Avik Davar is Founder and Managing Partner, Ace Global Consulting LLP, an alumnus of IIT Delhi, a self-employed professional who has assisted more than 160 international companies to invest and grow their businesses in India, and facilitated over Rs 1900 crore worth of FDI into India. He also works with several UN and other international agencies […]
Vipul Rikhi is a writer, singer, poet, storyteller and translator. He has been immersed in the oral traditions of Kabir and other mystic poets for over a decade. He sings mystic poetry in the folk music traditions and performs widely in India and abroad. He has authored several books, including a novel, a collection of
Sheela Nambiar’s medical career over the last 20-odd years and has been mostly in Ooty. Having interacted very closely with women on various levels, addressing both the physical and psychological needs of women across the board. A complete fitness enthusiast herself, she is a keen proponent and practitioner of weight training, Yoga, Interval training and
Shabnam Virmani is a filmmaker, singer and artist in residence at Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology in Bangalore. In 2003 she started the Kabir Project journeys, travelling with folk singers in Malwa, Rajasthan and also Pakistan in a quest for the spiritual and socio-political resonances of the 15th century mystic poet Kabir in
Sachin Bhatia is the CEO and founder of Truly Madly. He is also the co-founder of Make My Trip. He is currently working on The Desi Guide to Dating along with Ira Trivedi. His book: The Desi Guide to Dating
Kamakshi P Murti is a professor of German and European Studies. Murti’s passion for teaching has taken her through Asia, Europe and America but has not overtaken her interest in writing. She has authored various books including India: The Seductive and Seduced ‘Other’ of German Orientalism and To Veil or not to Veil: Europe’s Shape-Shifting
Ira Trivedi is the best selling author of four books, most recently of India in Love, a seminal work of non-fiction on India’s sexual revolution. Ira is a contributor to Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy and several other publications where her work on gender and culture has won awards. She is the founder of the NGO
Pav Singh is an Advocate at the Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide and a member of the Magazine and Books Industrial Council of the National Union of Journalists. In 2004, he took a year out to India to research the 1984 project, met with the victims and witnessed the political fall-out
Vayu Naidu received Europe’s first doctorate in oral traditions and performance Storytelling from The University of Leeds 1994. Her post-doctoral method was awarded the Humanities Faculty Award for teaching and her work with Chennai Tsunami survivors in 2005. Her plays for BBC Radio 4 are informed by her work in Prisons and Battered women’s shelters.