A celebrated writer and journalist, Mr. Mukul is the award-winning author of “Gita Press and the Making of Hindu India (2015)” and “Writer, Rebel, Soldier, Lover: The Many Lives of Agyeya (2022).” The book on Gita Press has won prestigious accolades like the Tata Book Prize and Ramnath Goenka Award. His Agyeya biography won the Kamaladevi Chattaopadhyay NIF Book Prize. With fellowships from New India Foundation, Homi Bhabha, and Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund, Akshaya has contributed to key literary compilations such as “A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures in English (2005)”, “Keywords for India: A Conceptual Lexicon for the 21st Century”, and “A Functioning Anarchy: Essays for Ramachandra Guha”. Currently, he’s crafting a comprehensive biography of Jayaprakash Narayan. In a two-decade political journalism career, he has made a mark at the Times of India, Hindustan Times, Pioneer, and the Asian Age.

Chinmay Tumbe loves to laugh and learn. He is a faculty member in the Economics Area of the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad and the author of India Moving: A History of Migration (2018) and The Age of Pandemics, 1817-1920: How they shaped India and the world (2020)

A seasoned screenwriter renowned for classics like “Drohkaal,” “Ghulam,” “The Legend of Bhagat Singh,” and “Raajneeti,” Mr. Rajabali founded the screenplay writing department at the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, in 2004, serving as its Honorary Head for 12 years. Since 2006, he has been the Founder-Head of Screenwriting at Whistling Woods International, Mumbai. Conducting screenwriting workshops and spearheading national conferences, seminars, fellowships, script labs, and contests, he received the prestigious ‘Leading International Teacher’ award from CILECT in 2019 for his contributions to film education.

Prachi Deshpande is an Indian historian and academic at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences in Kolkata. She is an alumnus of Fergusson College (Pune) and Jawaharlal Nehru University (New Delhi). She earned her Ph.D. from Tufts University and served as a professor in America’s top-tier education institutions. She made her writing her writing debut with Creative Pasts: Historical and Identity in Western India, and three books were published under her name.

Subhra Chatterji is an award-winning filmmaker who goes by the name of Historywali. She has written and directed famous fictions-non-fictions shows for various networks. However, her relationship with Indian food began a decade ago when she wandered around India, scaling the length & breadth of the nation while exploring the secrets behind Indian cuisines. Incorporating all her experiences, Miss Chatterji is ready to make her writing debut with her book ‘Rasa’- history and stories of Indian food.

Jahanvi Phalkey is an author, historian, documentary filmmaker, professor and the founding director of Science Gallery Bengaluru. She gained her doctoral degree in history of science and technology from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta. She is the author of Atomic State: Big Science in Twentieth Century India and co-editor of Science of Giants: China and India in the Twentieth Century. She also produced and directed the documentary film Cyclotron.

Amarendra Dhaneshwar is a well-known classical singer with 200 performances under his name. The legendary Neela Bhagwat trained the music maestro under the famous Gwalior Gharana. He is known as one of the pioneers who took Indian classical music abroad. His duets with the famous sitarists Ravindra Chary, Sahana Bannerjee, and his guru were an uproar in Europe. He has also contributed his words to mainstream newspapers on Indian music. Mr. Dhaneshwar has authored Guniyan Gaye Bajaye in Marathi.

Mr. Amrit Raj is a debut author who won the Gaja Capital Business Book Prize 2021 for Indian Icon- a cult called Royal Enfield. He was the National Editor at HT Mint, leading the national corporate bureau till April 2019. Mr. Raj has extensively written on Indian corporates, MNCs, and family businesses as a business journalist. He is currently the Brand Director of Zetwerk.

Prof. Aparajith Ramnath is a historian of science, technology, and industry in South Asia. His first book, The Birth of an Indian Profession: Engineers, Industry and the State, 1900-47, was published by the Oxford University Press. His articles are published in prestigious Indian dailies and online publications such as the Hindu, Scroll, The Wire, thread, and the New Indian Express. Prof. Ramnath is an Oxford University alumnus and has done his Ph.D. from the Imperial College London. Currently, he serves as an associate professor at Ahmedabad University.