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Anumita considers herself a poet, who loves weaving fantastical stories with a whiff of crude reality. Therefore, she writes poetry in prose and prose in poetry. When she isn’t writing, she is reading, which means she does nothing besides reading or writing. She has graduated from Hansraj College, Delhi University, and done a Masters in History from Jawaharlal Nehru University. She also holds a diploma in Journalism and Communication but she’d rather not communicate with anyone if her books can do the talking. She is the author of two English novels; The Curse of Yesterday and Some Very Dignified Disclosures, and a recently published Hindi story-collection by Bharatiya Jnanpith- Kuch Aapbiti Kuch Jagbiti. Books by Anumita Sharma Some Very Dignified Disclosures The Curse of Yesterday 99 Moon Avenue

SekharShashank is a journalist. He has worked with many leading Indian newspapers, including DainikBhaskar, Rajasthan Patrika, People news, Naiduniaetc,. There, he shouldered different responsibilities. He was born in Satna and brought up in Gwalior, the city famous for Music Maestro MiyaTansen and his Guru Mohammad Gaus. He is currently based in Noida and working with a MNC as content moderator. Writing has always charmed him. During his journalism studies, he began to write stories that received appreciation from his teachers and other established writers which motivated him to take the writing seriously. Apart from interviewing many national and international figures as a journalist, he also penned few stories which were published by literary magazines. His first novel Dark Poem came out in 2018. Book by Sekhar Shashank One Day You Will Reach The Top 

The Author Rihan Khalyani is an Electrical Engineer and an entrepreneur. He is a fiction writer by choice. He was born in Gandhinagar, the capital of Gujarat on 6th September 1993. Rihan inherited his writing skills from his maternal grandfather Mr. Mohammad Mankad who is a well known name in Gujarati literature. Rihan had a great flare for writing since his early age. After completing his BE in Electrical Engineering, he started a solar business which he is running successfully right now. The writer in him forced him to turn towards the creative fiction. Beside this book he is working on two other novels, one is a science fiction while the other one is a murder mystery. He has also written a short story which will be published in a popular magazine soon. Book by Rihan Khalyani  I'll Wait For You Till The Eternity

Manju Kapur (born in Amritsar, India) is an Indian novelist. Her first novel, Difficult Daughters, won the 1999 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, best first book, Europe and South Asia.She is married to Gun Nidhi Dalmia; they have three children and four grandchildren, and live in New Delhi. Books by Manju Kapur Brothers HOME Difficult Daughters The Immigrant Custody A Married Women

Rohinton Mistry CM (born 3 July 1952) is an Indian-born Canadian writer. He was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2012.Rohinton Mistry was born in 1952 in Bombay, India, to a Parsi family.His brother is the playwright and author Cyrus Mistry. He earned a BA in Mathematics and Economics from St. Xavier's College, Bombay. Books by Rohinton Mistry SUCH A LONG JOURNEY Swimming Lessons and Other Stories from Firozsha Baag Tales from Firozshah Bag Family Matters A Fine Balance

Padma Lakshmi is an Indian-born American model, actress, food expert, and award-winning author. She was the first Indian model to have a career in Paris, Milan and New York. Her modeling career led to her acting career as she began appearing in television shows filmed in Hollywood, Bollywood, and Europe. As an author she won the Best First Book award at the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards, for her first cookbook ‘Easy Exotic’. Her memoir, ‘Love, Loss and What We Ate’, released on the International Women's Day, is a New York Times best-seller. Padma is also a television host and an executive producer. She has been hosting the US reality television program ‘Top Chef’ since 2006, for which she received a nomination for the ‘Emmy Award for Outstanding Host for a Reality Program’. Books by Padma Lakshmi Tangy, Tart, Hot and Sweet: A World of Recipes for Every Day The Encyclopedia of Spices and Herbs: An Essential Guide to the Flavors of the World Easy Exotic: A Model's Lo

