Jaya Misra
Writer
Jaya Misra is a writer, creative director and producer in the world of television, films and documentaries. She has also nurtured projects on sports, fashion and fiction.A screenwriter by profession, Jaya has written critically acclaimed shows like ‘Kehne Ko Humsafar Hain’ for Alt Balaji, ‘Timeout’ for Voot and many more. Novel writing, however, was completely new to her. Her debut novel ‘Kama: The Story of Kama Sutra,’ was purely to find out if she could write it.
Lena Robra
Bio-Chemist
Bio-Chemist, Lena Robra moved to India from Germany in 2012 to pursue her PhD. She has been cycling for a long time and started participating often in cycling events after the BBCh ITT, 2015 where she has been placed first multiple times. She is currently a Co-ordinator, Bengaluru Sustainability Forum as well as one of the founder and organiser of The Moving Waters Film Festival.
CSR Consultant and Strategist
Founder & CEO at SHAKTISHI, a boutique Consulting & Advisory firm, she has a progressive 16 years of work experience with leading organizations across countries like USA and India and more in Latin America.
Formerly employed, as an Assistant Director, National Foundation For CSR, Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs (IICA), Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Government of India. At IICA, she was spear heading the CSR knowledge management and have co- authored the national academic content on CSR Legislation for the Government of India.
Viaual Artist
Rajyashri Goody is a visual artist and ethnographer exploring socially engaged art practice. Grounded in the principles of visual anthropology, her research interests span caste and class structure and interpretations of hierarchical patterns in societies.
Having recently completed a Visiting Artist Fellowship at Harvard University and a residency at ISCP, New York, awarded by INLAKS, she is currently in Pune researching narratives of resistance within Dalit food practices.
Artist
Ranjit Dahiya lives and works in Mumbai. He is a communication designer and artist and works around traditional and digital media tools and system design thinking. He is the founder of Bollywood Art Project (BAP), a an urban public art project that aims to transform the walls in Mumbai into a living memorial to Bollywood. Cinema builds culture and perceptions, and it is a record of our lives and the times we live in and this is the engine for his work. Celebrate and spread Indian culture making it accessible to everybody.
Musician
Vasu Dixit is a bold free spirit and the band Swarathma’s inspired composer. His lyrics speak of his sensitive engagement with life, while his stage act speaks of the natural showman he is. Vasu Dixit's unique way of experimenting with tunes in Hindi, Kannada, English and Punjabi has steered his band, Swarathma toward great success - and he is seen throughout the music world as a highly talented singer and songwriter.