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Anahita Dhondy

Chef-partner at Sodabottleopenerwala

Anahita Dhondy is an accomplished chef settled in Delhi. She showcases her Parsi roots as the Chef Manager at SodaBottleOpenerWala, a quintessential Bombay Irani cafe. She is an alumnus of the prestigious Le Cordon Bleu, London. She is also an expert in French cuisine. She has worked in a TV show called ‘Femme Foodies’ and is currently working on her own Parsi cuisine cookbook

Anju Kish

Sex Educator | Writer | Untabooer

Anju Kish is the Founder and CEO of Untaboo, a brand dedicated to sexuality and sex education across all ages. She realized that sex education is a highly taboo topic in India, with a lot of misconceptions surrounding it. In 2011, she founded “Out of the Box”, an initiative to help spread sex education, which is now known as “Untaboo”. She is determined to make sex education acceptable and accessible to all.

Bharti Dayal

Madhubani Artist | National Award for excellence in handicrafts recipient

Bharti Dayal is a Madhubani artist from Mithila - the birthplace of the art form itself. Her paintings are a simplified manifestation of the philosophical underpinnings characteristic of Indian folk traditions. While being an advocate of the Madhubani style of painting, she's also supporting and mentoring up-and-coming Madhubani artists to create unique works of art. For her contributions, she was awarded the National Award for excellence in handicrafts in 2007.

Harinder Sikka

Author | Lieutenant Commander, Indian Navy | Group Director – Strategic Business,Piramal Enterprises

Harinder Sikka is most famous for his spy thriller novel, Calling Sehmat. The novel was adapted into a Hindi-language spy thriller titled Raazi, starring Alia Bhatt. He has also written over 100 articles in leading Indian newspapers on issues relating to national security, health, IPR & TRIPS and counterfeiting. He is the second Indian to be awarded the “Outstanding Service in the field of Anti-Counterfeiting in India” by the Global Anti-Counterfeiting Group, Paris and the “Indira Super Achiever Award”, 2005 which recognizes professional talent.

Kartik Krishnan

Creative Director- FilterCopy | Actor | Writer

Kartik Krishnan is an ex-software engineer who decided to plunge into the creative world of Ad films, Features, TV, Shorts, Web Series, and Sketches, as a Writer, Actor, Assistant Director, Content Creator, Creative Producer. He has acted in films like The Girl in Yellow Boots, Bombay Talkies and Solo and is also the dialogue writer of the Netflix Original series, Ghoul. He’s been involved with Pocket Aces, writing and acting in some of FilterCopy’s most viral videos like Confusing Things Girlfriends Say, Stuff Women Are Tired Of Hearing, Things Brothers & Sisters Do, and many more which have won awards such as TalentRack Awards, Indian Content Marketing Awards, etc. Currently, he is the Creative Director of Pocket Aces’ Dice Media, where he has helped produce many of India’s most popular web series such as LittleThings, What The Folks! and Adulting.

Maalavika Sundar

Playback Singer | Indian Idol Finalist | Model

Hailing from a Carnatic background, Maalavika Sundar is a playback singer from Chennai. She has made her mark both as a classical singer and a playback singer winning hearts all across India. She has the best of both worlds having learned from or collaborated with the likes of Padmavathy Ananthagopalan, Sriram Parasuram, Jayanthi Kumaresh, T.M. Krishna, A.R. Rahman, and Anirudh Ravichander. Apart from being a musician, she is also an actor and a model.

Mona Shetty

Voice Actress | Dubbing Artist | Entrepreneur

Mona Shetty is one of the giants of the Bollywood voice industry. She is a Voice Actor, a Voice Coach, a Dubbing Director and it comes as no surprise that she belongs to the home of the Industry itself, Bombay. Being the voice for several Actresses such as Katrina Kaif, Jacqueline Fernandez, Angelina Jolie, Deepika Padukone, Nargis Fakhri, etc she not only encompasses Indian cinema but also dubs several Hollywood movies like the Avengers into Indian Languages. She is also the President of a famous dubbing studio Sound & Vision India, founded by her mother legendary Dubbing Director Leela Ghosh.

Samarpan Maiti

Scientist | LGBTQ Activist | Mr Gay India'18

Samarpan Maiti is a scientist, LGBTQ activist, and a model. He won the Mr. Gay India 2018 pageant and went on to represent India at Mr. Gay World 2018, where he came runner up. He has been working as a research fellow in the field of cancer research at Kolkata Institute of chemical biology.

Saumya Kulshreshtha

Poets’ Collective | Voice Over Artist | Educator | Writer

Saumya Kulshreshtha is a writer, poet, translator, digital marketer, community curator, and educator. It is in poetry and education that she finds the pulse of her existence. She is the Founder of Poets' Collective, a Delhi based poetry club with a World Record in its name. She loves delving deep into literature, poetry, and mythology, and teaches the same at several institutions. She is also a communications instructor, having conducted training sessions and workshops in colleges all over India. She is a voracious reader (trying to clock a 100 books each year), avid traveler and enjoys singing. If she was allowed to pass on her personal gifts to students, she thinks an unwavering passion for reading and eternal fascination with the world are going to be on top of her list.