For Authors, By Authors. Our core editorial team brings 85+ years of combined experience and 20+ published books of our own.
Amrita Tripathi is an author, podcaster and the founder of Say Again Press. The former Head of Content Partnerships, Twitter India, she has a background as an award-winning journalist, with 23 years of experience in the media, spanning print, broadcast and digital.
She is the host of Say Again with Amrita Tripathi, a podcast that delves into some of the deeper questions around success and failure, empathy and leadership and more. Amrita has written 7 books across fiction and non-fiction. Her three novels—Broken News, The Sibius Knot, and The Other Sister—deal with the darker side of urban realities. She has also co-authored four books with leading Indian psychologists and psychiatrists.
Amrita set up India's pioneering mental health story-telling platform The Health Collective a decade ago focusing on stories with an India lens. As the Founder of Tap in Tribe, she has spearheaded high-level initiatives focusing on women in leadership, including partnerships with the Government's G20 #Empower initiative.
She is also Member, FICCI's national DE&I Task force and Member BRICS Women’s Business Alliance Working Group (Healthcare).
Author and Sports Editor Sundeep Misra is a veteran sports journalist and Festival Director of the Ekamra Sports Literature Festival, the first of its kind of festival in the world.
He is the author of Gunned Down: Murder of an Olympic Champion, Forgive Me Amma: The Life and Times of Dhanraj Pillay, The Mohammed of Benares and Other Stories and Editor, The Best of Indian Sports Writing amongst other books.
Sundeep has covered nine consecutive hockey World Cups, multiple Olympic and Asian Games and reported on a generation of players and coaches. He is also the Sports Editor of NNIS Sports, a platform that looks closely at Track & Field.
Heading up the Say Again Press Sports List, with a keen eye for the untold story, the action happening beyond the news glare and after the clickbait dies down, he champions the voices we don't often hear enough of after their 15 mins of fame – the players who risk everything to achieve the impossible.
Author & Publishing Consultant Himanjali Sankar has been a publisher and editor of fiction, narrative non-fiction, children's books, travel books and academic journals, with various publishing houses and institutions, over the last 25 years. She was Editorial Director at Simon & Schuster India from 2018 to 2025, prior to which she was Associate Publisher at Bloomsbury India.
Himanjali has edited around 300 books and authored nine of her own. Her children's and YA books have been shortlisted for the Crossword Book Award and for the Neev Award. Mrs C Remembers, her first novel for adults, won her the FICCI Publishing Award for Upcoming Author of the Year in 2018.
Himanjali is Mentor and Consultant Editor for the Khozem Merchant-Himalayan Writing Residency Fellowship, as well as Managing Editor, Fiction, with The Bombay Literary Magazine. She also serves on several literary juries.
Devangana Dash is an award-winning visual designer, art director, illustrator, and design educator specialising in book covers and editorial design. With over a decade of experience in the industry, she collaborates with leading publishing houses worldwide to bring stories to life.
During her tenure as a Senior Designer at Penguin Random House India and a Consulting Designer at HarperCollins India, Devangana has shaped the visual identities of the works of some of the most notable voices of our time. Her work has earned significant recognition, most recently winning the 10th Oxford Bookstore Book Cover Prize.
She has mentored the next generation of talent as an Assistant Professor at the Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology. She is also the author-illustrator of The Jungle Radio: Birdsongs of India (Penguin Random House India, 2019), a critically acclaimed picture book honoured by the South Asia Book Award and Comic Con India.
At Say Again Press, Devangana leads the design of our books, working closely with editors to shape visual stories that grow from conversations, care, and clarity. She works independently from her studio in New Delhi.
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Executive Director, The Lalit Suri Hospitality Group & Founder, Keshav Suri Foundation
Founder of Sentlogix, focused on redefining how enterprises use AI. With over two decades of leadership experience across private equity, technology & media, Abhishek brings a rare combination of strategic foresight & operational depth.
Former Group CEO at Balaji Telefilms, where he oversaw a turnaround using digital first strategies. Previously, as Head of M&A & Strategy at Snapdeal, he led over $700 million worth of transactions. Also served as COO of Private Equity firm Jupiter Capital.
Co-Founder, Stck.me.
He firmly believes that post the AI, social media and e-commerce revolution we are finally entering a new age in favour of independent publishers. Today, technology and global distribution is available to everyone around the world. For the first time, a sustainable direct-to-readers business model is possible.
In this new world, creativity is the only differentiator.
Executive Director, The Lalit Suri Hospitality Group & Founder, Keshav Suri Foundation.
Healthtech Entrepreneur. Health Innovation Fellow at Yale School of Public Health and Founder-in-Residence at Tsai CITY.
Works with early-stage startups across healthcare, innovation, and venture ecosystems.