Theme: Off the Beaten Path

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Indian Institute of Foreign Trade
21B Qutab Institutional Area
New Delhi, Delhi, 110016
India

Aditi Mittal

• Featured in Stand Up Planet, a documentary film about comedy in developing countries, which is #16 on The Comedy Bureau's "100 BEST THINGS IN COMEDY WE WERE WITNESS TO IN 2014" • Rated amongst India’s top 10 stand-up comedians by The Times of India. • Featured in CNNIBN.com as top 30 witty, intelligent and incredibly funny Indian women to follow on Twitter. • Featured on BBC World and BBC America among “India’s trailblazers”.

Deepika Bhardwaj

Deepika Narayan Bhardwaj is a Journalist, Anchor and a Documentary Filmmaker. Her first documentary ‘Gramin Dak Sevak’ was Jeevika All Asia Livelihood Film Festival 2009, student film winner. Her second documentary ‘Youth Count’ was broadcast on India’s leading News channel NDTV 24x7. Her third project ‘Garima’ was a commissioned, short documentary film by USAID and Counterpart International. A software engineer turned Journalist, she was one of the ten media professionals selected from around the world for ‘Future Media Leaders Course’ conducted by Thomson Foundation, UK. She is currently making documentary called “Martyrs of Marriage” which is a commentary on the issue of Men’s right and abuse of one-sided gender centric laws in the Indian Penal Code.

Rahul Roushan

Like lakhs of Indians every year, even Rahul Roushan took up CAT,but he was one of the few who got through to Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. After which he did a bit of freelance consulting ,then worked for a media startup, television channel, gaming website and a PR firm. Then he took a decision which changed the way people read news online. He started FakingNews, a leading Indian satirical news site which specializes in presenting news but with a twist, a sarcastic one.

Shashwat Srivastava

'Folka Dots' is a band dedicated to exploring urban folk music of India. It was founded in 2010, with a passion for exploring new trends in the folk music of India. It currently consists of Shashwat, Biswajit, Vaishali, Devanshi, Kartikeya, Paras, Parichay. Growing up in Lucknow, Shashwat's early attempts at formal music training were spectacular failures, making him entirely self-taught as a musician. The cacophony of his childhood in Lucknow had a deep influence on him, explores in the new genre he calls urban folk.

Shrutikantha Kandalli

Shrutikantha along with her teammates, was recently named as a finalist in the 2014 Singapore Committee for UN Women and MasterCard Project Inspire competition, which works to empower women through entrepreneurship and financial literacy. Her work revolves around the power of stories, and they can help change lives.