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650+ Prestigious, Award Winning Authors, Photographers, Editors & Translators
Mohammad Hamid
Ansari
Mohammad Hamid Ansari was the Vice President of India since August 2007. He is the only person to get elected to this high office for two consecutive terms since Dr S. Radhakrishnan. Besides being the ex-officio Chairman of the Rajya Sabha, Shri Ansari is the President of the Indian Council of World Affairs and the Indian Institute of Public Administration, and Chancellor of the universities of Delhi, Panjab, and Pondicherry. In a diplomatic career of almost four decades, Shri Ansari served as India's Ambassador to Afghanistan, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates; High Commissioner to Australia and Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations in New York. He was a Visiting Professor at the Centre for West Asian and African Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and at the Academy For Third World Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia. He was also Vice Chancellor of the Aligarh Muslim University and the Chairman of the National Commission for Minorities. He is the author of 'Travelling Through Conflict: Essays on the Politics of West Asia' (2008) and has edited, 'Iran Today: Twenty-Five Years After The Islamic Revolution' (2005).
Moosa
Raza
Moosa Raza Moosa Raza was born and brought up in a village in Tamil Nadu that had no electricity, no running water, no flush system and no doors to any house. During the first nine years of his life, he did not know the English alphabet and only learnt rudimentary Urdu. Today he writes poetry in English, Hindi, Urdu, Persian and Arabic. He has already published five books, including two collections of Urdu poems.An IAS officer of the 1960 cadre, he rose to become a chief secretary of the state of Jammu and Kashmir and secretary to the Government of India. After retirement, he heads a large educational trust with 10,000 students, 600 academic and managerial staff and is the chairman of several private-sector enterprises in Mumbai. He continues to work and write even in his 80s and is deeply committed to the affairs of the nation.
J.B.P.
More
J.B.P. More is a scholar of international repute who
specializes in the political, social, and colonial history of India. A
doctorate in history from Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS),
Paris, currently he teaches at Institut des Hautes Etudes Economiques et
Commerciales (INSEEC), Paris. He has published extensively on the history and
sociology of south India and on the French colonial history of India. He has
more than 20 books and 45 articles to his credit.
Mrinalini
Mitra
Mrinalini Mitra, a young adult, is a painter, poet, and pianist with
multifarious talents. She has been recognised for her rhetorical abilities and
views on contemporary issues. Her poignant depiction of human wants and
failings transcend her art works and flow into her writings. Her paintings and
poems depict depth and understanding of the complexities of emotions and
relationships that belie her age. Belief is her debut novel.
Zenobia
Panthaki
Zenobia Panthaki began her career with IBM after graduating from
Delhi University. Since Behram was ADC to General Manekshaw, she had a close association
with Sam and his wife, Silloo, and was witness to many events described in this
book. In 1984 she joined the World Bank where she worked until her retirement
in 2012. She currently lives in Washington DC and consults for the Bank.
MS
Meenakshi
MS Meenakshi is a writer and researcher from Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. Following her Master’s from Pondicherry University, she worked as a Research Assistant at the Muziris Heritage Project.
She made her literary debut with a biography of Kunjukutti Thampuratti, a social reformer from Kodungallur, Kerala, which was recognised as part of the PM-YUVA Scheme. At present, she lends her expertise and creative flair as a UX writer for a fin-tech company.
Friedrich
Muller
Friedrich Max Müller (1823-1900), a German-born philologist and Orientalist, was one of the founders of the western academic field of Indian studies and the discipline of comparative religion. Well versed in Sanskrit, the classical language of India, and many other languages, Max Müller was instrumental in translating into English some of the most revered religious and philosophical texts of Asia. Especially noteworthy is his edition of the great collection of Sanskrit hymns of the Rigveda. Intrigued by the concept of religion, Müller initiated an important discipline that he called the “science of religion”. He believed that a genuine study of religion required the knowledge of its origins, and recognised that religion had developed differently in different linguistic spheres. So, instead of using the prevailing ethnographic approach, he pursued the science of religion by studying words and texts. Müller was fascinated by the spiritual teachings of the Indian mystic, Ramakrishna, because, he was of the opinion that the real presence of the Divine, in the human soul was nowhere felt so strongly and so universally as in India, and that the fervent love of God has nowhere found a stronger and more eloquent expression than in the utterances of Ramakrishna.
Mustansir
Dalvi
Mustansir Dalvi was born in Bombay. He teaches architecture in Mumbai. He studied architecture at the Sir JJ College of Architecture and has a PhD from IIT Bombay.
An architect, academic and author, Dalvi’s research interests include Mumbai’s built history and its urban transformation. He is a well-regarded
columnist and an expert on Mumbai’s Art Deco architecture. Dalvi is
also a published poet and translator.
