Speakers

Azhar Iqbal Azhar Iqbal is a name widely recognized and followed in the world of Urdu poetry and literature. He is regularly featured at all the prominent Urdu/Hindi language festivals and Mushairas, including "Jashn-E-Rekhta", "Jashn-E-Bahaar", "Shankar Shaad Mushaira" and many others. Azhar’s performance and poetry has...

Geetika Saigal Geetika Saigal is the author of an Amazon Bestseller, "Finding Your G-Spot", former youngest sales director worldwide of Cable & Wireless’ Global Markets Channel and an entrepreneur, Geetika has many feathers in her hat. Having worked all over India and Overseas as a Global...

Akassh K Aggarwal Akassh K Aggarwal is the LGBTQ right activist. He represented the community on various national news channels such as NDTV, CNN NEWS18, REPUBLIC TV, MIRROR NOW, IndiaToday, AajTak, Times Now. He has also worked with NHRC on The Gender Sensitization Programme and now...

Narendra Kohli Narendra Kohli is an award winning Hindi-language author. He was awarded the Vyas Samman in 2012 and Padma Shri in 2017. He is credited with reinventing the ancient form of epic writing in modern prose. He is also regarded as a trend-setter in the...

SABARNA ROY Sabarna Roy is the author of five books: "Random Subterranean Mosaic 2012 – 2018 - Time frozen in myriad thoughts", "Pentacles", "Frosted Glass", "Abyss", and "Winter Poems". A civil engineer by profession (he passed out from Jadavpur University in 1988), Roy spends his time...

Shiwanand Dwivedi Shiwanand Dwivedi is an author of "Amit Shah Aur Bhajapa Ki Yatra", columnist and Sr. Research Fellow at Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee Research Foundation....

Ajay Suri Ajay Suri has been a media person for over 25 years now, and as would be expected, have worn different hats all this while. He started out as a political journalist with The Indian Express, New Delhi, and after some 10 years there, joined...

Dr. Shipra Mathur Shipra Mathur is the Consulting Editor of India America Today (published from Washington DC), Chief Editor of MEERA (digital newspaper with gender lens), Independent Journalist, Adviser at UNFPA digital radio initiative for rural audience, Naubat Baja and Founder Secretary of PEN Media Foundation...

Ravi Rai Ravi Rai has been a household name more as a writer, than a producer director in the world of television and films. His famous works on television, written, produced and directed by him include ‘Sailaab’, ‘Thoda hai thode Ki zaroorat hai’ ‘Teacher’ and ‘Sparsh’....

Sanjay Kumar Sanjay Kumar is the India Country Director of The Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute, Harvard University. Prior to this, he was involved at leadership positions with SEWA Movement for about two decades that organizes poor self-employed women workers in the informal economy in...