Brendan O’Reilly is a journalist and educator from Seattle. In addition to writing as a regular contributor to Hong Kong’s Asia Times, his pieces have also appeared in The Seattle Globalist and China Daily. He is the author of Fifty Things You Didn’t Know About China. His book: Fifty Things You Didn’t Know About China
Michael Bergdahl has authored What I Learned from Sam Walton: How to Compete and Thrive in a Wal-Mart World, The 10 Rules of Sam Walton: Success Secrets for Remarkable Results and High Expectations are the Key to Everything. Translated versions of his books are available in Russian, Thai, Indonesian, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Vietnamese, and Spanish.
Jill MacDonald trained as a singer but later took to teaching English literature and Poetry both in England and in India. She worked as an educational research officer at Exeter University and published several articles and reports in collaboration with Profs Pring and Wragg. More recently, HarperCollins published A Battler All My Life which Jill
Arunava Sinha translates classic, modern and contemporary Bengali fiction and nonfiction into English. Twice the winner of the Crossword Translation Award, for Sankar’s Chowringhee (2007) and Anita Agnihotri’s Seventeen (2011), he had also been shortlisted for The Independent Foreign Fiction prize (2009) for his translation of Chowringhee. Besides India, his translations have been published in UK and US in
Reshma Krishnan Barshikar is an erstwhile Investment Banker who, as she tells it, ‘fell down a rabbit hole and discovered a world outside a fluorescent cubicle.’ As a travel and features writer, she contributes to National Geographic Traveller, Mint Lounge, Harper’s Bazaar, Grazia, The Sunday Guardian, SilverKris and The Hindu. She is also co-founder of the literary blog The
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Medea Benjamin is a co-founder of the peace group CODEPINK and the international human rights organization Global Exchange. She has been an advocate for social justice for more than thirty years. Described as “one of America’s most committed – and most effective – fighters for human rights” by New York Newsday, and called “one of
Falguni Kothari is a New York-based Indian novelist and the author of It’s Your Move, Wordfreak! and its prequel, Scrabbulous Impressions, a short story published in Femina. She was awarded third place in a Great Beginnings contest hosted by the Wisconsin Romance Writers’ Chapter for her story, Karna: The Age of Kali. She is the
Soniah Kamal is a Pushcart Prize nominated essayist and fiction writer. Her debut novel An Isolated Incident was a finalist for the Townsend Award for Fiction, the KLF French Fiction Prize, and is an Amazon Rising Star pick. Her short story ‘Fossils‘, judged by Claudia Rankine, won the 2017 Agnes Scott Festival Fiction Award, and her short story ‘Jelly
Pratik Kamat is an author, actor and an award-winning painter. He has over a decade of experience in advertising working for some of the biggest brands across the globe. He loves telling stories across various platforms. Svaha is his debut novel. His book: Svaha