Editor

RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR is a Mumbai-based writer, commentator, critic, columnist, and author.

A classical wordsmith, Nidamboor has published 100s of newspaper, magazine, and Web articles, essays, meditations, and critiques, on a host of subjects, including cricket. His published works also include two coffee table books, a handful of E-books, a primer on medical therapeutics, aside from an encyclopaedic treatise on Indian philosophy.

A trained physician, with a conferred doctorate in philosophical literature, Nidamboor has worked as editor with IBD, Jasubhai Media, Murray Books, Australia, and Goldshield Group, UK, among others. He is now CEO, Bellflower Publishers — a speciality imprint with interests in Web and print media.

Editor-At-Large

PETER MURRAY is Director, Murray Books, Australia. A writer, author, commentator and publisher of international repute, Murray has varied interests: from sport, history, travel, home and garden, and lifestyle, to philosophy and spirituality.

Contributing Writers

ABHA IYENGAR is a New Delhi-based writer. She has published widely in print and online, on a variety of subjects, including the best-selling The Chicken Soup series.

ALAN JONES is a career counsellor of international repute. He’s coached hundreds of job seekers, and just as many who are culturally inclined to be respectful to a fault. They have gained much empowerment from his counsel — vastly improving their performance and career success. Jones has published five books, including Winning At Interview, How To Write A Winning CV, and How To Build A Successful Career, all notable best-sellers. He lives in Wiltshire, UK.

ANDRE ZIZI is a philosophy graduate and author of The Spiritual Psychology Of The Science Of Money-Phology. A qualified teacher, writer, independent neuropsychology researcher, mentor and counsellor with a diploma in Neuro-Linguistic-Programming, Zizi lives in the UK.

BADRINATH DURVASULA is a Mumbai-based legal and corporate affairs specialist. His interests also include Indian philosophy, Carnatic classical music, consciousness studies, and spirituality.

CHRIS SUTTON, a freelance writer, is a retired veterinary nurse. She first took to writing bedtime stories to amuse her son, nearly twenty years ago. Soon after, she moved on to writing short stories for grown-ups. As a matter of fact, when Peter, her partner, first persuaded her to submit some of her work, she chuckled. But, ever since her first story, a mystery, appeared in Woman’s Own magazine in 1993, Sutton has not looked back. She has now published hundreds of stories and articles in magazines across the UK, the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Switzerland, Bahrain, and India. She lives in Essex, UK.

GAYATRI PAGDI is a Mumbai-based full-time writer. Her interests include mental, emotional and spiritual well-being, aside from empowerment of self. She writes regularly on self-help, self-healing, personal growth, and inner-work therapies too. She’s also passionate about subjects as varied as alternative healing, religion, Indology, and mind-watching. A translator of biographies of leading Indian spiritual figures, Pagdi has published several E-books on Indian culture, occult and alternative beliefs, including a conventional book on mental health empowerment [UK].

HELEN FINCH, a legal secretary, is a hobbyist writer. A married working mum, with two boys, aged nine and four, Finch writes children’s stories and adult short stories for print and Web magazines.  She enjoys most sports – just as much as she loved running the British 10K for charity in 2008. She loves the English countryside, no less, not to speak of the seaside, and spending quality time with her family. Her other interests include homoeopathy as well as reading about alternative remedies — to make lives healthier. Finch is currently working on “two non-fiction books — related to local history” — because she does not fancy doing things by half. She lives in Essex, UK.

KIRON SHENOY is a management professional, motivator, analyst, speaker, and team-player. He lives in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

MURLI MENON is a professional consultant, trainer, biochemist, linguistic expert, poet, and story-writer. He’s had an exceptional academic career — from graduation in biochemistry to MBA in marketing — and, is presently pursuing advanced doctoral research in Zen meditation and the unconscious mind. A recipient of several national and international awards, Menon is President, phenoMenon consultants inc., and best-selling author of ZeNLP: The Power To Succeed and ZeNLP: The Power To Relax. He lives in Ahmedabad, India.

NELRESSA MONIQUE is a writer-copywriter-PR consultant. A life coach, she has published widely in news and features magazines, and on the Web. A resident of New York City, she now lives in Seoul, South Korea.

RYAN HARRISON, a holistic health educator and consultant in private practice, lives in California, US. He holds a post-graduate degree in transpersonal psychology and certifications as nutritional consultant, holistic health practitioner, spiritual counsellor, and quantum-touch practitioner. Besides being an advanced practitioner of EFT [Emotional Freedom Techniques], Harrison also teaches and lectures in conventional and online forums.

SRI SUDHINDRA, an accountant by profession, practices vástu-astrology, meditation, and the spiritual arts. He has studied and also researched the subjects, first under the tutelage of a scholar and later by himself. He lives in Bengaluru.

G VENKATESH, a Research Fellow, Industrial Ecology Programme, Department of Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, is an engineer, writer, and poet — a man of many parts. His interests also include sustainable development, cricket, philosophy, spirituality, photography, and travel.

YASHWANT RAO is a Mumbai-based software engineer and budding poet.