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Ravi helps leaders sharpen their storytelling skills. Since 2016, he has trained over 9,000 mid-to-senior leaders at clients such as Accenture, Amdocs, Boston Scientific, Fidelity, Flipkart, JP Morgan Chase, Shell and Unilever.
Ravi has also guided over 150 nonprofits on crafting a better pitch, enabling them to secure tens of millions of rupees in funding. Beyond his workshops, Ravi shares storytelling insights through his website, LinkedIn, and a popular weekly newsletter. He also hosts a podcast on storytelling featuring conversations with distinguished storytellers including Swaminathan Anklesaria Aiyar, Sajith Pai and Rama Bijapurkar.
A Chartered Accountant (rank-holder, 2001) and MBA graduate from IIM-Ahmedabad (2005), Ravi spent twelve years in finance, consulting, the social sector and… a startup that tried to make history exciting for tourists (spoiler: it didn’t work!). Ravi lives in Pune with his wife, father, son and daughter.

Radha Chadha is an author, columnist, speaker and one of Asia’s foremost experts on marketing and consumer insights. Her book The Cult of the Luxury Brand: Inside Asia’s Love Affair with Luxury became a bestseller and the go-to book for understanding luxury in Asia. With two decades of experience at top advertising agencies, including JWT, Ogilvy, Grey and Bates Asia, she has helped shape the strategies of major global brands. In 2000, she founded her own brand consultancy based in Hong Kong, focusing on Asia’s evolving consumer landscape. For over a decade, Radha also wrote a widely-read column for Mint, one of India’s leading business newspapers. She holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, and a BA from St Stephen’s College, Delhi.

Radha grew up on the campus of the Film and Television Institute of India, where her father, Jagat Murari, guided a generation of film-makers. She now lives in Dubai with her husband.

Salima Hashmi, the daughter of the Urdu poet, Faiz Ahmed Faiz, is an internationally renowned artist, curator, contemporary art historian and activist. She taught at the National College of Arts, Lahore for thirty years, four of them as Principal. She is also a Founding Dean of the School of Art and Design at Beaconhouse National University, Lahore, where she is now Professor Emerita.

Salima has curated and produced catalogues for several exhibitions and written extensively on the arts in numerous publications. Among her publications are Unveiling the Visible – Lives and Works of Women Artists of Pakistan and Memories, Myths, Mutations – Contemporary Art of India and Pakistan (co-authored with Yashodhara Dalmia). Her edited works include Two Loves – Faiz’s Letters from Jail and The Eye Still Seeks – Contemporary Art of Pakistan.

During the 1970s, Salima appeared in a series of highly popular television shows like Akkar Bakkar and Such Gup. She is a council member of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan.

Reeta Ramamurthy Gupta specializes in narrative non-fiction. This is her sixth book. Her previous works include The Stranger in the Mirror: The Biography of Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra; Sanjeev Kumar: The Actor We All Loved; Savitribai Phule: Her Life, Her Relationships, Her Legacy; and Win the Battle of Your Mind in the Age of Social Media: Scroll Less, Read More. She is a reading coach to India’s top corporations. For the last three years, she has built a dedicated following for her weekly book review column on Network18 titled #BookStrapping.

Indrajeet Ghorpade is an Indian businessman primarily involved in mining and commodity trading. He is a descendant of the Maratha clan of warriors of the Deccan. His hobbies include wildlife photography and conservation. This is his first literary work.

Robin Singh is an entrepreneur who started his career as a hacker in 1997. He then founded E-junkie in 2003, a service to remove technology barriers for artists and authors wanting to sell their digital content directly to buyers. Later that year, he moved to Tucson, Arizona and continued to build E-junkie.

After successfully exiting in 2011, Robin started working to help animals in February 2013. Realizing that the nature of welfare projects in India being such that they can’t be scaled by scaling the infrastructure, he changed the strategy from just ‘doing’ to involving and inspiring. In December 2014, he started Peepal Farm—a place for animals to heal and be heard—along with two other co-founders. He’s been building it, running it and living there since.

Anshu Dogra is a senior editor and writer with over two decades of national and international communications experience. She has written articles and books that are an eclectic collection on history, gender, and biographies. Her books, Controversially Yours (2010) by Harper Collins and The Power of Hope (2021) by Hachette, were number one bestsellers. She has also founded, managed and developed the research and editing wing in Manana, the activity arm of the Devahuti-Damodar Svaraj Trust (DDST), which supports projects related to the history and philosophy of the Indian subcontinent, education, and scholarships for children, music, arts, and literature.