Our Authors

P.C. Balasubramanian is a chartered accountant and heads a company in the business assurance services sector. He is also a public speaker and has held talks on motivation, entrepreneurship, branding and happiness among other subjects. He is a firm believer that life lessons are all around us. An ardent admirer of the superstar Rajinikanth, this is his third book on him.

PAMELA SINHA MATHUR is a software engineer by profession and a creative writer by passion. Born in Kolkata, West Bengal, she now lives in Pune with her husband. Right from her childhood she has been penning poems and stories and this book is a realization of her dream to see her work in print. She is a voracious reader and she also loves movies, good food, travelling, photography and spending time with family and friends.

Pandit Rajmani Tigunait, PhD, is a modern-day master and living link in the unbroken Himalayan Tradition. He is the successor to Sri Swami Rama of the Himalayas, and the spiritual head of the Himalayan Institute. As the author of numerous books, including his autobiography Touched by Fire: The Ongoing Journey of a Spiritual Seeker, Pandit Tigunait offers practical guidance on applying yogic and tantric wisdom to modern life. For over 50 years he has touched innumerable lives around the world as a teacher, humanitarian, and visionary spiritual leader. You can view more of his teachings online at the Himalayan Institute Wisdom Library. Pandit Tigunait holds two doctorates: one in Sanskrit from the University of Allahabad in India, and another in Oriental Studies from the University of Pennsylvania. Family tradition gave Pandit Tigunait access to a vast range of spiritual wisdom preserved in both the written and oral traditions. Before meeting his master, Pandit Tigunait studied Sanskrit, the language of the ancient scriptures of India, as well as the languages of the Buddhist, Jaina, and Zoroastrian traditions. In 1976, Swami Rama ordained Pandit Tigunait into the 5,000-year-old lineage of the Himalayan Masters.

Paramahamsa Yogananda was an Indian spiritual Guru who introduced westerners to Kriya Yoga. He began his spiritual journey very early in life and shared his wisdom with the world through his speeches as well as his books. After spending years in the U.S.A teaching yoga and meditation, Paramahamsa Yogananda took a Mahasamadhi in the year 1952 at the age of 59. His other works include Metaphysical Meditations, Man's Eternal Quest, Scientific Healing Affirmations, Law of Success, How You Can Talk With God, and The Bhagavad Gita: God Talks With Arjuna.

PARTHO PRATIM SEAL is presently the Principal at National Institute of Management Science and Research Foundation – Institute of Hotel Management, Kolkata. He was earlier Assistant Professor, Durgapur Society of Management Science, Durgapur and Lecturer at Institute for International Management and Technology, Bengal. Professor Seal has experience in Food Production department in various restaurants in New Delhi and in a multi speciality club at Kolkata. Chef and Chef Trainer by profession, his subjects of interest include Front Office, Food and Beverage Control and Hotel Information System. A post-graduate in Hotel Management and also Management, alumnus of IHM, Chennai, he has also authored a book – Computers in Hotels – Concepts and Application.

For over 25 years, Patrice Lynn has helped thousands of people to grow personally and professionally as a speaker, learning specialist, corporate trainer, and results coach. She has seen the model for success evolve as advances in science and spirituality have shifted our paradigms. Her book is a response to the rallying cry from people just like you—curious about how to utilize neuroscience, mental imagery, and laws of physics to create freedom and success on your own terms.

PATRICIA CRONIN MARCELLO is a freelance writer. She is the author of biographies of Jerry Garcia, Pope John Paul II, Princess Diana and Matt Damon.

Patricia Spadaro is an award-winning author of popular books on personal growth and practical spirituality, which have been published worldwide. Her most recent work is Honour Yourself: The Inner Art of Giving and Receiving.

PATRICK KING is an international bestselling author. He has sold over a million books. His writing draws from a variety of sources including research, academic experience, coaching and real-life experience.

PAUL GILBERT is the author of Sherlock Holmes and the Giant Rat of Sumatra and The Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes.

PAUL LEVY is a bestselling author and has been a Tibetan Buddhism practitioner for over thirty years. He has intimately studied with some of the greatest spiritual masters of Tibet and Burma.

Broadcast journalist PAULA RIZZO is the senior health producer for Fox News Channel in New York City and founder of ListProducer.com. An Emmy Award winner, she attributes much of her success to her compulsive list making. She lives and works in New York City.

Ani Pema Chödrön is an American-born Tibetian Buddhist nun and best selling author. She taught as an elementary school teacher for many years in both New Mexico and California. Pema has two children and three grandchildren.

PENDRED NOYCE is a physician, educator, and children’s author. She is also the author of the award-winning Lexicon Adventure series.

PERVIN SAKET was shortlisted for the Random House India Writers’ Bloc award in 2013. Her fiction has appeared in Breaking the Bow: Speculative Fiction inspired by the Ramayana, The Asian Writer Collection, Earthen Lamp Journal and other works. Her collection of poetry, A Tinge of Turmeric, was published in 2008.

PETER ALTMAN, PhD, DSc, trained as a biochemist and now works as a science writer and speaker. His areas of special interest include cosmology, biochemistry and photography. He is the Founder and Chairman of the Bricket Wood Science Group and a member of the Magic Circle in London.

PETER CASTLE (Rev. Taishin Shodo) has been trading for almost 30 years, over 20 of them full-time. During that time, he has developed stress-free methods to trade, adopting the philosophy ‘less is more’. Peter also has a passion for teaching and coaching. After many years of studying Buddhism throughout Asia and Australia, including a two-year residency in a monastery, Peter is now ordained as a Zen priest in the Mugendo Zen Kai tradition (Order of the Boundless Way).

