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Susmita Dasgupta has a PhD on Amitabh Bachchan from Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University. She has been a Senior Fellow at the National Film Archive of India, Pune, where she worked on the history of ideas of Indian popular cinema since its inception. She teaches film appreciation in management schools, and works as a deputy chief economist with the economic research unit of the ministry of steel. She has written extensively for several prominent journals that cover issues of sociology, media and political economy.
Her forthcoming book is an appreciation of the popular Hindi film Deewar.

Subroto Bagchi is an author, business leader and entrepreneur. He graduated from Utkal University with a degree in political science. He was a clerk in the industries department of the Odisha government. He then worked for several software companies between 1981 and 1999, in different departments such as marketing, operations and sales. Bagchi is a co-founder of Mindtree Ltd. Some of Bagchi’s famous books include The Elephant Catchers: Key Lessons for Breakthrough Growth, MBA at 16: A Teenager’s Guide to the World of Business and Professional: Defining the New Standard of Excellence at Work.

Baba Prasad, president and CEO of Vivékin Group, is a leading thinker in the area of management strategy and innovation. Prasad studied computer science and artificial intelligence and robotics at universities in India and the USA. He holds a PhD in operations and information management from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

Prasad is a Sloan Fellow at the Wharton School and visiting professor of management at the International Institute for Information Technology, Hyderabad. He has been a technology strategy consultant on Wall Street, and has served as faculty in the business schools at Purdue University and the University of Minnesota.

Prasad and his wife, Professor Leela Prasad of Duke University, also work in economically underprivileged elementary schools in Hyderabad. They helped to set up Aksharavani, a school for children of migrant construction workers, in the city. They are currently making a documentary film titled Moved by Gandhi. Prasad lives across two continents and is a fitness enthusiast.

Shinie Antony has authored the short-story collections The Orphanage for Words, Barefoot and Pregnant and the novels When Mira Went Forth and Multiplied, A Kingdom for His Love. She has compiled the anthology Why We Don’t Talk. Co-founder of the Bangalore Literature Festival and festival director of the Bengaluru Poetry Festival, she won the Commonwealth Short Story Asia region prize in 2003 for her story ‘A Dog’s Death’. Her novel The Girl Who Couldn’t Love will be out this year.

Tulika Tripathi is currently managing director of Asian operations for a global talent solutions company, with extensive experience in managing and leading teams across multiple geographies. She started her career in management consulting, followed by banking. For the past decade, she has worked in recruitment where she regularly provides career advice to job seekers.

Subroto Bagchi is an entrepreneur, author and public servant. He co-founded Mindtree, India’s first venture-capital funded software services company that went all the way from idea to IPO. He has authored eight bestselling books including The High-Performance Entrepreneur, Go Kiss the World and The Professional.
After stepping down from Mindtree in 2016, he took up a full-time, pro-bono assignment as chairman of Odisha Skill Development Authority in the rank of a cabinet minister. During his eight-year stint there, he made acknowledged contributions to skill development, management of the Covid-19 pandemic as well as institutional capacity building.

V. Raghunathan has been an author, banker, columnist and corporate executive. He taught finance and accounting for nearly two decades, from 1982 to 2001, at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad. For the last two decades he has been an adjunct professor at the University of Bocconi, Milan, where he teaches behavioural finance. His books include Corruption Conundrum, Don’t Sprint the Marathon, Games Indians Play, and Stock Exchanges, Investments and Derivatives. He writes a column for the Economic Times, contributes to several other dailies and magazines from time to time, and blogs for the Times of India. He has authored nearly 500 papers and articles. He was president of ING Vysya Bank from 2001 to 2004. Raghunathan sits on various corporate boards and lectures extensively in India and abroad. His website is www.vraghunathan.com.

James Joseph is the founder of JackFruit365, an initiative to create an organized market for
nutrient-rich jackfruits in India.
He has twenty years of experience in North America, Europe and India with globally reputed organizations like Microsoft, 3M and Ford. In his last role as Director, Executive Engagement, Microsoft, he was responsible for strengthening the company’s relationship with senior executives of the top 200 enterprises in India, which he managed from his village in Kerala. Prior to
this James was responsible for manufacturing industry marketing for Microsoft in the UK. James is a recipient of several awards including the Circle of Excellence, the highest award at Microsoft, and the Start-Up Entrepreneur of the Year instituted by TiEcon Kerala.
He has a master’s degree in engineering business management from University of Warwick, UK, and a degree in mechanical engineering from College of Engineering, Thiruvananthapuram.