Lalita Iyer is a Mumbai-based journalist, columnist and author of Sridevi: Queen of hearts, The Whole Shebang and I’m Pregnant Not Terminally Ill, You Idiot! She

Niveditha Subramaniam is a children’s book writer, illustrator and researcher. She cherishes every opportunity to celebrate her abiding love for visuals and has published 15 books

When she was eight, she started writing and illustrating her first book. The Mahabharata – A Child’s View went on to be published in seven language

Himanjali Sankar is a writer and editor. She grew up in Calcutta and did her Masters and MPhil in English Literature from JNU, New Delhi. She

Sahitya Akademi Bal Sahitya Puruskar award winner for children’s literature, Paro Anand writes for children and young adults and works with young people in difficult circumstances

Ferose has co-authored a best-seller book on people with disabilities, GIFTED. The book has been translated into six Indian regional languages and won the prestigious Karnataka

Lesley D. Biswas is a children’s author with over 25 years of experience as a freelance writer. She grew up in McCluskiegunj and is now based

Priya Narayanan is a poet and children’s author based in Ahmedabad. She runs her own design practice under the twin banners Tatva and Soma and is

Parvati Sharma is a Delhi-based author. Her debut was a collection of short stories called “The Dead Camel and Other Stories of Love”. She has also

Arti Sonthalia is a Hyderabad based children’s author. She started her journey with “Chicken Soup For the Soul” books, and continued to the children’s genre. Her

Shaikh has been writing since the age of eight and has published his poetry in a number of anthologies and journals. His autobiographical novel ‘The Library

Debasmita Dasgupta is a Singapore-based, internationally published, Kirkus-Prize nominated illustrator and graphic novelist. She enjoys drawing both fiction and non-fiction for children and young adults. She

Vinitha is a flaneur, a forever-hungry-story-devourer and a storyteller. Also, an author, editor and columnist, Vinitha has written 25 books for children. Two of her stories

Rohini Nilekani is the Founder-Chairperson of Arghyam, a foundation she set up for sustainable water and sanitation, which funds initiatives all across India. From 2004 to

Maryanne Wolf is a scholar, teacher, and advocate for children and literacy around the world. She is the Director of the Center for Dyslexia, Diverse Learners,

Sujata Noronha is an educator with a specialisation in Early Literacy. She works in the library and is based in Goa where she runs a not

Aruna Sankaranarayanan currently writes for The Hindu, Deccan Herald, and Financial Express (Digital) on teaching, learning, work, relationships, and well-being. She authors a monthly column, Youth,

Katie Day is an American who has been overseas for over 30 years. She has a masters in Children’s Literature from the UK and teaching and

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

A social scientist by training, Kamla Bhasin has been actively engaged with issues related to development, gender, education, media and others since 1970. Currently, she works

Kenny was born in Guwahati and spent his childhood in two other towns in Assam. After a few years working in the Mumbai film & TV

Mallika Ahluwalia is the CEO, curator & co-founder of the world’s first Partition Museum, which opened in 2017. It is a people’s museum that houses one

Rinchin is a writer and an activist based in Madhya Pradesh and Chattisgarh. She also writes for children and her writing reflects her social engagement with

Santosh Sivan is an Indian cinematographer, film director, producer and actor known for his work in Malayalam, Tamil, and Hindi cinema. Santosh graduated from the Film

Siddhartha Sharma is an author, journalist and historian, known for the novels The Grasshopper’s Run and Year of the Weeds and the nonfiction book Carpenters and

Veera Hiranandani is the author of The Night Diary which received the 2019 Newbery Honor Award, the 2019 Walter Dean Myers Honor Award, and the 2018