Lt Bharati ‘Asha’ Sahay Choudhry

Lt Bharati ‘Asha' Sahay Choudhry was born in Kobe, Japan, in 1928 and joined the Rani of Jhansi Regiment of the Indian National Army at the age of seventeen. Her father, Anand Mohan Sahay, was a minister in the cabinet of the Azad Hind Government and a political adviser to

Lt Gen. Ramesh Kulkarni

Lt Gen. Ramesh Kulkarni was commissioned in the Garhwal Rifles Infantry in June 1956. Gen. Kulkarni commanded a battalion of the Garhwal Rifles in high altitude areas of Arunachal Pradesh in 1971-73 and was the Commandant of the Garhwal Rifles Regimental Centre from 1979-81. He then commanded an Infantry Brigade

Luan Goldie

Luan Goldie is a primary school teacher, and formerly a business journalist. She has written several short stories and is the winner of the Costa Short Story Award 2017 for her short story ‘Two Steak Bakes and Two Chelsea Buns’. She was also shortlisted for the London Short Story Prize

Lubaina Bandukwala

Lubaina Bandukwala has a Master's degree in Mass Communication from the University of Houston. Her words have been wandering through various writing genres including newspapers, magazines, television and documentaries, until they found a home in children's media products. “

Lucie Greene

Lucie Greene is the Worldwide Director of the Innovation Group at J. Walter Thompson, J. Walter Thompson's in-house futures and innovation think tank. She leads the Innovation Group's ongoing research into emerging global consumer behaviors, cultural changes and sector innovation, with regular deep-dive studies and daily insights.

Lucy Ellis

Kat Cantrell read her first Harlequin novel in third grade and has been scribbling in notebooks since then. She writes smart, sexy books with a side of sass. She's a former Harlequin So You Think You Can Write winner and an RWA Golden Heart Award finalist. Kat, her husband and

Lucy Foley

Lucy Foley studied English Literature at Durham and UCL universities. She then worked for several years as a fiction editor in the publishing industry – during which time she wrote her debut novel, The Book of Lost and Found. Lucy now writes full-time. During the year she divides her time

Lucy Gordon

Lucy Gordon cut her writing teeth on magazine journalism, interviewing many of the world's most interesting men. She's had many unusual experiences, which have often provided the background for her books. Once, while staying in Venice, she met a Venetian who proposed in two days and they've been married ever

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874–1942) was a Canadian author best known for the ‘Avonlea’ series of novels, beginning with Anne of Green Gables, published in 1908 to great success. Montgomery published 20 novels as well as 500 short stories and poems, mostly centring around Canada, and Prince Edward Island in particular.

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Luke Patey

Luke Patey is a senior researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies. He has written for The Guardian and The Hindu, and is co-editor of Sudan Looks East: China, India, and the Politics of Asian Alternatives.

Lynda Gratton

Lynda Gratton is a professor of management practice at London Business School and considered the leading global voice in human resources. She is the founder of The Hot Spots Movement and directs the Future of Work Research Consortium with more than 60 corporate members from across the world. Gratton is

Lynn Raye Harris

USA TODAY bestselling author Lynn Raye Harris burst onto the scene when she won a writing contest held by Harlequin. The prize was an editor for a year-but only six months later, Lynn sold her first novel. A former finalist for the Romance Writers of America's Golden Heart Award, Lynn

Lynne Graham

Lynne Graham was born in Northern Ireland and has been a keen romance reader since her teens. She is very happily married to an understanding husband who has learned to cook since she started to write! Her five children keep her on her toes. She has a very large dog

Lynne Marshall

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M J Akbar

M.J. Akbar is an Indian author, journalist, and national spokesperson of the BJP. He has served as an editor-in-chief at The Deccan Chronicle and also held the position of Editorial Director at India Today. M.J. Akbar founded the Indian newspaper named Asian Age and also launched a weekly newspaper named

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M K Raghavendra

M.K. Raghavendra has authored six volumes of film criticism including three academic works on Bollywood and one on Kannada cinema. He has also authored two books of popular criticism from HarperCollins.

M.K. Ranjitsinh

Dr M.K. Ranjitsinh belongs to the royal family of Wankaner. He joined the IAS in 1961. As collector of Mandla, MP, he helped save the central Indian barasingha from extinction. As secretary, forests and tourism, in MP, he established 14 new sanctuaries, 8 new national parks and more than doubled

M.L. Fotedar

MAKHAN LAL FOTEDAR (M. L. Fotedar) was born in a middle-class Kashmiri Brahmin family in Mattan, Anantnag, and was initiated into politics by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru in the 1950s.He served as Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s political secretary from 1980 to 1984 and was one of her closest confidants. He was

M.N. Dipak Nambiar

Dipak Nambiar grew up in Madras, raised by two strong women – his mother and grandmother. After studying for an MBA in Boston, he lived in the US for a while before returning to India. A single father, he spoils his children, Dia and Manas, while taking time out to

M.R. Sharan

M.R. SHARAN grew up in Manipal in Karnataka, then a quiet university town sandwiched between the hills andthe sea. He loves reading, cricket, writing, music and quantitative research on development in India, notnecessarily in that order. Sharan is currently a Ph.D student (starting Fall 2014) at the Harvard Kennedy School,

M. Sivaramkrishna

Professor M. Sivaramkrishna is former Chair, Department of English, Osmania University, Hyderabad. He has written numerous books on Sri Ramakrishna — Ramakrishna: The Unique Phenomenon, Art of Sadhana in the Stories of Ramakrishna, Poet Saints of India, Pathways to Paramahamsa Ramakrishna and Re-Visioning Ramakrishna.

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Madeleine Albright

Madeleine K. Albright was the 64th Secretary of State of the United States and the first woman to serve in that position. She is Chair of the Albright Stonebridge Group and Albright Capital Management. She is a Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy at the Georgetown University School of Foreign

Madhavan Narayanan

Madhavan Narayanan (translator) is a senior journalist and editor.“

Madhu Gurung

Madhu Gurung started her career as a journalist and has worked with organizations such as Oxfam, UNIFEM and the BBC World Service Trust. Currently based in Dehradun, India, she has lived in Myanmar for several years where her husband was military attache. This is her first novel.

Madhu Joshi

Madhu B. Joshi expresses herself as a communication worker. She does technical translation for earning and literary translation for creative satisfaction. She has deep interests in uses of language. Her poetry collection Akeli Aurton Ke Ghar has been published in 2006. She teaches translations. She has been translated Yatindra Mishra's