Dinesh C. Sharma is an award-winning journalist and author based in Delhi. In a career spanning close to four decades, he has written extensively on science and technology, climate change, health, environment and innovation for Indian and global media, including The Lancet and Wired. He was previously science editor at Mail Today and managing editor at India Science Wire. In 2008, he travelled to the Arctic and joined an international scientific expedition there to report on climate change.He is the author of the national bestseller Indian Innovation, Not Jugaad. His book The Outsourcer: The Story of India's IT Revolution was awarded the Computer History Museum Book Prize in 2016. His most recent book is Beyond Biryani: The Making of a Globalised Hyderabad.Sharma has been a Jawaharlal Nehru Fellow and also visiting faculty at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and at Ateneo de Manila University, Manila. He tweets on X as @dineshcsharma

Salman Rushdie is the author of sixteen novels, including Midnight's Children (for which he won the Booker Prize and the Best of the Booker), The Satanic Verses, and Quichotte (which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize). A former president of PEN American Center, Rushdie was knighted in 2007 for services to literature and was made a Companion of Honour in the Queen's last Birthday Honours list in 2022.

Mike Matthews is an author, podcast host, trainer, and the founder and CEO of Legion, the #1 bestselling brand of all-natural sports supplements in the world, which he started in 2014. He lives in Ocala, Florida, with his wife, their two children, and two Dachshunds named Penny and Olive.

Mike Matthews is an author, podcast host, trainer, and the founder and CEO of Legion, the #1 bestselling brand of all-natural sports supplements in the world, which he started in 2014. He lives in Ocala, Florida, with his wife, their two children, and two Dachshunds named Penny and Olive.

John Green is the award-winning, #1 bestselling author of Looking for Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines, Paper Towns, Will Grayson, Will Grayson (with David Levithan), The Fault in Our Stars and Turtles All the Way Down.John's many accolades include the Printz Medal, a Printz Honor, and the Edgar Award. He has twice been a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize and was selected by TIME magazine as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World. With his brother, Hank, John is one half of the Vlogbrothers and co-created the online educational series CrashCourse.You can join the millions who follow him on Twitter @johngreen and Instagram @johngreenwritesbooks.John lives with his family in Indianapolis, Indiana.John Green is the author of Looking for Alaska; An Abundance of Katherines; Paper Towns; Will Grayson, Will Grayson (with David Levithan); The Fault in Our Stars, and Turtles All the Way Down. His books have received many accolades, including a Printz Medal, a Printz Honor, and an Edgar Award. John has twice been a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize and was selected by TIME magazine as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World. With his brother, Hank, John has co-created many online video projects, including Vlogbrothers and the educational channel Crash Course. He lives with his family in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Rituparna Chatterjee is an award-winning and bestselling author, journalist and columnist. She is a former foreign correspondent and columnist for The Economic Times and The Times of India. Her long standing column of many years, 'California Dreaming', on her life as a global Indian was first published in The Economic Times and later moved to The Times of India. A hallmark of Chatterjee's journalism and the books it inspires is using her life as a blank canvas to allow others to tell their stories. And consequently, using unique insider and outsider perspectives to make sense of daily life, technology, politics, gender, mental health and love, in the world's largest democracies, India and the USA, for the world. Apart from children's stories published in various anthologies, Chatterjee's published books include An Ordinary Life, on the life of a movie star, and the deeply moving The Water Phoenix, a magical realism memoir on an abused child's lifelong journey to understand what was love and what wasn't. The Water Phoenix won the United Nations' Laadli Award for Gender Sensitivity for Best Book Nonfiction (2021) and was in the top five bestselling nonfiction of 2020 and number one on Google India. The book received rave media reviews: India Today called it "vivid and brave", The Times of India called Chatterjee "courage personified", Outlook called it "brilliant...a new movement in literature," Mumbai Mirror said "Devastating...deliberately and lovingly written...Chatterjee can write beautifully and vividly." Nikkei Asia Review said "(the book was) brave, benefitting the many children (over 1 billion) who are still suffering in unknowing silence."Chatterjee spent the following four years conducting hundreds of interviews and research across the world's largest democracy for her third book How India Loves. And its sequel How India Spends.Chatterjee divides her life between her homes in California and New Delhi, India.

Music journalist based in Stockholm. Writing for 40 years. Published several books in Swedish, "The book of Abba: Melancholy undercover" is my international debut and will be published in 19 countries.

Laksh Maheshwari is a storyteller by profession, and is renowned for his ability to take audiences on beautiful journeys of emotions. He is known as ‘Single-handedly’ on Instagram and YouTube.Ashish Kavi is a seasoned marketing professional with a passion for music and writing. Ashish met Laksh in 2014 and their creative synergy led them to collaborate on multiple creative projects. In 2019, while working on a separate project, a conversation on the existence of descendants of mythological legends that shaped what we call ‘Bharat’ today, ignited the spark for The Descendants.