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Jay Vardhan Singh is currently doing his PhD in Ancient Indian History at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. His area of interest includes the Ancient and early medieval history of the Indian subcontinent.

Iqbal Chand Malhotra has produced over five hundred hours of programming telecasts worldwide. He has directed four internationally acclaimed, award-winning feature documentaries. He is a member of the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and has served for several years on the panel of jurors for the International Emmy Awards. Malh…

Shah Faesal is an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer. In 2010, he became the first Kashmiri to top the Union Public Services Commission (UPSC) examination. He tendered his resignation from the Indian bureaucracy in protest on 9 January 2019. On 4 February 2019, Shah Faesal began his political life by giving a public speech in his hometown …

Iqbal Chand Malhotra has produced over five hundred hours of programming telecasts worldwide. He has directed four internationally acclaimed, award-winning feature documentaries. He is a member of the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and has served for several years on the panel of jurors for the International Emmy Awards. Malh…

A public policy consultant with a strong focus on social impact. Passionate about addressing urban development challenges and dealing with the rural-urban divide.A Co-founder at Centre for Youth Culture Law and Environment (CYCLE) which is a non-profit organisation based in New Delhi, India. It works with people and the government to improve the im…

Purnima Dhar is Program Incharge of Women Helpline 181 in J&K and Director, Aman Satya Kachroo Trust (Aman Movement).Manisha Tiwary is a writer and Director, Aman Satya Kachroo Trust.Integrated Sakhi One Stop Center & 181 - Universal Women Helpline (Sakhi/181) is a scheme of the Union Government to restore Equality & Dignity of women in India. The …

Swapan Dasgupta is a senior Indian journalist and politician. He is one of foremost Conservative writers, writing columns for leading English dailies espousing Indian nationalism. He is a former member of the Rajya Sabha. In 2015, Dasgupta was conferred with the Padma Bhushan for his contribution to literature and education. He fought the 2021 West…

Monika Halan’s career spans across media, public policy and financial education. She is the Founder of Dhan Chakra Financial Education and Author of the bestselling book, Let’s Talk Money. She has public policy experience and has served on several high-profile government of India and SEBI committees. She has worked across various media organisation…

Dr. Arvinder Singh Soin is the Chief Hepatobiliary and Liver Transplant Surgeon & Chairman of the Institute of Liver Transplantation and Regenerative Medicine, Medanta - The Medicity, Gurugram.A surgeon and pioneer in the field of liver transplantation, acknowledged for his work in establishing liver transplantation in India. Dr. Soin also runs the…

Colonel (retd) Hunny Bakshi is a decorated Indian army officer who led the Technical Support Division (TSD), a covert intelligence counter terror ops unit.

Colonel (redt.) Yogander Singh is a retired Indian Army officer and military historian, with special focus on Haryana. He has written several books, most prominent among them being 'Hal Wa Samshir: Politico-Military History of Haryana'.

Akshat Gupta is a national bestselling author, a TEDx speaker and an excelling screenwriter and dialogue writer in the Indian film industry. The Hidden Hindu series, authored by him, has sold over 1 lakh copies, with each book a national bestseller. Akshat is well known in the publishing industry, as well as in the Indian film industry, with a numb…

Balaji Vittal is the co-author of the National Award-winning book, RD Burman: The Man, The Music, and the MAMI Award-winning book, Gaata Rahe Mera Dil- 50 Classic Hindi Film Songs. His most recent book, Pure Evil - The Bad Men of Bollywood, looks at the changing face of the Hindi film villain.

Rami Niranjan Desai is a North East India Specialist, as founding director of the North East Policy Institute, Guwahati she worked extensively in the area publishing on Insurgency and conflict, religion & social movements. She is presently Director of Pathfinder India Consultancy, an organisation that undertakes research and analysis. She has compl…

Rajarshi Ranjan Nandy is an upasaka, speaker, and columnist, who also guides people interested in the practice of sadhana.His book 'Adhyatmikta' has been re-published with a new publication house 'Blue One Ink'. Order your copy here: https://amzn.eu/d/bhUFvRj

