Arundhati Roy is an Indian writer who is also an activist who focuses on issues related to social justice and economic inequality. She won the Booker Prize in 1997 for her novel, The God of Small Thin…
Alan Lightman is an American writer, physicist, and social entrepreneur. Born in 1948, he was educated at Princeton and at the California Institute of Technology, where he received a PhD in theoretica…
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is an award-winning author and poet. Her themes include the Indian experience, contemporary America, women, immigration, history, myth, and the joys and challenges of living…
David Benioff worked as a nightclub bouncer in San Francisco, a radio DJ in Wyoming and an English teacher/wrestling coach in Brooklyn before selling his first novel, The 25th Hour, in 2000.
Jane Borges is a senior journalist, author and oral historian. Her bylines have appeared in the Hindustan Times, Mumbai Mirror, Sunday Mid-Day, The Swaddle, New Lines Magazine, Scroll, The Asian Age a…
Debotosh Chatterjee is an Officer in the Indian Revenue Service (IRS). He cleared the prestigious UPSC Civil Service Examination 2015 in his 1st attempt, right after graduating from Jadavpur Universit…
Karen Hao is an American journalist. Currently a freelancer for publications like The Atlantic and previously a foreign correspondent based in Hong Kong for The Wall Street Journal and senior artifici…
Banu Mushtaq (ಬಾನು ಮುಷ್ತಾಕ್, born 1948) is an activist, lawyer and writer from the southern Indian state of Karnataka. She writes in the Kannada language and her works have also been published in Urdu…
Lana Sabarwal is a novelist, an economist, and a Agatha Christie disciple. Her day job is in international development, where she writes about issues adolescents face. Her work has been downloaded mor…
Abhijeet Mukherjee is an entrepreneur turned writer. He began writing in 2008 on mental health and productivity for top global blogs. In 2010, he founded a digital media firm, which he ran for a decad…
I'm Pomita Ghoshal (49, female, Indian, a Physics Prof at a college). My life has been defined by my love for my father, who I lived with all my life. I lost my mother as a child, no siblings, not ma…