Rakhshanda Jalil

Rakhshanda Jalil is a writer, critic and literary historian. She has published over twenty books and written over fifty academic papers and essays. Her book on the lesser-known monuments of Delhi, Invisible City, continues to be a bestseller. Her most recent works include translations of The Sea Lies Ahead, Intizar

Ram Kamal Mukherjee

Ram Kamal Mukherjee started his career with The Asian Age, Kolkata, in 2001. Having completed his postgraduate diploma in media studies from the University of Calcutta, his very first role was that of official reviewer of the international films showcased at the Kolkata Film Festival. His knowledge of cinema got

Rama Vaidyanathan

Rama Vaidyanathan is an audiologist and speech language and voice pathologist with over twenty-five years of experience. She has been a voice trainer for several well-known TV and film personalities such as Sonakshi Sinha, Neeti Mohan, Nina Manuel, Pia Trivedi, Sheetal Malhar, Sudesh Bhosale, Allu Arjun, Perizaad Zorabian, Shriya Saran

Ramachandra Guha

Ramachandra Guha was born and raised in the Himalayan foothills. He studied in Delhi and Kolkata, and has lived for many years in Bengaluru. His many books include a pioneering environmental history, The Unquiet Woods, a landmark history of the Republic, India after Gandhi, and an authoritative two-volume biography of

Ramachandra Murthy Kondubhatla

Ramachandra Murthy Kondubhatla is a veteran journalist who has been public policy advisor to the Government of Andhra Pradesh. He was editorial director of Sakshi Media Group, and MD and CEO of Hyderabad Media House Ltd which runs HMTV, a Telugu news TV channel and The Hans India, an English paper.“

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Ramesh Inder Singh

Ramesh Inder Singh is a distinguished civil servant of the Punjab cadre and a recipient of the Padma Shri (1986) for his contributions to public administration. He was the district magistrate of Amritsar from 1984 to 1987, and dealt with the tumultuous situation in Punjab in those years. The various army

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

Ramesh Menon

Ramesh Menon was born in 1951 in New Delhi. He attended St Columba's and St Xavier's High Schools, and St Stephen's College. He has lived and worked in Delhi, Hong Kong, Bangalore and Jakarta, and now lives in Kodaikanal in Tamil Nadu. He is the author, among others, of Krishna:

Ramesh Venkateswaran

Ramesh Venkateswaran has donned many hats over the years. After a successful stint in the corporate world and as a corporate consultant and trainer, he has devoted his time to teaching. He is an adjunct faculty member at his alma mater Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore for close to three

RamG Vallath

Ramgopal Vallath, better known as RamG Vallath, is an IITian, a tech company co-founder, a much sought-after motivational speaker and the author of the best-selling autobiography From Ouch to Oops. He has inspired over 50,000 children with his talks and his life story is a chapter in one of the

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Ramona Braganza

Hollywood celebrity trainer Ramona Braganza is best known for sculpting fit A-list bodies like those of Jessica Alba, Halle Berry, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Biel, Kate Beckinsale, Amanda Seyfried and Scarlett Johansson among women, and Zac Efron, Ryan Reynolds and Bradley Cooper among men. As a global fitness expert originally of

Ramsey Dave

Dave Ramsey is a #1 national bestselling author, personal finance expert, and host of The Dave Ramsey Show, heard by more than 16 million listeners each week. He’s authored seven national bestselling books including, The Total Money Makeover, EntreLeadership, and Smart Money Smart Kids. Since 1992 Dave has helped people regain control of their money, build

Rana Dasgupta

Rana Dasgupta is the author of the short story collection, Tokyo Cancelled, which was shortlisted for the 2005 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize (UK) and the Hutch Crossword Book Award (India), and the novel Solo, which won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize 2010 for Best Book. His non-fiction work, Capital, was shortlisted

Rana Safvi

Rana Safvi is a renowned writer, scholar and translator. She is the author of Where Stones Speak: Historical Trails in Mehrauli, the First City of Delhi, The Forgotten Cities of Delhi and Tales from the Quran and Hadith. Her blog, www.ranasafvi.com, is a repository of her writings on Indian culture,

Ranbir Sidhu

Ranbir Singh Sidhu is the author of the short story collection Good Indian Girls and his fiction appears in The Georgia Review, Fence, Zyzzyva, The Missouri Review, Other Voices, The Literary Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Barcelona Review and other journals and anthologies. He is a winner of the Pushcart

Ranbir Singh Sidhu

Ranbir Singh Sidhu is the author of Good Indian Girls and is a winner of a Pushcart Prize and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship. His stories and essays appear in Conjunctions, Vice, Salon, The Nation, Zyzzyva, The Missouri Review, The Literary Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, the Los

Randy Boyagoda

Writer, critic and scholar Randy Boyagoda  is chairman of the Department of English at Ryerson University. He has written for a variety of publications, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Paris Review and Harper's Magazine. His debut novel, Governor of the Northern Province, was longlisted for

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Ranjana Srivastava

Dr Ranjana Srivastava is a medical oncologist, Fulbright scholar, award-winning author and a columnist for The Guardian. After an upbringing in Bihar, India, and the United States, she graduated from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, with first-class honours. Ranjana is the winner of the Monash University Distinguished Alumni award and

Ranjit Biswas

Ranjita Biswas is a journalist, fiction writer and translator. She contributes to national and international publications on gender issues, development, travel, and art and culture. As a translator she has won a number of awards and has to her credit three published books. She also researches on socio-cultural aspects of

Ranjit Desai

Ranjit Desai (8 April 1928-6 March 1992) was born in Kolhapur district, Maharashtra. Biographical novels were his forte. His most famous works are Morpankhi Sawalya, Shriman Yogi and Swami, based on the life of Madhavrao Peshwa, the third Peshwa. He won the Maharashtra Rajya Award (1963), Hari Narayan Apte Award

Ranjit Lal

Ranjit Lal is the author of around 45 books for children and adults . He was awarded the Zeiss Wildlife Lifetime Conservation Award for 2019 for writing 'with exceptional literary skills' on the conservation of wildlife, especially birds. As a journalist, he has had well over 2000 articles published in

Ranjit Sabikhi

Born in 1935, Ranjit Sabikhi is the Principal, Ranjit Sabikhi Architects. He was the Head of the Department of Urban Design at the School of Planning and Architecture in New Delhi in the 1970s, has written extensively on India's urban condition, and has been designing buildings for close to sixty

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Ranveer Brar

Chef Ranveer Brar is a celebrity chef and TV show host.Born in Lucknow, Ranveer began cooking at seventeen as an apprentice to one of Lucknow's legendary street kebab vendors, Ustad Munir Ahmed, before enrolling in a catering college. At twenty-five, he became the youngest executive chef of his time in

Rasheed Kidwai

Rasheed Kidwai is a journalist, author and political analyst.  He is a visiting fellow at the Observer Research Foundation [ORF]. A former associate editor of The Telegraph, Kidwai tracks government, politics, community affairs and Hindi cinema, and has written several books on these topics. A graduate of St Stephen's College,

Rashi Sharma

Rashi Sharma is an Indian Postal Service officer and worked in Department of School Education and literacy, Ministry of Education for almost seven years. She was involved in formulation of National Education Policy 2020 and the implementation thereafter, NIPUN Bharat mission that focuses on foundational learning and revamping of Samagra