Our Authors

Poet, artist, and mystic, Kahlil Gibran was born in 1883 to a poor Christian family in Lebanon and immigrated to the United States as an adolescent. His masterpiece The Prophet has sold millions of copies in more than twenty languages. He wrote seventeen books, nine in Arabic and eight in English.

KALYANI PATNAIK is Principal, Hiranandani Foundation School, Mumbai and has published articles on education in books and magazines. Fond of writing and motivational speaking, she has conducted workshops for both teachers and parents during her teaching career.

KAMAL NARAYAN SEETHA is a Chemical Engineer, a highly acclaimed technocrat in the polymer & petrochemical field, an industrialist and an entrepreneur. He has researched the spiritual and curative properties of the Rudraksha for decades, and is an authority on the wonder bead and continues to popularise the bead through his organization Rudra Life. He is the founder of Rudra Jyoti, a holistic healing centre at Nagpur; where besides Rudraksha therapy one can also learn more about spiritualism, meditation and yoga. To know more about Rudraksha contact the author at kamalseetha@gmail.com.

KAMALIKA BOSE is an urban conservationist, curator and educator based in Mumbai, and founder of Heritage Synergies India. She obtained a Master in Historic Preservation Planning from Cornell University. She has authored Seeking the Lost Layers: Traditional Dwellings of the Urban Elite in North Calcutta (Ahmedabad 2008) and co-authored A History of Interior Design in India, Vol 1: Ahmedabad (Ahmedabad 2007).

Kamla K. Kapur is a bestselling poet, author, and playwright. Kapur taught courses in play writing, poetry, creative nonfiction, fiction, mythology, Shakespeare, and women’s literature at Grossmont College in California for eighteen years. She and her husband divide their year living in the Kullu Valley in the Indian Himalayas and in Southern California.

KANTI GOPAL KOVVALI is the founder and CEO of a change management consultancy firm, Institution Builders HR Solutions Pvt Ltd (www.institutionbuilders.com). He is an OD specialist with significant expertise in large-scale change methodologies and building high performance work cultures.

KARAN ANSHUMAN is a screenwriter and filmmaker based in Mumbai, India. He is the director of the 2015 film Bangistan and the creator and director of Inside Edge, India’s first Amazon Original. An ex-film critic for Mumbai Mirror, he spends his time nerding out on film, trivia, science, and design. Kashmirnāmā is his debut novel.

Karl Marx (1818–1883) was a German philosopher, economist, historian, political theorist, sociologist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist.

Karunakar B. is the founder-director of NMIMS, Hyderabad. Prior to this, he held senior influential positions in financial services, manufacturing, IT and pharmaceutical industries.

KATE PETRIW is the founder of Mind Matters, an organization that holds mental health workshops focused on reducing stress and negative thinking patterns.

KATHERINE RADEKA is the founder and executive director of the Rapid Learning Cycles Institute and supports a growing global community of innovators in getting their best ideas to market faster. She has worked with companies on six continents and in industries from aerospace to alternative energy. Katherine lives in Camas, Washington. Visit her at highvelocityinnovation.com.

KAVITA DEVGAN has many avatars: she is a writer, nutritionist and weight management consultant who has transformed the lives of hundreds of clients seeking weight loss. She is a feted speaker and a popular health columnist with premier media groups. She has been writing extensively and sharing her ideas with lakhs of people for the last 15 years.

KAVITA GUPTA, IAS, has four master’s degrees and a PhD. She has navigated her spiritual journey through streams of all major religious thoughts under the guidance of many spiritual masters. She is also a meditation teacher, yoga instructor, tarot card reader and trained in past life regression therapy and other healing modalities.

KEITH SHERWOOD (New York), founder of Inner Awareness Magazine, travels worldwide conducting lectures and seminars. He has appeared on many radio and television shows, and contributes to several U.S. and international publications, such as Psychology Today, The New Times, and Odyssey magazine. He is also the author of Chakra Therapy and The Art of Spiritual Healing.

Kellie Gerardi is an aerospace and technology professional, a popular science communicator, and a commercial astronaut flying to space on a dedicated research mission with Virgin Galactic. Kellie is the author of Not Necessarily Rocket Science and the children’s picture book series Luna Muna. Kellie lives in Jupiter, Florida, with her husband and their daughter Delta V. You can follow her adventures on social media @kelliegerardi

KELLY HOWELL, creator of Brain Sync, is the world’s leading authority on brainwave audio technology. She is renowned for her revolutionary work in meditation and mind expansion.

KEN BLANCHARD is the Chief Spiritual Officer of Ten Ken Blanchard Companies, a company that he and his wife, Dr. Marjorie Blanchard, founded in 1979. Ken co-authored The One Minute Manager® with Spencer Johnson, and the book has sold more than 13 million copies in 25 languages. A captivating and much sought-after speaker, he is co-founder of the Center for FaithWalk Leadership.

KENNETH J. DOKA, PhD, is a professor of counseling and a leading authority on issues involving death, dying, and grief. He has edited or written over 35 acclaimed books on death-related subjects. Additionally, Dr. Doka was president and chair of the Association for Death Education and Counseling and the International Work Group on Death, Dying, and Bereavement. He is a senior consultant and speaker for the Hospice Foundation of America. Dr. Doka was honored with the Herman Feifel Award and the rarely-presented Special Contributions to the Field Award from the Association for Death Education and Counseling.

KENNETH X. ROBBINS is a psychiatrist based in Washington D.C., as well as a collector of South Asian art, and historian of expatriate communities in India. He is co-editor of African Elites in India: Habshi Amarat (Ahmedabad, 2006) and Western Jews in India (New Delhi, 2013), and curator of an exhibition on Jews in India held at the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi, in 2017. He is also interested in Maharajas, Nawabs and Indian Princely States.

