Narotam Sekhsaria

Narotam Sekhsaria is the chairman of ACC Limited, Ambuja Cements Ltd, and Ambuja Cements Foundation, which runs one of India's most extensive CSR programmes. He also manages the Narotam Sekhsaria Foundation, a leading philanthropic funding agency.   “

Nasreen Munni Kabir

Born in India, Nasreen Munni Kabir has written sixteen books on Hindi cinema and made several TV series on the subject for Channel 4, UK. She continues to work as their Indian cinema consultant, selecting their annual Indian film season. A former governor on the board of the British Film

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Natalie Anderson

Natalie Anderson adores a happy ending-which is why she always reads the back of a book first. Just to be sure. So you can be sure you've got a happy ending in your hands right now-because she promises nothing less. Along with happy endings she loves peppermintfilled dark chocolate, pineapple

Natasha Sharma

An award-winning author, Natasha Sharma has published sixteen books for children. Natasha writes across age groups and formats, including picture books, early chapter books, historical fiction and graphic novels. Her poems have featured in anthologies and course books for schools. Natasha is an MBA with a graduate degree in maths.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and biographer. His work centres on his New England home and often features moral allegories with Puritan inspiration, with themes revolving around inherent good and evil. His fiction works are considered part of the Romantic movement and, more specifically, Dark romanticism.

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Naushad Forbes

Dr Naushad Forbes is co-chairman of Forbes Marshall, India's leading steam engineering and control instrumentation firm. Forbes Marshall has consistently ranked amongst India's Great Places to Work. He is also chairman of Ananta Aspen Centre and Centre for Technology, Innovation and Economic Research (CTIER). Naushad received his bachelor's, master's and

Navas Meeran

Navas Meeran is the chairman at Group Meeran, ME Meeran Foundation, president of the Kerala Football Association and former chairman of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), Southern Region.

Navdeep Suri

Navdeep Suri is a former diplomat who has served in India's diplomatic missions in Washington DC and London. He was also India's ambassador to Egypt and UAE, High Commissioner to Australia and Consul General in Johannesburg. Navdeep has been striving to preserve the literary legacy of his grandfather Nanak Singh and

Naved Akbar

Naved Akber has been associated with translation since long.Few of his translations are Paradise (Khushwant Singh), My Days inPrison (Iftikhar Gilani), Sea of Poppies (Amitav Ghosh), Beyond2020 (APJ Abdul Kalam and Y.S. Rajan), Black Book (Orhan Pamuk), Maskof Africa, A House for Mr. Biswas, Beyond Belief (V.S.Naipaul), Chankaya'sChant, The Krishan

Navin Chawla

Navin Chawla joined the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) in 1969 and retired as secretary to the Government of India. He was appointed election commissioner in 2005 and Chief Election Commissioner in April 2009, when he conducted the general election to national and international acclaim.

Navin Pant

Navin Pant has been writing for Hindi newspapers and journals for over sixty years now. He retired from the Indian Information Service as news editor of AIR in 1985. He has translated several books into Hindi and English.

Navkirat Sodhi

Navkirat Sodhi has authored three collections of experiential poetry besides a collection of translation of Guru Nanak’s verses. Santati is her fifth book where she binds the entire exposition on Mahatma Gandhi with her words and poems. She writes on the lust for knowing, on existential love and art that

Navtej Sarna

Navtej Sarna is the author, most recently, of Indians at Herod's Gate, a historical travel narrative on India and Jerusalem. His works include the novels The Exile and We Weren't Lovers Like That; the non-fiction works The Book of Nanak and Folk Tales of Poland; the short story collection Winter

Nayana Currimbhoy

Nayana Currimbhoy was raised in India where she attended an all-girls boarding school in a fairly remote hill station. She moved to the U.S. in the early 1980s, and has been a businesswoman and a freelance writer. She has written books, film scripts and articles about many things, including architecture

Nayanika Mathur

Nayanika Mathur is associate professor of anthropology and South Asian studies as well as Fellow at Wolfson College at the University of Oxford. She is the author of Paper Tiger: Law, Bureaucracy and Developmental State in Himalayan India.

Nayantara Sahgal

Nayantara Sahgal is the author of nine novels, ten works of non-fiction and wide-ranging literary and political commentary. She has received the Sahitya Akademi Award, the Sinclair Prize and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. A resident of Dehra Dun, she has been awarded the Doon Ratna. In 2009, she received Zee

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NDTV

New Delhi Television is, and has been for more than a quarter century, a pioneer in India's news television. Founded in 1988 by Radhika Roy and Prannoy Roy, NDTV is the most watched, credible and respected news and lifestyle network in India today. From the path-breaking The World This Week,

Neal Stephenson

Neal Stephenson is the author of Seveneves, Reamde, Anathem; the three-volume historical epic the Baroque Cycle (Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The System of the World); Cryptonomicon, The Diamond Age, Zodiac and the iconic Snow Crash, named one of Time magazine's top one hundred all-time best English-language novels. He lives in

Neel Debdutt Paul

Neel Debdutt Paul is a storyteller. He has worn many hats in publishing houses all over India, the most recent being at Amar Chitra Katha. He is now focusing on writing stories for children and developing his spoken word practice in oral storytelling. He currently lives in Edinburgh, UK, but his

Neelabh

Neelabh has worked as a publisher, broadcaster, journalist, scriptwriter and producer. He has published nine volumes of poetry, two volumes of criticism, four volumes on the oral history of Hindi literature and several adaptations of plays. He has a deep interest in films, painting, Jazz and Indian classical music.

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Neelesh Kulkarni

Neelesh Kulkarni is a management graduate from the Faculty of Management, Delhi University, who quit the corporate world in 1985 to start his own company, which he still runs. He is a theatre and voiceover artist with over fifty years of experience, an avid reader and traveller, a poet, a cricket

Neelesh Mishra

Neelesh Misra was born in 1973 in Lucknow, India. He worked with the India Abroad News Service and the Associated Press before joining The Hindustan Times in New Delhi as Senior Roving Editor. In a career spanning seventeen years he has covered some of the biggest news stories in South

Neelima Khetan

Neelima Khetan is a Visiting Fellow with CSEP. She also does consulting work on development issues, especially strategy, governance, design and impact. She has worked extensively with civil society organizations and corporate social responsibility groups, and currently serves on the boards of several foundations and non-profits. Other than family and

Neelum Saran Gour

Neelum Saran Gour is a well-known writer and has authored books like Grey Pigeon and Other Stories, Speaking of 62, Winter Companions and Other Stories, Virtual Realities, Sikandar Chowk Park, Song WithoutEnd and Other Stories and Messres Dickens, Doyle And Wodehouse Pvt. Ltd. She has translated her work into Hindustani

Neha Bhat

Neha Bhat is a licensed sex and trauma therapist who practices psychotherapy from an art-based, spiritually focused, creative-wellness perspective in India and the US. She has worked in sexual assault trauma care at global institutions such as the University of Michigan, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Rush Medical Centre