Sl.
No. |
Name & Subject |
Brief bio - data |
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1 |
Dr. R. A. Mashelkar
Science & Technology
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Padmabhushan,
Director General, Council of Scientific &Industrial
Research, Fellow of The Royal Society, S.S. Bhatnagar awardee,.
JRD Tata Corporate Leadership Awardee, Chairman, Standing Committee
on Information Technology of World Intellectual Property Organization
. Member, International Intellectual Property Rights Commission.
Fellow of the Third World Academy of Sciences, Member, Royal
Academy of Engineering U.K. Fellow of World Academy of Art & Science
USA, Has over 235 basic research publications to his credit. |
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2 |
Justice R.C.
Lahoti
The Legal System
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Retd Chief Justice of
The Supreme Court of India
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3 |
Dr. Sudhir Kakar
The Indian Mind
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Psychoanalyst
- trained at Sigmund Freud Institute, Frankfurt. Visiting
Prof. at Univ.
of Chicago, Univ. of Melbourne,
McGill Univ; Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of World
Religions Harvard Univ; Lecturer in General Education in Harvard
University and INSEAD Fontainbleu, France & a prolific
writer.
His most recent book is a translation of the Kamasutra with
Dr. Wendy Doniger, Mircea Eliade Professor of Religion at the
University
of Chicago.
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4 |
Bhaskar Ghose
Chairman , The India Foundation
|
Former
Director General, Television India; Secy, Govt. of India
Ministry of Culture & Ministry
of Information and Broadcasting Corporn. Scripted and anchored
a TV film review
program for four years. Member, Board of Studies, School of
Arts and Aesthetics, J N University,Delhi. Chairman, Equus
Redcell
Ltd. Well-known theatre person,
has acted in and directed over fifty plays. Writes for three major English
newspapers and journals.
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5 |
Leela Samson
Classical Dance
|
Director,
Kalakshetra Foundation.Among India's most dynamic and technically
brilliant Bharat Natyam
Dancers & Choreographers
who has performed all over the world .Padmashri & Sangeet
Natak Academy Awardee, her personal style is unostentatious,
serene & she blends impeccable technique with vibrancy and
unfettered ease. Authored a book & several articles. |
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6 |
Valmik Thapar
Ecology
|
Conservationist
and one of the world's leading experts on Indian tigers;
Member, Central
Empowered Committee
(CEC), constituted by The Supreme Court of India; Director,
Ranthambhore Foundation. Hosts BBC’s “India: Land of the Tiger” film
serial. |
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7 |
Shanti Sharma
Classical Music
|
A
North Indian classical vocalist of the Kirana and Indore
gharanas; has performed in
major cultural festivals
all over India, AIR and Television, has conducted lecture– demonstrations
for SPICMACAY and other organizations, has evolved a meditative
style of singing; a purist and a thinking person’s artist,
presently she is a teaching faculty of Shriram Bharatiya Kala
Kendra, Delhi. |
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8 |
Dr. Samita Sen
Gandhi
|
Author of several books. Research Fellow in Trinity
College, Cambridge, Reader in History, Calcutta University. |
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9 |
Dr. S.K.Acharya
The Geological Story
|
Retd.
Director General of Geological Survey of India. S.S. Bhatnagar
awardee(India’s
highest scientific award.) Emeritus Scientist CSIR.
( Research body of Govt. of India). |
|
10 |
Sudha Seshadri
Art, Sculpture & Architecture
|
Trained
with Saryu Doshi ( the doyen of Indian Art) as part of Marg’s
Editorial Executive. Author of several hundred articles and
papers on
various aspects of Indian Art. |
|
11 |
Khojeste Mistree
Zoroastrianism,
Homi J Bhaba & J.N. Tata
|
Zoroastrian scholar and Co-Founder of Zoroastrian
Studies. |
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12 |
Dr.