Manu Joseph (born 22 July 1974)is an Indian journalist and writer. He is the former editor of Open magazine.Joseph was born in Kottayam, Kerala, and grew up in Chennai. He is a graduate of Loyola College, Chennai, and dropped out of Madras Christian College to become a staff writer at Society magazine.He is a former editor of OPEN magazine, and a columnist for The International New York Times and The Hindustan Times. In 2007, he was a Chevening Scholar.He currently lives in Delhi.His debut novel Serious Men (2010) won The Hindu Literary Prize and the PEN/Open Book Award. It has been adapted by Sudhir Mishra as a feature film. Books by Manu Joseph The Illicit Happiness Of Other People Serious Men Miss Laila, Armed and Dangerous

Jeet Thayil (born 13 October 1959) is an Indian poet,novelist, librettist and musician. He is best known as a poet and is the author of four collections: These Errors Are Correct (Tranquebar, 2008), English (2004, Penguin India, Rattapallax Press, New York, 2004), Apocalypso (Ark, 1997) and Gemini (Viking Penguin, 1992). His first novel, Narcopolis, (Faber & Faber, 2012), which won the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature,was also shortlisted for the 2012 Man Booker Prize and The Hindu Literary Prize.Born in Mamalassery, in Ernakulam district, Kerala, Thayil is the son of the author and editor T. J. S. George. Thayil was mostly educated abroad. He received a Masters in Fine Arts from Sarah Lawrence College (New York), and is the recipient of grants and awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Swiss Arts Council, the British Council and the Rockefeller Foundation. Books by Jeet Thayil Collected Poems These Errors Are Correct The Bloodaxe Book of Modern India

The Tejaswi Priyadarshi is the Indian author of The Psychopath, The Cannibal, The Lover, and a dreamer in the horror/thriller genre. He derives inspiration from Stephen King, Michael Crichton, Takashi Miike, Alexandre Aja, Eli Roth, Quentin Tarantino, and the Ramsay Brothers. He holds an engineering degree specializing in Computer Science from RVCE, Bangalore and an MBA degree specializing in Sales & Marketing from XLRI, Jamshedpur, and is currently based out of Mumbai.Outside of work, you can find him writing fiction at a bar counter, appreciating Independent Pop music gigs, and holding screenings of all sub-genres of horror/thrillers; however, nobody knows why he adamantly screens Purani Haveli so often.  Book by Tejaswi Priyadarshi The Psychopath, The Cannibal, The Lover

Ishan is a qualified Chartered Accountant and holds a Master’s degree in Management from HEC Paris (Grande Ecole). Born and brought up in the suburbs of Mumbai, Ishan went on to complete his graduation from Narsee Monjee College of Commerce and Economics and moved to Europe for further studies. He has a rich corporate exposure, having worked in investment banking and strategy roles in multinational companies such as BNP Paribas, Credit Agricole, and Danone.Ishan is fluent in six languages including French and Spanish, as a large part of his working life was spent in France and Spain. He currently works with a venture capital fund based in New Delhi, India.    Books by Ishan Majumdar The Coercion The Celeritas Files

 Diksha Basu is an Indian American writer and actor.She is the author of the critically acclaimed novel The Windfall which is under adaptation for a television series by Shonali Bose.Diksha Basu was born in Delhi,to the sociologist Alaka Malwade Basu and economist Kaushik Basu,who later became the Chief Economic Advisor to the Government of India and then the Chief Economist at the World Bank.She grew up in Delhi during the 1990s till the age of 10.She moved to Ithaca, New York in 1994,as a teenager with her family.Basu states that after moving to upstate New York, she would keep visiting Delhi every 4 to 6 months.She eventually graduated from the University of Cornell with a Bachelor of Arts in economics,and in the French language as part of a double major. Books by Diksha Basu Opening Night The Windfall Destination Wedding

Ira Mukhoty is an Indian author.She studied natural sciences at the University of Cambridge.Her book Heroines: Powerful Indian Women of Myth and History tells the tales of mythical heroines including Draupadi and Radha, and "six real women who played extraordinary roles but who weren’t written into textbooks as were their male counterparts", including Jahanara Begum, Rani Laxmibai and Hazrat Mahal.Her second book Daughters of the Sun: Empresses, Queens and Begums of the Mughal Empire which was about the disappeared Women of the great Mughals, was published by Aleph Book Company on 25 April 2018. Books by Ira Mukhoty  Daughters of the Sun Heroines: Powerful Indian Women of Myth and History Akbar: The Great Mughal