Roopa Pai

Roopa Pai is a Bangalore-based author who has written extensively for both children and adults. As a columnist of long standing and a guide with the heritage walks and tours company that she cofounded, BangaloreWalks, she has chronicled aspects of her hometown's history, culture and people, brought together in her books Becoming Bangalore and Cubbon Park: The Green Heart of Bengaluru.

Among this computer engineer and former business journalist's other notable books are the award-winning bestseller The Gita for Children and fitness evangelist Milind Soman's memoir Made in India. Core Strength is her first business biography.

ARCHANA SREENIVASAN

ARCHANA SREENIVASAN is a Bangalore-based illustrator whose work has appeared in magazines, comics and books for children, in India and abroad. She studied animation film design at the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, and attended a summer residency at the School of Visual Arts in New York, where she studied illustration. She’s a nature lover, people-drawer, and would like very much to be a cat.