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दाजी, जिन्हें कमलेश डी पटेल के नाम से भी जाना जाता है, वैश्विक हार्टफुलनेस आन्दोलन के चौथे और वर्तमान स्प्रिचुअल गाइड हैं। उन्होंने बीते चार दशकों में दुनिया भर के लोगों को हार्टफुलनेस मेडीटेशन का प्रशिक्षण दिया है।
दाजी बेस्टसेलर्स डिजाइनिंग डेस्टिनी और (जोशुआ पोलॉक के साथ) द हार्टफुलनेस वे के लेखक हैं। उनके कामों की झलक टाइम्स ऑफ इंडिया, इकोनॉमिक टाइम्स, हिन्दुस्तान टाइम्स और प्रमुख टेलीविजन नेटवर्क्स पर दिखाई दे चुकी है। दाजी विश्वस्तरीय सम्मेलनों में मुख्य भाषण देते हैं और कार्यशालाएँ आयोजित करते हैं। उनका जुझारूपन उनके ज़मीनी स्तर के प्रयासों में नज़र आता है, विशेषकर मेडीटेशन को भारत के गाँवों तक ले जाने में। दाजी को भारत के कान्हा शान्ति वनम में अपने पोते-पोतियों के साथ प्राकृतिक सौन्दर्य के बीच सैर का आनन्द लेना भाता है, जहाँ वे अपने परिवार के साथ रहते भी हैं। 

Vanya Vaidehi Bhargav is an intellectual historian of modern South Asia. She completed her DPhil in history at St Antony’s College, University of Oxford. Her research has been published in leading peer-reviewed academic journals, such as the Journal of Asian Studies, Global Intellectual History, Studies in Indian Politics and Religions. She has been a research fellow at the M.S. Merian – R. Tagore International Centre of Advanced Studies ‘Metamorphosis of the Political: Comparative Perspectives on the Long Twentieth Century’ (ICAS: M.P.), New Delhi, India, and a senior research fellow with Kolleg-Forschungsgruppe ‘Multiple Secularities – Beyond the West, Beyond Modernities’, Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies, University of Leipzig, Germany. Committed to engaging with the public, Bhargav has written for the Indian Express, The Hindu and The Wire. She tweets at @vanyavaidehi.

Karthik Muralidharan is the Tata Chancellor’s professor of economics at the University of California San Diego (UCSD). He is also the co-founder and scientific director of the Centre for Effective Governance of Indian States (CEGIS), a non-profit that works with multiple states across India to improve state capacity, governance, and service delivery. He actively engages in policy advising at global, national, and state levels; and in public communication of research insights through op-eds, podcasts, and public lectures. Born and raised in India, he holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Harvard, an MPhil in economics from Cambridge (UK), and a PhD in economics from Harvard.

ARUNDHATHI SUBRAMANIAM is a poet and spiritual traveller. Her books include a volume on contemporary women on sacred journeys, Women Who Wear Only Themselves; the bestselling biography of a contemporary mystic, Sadhguru: More Than a Life; anthologies of Bhakti poetry, Eating God, and of essays on sacred journeys, Pilgrim’s India. She has also written the much-reprinted Book of Buddha.

Widely translated and anthologized, she is a recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award 2020. She was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize for poetry in 2015. Arundhathi has received several awards, including the inaugural Khushwant Singh Memorial Prize for Poetry, the Raza Award for Poetry, the Il Ceppo Prize in Italy, the Mystic Kalinga Literary Award, the Zee Indian Women’s Award for Literature, and the Homi Bhabha and Charles Wallace fellowships.

Kazi Nazrul Islam (1899–1976), the national poet of Bangladesh,
was a prolific Bengali poet, revolutionary, essayist, journalist, editor,
activist and composer of songs. Born into a humble family, he began
his career as a member of a band of itinerant folk performers, then
joined the army, and eventually rose to fame as the iconic ‘rebel poet’
who opposed colonial rule in India, promoted communal harmony
and was an outspoken critic of all forms of religious, political and
social discrimination. An extraordinarily versatile writer, he expressed
his talent in multiple genres, including poetry, fiction, prose, drama,
music and journalism. His writings reveal his broad humanism and
prophetic vision. He was one of the architects of modern Bengali
literature after Tagore.

Amitabh Kant is an Indian bureaucrat and was the second chief executive officer of NITI Aayog, a public policy think tank of the Government of India. He is a retired member of the Indian Administrative Service, the central civil service of the Government of India.

Nirmalya Kumar is Lee Kong Chian professor of marketing at Singapore Management University. Previously, he headed strategy at Tata Sons, reporting to the chairman of the $100-billion Tata Group with 6,75,000 employees. Nirmalya has taught at Columbia University, Harvard Business School, IMD (Switzerland), London Business School and Kellogg School of Management (Northwestern University). He has also been a visiting fellow at BITSoM, Cambridge Judge Business School, Indian School of Business and INSEAD.
Nirmalya is one of the world’s leading thinkers on strategy and marketing. As a consultant and speaker, he has worked with over fifty Fortune 500 companies in sixty countries. He has served on more than twelve boards of directors including ACC, Ambuja Cement, Bata India, Tata Chemicals, Ultratech and Zensar. Thrice included in Thinkers50 (the biannual listing of the top fifty management thinkers in the world), he received their Global Village Award for his contributions to the business community’s understanding of globalization and emerging markets before being inducted into their Hall of Fame.

लेखक, वक्ता और स्टार्ट-अप मेंटर सुबीर वर्मा टाटा पावर डीडीएल में एचआर हेड हैं। डॉ सागरिका वर्मा मानव संसाधन में पीएचडी और एमबीए हैं। उन्हें मानव संसाधन और परामर्श के क्षेत्र में एक उद्यमी के रूप में और कॉर्पोरेट जगत में पंद्रह वर्षों से अधिक का अनुभव है। 

Karthik Venkatesh grew up in Bangalore, speaking Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, English, Dakhani and Hindi. He tried to learn French but failed. He did learn Punjabi though. Once an MBA, he later studied education and taught English and History in a school. He now edits for a living and writes whenever the fancy strikes him. Karthik lives in Bangalore with his wife Amarinder, children Geet and Neil, and dog Norah. He has plans to adopt another dog and have a mini aquarium. On weekday mornings, he often runs. On weekends, he naps.

Jeffrey Rissman is the senior director of the industry program at Energy Innovation, a nonpartisan energy and climate policy think tank. His work focuses on technologies and policies to achieve net zero industrial greenhouse gas emissions. He is the coauthor of Designing Climate Solutions: A Policy Guide for Low-Carbon Energy (2018) and the creator of the open-source Energy Policy Simulator.