István Vörös is a writer, poet, professor of literature and creative writing.

Javed Akhtar is a an award winning script writer, lyricist, poet and activist.

Jayati Ghosh was Professor of Economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi for nearly 35 years. She has received several national and international prizes for her research.

Jeffrey Archer has topped bestseller lists around the world, selling over 275 million copies in 97 countries and more than 37 languages; the only author to have been a #1 bestseller in fiction (twenty times), short stories (four times) and non-fiction.

Jerry is an author who lives and works in Mumbai.

Jonathan is a Delhi-based scholar, teacher and director of Shakespeare.

Joy Ma is the author of the The Deoliwallahs: The True Story of the 1962 Chinese-Indian Incarceration.

Karthika VK is Publisher, Westland Publications Pvt Ltd.

Kavita Puri is a BBC journalist, broadcaster and the author of the critically acclaimed, “Partition Voices”

Kiran Manral is an award-winning and bestselling Indian author, TEDx speaker, columnist, mentor and feminist.

Kiran Millwood Hargrave is the multi award-winning author of four books for younger readers.

Kirli Saunders is a proud Gunai Woman and award-winning international writer of poetry, plays and picture books.

Lavanya Karthik writes and illustrates books for children of all ages.

Lopamudra Mohanty is the Founder of BBW Education Pvt Ltd. aka Big Buddy World.

Madhavi Menon is Professor of English and Director of the Centre for Studies in Gender and Sexuality at Ashoka University.

Mallika Sarabhai is one of India’s leading classical dancers. She has been using dance and other cultural and artistic forms for the last four decades, to propound causes relating to women, violence and human rights.

Maria Konnikova is the author, most recently, of the New York Times bestseller The Biggest Bluff.

Markus Zusak is the international bestselling and multi-award winning author of six novels including Bridge of Clay, The Book Thief and I am the Messenger.