Priya Sahgal is an Indian TV talk show host and a political journalist. She completed her MA in English from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi. Sahgal has authored The Contenders, a book that profiles India’s gen next politicians. She has worked with organizations such as India Today, Outlook and Sunday magazines and hosts conclaves both inhouse…

Perumal Murugan is an Indian author, scholar and literary chronicler who writes in Tamil. Murugan initially studied Tamil literature both as an undergraduate, in Erode and as a postgraduate in Coimbatore then went on to obtain an M. Phil. from Madras University in Tamil studies followed by a Ph.D. where his doctoral thesis focused on…

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Gautam Chintamani is a film historian and an author of who wrote Rajneeti (2019), the first biography of Rajnath Singh. He is also the author of the bestselling Dark Star: The Loneliness of Being Rajesh Khanna (2014) and was on the National Film Awards jury for Best Writing on Cinema in 2016. In 2017, Gautam…

Ashutosh Bhardwaj is a bilingual journalist, fiction writer and literary critic.  He has received the Krishna Baldev Vaid Fellowship for his innovative fiction and was a writer-in-residence at the Sangam House in Bangalore, 2012-13 and  as a Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, 2017-19, he wrote a monograph, Women in Solitude, a…