Priyesh Khanna

Priyesh Khanna is a managing director at a global bank based in London. He is a senior banking executive with over twenty years of experience with some of the world’s most prominent financial institutions including JP Morgan, Deutsche Bank, and Credit Suisse, driving transformations in technology, risk management and operations.

Probal DasGupta

Prof. S. Radhakrishnan

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Promode Kumar Sen

Promode Kumar Sen (1899-1952) was a patriot and a journalist. He wrote columns in well-known newspapers of his time — the Liberty, the Advance, the Hindustan Standard and the Amrita Bazaar Patrika. This book has been translated by his son Prasenjit Sen.

PS Wasu

P.S. Wasu (www.pswasu.com) has been a life skills facilitator since 1996. His work shop (also called The Fine Print of Life) covers the entire gamut of what it takes to unleash human energy and has won acclaim for its ability to spur individuals into transforming themselves. Participants have described it

Puja Changoiwala

Puja Changoiwala is an award-winning journalist and author of two non-fiction books – Gangster on the Run and The Front Page Murders. Her work has been featured across news networks, publications and more, including BBC, CNN, The Hindu, the Guardian, National Geographic and Al Jazeera. Previously a senior correspondent with

Pujya Gurudevshri Rakeshji

Enlightened master, spiritual visionary, modern-day mystic and humanitarian leader, Pujya Gurudevshri Rakeshji is the founder of Shrimad Rajchandra Mission Dharampur – a spiritual organisation for inner transformation with 108 centres across five continents, 250 value education children's centres, and over 90 youth groups.  Born on 26 September, 1966 in Mumbai,

Pulasta Dhar

Pushpal Editor Singh

Dr Pushppal Singh is a renowned Hindi critic, and has been researching the Hindi short story and its trends for the last thirty-five years. He has published many books on Hindi literary criticism. The important ones are Samkaleen Kahani: Naya Paripekshya, Samkaleen Kahani: Rachna Mudra, Samkaleen Hindi Kahani: Soch Aur

Pushparaj Deshpande

Pushparaj Deshpande is the director of the Samruddha Bharat Foundation. He is the series editor of the Rethinking India volumes, the Reshaping India volumes and the co-editor of The Great Indian Manthan: State, Statecraft and the Republic. He writes for numerous national dailies. He has worked with various legislators, the

Pushppal Singh

Dr Pushppal Singh is a renowned Hindi critic, and has been researching the Hindi short story and its trends for the last thirty-five years. He has published many books on Hindi literary criticism. The important ones are Samkaleen Kahani: Naya Paripekshya, Samkaleen Kahani: Rachna Mudra, Samkaleen Hindi Kahani: Soch Aur

PV Ramana Murthy

PV Ramana Murthy (PV) is a Mumbai-based adviser and consultant to CEOs, boards and corporates. He aims to make a positive impact in this world by helping leaders and corporates transform through leadership development, culture change, coaching and integrated talent management practices. He recently founded Pinsight By PV®, a consulting firm that

R. Aravamudan

Ramabhadran Aravamudan is an award-winning senior scientist who served as the director of the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota and of the ISRO Satellite Centre, Bengaluru. Gita Aravamudan is a veteran journalist and author.

R.C. Bhargava

R.C. Bhargava is the chairman of Maruti Suzuki. He joined Maruti Udyog Limited, as it was known then, in 1981 after twenty-five years in the Indian Administrative Service (IAS). Managing director of Maruti from 1985, Bhargava was appointed chairman and managing director in 1990 and after retirement he was inducted

R.F. Kuang

Rebecca F. Kuang is a Marshall Scholar, Chinese-English translator, and the Astounding Award-winning and the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and World Fantasy Award nominated author of the Poppy War trilogy and the forthcoming Babel. Her work has won the Crawford Award and the Compton Crook Award for Best First Novel. She

R. Gopalakrishnan

R. Gopalakrishnan brings his rich management experience to this book. He has worked in international and Indian companies, has lived in India and abroad, and has developed a global perspective about business and people. Gopal has worked for forty-five years as a professional manager from 1967 onwards: thirty-one in Unilever

R.K Saxena

Dr Sangeeta Bhatnagar received her education in Lucknow, the seat of Awadh culture. She has a PhD in economics from Lucknow University, where she has also taught. She discovered Awadhi cuisine in Barabanki. A complete dearth of books on the cuisine and the desire to document and preserve the culinary

R. M. Lala

R.M. Lala is the author of eleven books, including the bestselling The Creation of Wealth, a book on the Tatas, and the Beyond the Last Blue Mountain, his biography of J.R.D. Tata. He became a journalist at the age of nineteen and entered book publishing in 1951, establishing and managing

R. Raj Rao

R. Raj Rao is the author of the iconic novel The Boyfriend, soon to be made into a major motion picture, as well as of the technically accomplished novel Hostel Room 131, and the collection of short stories One Day I Locked My Flat in Soul City. His other work

R.S. Agarwal

R.S. Agarwal is a chartered accountant, company secretary, bachelor of law and a master degree holder in commerce. From a very humble beginning and with very limited resources, Agarwal has driven Emami with his exceptional business acumen and enabled it to become a force to reckon with. Today he is

R.S. Goenka

R. Seshasayee

Seshasayee is a very well-respected senior business leader.He has held several leadership positions, including as executive vice chairmanand managing director of Ashok Leyland Ltd, chairman, Infosys Ltd, chairman,IndusInd Bank Ltd, etc. He is presently vice chairman, Hinduja Group andindependent director, Asian Paints Ltd.   He was president of Confederation of

Raam Baranidharan

Raam Baranidharan has over 18 years of experience in software platform development. Working with cutting-edge technologies has given him a ringside view of the latest developments in this field and the need for everyone to understand the impact of technology on their lives.

Raamish Siddiqui

Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore, India's most well-known poet and litterateur and arguably the finest Bengali poet ever, reshaped Bengali literature and music. He became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.Gulzar, an acclaimed film-maker, lyricist and author, he is the recipient of a number of Filmfare and

Rabishankar Bal

Rabisankar Bal is a Bengali novelist and short-story writer, credited with over fifteen novels. He was born in the year 1962 and lives in Kolkata. He has won several awards namely, Sutapa Roychowdhury Memorial Prize, and Bankimchandra Smriti Puraskar.

Rachael Johns

Rachael Thomas

Rachael Thomas has always loved reading romance, and is thrilled to be a Mills & Boon author. She lives and works on a farm in Wales-a far cry from the glamour of a Mills & Boon Modern story-but that makes slipping into her characters' worlds all the more appealing. When

Rachana Shah