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Kanishka Gupta is a literary agent, writer and publishing commentator best known for his internationally acclaimed series for Scroll.in called ‘Publishing and the Pandemic’. He is the founder of Writer’s Side, the largest literary agency and consultancy in South Asia. Gupta has been credited for single-handedly popularising literary representation in the subcontinent. His first novel was longlisted for the Asian Booker Prize in 2009 and was published in 2010.

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Rahul Soni is Associate Publisher, Literary, at HarperCollins India. He has also edited the anthology of Hindi poetry in English translation, Home from a Distance (2011), and translated Shrikant Verma’s collection of poetry, Magadh (2013), Geetanjali Shree’s novel The Roof Beneath Their Feet (2013), a selection of Ashok Vajpeyi’s poetry A Name for Every Leaf (2016), and Pankaj Kapur’s novella Dopehri (2019).

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Ravi Deecee is the managing partner at DC Books.

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Shantanu Ray Chaudhuri is a books editor, publisher, writer and critic. In 2017, he was named Editor of the Year by the apex publishing body, Publishing Next. He contributes regularly to a number of publications. He is also a published author, with two books to his credit: Whims – A Book of Poems (published by Writers Workshop) and Icons from Bollywood (published by Penguin/Puffin).

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