D.P. Sharma
Indus Valley Civilization |
Dy.Keeper,Prehistory & Archeology , Head of
Harappan Collection National Museum, Delhi ; Post Graduate in
Archeology from Univ.of London; Participated in numerous Excavation
projects in India, Sussex & France; Authored 19 books on
Archeology. |
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13 |
Dr. Vijay Kumar Mathur
Indian Miniature Painting
|
Education
Officer, National Museum, Delhi. Responsible for Exhibition
of Indian Miniature
paintings, Authored & edited
several books on Indian Art, conducted Workshops on Indian Art
for Curators, research scholars &students . |
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14 |
Swapan Majumdar
Rabindra Nath Tagore
|
Past
Prof.of Comparative Lit. Jadavpur Univ. author of several
books and research papers
on diverse subjects including
Theater & Music; visiting faculty at various Univs abroad. |
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15 |
Dr.Zoya Hasan
Indian Governance
|
Prof.
of Political Science & Director of Women’s
Studies Prog, JNU;visiting faculty in several univs abroad;author
of numerous books and research papers. |
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16 |
Sandhya Mulchandani
Tamil Literature
|
Past
news editor , India Today magazine, past associate editor
Times Of India, freelancer
in many other Indian
magazines & newspapers, author of Anthology of Indian Erotic
Lit. from Rig Veda to 16th Century; Kama Sutra for Women. |
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17 |
Dr. Bijoya Goswami
Vedas
|
Prof.
of Sanskrit Jadavpur Univ; author of several books on Sanskrit
language & literature;
translated life of Buddha from a 1st Century CE Sanskrit
manuscripts. |
|
18 |
Dr. SK Brahmachari
Panelist, Science & Technology
|
Director,
Institute of Genomics & Integrative
Biology |
|
19 |
Dr. Rajesh K. Kochhar
Panelist, Science & Technology
|
Director,
National Institute of Science Technology & Development
Studies
|
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20 |
Dr.V.S. Kanury Rao
Panelist, Science & Technology
|
Associate
Scientist & Head
Immunology Group
International Centre for Genetic Engg. & Biotechnology
|
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21 |
Arjun Mahey
History of Religions
|
Prof.of English St Stephens College; author of
several articles, research papers and books. |
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22 |
Suresh Chhabria
Cinema
|
Prof
of Films Appreciation & Registrar, FTII,
Pune; ex Director, The National Film Archive of India, Pune from
1992 to 1998 has published several articles on film historical
subjects in periodicals in India and abroad. His book “Light
of Asia; Indian Silent Film” is highly acclaimed,
his other interests are painting, photography and culture studies.
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23 |
Dr. S. Raghuraman
Tamil Literature
|
Reader, A.M. Jain , College,
Chennai; Visiting faculty for Bharatnatyam, Univ. of Madras and
Kalakshetra; author of 2 books on history of Dance and several
research papers; won several awards for script writing of Tamil
Dramas. |
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24 |
Dr. Ira Bhaskar
Cinema
|
Faculty, Jawaharlal Nehru
University; Visiting Faculty, University of Pavia, Italy, Mass
Communication Research Centre at Jamia University, Film and
Television Institute Pune, Whistling Woods International Film
School, Mumbai and School of Covergence, New Delhi. Her
interests include "historical poetics",melodrama, cinema and
modern subjectivities, literature and film, and historical
trauma, violence and representation; has published on narrative
poetics, adaptation, nationalism and cinema; is editing a volume
of Ritwik Ghatak's film scripts-Ghatak's Partition Quartret. |
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25 |
Gautam Mukerjee
President,The India Foundation
Creation Hymn, Mahabharata, Kalidasa, Nehru, Indian Governance,
Science & Globalization.
|
Past
member Board of Governors of XLRI, ( A Jesuit Mgmt institution).
Visiting faculty at XLRI, Tata Management
Development Center
(Jamshedpur), Indian Institute of Coal Management (Ranchi),
Management Training Institute, SAIL (Ranchi); Past Coordinator
of CII’s Indian program with the Aspen Institute, Colorado,
USA.
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26 |
Sushweta Chakraborty
Coordinator, India Story Seminars & Project Director, The India Foundation
|
Prior
to current assignment,served as Principal of a school with3500
children. Pioneered ISO 9000
Quality Systems
in Eastern India school education. Organized National & Regional
Meets with 10,000 student participation. |
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