Rahul Sankrityayan- He is called the Father of Hindi Travelogue Travel literature. He is the one who played a pivotal role to give travelogue a 'literature form'. He was one of the most widely traveled scholars of India, spending forty-five years of his life on travels away from his home. He traveled to many places and wrote many travelogues. He is also famously known for his authentic description of his travels experiences. He received Sahitya Akademi Award in 1958 and Padma Bhushan in 1963 respectively. Sankrityayan was a polyglot, well versed in several languages and dialects, including Hindi, Sanskrit, Pali, Bhojpuri, Urdu, Persian, Arabic, Tamil, Kannada, Tibetan, Sinhalese, French and Russian. He was also an Indologist, a Marxist theoretician, and a creative writer. He started writing during his twenties and his works, totalling well over 100, covered a variety of subjects, including sociology, history, philosophy, Buddhism, Tibetology, lexicography, grammar, textual editing, folklore, science, drama, and politics.

Rory MacLean FRSL- He is a British-Canadian historian and travel writer who lives and works in Berlin and the United Kingdom. His best-known works are Stalin’s Nose, a travelogue through eastern Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall; Magic Bus, a history of the Asia Overland hippie trail; and Berlin: Imagine a City, a portrait of that city over 500 years. His second book The Oatmeal Ark (1997), explored immigrant dreams from Scotland and across Canada. It was nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. MacLean was born in Vancouver, the son of Canadian newspaper publisher Andrew Dyas MacLean and Joan Howe, former secretary to author Ian Fleming at The Times and part-inspiration for the fictional James Bond character Miss Moneypenny. He grew up in Toronto, graduating from Upper Canada College and Ryerson University. For ten years he made movies with moderate success, working with David Hemmings and Ken Russell in England, David Bowie in Berlin and Marlene Dietrich in Paris. In 1989 he won The Independent inaugural travel writing competition and changed from screen to prose writing. After completing nine travel books in the UK he wrote Berlin: Imagine a City in the capital where he blogged for the Meet the Germans website of the Goethe-Institut. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.