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Amit Aggarwal

Amit Aggarwal is one of the biggest fashion designers in India today, who has also made a name for himself internationally. After graduating from National Institute of Fashion Technology, New Delhi in 2002, Mr. Aggarwal has show-cased his merit on multiple national and international platforms and has worked with some incredibly embellished designers like Tarun Tahiliani. In 2012, he launched his eponymous label "Amit Aggarwal". His debut fashion show at India Fashion Week was crowned as one of the best by Vogue India. Elle India and Marie Claire India have associated him with the title of "Best Young Indian Designer". Amit believes in finding the "magical in the mundane". He covets the lens that looks at fashion and couture from an ordinary, non-technical perspective and gives it a new life. For him, fashion comes from a true understanding of life, it is looking at events and places through a literal 'looking glass', one that subverts and reinvents the common practice. In 2011, Mr. Aggarwal collaborated with Aveda for a hair and makeup trend show and presented his collection at Paris. His work has also been exhibited at the Arken Museum in Copenhagen throwing light on the future of art and fashion from August 2012 to January 2013.

Divyansh Gupta

Divyansh Gupta started his journey of Beatboxing in 2010, where he struggled to introduce the virtually unknown art of Beatboxing to the Indian audience. Divyansh is a Beatbox artist who has been inspiring audiences throughout India to explore the potential of a human mouth. Honing his talent, over the years, he has performed and entertained audiences across the country, making appearances in multiple platforms, including 'MTV Colors of Youth - Season 5', which he won, TEDxJSSATE, Channel V and Mood Indigo. He also performed alongside various celebrities throughout the world, including Shankar Ehsaan Loy.

Eshan Sharma

Heritage Activist

Eshan Sharma is a Heritage Activist and the founder of a student-led History and Heritage promotion initiative, Karwaan : The Heritage Exploration Initiative. Upon turning seventeen, Eshan published his debut book based on the life and works of India’s former President Dr APJ Abdul Kalam titled ‘The Teacher I Never Met’ which took six years in making. What started as a heritage walk for students transformed into dynamic online conversations and lectures on YouTube and other social media platforms, where he continues to take the viewers through the back alleys of the past, led by prominent historians such as Romila Thapar, Manu Pillai, Rana Safvi and many more. Eshan truly believes that what he is doing will be looked back at by future generations as a quick glimpse into history. Through Karwaan, he aims to create an archive, a repository for students to refer to, and take continuous inspiration from.

Komal Khushwani

Komal Khushwani, a senior disciple of Pt. Jai Kishan Maharaj ji, is a post graduate in Kathak from Kathak Kendra with first position and distinction. She holds a double Masters in Dance (Kathak) from Indira Kala Sangeet Vishwavidyalaya, Khairagarh. She is an empaneled artist from Doordarshan and Spic Macay. As a young classical dancer, she aims at promoting this beautiful art form in its purest essence by carrying forward the legacy of Lucknow Gharana Kathak and her Guruji's teachings towards the upcoming generations, to bridge the gap between intergenerational perceptions in an era of modernization.

Latika Nath

Wildlife Biologist

Awarded with the title of 'The Tiger Princess' by National Geographic, which featured her life and work in a documentary in 2001, Latika Nath is one of the first wildlife biologists with a doctorate on Tiger Conservation and Management from the University of Oxford. She is the first female wildlife biologist in India to work on tigers and entered the field of tiger conservation at a time when there was no holistic scientific work on the 'Big Cats' issue. Nath has spent over 25 years working at the grassroots level for tiger conservation. In 2018, she published the acclaimed coffee table book titled 'Hidden India' on the wilderness spaces of India. Recipient of multiple prestigious scholarships, Nath has also been awarded for her work in the field of Eco Tourism by the ATOI and the Karamveer Puruskar. She recently appeared alongside Shri Amitabh Bachchan detailing India's conservation journey to the world in a series 'The Journey of India' by Warner Bros on the Discovery Channel.

Ridhi Bhutani

Slam Poet

A former literature graduate from University of Delhi, Ridhi is a writer, performer, social worker and an educator. Her work has appeared in magazines like The Pangolin Review, Houseguest Gallery Louisville and, The Wire amongst others. She has also performed for platforms like Radio Mirchi, Kommuneity and Poetry Darbaar. Formerly, she has worked as a Poetry/Prose Reader at The Athena Review Magazine, USA. She has conducted poetry workshops for institutions like IIT Delhi, IIT Guwahati and University of Delhi among others. She has won accolades in various collegiate poetry slams in and around Delhi.

