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Swaraj Sadan Hall
Opp. IIM Rohtak, MD University Campus
Rohtak, Haryana, 124001
India

Aditi Angiras

Poet + Gender Activist

Aditi Angiras is a poet and activist based in New Delhi, India. Her writing deals with politics, desire, modern love and all things queer and feminist. She is also the founder of Bring Back The Poets, a spoken word poetry initiative that deals with politics, sexuality and activism through poetry in public spaces. She is actively involved in the quest for and the creation of de-institutionalized and anti-establishment spaces for discussions/poetry/love/living.

Dhruv Raj Sharma

Vocabularist

Dhruv is the pioneer of formal etymology education in India as well as abroad. His passion in educating students about the English Language stems from the realization that thinking capabilities of students are bogged down by rote learning techniques being used almost everywhere. He took up the challenge to redefine the way people learn vocabulary and has been greatly appreciated. Dhruv has successfully spread his learning in many prestigious schools and colleges.

Divakar Sankhla

Education Activist

Divakar is an engineer from IIT-Madras and an MBA from IIM-Lucknow by education, Sales Manager at Pepsico and Business Analyst at Citibank by corporate experience, and an explorer and learner by interest. To explore his interests further, he took a sabbatical from Citibank and joined the Teach for India Fellowship. He loved the experience of teaching a class full of bright children from an under-resourced community for 2 years. The experience reinforced his belief in the capability of children to create lasting impact. He continues to work with children across income segments to get them involved in the process of societal change. He is passionate about social entrepreneurship and creating a collaborative ecosystem of social entrepreneurs who will work towards solving the most pressing problems of our society.

Ritu Saini

Entrepreneur + Survivor

When Ritu giggles, she gives no indication of the ordeal she’s gone through in the year 2012. One look at her face, though, tells her horror story. Overnight, Ritu’s life was changed by an acid attack. She has had to drop out of school, leave state-level volleyball practice, and has confined herself to her Rohtak home. Unfortunately, Ritu comes from Haryana – a state with a skewed sex ratio, which has made growing up for Ritu even harder. Now, Ritu runs a cafe in Agra with other such survivors which allows them to lead their life, the way they like it.

Rupa .

Acid Attack fighter Rupa likes to stitch clothes, and she has designed garments from her own. Even in the darkest of hours, when she was fighting the prejudices that followed after she was attacked by acid, Rupa chose to wake up to her dreams of opening her own boutique.

Sandeep Mehto

Education Activist

Sandeep hails from the village of Pathrota, one of the poorest tribal areas in Kesla. He is among the first to receive higher education in his family. Throughout his journey from his village to TISS, Mumbai, he kept pondering over where the rural student goes. To explore this question, he started Bharat Calling, a peer-to-peer mentoring and volunteering programme which has touched 42000 students through its awareness sessions and has linked students from more than 150 interior villages to prestigious colleges of India. This Changelooms, Plustrust, TISS-DBS and Prerana fellow has been featured amongst the most inspirational youths across India at various platforms including KBC, Power of Inspiration (Tehelka) and Down to Earth to name a few. He is now developing “Bharat Calling” as a platform to increase access and equity in higher education incorporating the tools of facilitation, replication and advocacy.

Sanjay Nekkanti

Private Space Entrepreneur

Sanjay comes with a Spacecraft engineering background with experience of building Nano-Satellites in India, CubeSats in Singapore and few other space related projects in Europe. He has a Masters degree in Space Technology from Sweden and a Masters degree in Spatial Techniques and Instrumentation from France. As part of Dhruva Space, Sanjay has established key relationships with Spacecraft developers in Europe & USA, most recent of them being signing of an MoU between Dhruva Space and Berlin Space Technologies for jointly manufacturing earth observation micro-satellites in India. Sanjay is also the President of Society of Satellite Professionals - India, serves on the board of National Institute of Amateur Radio, India.

Shreya Prakash

Social Entrepreneur

Shreya Prakash comes with vibrant experiences and impactful stories to tell– a trained classical dancer, she is a part of many societal projects such as Kora Kagaz (a book binding and distribution initiative) and Make A Difference. She was a teaching assistant at a school in Krakow, Poland. Shreya is currently Head of Recruitment at the Infomission Project. A 2015 passout from Christ University, Bangalore, she counts education, travelling and psychology as her primary interests. She will be pursuing her Masters in Education from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Hyderabad