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Arun Kumar has been watching the Indian poll scene for thirty years as a professional journalist. Since 1989, he has organized the election coverage of the Press Trust of India, the country's premier news agency – on five occasions for the Lok Sabha, besides numerous polls to the state assemblies. This is the fifth in the series of election books by the author. His works include, The Tenth Round: The story off the 1991 elections, The Battle for the Heartland, on the 1993 assembly elections, The Turning Point telling the 1996 poll story and On Coalition Course after the 1998 voting exercise. A Master in Political Science, with international relations, in 1980 he became the first Indian correspondent to serve in Pakistan after the 1965 Indo-Pak war. From one closed society, he went to another – China before returning back to India in 1988. Born in Delhi in 1946, Arun Kumar worked for a Delhi magazine and a newspaper in Ahmedabad before joining PTI in s1969. He now works as a Public Affairs Adviser.

Dr. Vinod Khanna, born on 1st August 1951, is working with Zoological Survey of India.  He completed his Post graduation in Zoology-Entomology from Allahabad University in the year 1972.  He has been awarded D. Phil from the Garhwal University on the topic "Taxonomic and Econogical Studies on the Scolopendrid Centipeds (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha: Scolopendridae) from Western Himalaya, U.P." In the year 1988.  Dr. Khanna is a lifetime Associate Member of the Centre International de Myriapodologie (CIM) - a unit run by Museum Nationale de Histore Naturelle, Paris France, and a member of IUCN, Switzerland.  He has more than 100 research papers to his credit on Centipeds and a book on "Globally Threatened Indian Fauna".