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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 Government in 2012 and the Padma Bhushan in 2014. 

Born in 1934, Ruskin Bond grew up in Jamnagar, Shimla, New Delhi and Dehradun. Apart from three years in the UK, he has spent all his life in India and now lives in Landour, Mussoorie, with his adopted family. 

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 Save Culture Save Bharat Foundation. 

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 Celebration has helped many bereaved people. Neena runs an independent library movement for underserved children. Please reach her at drneenavermachimes@gmail.com

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. He has held key roles on several Cabinet Committees. He has served on numerous Parliamentary Committees, including Finance, Defence and External Affairs, and played a pivotal role in shaping India's data-protection legislation. He has also served as a distinguished Senior Fellow in the South Asia Center at the Washington, D.C., based Atlantic Council. As an active legal practitioner in the...

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 life. His steadfast positivity exudes hope, clarity, and a sense of purpose to those who connect with him. He has greatly influenced the lives of millions who have been drawn by his profound integrity, charismatic personality, and passion to serve. Everyone connected with him feels deeply touched by his humility, warmth, and kindness. Swamiji’s lectures are humorous, his arguments are...

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 his political career in the Indian National Congress (INC), where he served as Chairman of the Congress Minority Department from 1997 to 1999. After leaving the INC in 1999, he joined the Samajwadi Party (SP) in the same year; he served as National General Secretary of the party from 2002 to 2008, and later as general secretary of Bahujan Samaj...

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 been the president of the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) Party, one of the leading political groups in Europe. On October 22, 2022, she was sworn in as Prime Minister by the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella. She is the first woman in Italy’s history to hold this position

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 Maxillofacial Surgeons and an AO-CMF Fellow. 

His primary literary interests lie in Indian scriptures, Indic religions and Indian history. He writes about a variety of topics. He has previously authored three books, The Battle of Panchavati and Other...