authors

Sriram Devatha is a marketing manager in an Ed-tech startup. He loves to read and write about iconic Indian brands. He has authored two books: Soaked Hues — on poetry and Indogene — a book of short stories about Indians around the world. His book: Amrut: The Great Churn

Noor Juman grew up watching Shahrukh Khan movies on a loop and daydreaming about fictional characters falling in love. An avid reader of romances, she began writing her own during Covid-19 lockdowns to boost her serotonin levels. She is the author of the novella, A Summer Lesson in Romance. The Thief Prince’s Wife is her

Rizvina Morseth de Alwis worked for the United Nations for seventeen years and has lived and worked in several countries in the Asia and Pacific region. Her first novel, It’s Not in the Stars won the Fairway National Literary Award 2015 and the SriLanka State Literary Award 2016. Her second novel, The Memory of Loss

Kevin McLean graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a B.A. in English. He received his J.D. from Boston University School of Law and practiced law for many years in Boston and San Diego. He published his first story in Yankee Magazine when he was 17, and has been writing ever since. His book: Red

Baryalai Popalzai was born in Kabul, Afghanistan in 1952. He graduated from Kabul University with a degree in Law and Politics. After the Russian invasion in 1980, Bar fled the country and eventually settled in San Diego, California. When the Taliban was ousted in 2002, Bar returned to Kabul for the first time in twenty

Gitanjali Rao was recognized as America’s Top Young Scientist and received an EPA Presidential award for inventing her device “Tethys”—an early lead detection tool. Gitanjali is also the inventor of “Epione”—a device for early diagnosis of prescription opioid addiction using genetic engineering, and “Kindly”—an anti-cyberbullying service using AI and Natural Language processing. She was honored

Sara Rai is a fiction writer, literary translator, and editor. She is the author of four collections of short stories and a novel in Hindi. She has translated, among other books, Premchand’s Kazaki and Other Marvellous Tales, and with Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, Vinod Kumar Shukla’s Blue Is Like Blue, which won the Mathrubhumi Book of

Kamal Gupta is a consummate negotiator, a highly successful hedge fund manager, and a professional blackjack player. He is the author of Play It Right, a memoir that chronicles his journey from India to America, from computers to gambling, culminating in a quarter-century on Wall Street. For the past twenty-five years, Kamal has negotiated on

Tarun Tahiliani founded his design studio in 1995. His distinctive signature has since evolved as a fusion of textile detail, refined luxury, and meticulous tailoring. The Tarun Tahiliani Design Studio creates couture, diffusion and prêt-a-porter which are Indian in their sensibility, yet international in their appeal. Tahiliani started his professional career with a degree in