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Ruskin Bond

Ruskin Bond is known for his signature simplistic and witty writing style. He is the author of several bestselling short stories, novellas, collections, essays and children’s books; and has contributed a number of poems and articles to various magazines and anthologies. At the age of 23, he won the prestigious John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for his first novel, The Room on the Roof. He was also the recipient of the Padma Shri in 1999, Lifetime Achievement Award by the Delhi...

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Uday Mahurkar

Uday Mahurkar is a well-known author, veteran journalist and nationalist thinker with deep insights into various contentious issues facing the nation. His three books—two on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s governance model and one on Veer Savarkar’s national security vision—are quite well known. A former Central Information (RTI) Commissioner, he holds expertise on Veer Savarkar’s thoughts, Hindu-Muslim relations and radical Islamic ideology, Modi model of governance, correction of distorted history, and the impact of perverted content coming via OTT and social media platforms on Bharat’s culture and character, on which he is currently leading a nationwide movement through his...

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Neena Verma

Neena is first and foremost a mother. A meaning-inspired person and scholarly practitioner, Neena is a ‘Grief and Growth’ specialist, counsellor and expert companion, Appreciative Inquiry and Positive Psychology practitioner and a Leadership & Life coach. She combines appreciative inquiry, positive psychology, logotherapy, poetry, therapeutic writing and expressive arts to facilitate meaning-centric deep growth. She is a Professional Member of the NTL Institute for Applied Behavioral Science, Professional Certified Coach from the International Coaching Federation and an Associate of the Taos Institute. Her grief memoir A Mother’s Cry, A Mother’s...
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Manish Tewari

Manish Tewari is a lawyer, three-term Member of Parliament, and former Union Minister of Information & Broadcasting in the Government of India. He represented the Ludhiana Parliamentary Constituency in the 15th Lok Sabha from 2009 to 2014, and the Sri Anandpur Sahib Parliamentary Constituency from 2019 to 2024 in the 17th Lok Sabha. He now represents the Chandigarh Parliamentary Constituency in the 18th Lok Sabha. A seasoned parliamentarian, he has been an articulate and effective voice in India’s legislative and policy landscape and on national security issues and international affairs....

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Swami Mukundananda

Swami Mukundananda is a world-renowned spiritual teacher, an international authority on mind management, and a bestselling author who earned his degrees from the prestigious IIT Delhi and IIM Calcutta. He worked with a multinational firm for a short while before renouncing a promising career to enter monkhood. He studied the Vedic scriptures at the feet of Jagadguru Kripaluji Maharaj. For four decades now, he has been sharing his vast knowledge through his books, lectures, and life-transformation programmes.

Every day, Swamiji meets hundreds, and even thousands, of people from all walks of...

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Shahid Siddiqui

Shahid Siddiqui is a journalist and editor of the popular weekly Urdu newspaper Nai Duniya. He has served as a member of Rajya Sabha, representing the state of Uttar Pradesh from 2002 to 2008. Born in 1950 in Ballimaran in Delhi, Siddiqui has stood witness to the making of India, its political and social changes, from close quarters as a journalist, teacher, activist and political scientist in the last 75 years. 

Siddiqui started...

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Giorgia Meloni

GIORGIA MELONI was born in Rome in 1977. Politically active since her teenage years, she became a professional journalist at twenty-nine and was elected to Parliament for the first time. She holds the record as the youngest minister in the history of the Italian Republic: in 2008, at thirty-one, she became the Minister of Youth. On December 21, 2012, she founded Fratelli d’Italia, of which she is the national president. Since 2020, she has...

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Divya Narain Upadhyaya

Divya Narain Upadhyaya is a medical doctor and a professor of plastic surgery at King George’s Medical University, Lucknow, India. His fields of interest in clinical medicine are cleft and craniofacial surgery and treating brachial plexus injuries. He is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and has trained extensively in cranio-maxillofacial and paediatric plastic surgery from the United States and Switzerland. He is an international fellow of the American Society of...

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Urjit Patel

Urjit R. Patel served as the twenty-fourth governor of the Reserve Bank of India. During his tenure he was a director of the Bank for International Settlements and a member of the Advisory Board of the Financial Stability Institute. 

Before his governorship, he was the Deputy Governor in charge of monetary policy and chaired a committee on strengthening monetary policy. From 2013 to 2018 he was principal/deputy in the G-20 and BRICS Finance Ministers’ and Central Bank...

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Milan Vohra

Milan Vohra is one of India’s most loved authors of contemporary romance. Her debut novel, The Love Asana (Harlequin UK), made her India’s first Mills & Boon author. Milan’s stories of love and realistic relationships have struck a chord with readers around the world. Her other bestselling books include Tick-tock We’re 30 (Westland Publishers), which was acquired for screen adaptation, Head...

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Ram Nath Kovind

Ram Nath Kovind was sworn in as the 14th President of India on 25 July 2017. Prior to his election to the highest constitutional office of the land, he was the Governor of Bihar. He was elected as a member of the Rajya Sabha from Uttar Pradesh in April 1994, and served two consecutive terms till March 2006. He has been part of numerous parliamentary committees, and has gathered in-depth experience in governance. A lawyer by profession, he served as Counsel of the Union Government in the Delhi High Court...

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March

Inside the Minds of History’s Most Notorious Leaders

Across continents and decades, eight men rose from obscurity to leave an indelible mark on the twentieth century through sheer ambition and relentless thirst of power. In Dictators,... Read More img

Hidden Warfare looks at the side of conflict that rarely makes it into official histories. Instead of focusing on battles and timelines, Mangesh Sawant turns his attention to the covert...

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Drawing on the insight and experience of former Vice President of India, M Hamid Ansari, Arguably Contentious is a thoughtful exploration of India’s political, social, and cultural realities in a...

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Shadows of Broken Things by Bidyut Kumar Sarkar is a book that lingers. Through his evocative collection of poems, the poet peers into memory, mortality and the fragility of modern...

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How it all Began

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