Arvind Kumar
Senior publishing professional.
Founded Scholastic India Pvt. Ltd., a subsidiary of Scholastic Inc., New York (the world's largest publisher and distributor of children's books) in 1997, and headed it till 2005, initially as the managing director, and later the chairman. Introduced Scholastic school book clubs and school book fairs in more than 4,000 schools across the country, exposing 4 million children to the finest books from around the world.

For a decade from 1987 to 1997, worked as the Director, National Book Trust, India, promoting books and reading, and publishing a range of books for general readers, in 16 Indian languages including English. Also represented India at various international book fairs, and organized 5 world book fairs at New Delhi.
Prior to joining NBT, as president of the all India association of Hindi publishers, was nominated by the government to the National Book Development Council, and represented the industry in a 5-member working group to formulate the National Book Policy.

Arundhati Deosthale
Trained journalist, writer, and translator.
She worked on Sahitya Akademi's project Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature and moved to Scholastic India as Chief Editor. Besides 3 books for adults and 6 books for children, and a large number of translations from major publishing houses in the country, she has a large body of journalistic writing to her credit and her recently published writing include I Dolcetti Di Ganesh, a collection of children's stories published from EMI Italy (2006) and Astrid Lindgren Omnibus in Hindi (2007).