves travelling and recording his

Alpa Shah

ALPA SHAH is the award-winning author of Nightmarch and In the Shadows of the State, and the co-author of Ground Down by Growth. She has written and presented for BBC Radio 4's Crossing Continents and From Our Own Correspondent. She was raised in Nairobi, and studied at Cambridge and the

Altaf Tyrewala

Altaf Tyrewala is the author of the critically acclaimed books No God in Sight and Engglishhh: Fictional Dispatches from a Hyperreal Nation. He is also the editor of the crime-fiction collection Mumbai Noir. Altaf's works have been published and anthologized around the world. He was awarded the 2011 DAAD Artist-in-

Alvin Roth

Alvin E. Roth is the McCaw Professor of Economics at Stanford University and is one of the world’s leading experts in the fields of market design and game theory. He was corecipient of the 2012 Nobel Prize in economics.

Amaan Ali Khan

Amaan Ali Khan and Ayaan Ali Khan represent the seventh generation of the Senia Bangash School of music. They have performed at concerts and festivals around the world and have crossed the bridge between pure classical and western fusion with their electronica and lounge albums. They have collaborated with various

Amanda Cinelli

Amanda Cinelli was raised in a large Irish/Italian family in the suburbs of Dublin, Ireland. Her love of romance was inspired after 'borrowing' one of her mother's beloved Mills & Boon novels at the age of twelve. Writing soon became a necessary outlet for her wildly overactive imagination. Now married,

Amar Bhushan

Amar Bhushan briefly served in the BSF intelligence, State Special Branch and Intelligence Bureau and ended up with working in the Research and Analysis Wing for the next twenty-four years. The Zero-Cost Mission/The Wily Agent, was published in 2018 as first part of The Spymaster Series, to rave reviews.

Amar Chitra Katha

Amar Chitra Katha was founded in 1967 and is a household name in India. It is synonymous with the visual reinvention of the quintessentially Indian stories from the great epics, mythology, history, literature, oral folktales and many other sources. With a heavy bent on authenticity and meticulous research, Amar Chitra

Amarjeet Sinha

Amarjeet Sinha is currently posted as the principal secretary in the Department of Education of the Government of Bihar. He has played a major role in designing the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan and the National Rural Health Mission. A prolific writer, Amarjeet has published five books and a large number of

Amarpal Singh

Amarpal Singh was born in Punjab and later moved to the UK. He spent over twenty years working in the software industry before turning to his real interest, military history, and the exploration and analysis of battlefields. His two books on the Anglo-Sikh wars have been very well received. Amarpal

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Ameen Merchant

Ameen Merchant lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, where he is working on his next novel and programming a new Bollywood audio channel for the CBC. The Silent Raga is his first novel. Ameen Merchant has been shortlisted for The Commonwealth Writer's Award for the book.

Amish

Amish is a 1974-born, IIM (Kolkata)-educated banker-turned author. The success of his debut book, The Immortals of Meluha (Book 1 of the Shiva Trilogy), encouraged him to give up his career in financial services to focus on writing. Besides being an author, he is also an Indian-government diplomat, a host for TV documentaries and a

Amish Tripathi

Amish is a 1974-born, IIM (Kolkata)-educated banker-turned-author. The success of his debut book, The Immortals of Meluha (Book 1 of the Shiva Trilogy), encouraged him to give up his career in financial services to focus on writing. Besides being an author, he is also an Indian-government diplomat, a host for

Amit Dasgupta

A former Indian diplomat for over three decades, Amit Dasgupta has travelled extensively on assignments within India and abroad. This unique experience brought him in contact with different cultures and ways of seeing things. Having retired from diplomatic service, he has now decided to become a full-time writer, in both

Amit Khanna

Amit Khanna is a film executive, filmmaker, lyricist, poet, writer and journalist. He was a core member of Dev Anand's Navketan Films, has penned over 400 songs for Hindi films and music albums, is a three-time recipient of the National Film Award as a lyricist and producer, and was chairman

Amit Majmudar

Amit Majmudar is of five critically acclaimed novels, four collections of award-winning , a translation of the Bhagavad Gita with , as well as a forthcoming memoir and a three-volume retelling of the Mahabharata. The former Poet Laureate of Ohio as well as a diagnostic and nuclear radiologist, he lives

Amit Schandillia

Amit Schandillia is a language enthusiast and history communicator, with a background in computers and finance. Besides language, Amit has a long relationship with history, and has produced hundreds of popular Twitter threads on the subject, both Indian and otherwise. Of particular interest to him is the making of history

Amita Kanekar

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

Amita Murray

The Trouble with Rose is Amita Murray’s debut novel. Having lived in and around London, Delhi and California, Amita loves writing about the comedy and tragedy of cultural encounters. In 2016, Amita won the SI Leeds Literary prize for her short story collection Marmite and Mango Chutney. Amita lives in

Amitabh Bagchi

Amitabha Bagchi was born in Delhi and went to school there. The last few years of school was a blur of exams – Junior Science Talent Search, National Talent Search, Annual Maths and Physics Olympiads – and coaching classes to prepare for those exams. He finally found himself at IIT

Amitabh Kant

A joint secretary in the ministry of tourism from 2001 to 2007, Amitabh Kant was one of the key drivers of the growth of Indian tourism. Earlier, as secretary of tourism in Kerala from 1997 to 2001, he put the state on the international tourism map by imaginatively building the