Sadguru Rameshji (officially Sri Ramesh Jain) is a businessman turned new age spiritual guru. Be it meditating in the Himalayas, setting up new industries, practicing strict Hatha yoga and doing astral travel, also known as purposeful out of body travel; he has done it all. He likes to laugh at life’s most serious ponderings and […]
Captain Mohan Narayan Rao Samant (Indian Navy, retired) was commissioned into the Indian Navy in 1952 and belongs to the submarine branch. He commissioned India’s third submarine the INS Karanj in 1969. During the 1971 war, he was Officer-in-charge of a covert naval unit under the Directorate of Naval Intelligence based in Calcutta from where
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Varud Gupta was bred for the business world, a past life spent studying finance at New York University and working as a consultant for Deloitte. And then a brusque millennial existential crisis sent him travelling (and eating) through the culinary cultures of the world. It was here that his journey as a writer began, documenting his
Devang Singh was blessed with an agile understanding of light which inspired him to leave his history degree aside to become a photographer, director and producer—a profession that has yielded both content for brands worldwide and near life-ending encounters with lone tuskers. Together with Varud Gupta, he runs Resting Kitsch Face, a Delhi-based production studio
Tova Reich is the author of the novels Mother India, One Hundred Philistine Foreskins, My Holocaust, The Jewish War, Master of the Return, and Mara. Her stories, reviews, and other writings have appeared in the New York Times, The Washington Post, Atlantic, Harper’s Bazaar, AGNI, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of the National
Charu Singh is the author of Path of the Swan and The Golden Dakini. She worked as a freelance researcher for UNICEF in north-east India. She has also worked with the Asian Age, the Tribune and has written for the Frontline. She is also a trained classical dancer in Odissi and Kathak. Her books: The Sword and the Nightingale Path of the Swan:
Alan Friedman is a journalist, bestselling author, television personality, producer and documentary-maker who has spent the past thirty years as a correspondent and commentator with the Financial Times in London, the International Herald Tribune/ International New York Times, the Wall Street Journal Europe and Italian television. He is the author of Democracy in Peril: Donald Trump’s
Kalpana Mohan’s stories, commentaries and humour columns have appeared in NPR, San Francisco Chronicle, San Jose Mercury News, The Hindu, India Currents, Better Homes and Gardens, and other print and online publications. She received an award from New America Media for her feature on the renaissance of Carnatic music as the art form crossed international
Pranay Lal is a biochemist by training and works for a non-profit organisation on public health. He has been a caricaturist for newspapers, an animator for an advertising agency and an environmental campaigner. His first book, Indica: A Deep Natural History of the Indian Subcontinent was published by Allen Lane in December 2016 which won the best