Ritu Dalmia

Making our appetites tingle; for food, and for thought. Meet Ritu Dalmia - celebrity chef, restaurateur, LGBTQ+ rights activist, and an overall delightful person! “You can’t make food for profit. Your heart, mind, and soul need to be in it. So do it for the love of it”. These expressions perfectly characterize Ritu Dalmia and her love of cooking. Ms. Dalmia, at the blooming age of 16, joined her family business that imported Italian marble. Owing to the nature of her profession, she was sent to Italy to manage some sourcing, and it was at this time that she first tried and became captivated with Italian food. She never finished formal schooling. For Ms. Dalmia, experiencing unfamiliar places and conversing with natives of other cultures was invaluable. After years of hard work and following her gut, Ritu Dalmia is now a well-known Indian chef and restaurateur, head chef and co-owner of the popular Italian restaurant Diva in Delhi. She also co-owns the equally well-liked Latitude 28 and Café Diva. After three seasons of hosting NDTV Good Times' "Italian Khana," she launched the eponymous cookbook in 2009. Additionally, she has hosted the voguish show, ‘Travelling Diva’ since 2012. The fact that Ritu Dalmia is also a prominent member of the LGBTQ+ community and an LGBTQ+ rights activist adds depth and inspiration to her narrative. Dalmia and five other members of the LGBTQ+ community filed a writ petition in the Supreme Court of India in June 2016 challenging Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code. In a landmark judgement issued in 2018, the Supreme Court unanimously proclaimed the law as unconstitutional "in so far as it criminalizes consensual sexual conduct between adults of the same sex." There are layered flavors to Ritu Dalmia’s story, quite like her lip-smacking food. Inspiring, indeed!

Shamik Guha

An electronics engineer by education, Shamik is the Co-Founder and CEO at Altor Smart Mobility, a one of its kind start-up, making the world's first software-enabled helmet module to make bike rides easier, safer and more efficient. Shamik has built Altor ground-up from scratch and is leading the organization to innovate constantly, which is specifically targeted towards increasing the fleet efficiency of two-wheeler driven economies in the delivery, logistics and bike-sharing sectors. He led Altor to one of the top 10 products, out of 62000, to have been showcased in Shark Tank India Season 1 and receive a well-deserved validation and love from the stalwarts of the ecosystem.

Sheetal Agarwal

The founder of Clownselors, Ms. Sheetal Agrawal is a woman passionate about spreading smiles in the world. She calls herself a Sociologist/Social anthropologist by training, a lecturer by profession, and a big Clown at heart. Her passion for community service and humbleness for humanity prompted her to start medical clowning in Delhi in July 2016. Her organization envisions a model of medical clowning that responds to the needs of diverse human beings so that with the help of therapeutic medical clowning, one can successfully create a window of happiness for all the patients, families, medical team, and staff underscoring on the idea that a compassionate human connection has a robust power to heal. She believes in the power of empathy, laughter and care as a way to strengthen the psyche. People's beliefs can measurably affect physical healing, according to a growing body of research. This is why Sheetal Agarwal and Clownselor’s enthusiastic volunteers painted their faces, donned clown hats and set out to achieve their common goal of spreading smiles.

Someshwar Sati

Someshwar Sati is an Associate Professor of English at Kirori Mal College, Delhi University.He has been singularly responsible for the creation of multiple disability studies courses in the university and the conduction of multiple disability-centric programmes. His areas of research interest include Postcolonial Literature and Theory and Disability Studies. His latest publications include Reclaiming the Disabled Subject: Representing Disability in Short Fiction-Volume 1 (2022), and Disability in Translation: The Indian Experience (2019). He is currently the chairperson of the Indian Disability Studies Collective. He is the recipient of the 2016 C.D. Narasimhaiah Prize and has also been conferred with the National Award for the Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (2022).

Utkarsh Tripathi

Slam Poet

Utkarsh is a Delhi based spoken word artist who has been performing and competing in the circuit for more than 4 years. His art begs to be more than just snippets of his blue days and transcend to be revolutionary poems. Utkarsh is also a part of Delhi based artist collective, Soulstuff. He has been a featured performer across India and has won many collegiate level slams including BITS Hyderabad National slam, Jesus and Marry college annual slam, SGTB Khalsa annual slam and more.

Vibha Galhotra

Vibha Galhotra is conceptual artist whose multimedia oeuvre―including sculptures, installations, photographs, videos, site-specific work, and public art interventions―addresses the shifting topography of a world radically transformed by climate change, consumerism, capitalism, and globalization. Propelled by the constant negotiation between human beings and their ecosystem, Galhotra’s practice utilizes intensive research and intuitive imagination to investigate the social, economic, and political implications of human activity on the environment. She is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships including the Jerusalem International Fellowship (2022); Asia Arts Future – Asia Arts Game Changer Award, India (2019); Asian Cultural Council Fellow (2017); the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Residency (2016), and others.