Reet Singh

Reet Singh has a romantic soul. It is likely genetic, but it could be the result of her mother reading fairytales to her every night till she could read for herself. Or because at sixteen she began reading romantic fiction. Or even because her husband of twenty-eight years is the

Reeta Ramamurthy Gupta

Reeta Ramamurthy Gupta is a prolific biographer, reviewer for CNBC TV18, and a bibliophile. She is credited with the acclaimed Red Dot Experiment, a ten-year-long and six-nation study on how culture impacts communication.  

Reeti Gadekar

Reeti Gadekar: was born and brought up in New Delhi, India. She has a PhD in German Literature from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and has worked variously as a librarian, translator and as a teacher of German.

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Reham Khan

Born in the 1970s to an educated, affluent family of Pakistani origin in Libya, Reham Khan has led an eventful, dramatic life. While she was still an adolescent, her family decided to move back to Pakistan. At the age of nineteen, she married and relocated to the UK. There, after

Rehana Munir

Rehana Munir ran a bookshop in Bombay in the mid 2000s, a few years after graduating with top honours in English literature from St. Xavier's College. An independent writer on culture and lifestyle, she has a weekly humour column in HT Brunch, and a cinema column in Arts Illustrated magazine.

Reid & Yeh Hoffman

Reid Hoffman is a partner at the leading VC firm Greylock Partners and an early investor in Facebook, Flickr, and Zynga. He co-founded LinkedIn in 2003; it now has more than 200 million members globally, and was acquired by Microsoft for $26 billion, the biggest acquisition in the tech giant's

Rekha Kamath Rajan

Rekha Kamath Rajan spent the better part ofher life reading, studying and teaching German literature at ElphinstoneCollege in Mumbai and at the Centre of German Studies, Jawaharlal NehruUniversity in Delhi. Her research focuses on representations of India in theGerman literary and missionary discourse. “

Remo Fernandes

Remo Fernandes was born in Goa and grew up there in the 1950s and 1960s. He studied architecture in Bombay, busked and hitch-hiked his way through Europe and North Africa as a young man, and returned to Goa in his mid-twenties, with a resolve to pursue only the things he

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Reshma Patil

Reshma Patil learnt to speak Mandarin and made the move from a newsroom in Mumbai to her one-woman office in Beijing to launch and run the first China news bureau of Hindustan Times in April 2008. For three-and-a-half years she travelled alone across China (on a vegetarian diet) to report

Reza Aslan

Reza Aslan is an internationally acclaimed writer and scholar of religions. He is currently associate professor of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside, and a cooperative faculty member in the department of religion, and he teaches in both disciplines. Born in Iran, he lives in Los Angeles with

Rhonda Byrne

Rhonda Byrne began her journey with The Secret film, viewed by millions across the planet. She followed with The Secret book, a global bestseller, available in over 50 languages and with 35 million in print worldwide. The Secret has remained on the New York Times bestseller list for over 200

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Richa Lakhera

Richa Lakhera has been in entertainment journalism since the last twelve years. She lives in Delhi with her husband and daughter. This is her first book.

Richa S Mukherjee

Richa S. Mukherjee is a poet, ex-journalist and an old hand in the advertising industry, all of which she bade farewell to in order to write books about imaginary people. Her books include I Didn't Expect to be Expecting and Kanpur Khoofiya Pvt. Ltd. You can reach her on Twitter

Richard Bach

Richard Bach was a tactical fighter pilot, a motion picture stunt pilot, and flight instructor before becoming one of the world’s bestselling authors. His books include Illusions and Running from Safety.

Richard Bandler

Richard Bandler is one of the greatest geniuses of personal change. He is the man who co-invented Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) and is Paul McKenna's self-confessed guru. He holds courses and workshops all over the world, including in the UK and the USA. He lives with his wife in Texas

Richard Burton

Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton, born in 1821, was an English author, explorer, soldier, geographer, diplomat and linguist. He authored Wanderings in West Africa and Falconry in the Valley of the Indus. Burton was a captain in the army of the East India Company and later became a Fellow of

Richard C. Morais

RICHARD C. MORAIS is a Senior Editor at Forbes and chairs the ForbesFamily Business Forum. His brief at the magazine allows him to writeon any subject he chooses and to travel anywhere in the world. AnAmerican raised in Switzerland, Morais has lived most of his lifeoverseas, returning to the U.S.

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Richard Firth-Godbehere

Richard Firth-Godbehere, PhD, one of the world’s leading experts on disgust and emotions, is an independent researcher and consultant in the history, language, science and philosophy of emotions, and an Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for the History of the Emotions, Queen Mary University of London. He received a

Richard Holmes

Richard Holmes is the author of The Age of Wonder, which won the Royal Society Prize for Science Books and the National Book Critics Circle Award and was one of the ten New York Times’ Best Books of the Year in 2009. His other biographies include Shelley: The Pursuit (winner

Richard Kadrey

Richard Kadrey is the New York Times bestselling author of the Sandman Slim supernatural noir books. Sandman Slim was included in Amazon’s ‘100 Science Fiction & Fantasy Books to Read in a Lifetime’, and is in development as a feature film. His other books include Hollywood Dead, The Everything Box,

Richard Rohr

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Rick Warren

As founding pastor of Saddleback Church, Dr. Rick Warren leads a 30,000-member congregation in California with campuses in major cities around the world. As an author, his book The Purpose Driven Life is one of the bestselling nonfiction books in publishing history. As a theologian, he has lectured at Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, University of

Ricky Ponting

Ricky Ponting was Australia's cricket captain for years and is well-known to fans of the game. He made his ODI debut in 1995, but lost his place in the team several times over the years because of his lack of form and discipline. However, he fought back and is now