Kaartikeya Bajpai, 21, a JN Tata and Sir Dorabji Tata Scholar and journalism graduate, was first published in Chandamama when he was nine and his work has since appeared in Tehelka, Helter Skelter, Muse India, Reading Hour, Sahitya Academy’s Indian Literature Journal, Spark Magazine, Roots and Meanderings Anthology, Significant Anthology, Everyman’s Science among others. He lives in New York, and is completing his masters in Creative Writing. He recently gave his first TEDx talk at IIIT, Allahabad, on: ‘How we found a way to run an international literary magazine for free’ in January 2016, followed by another TEDx talk at SRM Chennai in March 2016. In the same year, he was one of the awardees of the ‘25 under 25 Change Makers in India’ award by Campus Diaries, in the field of writing. Kaartikeya also got selected as a Global Leader for a ten day leadership program for youth, which held in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia, in August 2016.