Aijaz Khan’s debut film, The White Elephant (2009) premiered at the prestigious International Film Festival of India. Travelling to more than 10 film festivals including New

Archana Garodia Gupta with a lifelong passion for books, languages, travel and history, Archana has a knack for weaving delightful nuggets of information into engaging tales.

Arefa Tehsin is the author of several fiction and non-fiction books on wildlife, for children and adults and contributes columns, features and travelogues to various dailies

Arundhati Venkatesh is one of India’s most-loved children’s authors. She writes about football fans and lunchbox looters, tooth troubles and lie detectors, snoring giants and book-eating

Bhakti Mathur took to writing in 2010 when she created the ‘Amma Tell Me’ Series of children’s picture books about Indian festivals and mythology. Recently she

David Melling is a bestselling author-illustrator with worldwide acclaim. He started in the 1980’s as an editorial illustrator before working in several London-based animation studios drawing

Deepak Dalal gave up a career in Chemical Engineering to write stories for children. He lives in Pune with his wife, two daughters and several dogs

Pika Nani (Deepika Murthy) is the author of the thrilling detective series, The Adventures of Shrilok Homeless and Shrilok Homeless the Ultimate Adventures Vol 2, published

Devika Cariapa is a Delhi based author with a lifelong passion for archaeology, travel and unearthing stories from the past. She merged these passions into her

Dr. Devika Rangachari is an award-winning children’s writer whose book, Queen of Ice (Duckbill), was on the White Raven list, won the Neev Young Adult Book

Donna Jo Napoli writes for children of all ages, from preschoolers up through high schoolers. While she writes in all genres — from funny to scary,

Jahnavi Barua is an author based in Bangalore. Published Next Door (Penguin) to wide critical acclaim and Rebirth (Penguin) and is currently working on a new

Stories are Janaki Sabesh’s passion- writing , performing and living them. Janaki’s engagement with children began with “The Learning Train” (1995), an album that simplified math

Jeeva Raghunath , storyteller/author. Pioneered the storytelling movement in Tamilnadu, India. She has represented her country at various festivals around the globe. Awarded ” Best entrepreneur

Joeanna has a wide and varied interest in everything interesting. She grew up in Bombay, lived briefly in Chennai, and now lives in Gurgaon. It was

Katie Smith Milway, a native of Vancouver, B.C., and resident of Boston, is winner of the Massachusetts Best Book for Children Award and Children’s Africana Book

A writer, actor and child-rights activist, Nandana has written 6 children’s books, translated into 15 languages globally: In My Heart (Puffin, 2019), The Monkey Who Wanted

An award-winning children’s books author, Natasha Sharma began her writing journey with the ever-popular book ‘Icky, Yucky, Mucky’. With eighteen books to her credit, Natasha has

Nazia Erum is the critically acclaimed author of the book Mothering A Muslim. Her work around inter-faith harmony has found mention in the Gaurdian, Washington Post

Paro Anand has been honoured with the Sahitya Akademi Bal Sahitya Puraskar Award, 2017 for her book Wild Child, now published as Like Smoke with additional