Shashi Tharoor (Delhi, India) is a Member of Parliament in India and the former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations. He is a Commonwealth Writers' Prize-winning author of 12 books, including "The Great Indian Novel". Other authors featured in the anthology: Suchen Christine Lim (inaugural Singapore Literature Prize winner and well-known author in Singapore); Felix Cheong (Singaporean author of 7 books and regular speaker at writers festivals all over the world); Jaishree Misra (author of 7 novels, published by Penguin and Harper Collins, all of which have been Indian bestsellers); O Thiam Chin (one of Singapore's bright new stars on the writing scene); Anjali Menon (a filmmaker and author originally from Kerala who now lives in London and Bombay); Verena Tay (well-known writer and director in Singapore theatre circles and the author of several plays.)