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Dr. Jas Kohli is an Indian fictional author. His novel ‘Anything to Look Hot’was recently published by Shristi Publishers.Dr Jas Kohli was born in Ludhiana, Punjab, India to doctor parents. The loss of his father at a young age traumatized him. That, coupled with physical ailments, bewildered him. But he also became appreciative of even minor joys and the same continues to this day. Books by Jas Kohli LIGHTS! SCALPEL! ROMANCE! Anything to Look Hot

Rehana Munir ran a bookshop in Bombay in the mid 2000s, a few years after graduating with top honours in English literature from St. Xavier's College. An independent writer on culture and lifestyle, she has a weekly humour column in HT Brunch, and a cinema column in Arts Illustrated magazine. She is also an occasional copywriter. Rehana lives in Bombay among food-obsessed family and friends. She is a local expert on migraines, 1990s nostalgia and Old Monk. Books by Rehana Muneer Paper Moon

Alka Joshi was born in India and raised in the U.S. since the age of nine. She has a BA from Stanford University and an MFA from California College of Arts and runs an advertising and marketing agency. She has lived in France and Italy and currently lives in Pacific Grove, California, with her husband. The Henna Artist is her first novel. Books by Alka Joshi The Secret Keeper of Jaipur The Henna Artist: A Novel

Partha Sarthi Sen Sharma is an Indian Administrative Service Officer and has written articles, mainly travel pieces, for The Times of India, Hindustan Times, Discover India, Swagat, Rail Bandhu and other periodicals. He also published a travelogue titled A Passage Across Europe in 2011 and Love Side by Side, his fiction novel, in 2015. Apart from his work and writing, Partha loves to spend time with his family. He is an avid traveller, having travelled to over twenty countries. He is a voracious reader and fluent in English, Hindi and Bengali and is a sport enthusiast. He has earlier authored Every Mile a Memory. Books By Partha Sarthi Sen Sharma Lucknow Diaries: Of Love and Longing Love: Side by Side Every Mile a Memory

Andaleeb Wajid is a Bangalore-based writer. She has written on diverse topics like food, relationships and weddings in a Muslim context. She has spoken about how she wants to challenge the stereotypical representation of Muslim lives through her stories.She started writing at the young age of 10 and decided to pursue writing as a career after school. She is married now and has two sons. Books by Andaleeb Wajid The Milk Monster and Other Stories The Old Car White Noise My Sister's Wedding Coming Home: A Novella The Day it Rained When She Went Away Blinkers off All Drama, No Queen Twenty-Nine Going On Thirty Kite Strings The Legend of the Wolf The Crunch Factor Back in Time A Sweet Deal Asmara's Summer my brother's wedding The Sum of All My Parts Time Will Tell More Than Just Biryani House of Screams ...

Dionne Bunsha is a journalist from Mumbai, India, who has written about suicide deaths among farmers, religious strife in India, human rights, threats to the Indian environment and a range of other crucial issues. She worked most recently for Frontline magazine. Bunsha is the author of Scarred: Experiments with Violence in Gujarat (2006).Bunsha has won several awards for her writing. She was awarded two of the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Awards in 2006-2007 for 'Environmental Reporting' and 'Books (Non-Fiction)', presented by the President of India A. P. J. Kalam;the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) Journalism for Tolerance Prize for South Asia in 2005;the Sanskriti Award for Journalism in 2003; and the People’s Union for Civil Liberties Human Rights Award in 2003. Books by Dionne Bhunsha Scarred: Experiments With Violence In Gujarat

Annie Zaidi (born 1978) is an English-language writer from India. Her collection of essays, Known Turf: Bantering with Bandits and Other True Tales, was short-listed for the Vodafone Crossword Book Award in 2010.She also writes poetry (Crush, 2007), short stories (The Good Indian Girl, 2011), plays, and has published a novella. She won The Hindu Playwright Award in 2018 and the Nine Dots Prize in 2019 for her work Bread, Cement, Cactus.She was born in Allahabad. She and her older brother were brought up by their mother Yasmin Zaidi, a school teacher and principal. Her maternal grandfather is Padma Shri laureate Urdu writer and scholar Ali Jawad Zaidi. She currently resides in Mumbai. Books by Annie Zaidi Sleep Tight Known Turf: 1 Who Will see the light? Three Plays : Untitled 1, Jam and Name,Place,Animal,Thing Bad Boys Guide to the Good Indian Girl Love Story # 1 To 14 Unbound: 2,000 Years of Indian Women's Writing Bread, Cement, Cactus: A Memoir of Belonging and Disloc...

Indu Balachandran, a gold-medalist in journalism, joined the advertising agency JWT in Delhi and grew from Copy Trainee to Executive Creative Director and Vice President (Chennai) . Through her 29 years in JWT, she's worked on award-winning campaigns for major brands, among them Pond's, Pepsi, Aquafina, Citibank. An excellent trainer of young creative talent, Indu was a regular part of JWT's international Creative Stars faculty at Bangkok, besides conducting creative workshops at IIM Bangalore, ISB Hyderabad. Indu is often invited as Guest Speaker at Humour Societies, Book Clubs, Business Schools, and international Advertising Seminars at Muscat and Dubai.As a travel writer, Indu has reviewed 70 eco-friendly hotels all over India.Her writings are part of five anthologies of short stories. Books by Indu Balachandran The Writers' Retreat Don't Go Away. We'll Be Right Back Runaway Writers

Rakesh K. Kaul, whose family hails from Kashmir, migrated to the US in 1972. Rakesh was a founding contributor to the first Chair of India Studies at University of California, Berkeley, to the Center for the Advanced Study of India at University of Pennsylvania and the Mattoo Center for India studies at State University of New York. Books by Rakesh Kaul Dawn: The Warrior Princess of Kashmir The Last Queen of Kashmir