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André Aciman

Author & Memoirist

The New York Times bestselling author of Call Me By Your Name, Out of Egypt, Eight White Nights, False Papers, Alibis, Harvard Square, Enigma Variations and Find Me.

Mira Nair

Academy Award-Nominated Director

An Academy Award-nominated director. Her debut feature, Salaam Bombay!, garnered over 25 awards, including the Caméra d’Or at Cannes. Her successes include The Namesake, The Reluctant Fundamentalist and the Queen of Katwe.

Vikas Swarup

Diplomat & Novelist

A diplomat and novelist, Vikas Swarup is the author of Q&A, which was filmed as the multiple-Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire.

Arundhathi Subramaniam

Arundhathi Subramaniam is a leading Indian poet and an award-winning author of 13 books of poetry and prose.

BN Goswamy

BN Goswamy, India’s leading art historian, is Professor Emeritus of Art History at the Panjab University, Chandigarh.

David Wallace-Wells

David Wallace-Wells is deputy editor at New York Magazine and the author of the international bestseller The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming.

Gopalkrishna Gandhi

Gopalkrishna Gandhi read English Literature and History at Delhi University. A monthly columnist for The Hindustan Times and The Telegraph, he writes for The Hindu as well.

Huma Abedin

Huma Abedin began her career in public service and national politics as an intern in First Lady Hillary Clinton’s office in 1996. She is The New York Times best-selling author of BOTH/AND: A Life in Many Worlds.

Marcus du Sautoy

Marcus du Sautoy is the Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science and Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford and is a Fellow of the Royal Society.

Radhikaraje Gaekwad

Maharani Radhikaraje Gaekwad is actively involved in running one of the largest private residences in the world. Radhikaraje has been researching and archiving the rich history and culture of royal India.

Matthew Syed

Matthew Syed is an author and highly acclaimed speaker in the field of high performance. He has written six best-selling books on the subject of mindset and high performance.

Navdeep Suri

Navdeep Suri is Distinguished Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation in New Delhi. He has previously served as India’s Ambassador to UAE, High Commissioner to Australia, Ambassador to Egypt, and Consul General in Johannesburg.

Patrick Radden Keefe

Patrick Radden Keefe is a staff writer at The New Yorker and author of the international bestsellers Empire of Pain, which received the Baillie Gifford Prize, and Say Nothing, which received the Orwell Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Pavan K. Varma

Pavan K. Varma is a writer-diplomat and politician who has authored over a dozen best-selling books, including Ghalib: The Man, The Times, The Great Indian Middle Class, The Book of Krishna, Being Indian, Becoming Indian and Chanakya’s New Manifesto.

Peter Frankopan

Peter Frankopan is Professor of Global History at the University of Oxford, and Associate Director of the Silk Roads Studies programme at King’s College Cambridge. He is the author of The Silk Roads: A New History of the World, The First Crusade: The Call from the East and The New Silk Roads.

Ranjit Hoskote

Ranjit Hoskote is a poet, critic, cultural theorist and independent curator who is the recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award, the Sahitya Akademi Golden Jubilee Award and the Sahitya Akademi Prize for Translation.

Shashi Tharoor

Shashi Tharoor, a third-term Member of Parliament for Thiruvananthapuram, is the bestselling author of 23 books, both fiction and non-fiction.

Shobhaa De

Shobhaa De is a best-selling author of over 20 books and a widely read columnist. She is known for her outspoken, irreverent views, making her one of India’s most respected opinion shapers. De is seen as a trailblazer for women’s writing.

William Dalrymple

William Dalrymple is the bestselling author of In Xanadu, City of Djinns, From the Holy Mountain, Age of Kali, White Mughals, The Last Mughal, Nine Lives, Return of a King and Kohinoor.