Parimal Bhattacharya

PARIMAL BHATTACHARYA, a bilingual writer and translator, is an associate professor of English in the West Bengal Education Service. He is the author of No Path in Darjeeling Is Straight, Bells of Shangri-La and Field Notes from a Waterborne Land. Nahumer Gram O Onyanyo Museum, published in 2021, is his most

Parinda Joshi

Parinda Joshi was born and raised in Ahmedabad and later immigrated to Los Angeles with her new husband where she navigated the challenges of starting life from scratch in an unfamiliar milieu, enriching herself with an MS in computer science, testing her limits and redefining herself. She now resides in

Parini Shroff

Parini Shroff received her MFA from the University of Texas at Austin, where she studied under Elizabeth McCracken, Alexander Chee, and Cristina García. She is a practicing attorney and currently lives in the Bay Area. The Bandit Queens is her debut novel.

Paro Anand

Paro Anand is a Sahitya Akademi, Bal Sahitya Award winner for her book, Wild Child. She has written books for children, young adults and adults. As a performance storyteller and speaker, she has represented India all over the world. In 2019, she was awarded the Kalinga Karubaki Literary Award for

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr.

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr is a Delhi-based journalist. He has authored several books on current affairs and politics in the past. This is his first book on his abiding passion – Indian philosophy.

Partha Basu

Partha Basu is a senior industry leader who has worked in seven industries, both in Fortune 500 organizations like Coca-Cola, Whirlpool, AkzoNobel and Tata Group as well in new initiatives like IFB-Bosch and SpiceJet. Partha has earlier authored five books—Lifescapes: The Long and Short of It (2021), Mid-Career Crisis (2015), Make

Partha Sarathi Basu

Partha Sarathi Basu is a management professional based in the Netherlands, working as the Global Director for Finance Operations at AkzoNobel NV. Over the past twenty-four years, he has worked in leadership positions in a number of companies, including Coca-Cola, Whirlpool, IFB Group, Tata Group and Spicejet.He is the author

Parthajit Baruah

Parthajit Baruah studied English literature from Pune University. He later joined the film appreciation course at the FTII, Pune. He received the 2010 Prag Channel Film Critic Award for Chalachitraor Taranga, while his documentary, Laxmi Orang: Rising from the Grave, won him multiple awards. He teaches English and Cinema at

Parthiv Dhar

Parthiv Dhar is a civil engineering graduate from VRCE Nagpur and employed with Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. Originally from Guwahati, he currently lives in Hyderabad with his family. When not listening to Kishore Kumar, he continues his research on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. “

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Patricia Kay

Formerly writing as Trisha Alexander, Patricia Kay is a USA TODAY bestselling author of more than forty -eight novels of contemporary romance and women's fiction. She lives in Houston, Texas.

Patrick Olivelle

Patrick Olivelle received his MA from Oxford University and PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. He is currently Professor Emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin. He is a past President of the American Oriental Society and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Olivelle was

Paul Blanchflower

Paul Blanchflower arrivedin Auroville in 1991 from the UK, having studied ecology. He expected to stayfor two or three years to gain experience with tropical forestry. However, theplace offered so many unique opportunities and experiences that he has beenbased here for the last thirty years. Since August 2000 he has

Paul Kennedy

Paul Kennedy studied at the universities of Newcastle and Oxford and is now professor of history at Yale. His other books include The Rise and Fall of British Naval Mastery and Preparing for the Twenty-first Century.

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Pauline Brown

For more than 25 years, Pauline Brown has acquired, built, and led global luxury brands. In January of 2016, she joined the faculty of the Harvard Business School, where she introduced a new course for graduate students, called “The Business of Aesthetics.” Since 2016, she also has been hosting a

Paulo Coelho

Paulo Coelho was born in Brazil and has become one of the most widely read and loved authors in the world. Especially renowned of The Alchemist and Eleven Minutes, he has sold more than 100 million books worldwide and his work has been translated in 67 languages. The recipient of

Pavan C. Lall

Pavan C. Lall was born in Calcutta, West Bengal and sent to board at St Paul's School, Darjeeling at an early age, after which he pursued writing in the United States. Graduating from West Texas A&M University, he gained his first exposure to captains of industry while working with Dallas

Pavan K. Varma

Pavan K. Varma is a graduate of St. Stephen's College, New Delhi. He joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1976. Pavan K. Varma took voluntary retirement from the Indian Foreign Service in 2012 to enter public life and is presently the Cultural Adviser to Nitish Kumar, the chief minister of

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Payal Arora

Payal Arora is a Professor of Inclusive AI Cultures at Utrecht University and Co-founder of FemLab, a feminist futures of work initiative.“

Payal Dhar

Payal Dhar suspects she might be a vampire because she loves working at night; however, there is no other evidence to that effect. She usually writes for a living, and is the author of the Shadow in Eternity trilogy, apart from many short stories for young people. She also writes

Peggy Mohan

Peggy Mohan was born in Trinidad, West Indies. She has taught linguistics, been an expert witness in terrorism trials, and made television programmes for children, besides creating animated calligraphs, painting, writing songs and doing stone mosaics. She is married and has a daughter, and teaches music at the Vasant Valley

Pema Chodron

Pema Chödrön is an American Buddhist nun and one of the foremost students of Chogyam Trungpa, the renowned Tibetan meditation master. She is the author of The Wisdom of No Escape, Start Where You Are, The Places that Scare You and the best-selling When Things Fall Apart. She is the

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Penelope Fitzgerald

Penelope Fitzgerald was one of the most elegant and distinctive voices in British fiction. Three of her novels, The Bookshop, The Beginning of Spring and The Gate of Angels have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. She won the Prize in 1979 for Offshore. Her last novel, The Blue Flower,

Peng Shepherd

Peng Shepherd was born and raised in Phoenix, Arizona, where she rode horses and trained in classical ballet, and has lived in Beijing, Kuala Lumpur, London, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and New York. Her debut novel, The Book of M, has been featured in The Guardian, io9 Gizmodo, Book Riot, and Elle Canada. She is a

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Perumal Murugan

Perumal Murugan is an author, scholar and literary chronicler who writes in Tamil. He has written ten novels, five collections of short stories and five poetry anthologies. Apart from these he has published six compilations of essays on language and literature. Four of his books have been translated into English

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