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Rudrangshu Mukherjee was educated at Presidency College, Kolkata, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and St. Edmund Hall, Oxford. He was awarded a D.Phil in Modern History by the University of Oxford in 1981. He has taught History at the University of Calcutta and held visiting appointments at Princeton University, the University of Manchester and the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is author of Awadh in Revolt 1857-58: A Study of Popular Resistance (Delhi, 1984, repr. 2002) and Spectre of Violence: The 1857 Kanpur Massacres (Delhi, 1998). He has also edited The Penguin Gandhi Reader (Delhi, 1993) and the Art of Bengal: A Vision Defined, 1955-75 (Kolkata, 2003). He is the co-editor of Trade and Politics and the Indian Ocean World: Essays in Honour of Ashin Das Gupta (Delhi, 1998). He is now editor, editorial pages, The Telegraph.

Vir Sanghvi is probably the best-known Indian journalist of his generation.  He was twenty-two when he became Founder-Editor of Bombay magazine.  Thereafter, his brilliant career has included editorships of Imprint, one of India’s foremost feature magazines, Sunday, then India’s largest – selling weekly newsmagazine, and of Hindustan Times, north India’s biggest English – language daily.

Sanghvi also has a parallel career as an award-winning TV interviewer and has hosted various successful shows on confessed gourmand, he is India’s premier food writer.  His book Rude Food won the Cointreau Award, the international Food Business’s Oscar for Best Food Literature in the world.  He has authored several best-selling books including Men of Steel, and Madhavrao Scindia: A Life, that he co-authored.