Duvvuri Subrahmanyam is an Assistant Professor of Aerospace Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), where he leads the Turbulent Shear Flow Physics and Engineering Laboratory (TSFPEL). His research interests are broadly in the area of aero/fluid dynamics, with a focus on turbulent shear flows in both incompressible (subsonic) and com…

Dr Aloke Kumar is an Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He did his B.Tech and M.Tech from IIT Kharagpur. He also has a Ph.D. from Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA.He has been a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University, USA, an Assistant Professor at University of Alberta, Cana…

Anusha and Vishali Shetty are full-timers at Aarsha Vidya Samajam. Established in 1999 by Yogacharya Sri K R Manoj ji , Aarsha Vidya Samajam has been successful in influencing and inculcating a sense of Sanathana Dharma in tens of thousands of people, and returning more than 7000 people, both men and women from dangerous ideologies, saving several …

Arihant Pawariya is host of Vaad.Rohit Pathania is an author, analyst and observer with varied interests in politics, history and environment.Nishant Dahiya is a Haryanvi Researcher and host of The Haryanvi Podcast. In this episode we discuss with him the evolution of Haryanvi Identity and diversity of Haryanvi Language.…

Nishant Dahiya is a Haryanvi Researcher and host of The Haryanvi Podcast. In this episode, we discuss with him the evolution of Haryanvi Identity and diversity of Haryanvi Language.

Jay Vardhan Singh is currently doing his PhD in Ancient Indian History at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. His area of interest includes the Ancient and early medieval history of the Indian subcontinent.

Monika Halan’s career spans across media, public policy and financial education. She is the Founder of Dhan Chakra Financial Education and Author of the bestselling book, Let’s Talk Money. She has public policy experience and has served on several high-profile government of India and SEBI committees. She has worked across various media organisation…

Anshul Jubli is an Indian mixed martial artist from Uttarakhand who currently signed to the lightweight division of Ultimate Fighting Championship, where he became the second person from India after Bharat Kandare, to get an UFC contract, as well as first person from India to win an UFC match.

Kuljinder Dhillon is a common man from the Majha region in Punjab. Like tens of thousands of youth, he also got swept away by the Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale-led Khalistan movement in late 1970s and early 1980s. He was inside the Golden Temple when the Indian Army launched a military operation codenamed 'Blue Star' to take control of the holy comple…

R. Jagannathan has been at the forefront of Indian journalism for well over four and a half decades. Currently the Editorial Director of Swarajya magazine, he has been part of many launch teams, including Business Today, DNA and Firstpost.com. He headed and revamped many business publications, such as Financial Express, Indian Management, Business …

Prakhar Shrivastava is a popular and acclaimed media professional with over 2 decades of TV journalism in Bharat (or India) with mainstream media channels like India TV, Zee News, आज तक Aaj Tak (India Today), NDTV and News 24. Currently, he is Senior Consulting Editor, DD News.

Dinkar P. Srivastava joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1978. In 1993-94, as Director (UNP), he was part of successful Indian lobbying efforts against four Pakistani attempts to have resolutions on J&K adopted in UN General Assembly and UN Commission on Human Rights. He was involved in the drafting of National Human Rights Commission statute. As …

Jay Vardhan Singh is currently doing his PhD in Ancient Indian History at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. His area of interest includes the Ancient and early medieval history of the Indian subcontinent.

Meenakshi Jain is a historian interested in cultural and religious developments in ancient and medieval India. Her recent publications include Vasudeva Krishna and Mathura (2021); Flight of Deities and Rebirth of Temples (2019); The Battle for Rama: Case of the Temple at Ayodhya (2017); Sati: Evangelicals, Baptist Missionaries, and the Changing Col…

Rohit Pathania is an author, analyst and observer with varied interests in politics, history and environment.

Colonel Hunny Bakshi is a decorated retired Indian army officer who led the Technical Support Division (TSD), a covert intelligence counter terror ops unit.