PETER COLWELL is a certified trainer of the Dale Carnegie Skills for Success Course and creator of an award-winning leadership development program for a Fortune 500 company. He is the author of Spell SUCCESS in Your Life: A Roadmap for Achieving Your Goals and Surviving Success, which became a non-fiction bestseller in India and has been published in eight countries.

PETER HOLLINS is a bestselling author, human psychology researcher, and a dedicated student of the human condition. He possesses a BS in psychology and a graduate degree, and has worked with dozens of people from all walks of life.

PETER LIMB is Associate Professor of history at Michigan State University, East Lansing. He specializes in South African history and African studies bibliography.

PHIL COUSINEAU is an award-winning writer and filmmaker, teacher and editor, independent scholar and travel leader, storyteller and TV host.

PHILIP L. OSTERGARD read his first full-length biography of Abraham Lincoln at the age of 14 and is today a frequent speaker on Lincoln. He holds graduate degrees from the University of Southern California and Fuller Theological Seminary and served in the U.S. Army Medical Corps in World War II. Philip was a professor at Azusa Pacific University and is a founding member and lifetime director of Kare Youth League.

PHILLIP B. WAGONER is Professor of Art History and Archaeology at Wesleyan University, Connecticut, where he has taught since 1987. His research has encompassed architectural history, cultural history, numismatics, and Telugu historiographical writing. His books include Tidings of the King: A Translation and Ethnohistorical Analysis of the Rayavacakamu (Honolulu, 1993); Power, Memory, Architecture: Contested Sites on India’s Deccan Plateau, 1300-1600 (with Richard Eaton, Delhi, 2014); and the co-edited volume Palimpsests: Buildings, Sites, Time (Turnhout, 2017). SURENDRA KUMAR is a photographer based in Hampi, Karnataka, specialising in topographic panoramas. His images have been published in Discovering the Deccan: A Panoramic Journey Through Historical Landscapes & Monuments (Mumbai 2011); Temple Architecture and Art of the Early Chalukyas (New Delhi 2014); and several of the Deccan Heritage Foundation guidebooks, most recently Buddhist Rock-Cut Monasteries of the Western Ghats (Mumbai 2017).

PRADNYAA SOURABH PARIKH has more than 12 years of experience in the field of graphology. She has conducted seminars and classes on the subject of handwriting and signature analysis for both Latin and Devnagari scripts. She has hosted a radio show on graphology for a year and is also a doodle analyst as well as a certified linguist professional (German language translator). She is currently engaged in writing books on the subjects of colour therapy, doodle analysis, aura reading and body language interpretation.

PRANAB BHALLA works in the Indian IT sales industry. Throughout his career, he has donned many roles in sales and business development. From selling insurance and telecom products door to door, to closing multimillion dollar transactions for large MNCs, Pranab has gone through the grind. He is based in Gurgaon and married with two children.

PRATAP NAIR is the founder of FEI Cargo, a logistics company. Shailaja Nair Foundation – FEI’s CSR arm – was established to help women and children come up in life.

Preetha Rajah Kannan has written five books on Indian mythology, edited a translation of the Telugu Navagraha Purana and contributed to several newspapers and magazines. A homemaker and mother to two sons, she lives in Madurai, Tamil Nadu.

Preeti Shenoy is an author and an artist based at Banglore, India. Her first book '34 Bubblegums and Candies', a creative non-fiction made it to the national best-seller list. Her interests are as multifarious and diverse as her several academic degrees. She also specialises in pencil portraits and holds an internationally recornised qualification from UK in portraiture. She has held a number of varied jobs in the past. She has also written for different publications life Readers Digest and Times of India, as well as taught English and Math to underprivileged children in India. She loves art, reading, travelling, photography, nature, animals, blogging and basketball and most of all, spending time with her spouse and two children.

Born Dhanpat Rai Shrivastava on 31 July 1880 in Lamhi village near Varanasi, India, Munshi Premchand began his writing career in 1901. His first short novel, Asrar e Ma’abid (Secrets of God’s Abode), written in Urdu was published in a weekly between 8 October 1903 to February 1905. He wrote on a variety of topics including prostitution, poverty, dowry, child widowhood, and feudal system, using his works as a vehicle for arousing public awareness. He was the first Hindi author whose works featured social realism. Premchand has penned down hundreds of short stories, more than a dozen novels, plays, and several critical essays. His most celebrated works include Vardaan (1912), Seva Sadan (1918), Premashram (1922), Rangbhoomi (1925), Nirmala (1927), Pratigya (1927), Gaban (1931), Karmabhoomi (1932), Godaan (1936). Premchand breathed his last on 8 October 1936. One of the most influential writers of Indian literature, his works continue to remain popular and are translated in various foreign languages across the world.

In the early 2000s, PUJAN ROKA studied the relevance of the Bhagavad Gita to the business world and in 2006, published his analysis in Bhagavad Gita on Effective Leadership. He is currently Director of Product Management at Cox Communications in Atlanta. He has written extensively for publications like The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and The Chief Executive.

PUSHKAR SOHONI trained as an architect and then studied Indian architectural history, specialising in Islamic traditions of the Deccan. He is author of Aurangabad, with Daulatabad, Khuldabad and Ahmadnagar (Mumbai 2014). Formerly the South Asian Librarian at the University of Pennsylvanian Libraries, Philadelphia, USA, he is now Assistant Professor in Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Science, Education and Research (IISER), Pune.