Laila Tyabji
Founder & Chairperson, DASTKAR Society

Laila Tyabji is a designer, writer, and founder member and Chairperson of DASTKAR Society for Crafts and Craftspeople. She has worked in the craft and development sector since 1978. She received the Padma Shri for her work in 2012. She is the founder of Dastkar, a national NGO providing a variety of support services to traditional artisans. Working with over 650 grassroots producer groups and approximately 67,000 artisans all over India, its goal is to help craftspeople (India’s second largest employment sector) regain their place in the economic mainstream.

M K Venu
Founding Editor, The Wire
Former Executive Editor, The Hindu

M.K.Venu is a partner and director on the board of a web newspaper called "The Wire" (thewire.in) which offers deep analysis in the area of policies and politics. He has been an active journalist from 33 years and successfully performed leadership roles in reputed newspapers such as The Economic Times, The Financial Express and The Hindu and Amar Ujala.

Venu is regularly engaged in political-economy discussions on Rajya Sabha TV and on other private TV channels. He has been invited by Parliamentary Committees to share his views on policy matters. His views are sought on global radio and TV channels such as BBC and Al Jazeera. Venu's program on RSTV focuses on interviewing policymakers, economists, industrialists and NGO heads to bring out the nuances of public policy in critical areas of governance.

He writes for the editorial pages of the The Economic Times, Indian Express, Financial Express and The Hindu. His writings are largely related to analysing the political economy transformation of India in the wake of its rapid economic globalisation in the past few decades which had a major impact on various sections of society such as the urban middle class, farmers and small service providers in rural areas.

Rajesh Badal
Executive Director, RSTV

Rajesh Badal, Executive Director, RajyaSabha Television has over 40 years of rich experience in the media industry across various formats like TV, Print, Radio and Web. He also has a vast experience of reporting as he has covered more than 10 general elections.

He represents the first generation of TV journalists in India and has worked with several esteemed media organisations like DD, IndiaToday, Navbharat Times, Nai Dunia, Dharamyug, Ravivar, Dinmaan, Sunday Observer etc. He has directed more than 100 documentaries of which documentaries on Ruskin Bond, Sahir Ludhiyanvi, Amrita Pritam, Neeraj, Dushyant kumar have been highly appreciated.

Ritu Kumar
Fashion Designer

Ritu Kumar is one of India’s foremost designers, who has developed a unique style of her own, reflecting the ancient traditions of Indian craftsmanship in a contemporary vocabulary. With a background in an art history and museology, which has enriched her horizons, Ritu’s understanding of ancient designs and the innovative use of traditional crafts has created a new classicism.
Her work today has gone much beyond revival – It is constantly evolving within an aesthetic which is sophisticated both in the eastern and western sense, with each of her collections making a contemporary statement in a fast changing modern India.
Ritu Kumar, has also been awarded the Padma Shri Award 2013, the country's fourth highest civilian award for her exceptional and distinguished service in the field of fashion, textile and craftsmanship.

Santosh Bhartiya
Editor-in-Chief, Chauthi Duniya Group of Media

Santosh Bhartiya is the political analyst and renowned journalist. He is one of those daring and visionary journalist who is the pride of Indian journalism. He is titled as ‘voice of the country’ for his honest style of informing the country through his power of truth and facts. He stands in top 10 journalists of India and is very popular in the Asian countries. He, along with two more renowned journalists, pioneered the method of doing ‘investigative reporting ’ on DoorDarshan; the first ever program titled as ‘NEWSLINE’.
Mr. Santosh Bhartiya is the Editor in Chief of a popular weekly News paper, ‘Chauthi Duniya’ which targets a niche market of Bureaucracy & Political world. In addition to it he gives a weekly program titled as “do took” on India News Channel since one and a half years and the same program with the same title has earned its popularity on ETV Urdu for almost 3 years half a decade back. His TV programs ‘Election News Line’ and ‘Rajneeti’ are still popular on ETV and TV9 news channel portals.
Dalit Minority Empowerment; Nishaane Per; Padaav Aur Manzilen; Chunaav Reporting Aur Media; Patrakarita …. Are the books authored by him which are read by various universities and courses of journalism. Recently he also penned the screenplay for a feature film.
In the election for 9th Lok Sabha of Indian Parliament, Santosh Bhartiya was elected in the Lok Sabha from the Farrukhabad Constituency of Uttar Pradesh and became the Member of Indian Parliament. Mr. Bhartiya is titled as “Sabse Nirbheek and Vishvasniye Patrakar”in the world Indian Journalism.

Saurabh Shukla
Editor in Chief, Newsmobile Asia - ‎NewsMobile

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Shammi Narang
Director, PINDROP Media

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Sonal Kalra
National Editor - Entertainment & Lifestyle ,Hindustan Times

Sonal Kalra is the National Editor of HT heads Entertainment, Art and Lifestyle for 28 nationwide editions of the publication's daily supplements HT City in New Delhi and HT Cafe in Mumbai.
A featured writer and journalist since 1996, She is the author of the books “A Calmer You” and “More of a Calmer You” which are based on her column. The books have been rated among the best seller self-help books in top bookstores across the Indian metros. She is also the co-author of  “E-Government Toolkit for Developing Countries” published by the United Nations. A paper authored by her on India.gov.in: India's answer to single entry portals was presented and published at the International Conference on Digital Government Research 2008, Montreal, Canada.
Sonal is a gold medalist from the IIMC, New Delhi and recipient of many prestigious awards including the Ramnath Goenka award for Best Film Journalist, Excellence in Journalism award 2010 and 2012 by International think tank GPS. Her other awards include the Public Relations Society of India award 1996, Best Content award for National Portal by Government of India 2005 and Manthan Award for exemplary content practices 2007.
In September 2011, she was awarded with the prestigious title of Dr Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan Rashtriya Samman for contribution to media and Young Achievers Award 2011 for excellence in media by the communications academy Whistling Woods International.
In January 2012, Sonal Kalra was conferred with the Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence in Film Journalism presented by the Hon'ble Vice President.
Sonal has also received the 'Outstanding contribution to Journalism' award 2009 from the World Punjabi Organisation, an International non-political body, for the above series.

Vinod Agnihotri
Consulting Editor, Amar Ujala

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