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Himani Dalmia is an Australian-Certified Infant and Child Sleep Specialist and co-founder of the support group, Gentle Baby Sleep India. She is a Leader of the La Leche League, the largest non-profit for breastfeeding awareness globally. Her first book, a bestselling and critically acclaimed novel titled Life Is Perfect, was published in 2009. Formerly a member of the Times of India Edit Page team,
she has contributed widely to newspapers, magazines and journals. A children’s picture book by her is currently under publication by HarperCollins India. Himani graduated with honours in English from St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi, and holds a master’s degree in South Asian Literature from the University of Oxford. She lives in New Delhi with her husband Akash and two little girls, Devika and Yamini.

Neha Bhatt is an award-winning journalist who reports on public health, human rights, gender and education for leading international and Indian publications. Her work has been published in The
Guardian, Al Jazeera, The Globe and Mail, The British Medical Journal and The Hindu, among others. Formerly a staffer at a range of news organizations, including Outlook magazine, she has won the Press Council of India, UNFPA-Laadli and Red Ink awards for excellence in journalism. Neha has also written widely on books, film and culture. She holds a postgraduate diploma from the Asian
College of Journalism. She is an advocate for conscious parenting and co-founder of the pioneering support network, Gentle Baby Sleep
India. Neha is based in Gurugram, where she lives with her husband and son.

TRUPTI BHANDARI is a global business leader and marketer with experience across FMCG, healthcare and lifestyle segments in companies such as Reckitt Benckiser, Pfizer, Bausch + Lomb and GSK Consumer Healthcare. She has helped build iconic brands such as Dettol, Horlicks, Boost, Sensodyne and Crocin, among others, in various leadership roles. Honoured with multiple communication and marketing awards, Trupti has also co-authored the bestselling business book Pragmarketism, along with Arvind Bhandari. Currently based in Switzerland, Trupti provides consulting to organizations on brand strategy and communication.

ARVIND BHANDARI, currently working as Global Head, Wyeth Nutrition at Nestlé, is a corporate veteran with twenty-five years of work experience across leading organizations such as ITC, JWT, PepsiCo and Nestlé. In senior business leadership roles, he has nurtured classic brands like Maggi, Lay’s, Pepsi, Everyday and Milkmaid, to name a few. Holding degrees in management, humanities and law from institutions such as the Institute for Management Development (IMD), Lausanne, S.P. Jain Institute of Management and Research (SPJIMR), Faculty of Law and St Stephen’s College, Delhi, Arvind is a regular writer/columnist for marketing and business publications and lectures at prominent management institutions. Arvind has been presented the AsiaOne ‘India’s Greatest CMO 2016-17’ award, for excellence in marketing.

Sharat Pradhan is an independent journalist, political analyst and TV panellist based in Lucknow.

Atul Chandra is former resident editor of The Times of India, Lucknow.

ThiJa or Thi. Janakiraman (1921-1982) was a central figure in the lively Tamil literary scene of the mid-twentieth century. Some would say he was the most gifted of all who were writing at that time. His descriptions of life in rural and small-town Tamil Nadu are almost without parallel. He published over a hundred exquisite short stories, nine novels, two novellas, four travelogues, and occasional essays on literary topics. In 1979 he won the Sahitya Akademi Award.

Most noted for his novel Raag Darbari, for which he received the Sahitya Akademi Award, Shrilal Shukla also wrote several collections of satirical essays and short stories. He was a recipient of the Jnanpith Award and the Padma Bhushan.

Radha Vallabha is an acclaimed chef, author, former monk, yoga teacher, speaker and life coach. He has over two decades of experience in sattvic& Ayurvedic vegetarian cooking, developed by reading Ayurvedic texts. He is the founder of Yogi Plate, an organisation dedicated to educating people about Sattvic cooking.

After completing his M Tech from IIT, he decided to become a monk at ISKCON, Mumbai, to dedicate his life to the service of society. There he cooked for 250 residents of the ashram daily for more than a decade. As head chef, he led a team of highly acclaimed chefs who were featured in National Geographic’s series on India’s mega kitchen series, serving about 10,000 plates of sattvic food every day.He was also the cook of his Gurudev, HH Radhanath Swami for 17 years

But the love for Ayurveda grew from discussions with Dr Sanjay Pisharodi, a fellow ashram resident with an MBBS degree and also great knowledge of Ayurveda. Radhavallabha Das has conducted more than 200 cooking workshops across the world and held seminars on the importance of an Ayurvedic Diet, including at the headquarters of Microsoft, Amazon and Intel in the USA.

Currently he lives with his wife Hansapriya in Silicon Valley in California. He is working with a team to bring healthy food to people through live cooking workshops, seminars and one-on-one consulting.

Ted Seides, CFA has spent 25 years as an institutional investor, allocating money to managers. He started in 1992 at the Yale University Investments Office, seven years after David Swensen arrived at Yale. Ted spent five years learning under David’s tutelage and departed to attend Harvard Business School shortly before David wrote the bible in the industry, Pioneering Portfolio Management. In 2017, Ted launched the Capital Allocators podcast, a series of interviews with leading Chief Investment Officers. The show reached four million downloads in August 2020. Barron’s, Business Insider, and Value Walk each named it among the top investing podcasts. He also advises asset managers and allocators across business strategy, audio content, and investing. Ted writes opinion pieces for Institutional Investor, wrote a blog for the CFA Institute’s Enterprising Investor and guest publications for the late Peter L. Bernstein’s Economics and Portfolio Strategy.