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Dr. Pramod Kumar Agrawal has obtained his Masters degree in Business Management and Law.  He was awarded the Doctorate in Law by the University of Allahabad.  He has a book Land Reforms in India - Constitutional and Legal Approach, an edited volume Environment Protection and Pollution Control in the Ganga, and many articles published in various newspapers to his credit.  Dr. Agrawal belongs to the 1976 batch of Indian Administrative Service of West Bengal cadre.  He worked for about a decade in the District Administration and was for five years with the Ganga Project Directorate in the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Wild Life, Government of India.  At present, he is the Additional Director, Administrative Training Institute and Special Secretary, Government of West Bengal at Calcutta.

Parvez Dewan was educated at St. Stephen's College, Delhi, and the University of Cambridge, and was elected a Visiting Research Fellow of Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford University. He hitchhiked through Nicaragua to study its total literacy miracle and trawled Cambodia and Central Asia for their architectural links to Kashmir's temples and shrines. An officer of the Indian Administrative Service, he is currently the Divisional Commissioner of Kashmir. Two of his libretti were recorded as rock operas in Denmark, a third was telecast on Britain's Channel Four (and none of the three was ever heard of again). At St. Stephen's he was elected President of the College Union society and was awarded the L. Raghubir singh History Prize for ranking first in his B.A. (Hons.) class. At Cambridge, he was awarded the Jennings Prize in 1987 for obtaining the highest marks, and a distinction, in the Development Studies class. He was the Senior Treasurer of the Cambridge University (C.U.) Friends of the Earth and was also with the C.U. Green Party. Most of the publications that Parvez has written for had to fold up (Youth Times, JS, The Hindustan times Evening News, The Metropolitan on Saturday, Shama (Urdu) and such sections of The Times of India as he regularly contributed to). However, some survived (notably the Times of India, India Today, The Hindustan Times, The Statesman and Stardust).