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Bharat Bambawale has spent thirty-six years in marketing and advertising, eighteen of which were as a global executive with marketing communications companies Lowe & Partners (formerly Lintas) and J. Walter Thompson (now Wunderman Thompson). He has worked as managing director at Lowe & Partners Middle East North Africa, in Dubai; as Lowe & Partners’ Asia Pacific client leader on Unilever, in Bangkok; and as J. Walter Thompson’s global director on Unilever, in London. On his return to India in 2011, he became Airtel’s first and only global brand director. Since 2013, he has been running his eponymous brand and marketing consultancy, Bharat Bambawale & Associates.

Deepak Ramola is probably on a long walk somewhere, humming a folk melody. He recently learnt how to drive and how to swim. What he has known for much longer is that he loves potatoes, people and possibilities, roughly in that order.

As a wisdom historian and award-winning educator, Deepak has spent seventeen years gathering life lessons from everyday people across 195 countries through his organization Project FUEL. That same curiosity carries him into the classroom—as faculty and a Life Design Fellow at Stanford University and co-instructor of the Meaning of Life course at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

A graduate of the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a former Kindness Ambassador for UNESCO MGIEP, he is the author of three books spanning poetry, self-help and narrative non-fiction. He was a 2024 finalist for the Yuva Sahitya Akademi Award for his poetry collection Karwan Ka Shauq Hai.

Aditi Singhal and Sudhir Singhal, founders of Dynamic Minds Group, are international memory trainers, mathematics educators, authors and motivational speakers. They have to their credit the Guinness World Record for teaching the largest maths class.

Aditi has also been given the Best Memory Trainer award by the India Book of Records and has been featured in The Limca Book of Records thrice for memory and fast calculation.

Together, Aditi and Sudhir have authored four bestselling books, How to Become a Human Calculator?, How to Memorize Anything, How to be a Mathemagican and The Ultimate Memory Handbook for Students.

SHAKTI SINHA first got to know Vajpayee in 1980, and worked with him very closely for three and a half years in
the 1990s, as secretary to the leader of the Opposition (1996-97) and as his private secretary (1998-99). He was also the director of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library. He is a distinguished fellow at the India Foundation and is currently serving as the honorary director of the Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute of Policy Research and International Studies, MS University, Vadodara.

Ishrat Syed and Kalpana Swaminathan write together as Kalpish Ratna-a near anagram of their names. The pseudonym translates, in a piquant meld of Persian and Sanskrit, as ‘the pleasures of imagination’.

After a BA in Theater from Smith College, USA, Adithi Rao returned to India to work as an assistant director on the award-winning Hindi cult film Satya. She has written several books for children including Shakuntala and Other Timeless Tales of Ancient India and Growing Up in Pandupur, co-authored with her sister, Chatura Rao. Her stories have been published across anthology collections by various publishing houses, and in English school text books across India.

Lila Majumdar was a teacher and pioneering children’s writer. She wrote over 125 books including a collection of short stories, five jointly authored titles, 9 translated books and 19 edited books.

Dr Chandrakant Lahariya (MBBS, MD) is a leading practicing physician specializing in preventive medicine and cardio-metabolic health, and an internationally certified metabolic health coach. Trained at India’s premier medical institutions, he is a highly respected medical researcher, he has been listed among the world’s top 2% researchers in clinical medicine since 2020. In 2025, he became first and only Indian till now to win prestigious Wiley Research Heroes Award. An eminent health policy expert and award-winning author, he co-authored Till We Win (Penguin, 2020) and writes regularly for India’s leading publications.

Dr Randeep Guleria, Director of All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, is an MD in Medicine and the first DM in Pulmonary Medicine in the country. A leading and world recognized pulmonologist, he has been the chairperson and member of various policy and health forums. He has been a member of Joint Monitoring Group of Govt of India created for pandemic and outbreak management in India since 2005 and has been at the forefront of the Government of India efforts on COVID-19 pandemic preparedness and response in the country. He has published more than 350 research papers and popular articles in reputed National and International medical journals. Recipient of many awards and honours including the ‘Padma Shri’ (2015), ‘Dr. B.C. Roy National Award’ in the category of Eminent Medical Person (2014), Times Healthcare achievers award in the ‘Legends’ category (2017), ‘Doctor of the Decade’ award by the Indian Medical Association (2017) and “National Excellence Award” by the TP Jhunjhunwala Foundation (2017-2018), Dr. Guleria has delivered more than 8 national orations.