A journalist by training, Svetlana Alexievich has spent most of her life in the Soviet Union and present-day Belarus. She is also the author of Zinky Boys (1990) and Chernobyl Prayer (1997)
Ram Madhav is a member of the National Executive of RSS and a founding member of the governing council of India Foundation. He is the author of, among other titles, Partitioned Freedom and The Hindutva Paradigm