Kerry Bodine is vice president and principal analyst, Forrester’s Customer Experience Research Practice.

Kerry Preston is a recognized expert, speaker and facilitator in the areas of leadership, communication, strategic planning and time management. She has spent over two decades collaborating with companies and their employees, to improve their performance.

Armed with a MBA from the University of Oxford, Ketaki Karnik roller-coastered through management consultancies and corporates. Through all this, her only lifeline to sanity has been concocting the next Crime Busters’ mystery. In addition to being a mystery fiction junkie, Ketaki is a movie buff who loves the guitar, chocolates and anything sci-fi. Join Ketaki’s gang of mystery addicts to share your real (or imagined) sinister plots on the Crime Busters’ League facebook page.

KEVAL J. KUMAR is an adjunct professor at MICA, Ahmedabad, and visiting faculty at IIM Indore and Flame University, Pune. Formerly, he was reader at Pune University and director at Symbiosis Institute of Media and Communication. He is the author of Media Education, Communication and Public Policy: An Indian Perspective and co-author of Environmentalism and the Mass Media: The North-South Divide. He has contributed entries to Wiley Blackwell’s international encyclopedias of communication and over 50 research papers to edited books and journals.

KEVIN D. JOHNSON, president of Johnson Media Inc. and a serial entrepreneur, has several years of experience leading his multimillion-dollar marketing and communications company that now serves many of the most notable Fortune 100 businesses.

KEVIN HORSLEY is one of only a few people in the world to have received the title ‘International Grandmaster of Memory’. He is a World Memory Championship medalist and a World Record holder for ‘The Everest of Memory Tests’. Kevin is an international professional speaker and has spoken in many different countries. He assists organizations in improving their learning, motivation, creativity, and thinking.

KEVIN PAUL began his professional career teaching study skills at the University of Victoria. He has been a student service professional for the past 20 years and has talked with thousands of students about what it takes to be a successful learner. Currently he is president of Kihon Learning Systems, a company dedicated to helping students of all ages achieve success in their studies.

Until his recent retirement, PADMA SHRI KHALID A-H ANSARI was the guiding force of MiD DAY Infomedia Ltd which publishes the newspaper (in two languages from Mumbai, New Delhi, Bangalore and Pune), the Inquilab Daily and other publications. He was publisher of the magazine Sportsweek, which he started in 1968 to champion the cause of Indian sport and sportsmen until 1989, when he took up an assignment abroad. The author of three earlier books, he covered the Kargil war in 1999, the NAM conference in Harare and the CHOGM summit in the Bahamas. He was also a member of the Indian delegation to the United Nations General Assembly in 1989 and published the Earth Times, the official paper for the 1994 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. He has the distinction of having covered nine Olympic Games going back to Munich ’72 and is a recipient of several honours and awards. CLAYTON MURZELLO is MiD DAY’s Group Sports Editor and has been a journalist since 1988. He is a recipient of two Sports Journalists Federation of India (SJFI) awards for excellence in journalism. He has co-authored a book on cricket anecdotes with former Test cricketer Sandeep Patil.

Khentrul Lodro Thaye Rinpoche is a US-based Tibetan monk and the director of Katog Choling, a Tibetan cultural center. He is also the abbot of a monastery in Tibet. He is one of the only monks in the world with three khenpo degrees—equivalent to three PhDs in Buddhist philosophy. Many of his students call him “the mind training Khenpo” for his passion for teaching mind training practices.

KHUSHWANT SINGH has become one of India’s most celebrated authors, and its most widely-read journalist, apart from being an outspoken public figure. Today, the country’s most popular, irreverent columnist and best selling author, Khushwant Singh delights in being controversial. He is an authority on Sikh history.

KIERAN LYNE, a Suffolk-based author and writer of tongue-in-cheek reviews on Film, Literature and F1.

KIM KRISCO follows in the footsteps of the master storyteller Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Capturing his voice and style, Krisco sends Holmes and Watson to pre-WWI London that, as Holmes puts it, “appears to have taken on an unsavory European influence.”

Kim Zoller is the president and founder of Image Dynamics. She works with Fortune 500 C-suite executives and has appeared on and in a plethora of national media, including CNN, CNBC, The New York Times and Forbes.

Komala Sista Rao was a professional singer in the early 1960’s – a respected name in Hindustani light classical, Bollywood music and an All-India Radio artiste. She married at the age of 23 and moved to Germany, where she lived for ten years, cooking traditional Andhra recipes to preserve the essence of her home, away from home. When she returned to India, her kitchen was always open to friends and family, for whom she cooked just as her mother had done for years. Always serving up the best of meals, she earned a reputation of being a sublime and original cook.

KRISHNA DUTTA is an author who specialises in Indian culture. She has assembled all the available dal recipes she could find from her native India and gives here for the first time the most comprehensive collection, organised regionally. She provides a fascinating historical and cultural context for her recipes making this book a pleasure to cook with as well as just read.

KRISTINE LARSEN is Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Central Connecticut State University.

KUNAL VIJAYAKAR is an Indian film actor, director and television personality. He is well known as the host of The Foodie on Times Now and co-host of the news-spoof show The Week That Wasn’t with Cyrus Broacha on CNN-IBN.

RAM VARMHA, the translator of this epic, hails from the royal family of Cochin. Varmha has had a lifelong interest in the literary heritage of his country. His previous works include the translation of the famed 16th-century Sanskrit text, Narayaneeyam. Varmha was the first to transcribe this work into English and copies of it have since been accepted into many leading libraries in the US.

KUTE BLACKSON is a revolutionary teacher, speaker and entrepreneur. He is also the creator of the group process Boundless Bliss – The Bali Breakthrough Experience.