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Banani Chakravarty teaches Assamese in GauhatiUniversity. She has co-edited Asamar Bhasha (Banalata, 2013), part of G.N. Devy’s acclaimed People’s Linguistic Survey of India series, which has been translated into English as Languages of Assam (Orient BlackSwan, 2017) and into Hindi as Assam Ki Bhashayen (Orient BlackSwan, 2025). Her recent publication includes Jetia Chapasal Nachil (2024), a comprehensive anthology of medieval Assamese manuscripts, inscriptions and historical documents.

Sarthak Ahuja has over a decade of experience in startup advisory. He is a Chartered Account and a Gold Medallist from the Indian School of Business. As an investment banker, he’s worked with companies in SaaS, eCommerce, and D2C, in industries such as FinTech, EdTech, Gaming, Healthcare, and F&B, among others. He teaches corporate finance and M&A courses. In addition, he’s also been a TEDx Speaker and is invited for keynote speeches, owing to his work and content in areas of startup finance with a combined online following of over 2 Mn.
At Niamh Ventures, he works on building educational content around business and finance for entrepreneurs and founders and is currently a passion project. He has 2M following on Instagram and is a top voice on LinkedIn.

Gopi Krishnaswamy is a former managing director at IDEO and a thought leader working at the intersection of mindfulness, leadership and high performance.
After decades inside boardrooms and high-growth environments, he recognized a pattern: burnout is rarely a personal weakness—it is a system design flaw.
Trained in Zen practice, including time spent at Master Thich Nhat Hanh’s monastery in Thailand, Gopi integrates disciplined inner practice with executive-level leadership experience. He is a certified teacher of Search Inside Yourself, the mindfulness-based emotional intelligence program developed at Google.
As founder of Llama, he advises organizations on building cultures where performance and well-being reinforce each other rather than compete. He has worked with leaders across five continents, reaching over 1,00,000 professionals from organizations including Deloitte, BCG, Aditya Birla Group and NASSCOM, and has spoken at global forums including engagements with the governments of the UK and Canada.
His work focuses on one core challenge of modern leadership: how to achieve high performance without burnout.
Gopi is also the author of Creativity Unleashed, published by Bloomsbury.