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   - [This article](https://help.github.com/articles/using-pull-requests/) should give you a good idea of what pull requests are how to use them.
 
 
-Your entry should maintain alphabetic order and it should be in the format
-`* your name`. This file is written in the [Markdown format](https://guides.github.com/features/mastering-markdown/)
-and the lines starting with `*` are automatically rendered as bullet points.
+Your entry should maintain alphabetic order and it should be in the format:
+
+`* your name [username](http://github.com/username)`. 
+
+This file is written in the [Markdown format](https://guides.github.com/features/mastering-markdown/).
+
+Lines starting with `*` are automatically rendered as bullet points and phrases containing `[name](URL)` are automatically hyperlinked.
 
 * Abinash Meher [abinashmeher999](http://github.com/abinashmeher999)
 * Aditya Narayan [narayanaditya95](http://github.com/narayanaditya95)
+* Aranya Dan [aranyadan](http://github.com/aranyadan)
 * Arna Ghosh [arnaghosh](http://github.com/arnaghosh)
+* Barnopriyo Barua [barno0695](http://github.com/barno0695)
 * Harsh Gupta [hargup](http://github.com/hargup)
+* Kalyan Kumar [kalyan-kumar](http://github.com/kalyan-kumar)
 * Krishna Bagadia [krishna95](http://github.com/krishna95)
+* Lovish Puri [lovishpuri](http:/github.com/lovishpuri)
 * Nevin Valsaraj [routeaccess](http://github.com/routeaccess)
+* Prabhat Agarwal [prabhat1081](http://github.com/prabhat1081)
+* Priyank Palod [priyankpalod](https://github.com/priyankpalod)
+* Shaswat Datta [Shaswat27] (http://github.com/Shaswat27) 
+* Siddharth Kannan [icyflame](http://github.com/icyflame)
+* Srichandra [srichandra](https://github.com/srichandra)
+* Vasudha Todi [todivasudha](https://github.com/todivasudha)