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Nishi is a poetess, spoken-word artist and a content creator on a mission to help people find their inner voice. She believes that we’re all hidden goddesses and angels who’ve forgotten our self-worth. To help people discover their true self, Nishi started voicing her realizations on Instagram under the pen name goddesswrites. You can visit her on Instagram @goddesswrites.

Born in Baramulla, Kashmir, Manav Kaul has been an integral part of the film world, acting, directing and writing for the past twenty years. With each of his new plays, Manav has made people sit up and take notice, and he has created an equally valuable body of work as a writer. His books Theek Tumhare Peeche (Right Behind You) and Prem Kabootar (Love Pigeon) have been dominating the Neilson bestseller list.

Innovation practitioner Hersh Haladker is the founder of InstillMotion, an innovation lab and consulting firm that has worked with several Fortune 500 companies, across a variety of industries, to enable the exprovement of unique business challenges.

With a career spanning over sixteen years, and a background in Innovation Design from the Royal College of Art, Innovation Engineering from Imperial College and Innovation Entrepreneurship from Imperial College Business School, his unique solutions stem from the three-pronged perspective of creativity, feasibility and good business sense.

He is a Fellow of Design London, and through InstillMotion Labs, has developed several novel innovations that have been granted patents.

Nirmal Pulickal is a well-known creative leader based in Delhi. He co-founded the design firm February, which was acquired by M&C Saatchi global network in 2016. Since then, he has been the Head of Creative for both Amazon and Facebook in India. Grabber started as a drawing of a monster by his ten-year-old son, Jehan Zachary, an artistic middle schooler fascinated by gothic tales and mythology. They created the character together and decided that Grabber deserved an origin story. With langoors and lanterns, scoundrels and
djinns, the story is a white-knuckle ride through Mughal and British-ruled India.

Sajjan Yadav is a researcher and bureaucrat. He is an officer of the Indian Administrative Service and is currently additional secretary in the Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance, Government of India. He has a rich and diverse experience of twenty-seven years in policy formulation and implementation, as well as in senior leadership positions in the Government of India and state governments. In the federal government, besides the Ministry of Finance, he has worked in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Ministry of Women and Child Development, Ministry of Heavy Industry and Public Enterprises and Ministry of Corporate Affairs. He has served the government in sectors including finance, health, nutrition, water, sanitation, food, public distribution, urban development, municipal administration, information and publicity, art, culture, tourism and commercial taxes. Important assignments handled by him in the past include tenures as mission director of the National Nutrition Mission (POSHAN Abhiyan), director of the National Rural Health Mission, commissioner of Food and Supplies in Delhi, CEO, Delhi Jal Board, commissioner, VAT, and commissioner of the East Delhi Municipal Corporation. He earned his doctorate in public health from the prestigious London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). His research was published in leading medical peer-reviewed journals, magazines and newspapers. These include BMC Public Health, Indian Journal of Medical Research, Indian Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, International Journal of Medicine and Public Health, Journal of Critical Reviews, LSHTM
Research Online, Global Health Action, Yojana, Economic Times, DNA, Millennium Post and Pioneer. He has been conferred many awards for exceptional work in public service, including the National e-Governance Award 2017-2018 and the President of India’s medal for outstanding work in census operations.

SAADAT HASAN MANTO is the most widely read and controversial short story writer in the Urdu language. He was a writer and playwright, and a pre-eminent practitioner of the genre. He produced twenty-two collections of short stories.

Tim I. Gurung, was born in 1962 in a Gurung village called Dhampus in mid-western Nepal. He joined the British Gurkhas at the young age of seventeen, as his grandfathers and uncles did before him. He served for thirteen years and retired in 1993 as an Army Corporal, after which he became a businessman and worked in China for the next twenty years. Before his fiftieth birthday, Tim made a life-changing decision and became a full-time writer and has since written fifteen novels.
He currently lives in Hong Kong with his family.

Utkarsh Amitabh is the chief executive officer of Network Capital and the chief marketing officer of 5ire.org, a blockchain unicorn valued at $1.5 billion. 5ire.org acquired a stake in his company Network Capital (networkcapital.tv), one of the world’s largest mentorship platforms that empowers 1.6 million school students and 1,50,000-plus young professionals to build meaningful careers.

Educated at Oxford and INSEAD, Utkarsh worked at Microsoft for seven years across the US, Europe and India, leading business development for big-bet projects. He writes for Harvard Business Review and World Economic Forum.