Roopa Pai is one of India's best-known children's authors. She
has written more than 20 books, spanning subjects ranging
from popular science to fantasy and philosophy to economics.
Her books, which include the award-winning national
bestseller The Gita for Children, and Taranauts, India's first
complete fantasy-adventure series for children, are enjoyed by
readers of all ages.
This computer engineer brings together three other loves -
history, working with young people, and her home town
Bengaluru - in her day job as a guide with BangaloreWalks, a
history and heritage walks and tours company.
She is currently hard at work trying - and often failing - to
master the 99 skills she believes every world-conquering teen
must possess. (No, she is no longer one.)

All you need to do is crack the 99 fundamental - and fun - life
skills outlined in this book, and win all the 24 Merit Badges and
4 Shields inside. The best part? You compete only with yourself!
By the time you're through, you will own skills as diverse as
growing your own veggies in a Square Foot Garden to petitioning
for change in your community, making a cup of chai to setting up
a sickroom, launching your own business to telling time by the
position of the moon!