Renuka Singh is a sociologist and retired as a professor from the Centre for the Study of Social Systems, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She has been working in the field of gender studies, diaspora, and Buddhist studies for over four decades and has travelled extensively, delivering lectures at various seminars and universities abroad. She has been associated with the Women’s Studies Centre, Delhi University, Centre for Social Research, and was a research fellow at the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research on Women at Oxford University. She was also a Senior UGC Fellow and is currently the director of the Tushita Mahayana Meditation Centre, New Delhi, and the chairperson of Punjabi Sahit Sabha, New Delhi. She has authored and edited several books that have been translated into many languages. Some of these titles are The Womb of Mind, Women Reborn, The Path to Tranquillity, The Transformed Mind, Many Ways to Nirvana, The Path of the Buddha, Becoming Buddha, Dalai Lama’s Little Book of Buddhism, Dual Identity: Indian Diaspora and Other Essays, Boundless As the Sky, Dalai Lama’s Little Book of Mysticism, and The Little Book of Encouragement. Balbir Madhopuri is an eminent Punjabi writer and translator. His writings generally focus on the lives of the oppressed and depressed classes, especially Dalits. His experiments with truth began at a young age when he worked as a child labourer and agricultural worker. His autobiography Chhangiya Rukh in Punjabi was published in 2002 by Navyug Publishers. Its English translation was published in 2010 by Oxford University Press. As of 2023, Polish and Russian translations of his autobiography are due to be published. He has authored eleven books, translated forty-five books, and edited the same number in Punjabi. He has been the recipient of many awards. His novel Mitti Bol Paye (2020) won the prestigious International Dhahan Punjabi Literature Prize, 2021. He retired from the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, GOI, as Deputy Director in 2015. Presently, he is the Director of Punjabi Bhawan, and editor of Samkali Sahit, a Punjabi quarterly of Punjabi Sahit Sabha.