Subedar Major and Honorary Captain Yogendra Singh Yadav PVC is a retired commissioned officer in the Indian Army, who was awarded the highest Indian wartime gallantry decoration, the Param Vir Chakra, for his actions during the Kargil War. He is the youngest recipient of the Param Vir Chakra to date, having received it at the age of 19. He has writ…

Prakash Singh is retired IPS officer with an excellent track record of combating terrorism/insurgency in the most turbulent theaters of the country - Nagaland, Assam, Punjab, J&K, and (in the Terai area of) UP. He was Police Chief of two of the largest states of India – Uttar Pradesh and Assam, and also commanded India’s Border Security Force (BSF)…

Dr Rishi Rajpopat was born and brought up in Mumbai and pursued his undergraduate degree in economics at St. Xavier's Mumbai. He earned a masters in oriental studies with a focus on Pāṇini grammar at Oxford before going on to pursue a PhD in the same field at Cambridge.

Vaibhav Singh is founder of Defensive Offence and Co-founder of DO Politics.

Jay Vardhan Singh is currently doing his PhD in Ancient Indian History at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. His area of interest includes the Ancient and early medieval history of the Indian subcontinent. Follow Jay’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@JayVardhanSingh

Since 1999, Vikas Manhas has been visiting families of soldiers of the Indian Armed Forces who have given ultimate sacrifice for the nation. Every year, he devotes a significant amount of time traveling across the country and visiting and revisiting the families of our immortals. He has visited over 500 families of so far and built long lasting fam…

Rohit Pathania is an author, analyst and observer with varied interests in politics, history and environment.

Aashish Chandorkar works as counsellor at the Permanent Mission of India to the World Trade Organization in Geneva. He is a lateral entrant to the government, having spent more than two decades in the management consulting and financial services industries working around the world. He has been writing on public policy in the domestic and internatio…

Vaibhav Singh, founder of Defensive Offence, DO Politics & DO News, and Arihant Pawariya of Vaad interview Pratap Somvanshi, Hindustan Hindi daily newspaper's executive editor who has 32 years of experience in journalism.

Sanjay Kumar is Professor and Co-Director of Lokniti, a Research Programme at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies. His core area of research is Electoral Politics, but using survey method as research tool he has been engaged in conducting research on very wide range of themes-Indian Youth, State of Democracy in South Asia, State of Ind…

Krzysztof Iwanek is a South Asia expert. From 2014 to 2016, he taught Hindi at the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Republic of Korea. He holds two MA degrees: in History and in South Asian Studies, and a PhD in Cultural Studies. His main area of interest is contemporary Indian politics and political ideologies. He has also co-authored a book …

Aravindan Neelakandan is a co-author of the hugely successful and bestseller book, Breaking India. He has done a Cultural Economics project from the Junior Research Fellowship from Department of Culture, Government of India on the ruins of Kanyakumari district and has field experience of culture conservation. His best seller book, ‘Breaking India’ …

Pradeep Bhandari is an author, entrepreneur, psephologist, founder & MD of Jan ki Baat and hosts a prime time show at India News.

Durga Nand Jha is Executive Chairman at Centre for Policy Analysis, a think-tank in Patna, Bihar.

Ami Ganatra is an alumna of Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA). A management professional, she is also a devout yoga practitioner, a certified yoga instructor, and a student of Sanskrit and Indian knowledge systems. In her latest book, 'Ramayana Unravelled: Lesser Known Facets of Rishi Valmiki’s Epic', Ami attempts to address some key …

Pankaj Saxena is Co-Founder, Bṛhat and Director, Cultural Research, Bṛhat. He is an author who writes on Hindu temples, Indian art, literature, history and culture. He is also deeply interested in cultural anthropology, evolutionary biology and ecology. He has visited more than 600 ancient Hindu temples on his temple trails.…

Sudhanshu Mani is a former officer of the Indian Railway Service of Mechanical Engineers, where he served for 38 years. He retired as the general manager of the Integral Coach Factory, Chennai, where Train 18 was built from design to development in record 18 months under his leadership.

Historian Vikram Sampath is the author of seven acclaimed books, including Splendours of Royal Mysore: The Untold Story of the Wodeyars; My Name Is Gauhar Jaan: The Life and Times of a Musician; Voice of the Veena: S Balachander: A Biography; Women of the Records and Indian Classical Music and the Gramophone: 1900-1930. His latest books, published …

Gautam R. Desiraju is a structural chemist who has been in the Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India since 2009. Prior to this, he had been in the University of Hyderabad for 30 years. He has played a major role in the development and growth of the subject of crystal engineering. He is one of…