Ankit Agarwal is the Founder-CEO of Phool. co, a social enterprise that has pioneered the ‘flowercycling®’ technologies to reduce the pollution in the Rivers Ganges, by up-cycling the vast quantities of flower temple waste in India. At Phool.co, over 11.4 tons of temple waste is collected daily in Uttar Pradesh & Bihar and converted into… Continue reading Ankit Agarwal
Hanif Kureshi is a multidisciplinary artist and designer living and working in New Delhi, India. His work is focused on the intersection of art, typography and street culture. He is a creative director and Co-founder of St+art India Foundation which aims at making art accessible to a larger audience in India through the series of… Continue reading Hanif Kureshi
With a doctorate in English Literature, Dr Sister Jesme is an academic from Kerala. In 2008 she resigned from her post as the Principal of St. Mary’s College in Trichur. After 33 years of being a nun, she was forced to leave the Congregation of the Mother Carmelite (CMC) for reasons of emotional torment. In… Continue reading Dr Sr Jesme
Human Rights Crusader; Activist; Founder and Executive Director, The Naz Foundation (India) Trust An Indian human rights and animal rights activist, Anjali Gopalan is founder and executive director of The Naz Foundation Trust, an NGO dedicated to the fight against the HIV/AIDS epidemic in India, with a focus on women and children. With a postgraduate… Continue reading Anjali Gopalan
Former Chief Strategy Officer for Cyber Policy and Speechwriter in the Office of the Secretary of Defense Jonathan Reiber is Head of Cybersecurity Strategy at Illumio, where he serves as a spokesman and leads the firm’s cybersecurity research, analysis, and strategy formulation. A former Chief Strategy Officer for Cyber Policy and Speechwriter in the Office… Continue reading Jonathan Reiber
Navneeth Sundar is a composer, keyboardist, iPad musician and performer. Started as a musical prodigy, Navneeth Sundar owned the stage since a very young age with his performances by creating a distinctive approach to classical-fusion music. Making his presence felt in the classical and fusion music scene, he is one of the most technically complex… Continue reading Navneeth Sundar
Art purveyor Aparajita Jain is amongst the leading names in the Indian art world, putting the country’s contemporary art on the international map. In 2005 she founded gallery Seven Art Limited to showcase cutting-edge ideas in Indian art, discovering pioneering artists like Asim Waqif and Aakash Nihalani. The gallery went on to host the first-ever… Continue reading Aparajita Jain
Growing up in a small town in Gujarat, Nirman developed a passion for programming when he got my first computer. By 17, he had published 200 apps with over a million downloads. After high school, he ran a profitable startup called CircuiTricks and went on to pursue Entrepreneurship from MIT in Boston and Computer Science… Continue reading Nirman Dave
A digital marketing veteran with a two-decade experience, Vivek Bhargava is the CEO of DAN Performance Group. Vivek founded Communicate 2 in 1997, and then led iProspect Communicate 2 as Founder and MD (after Communicate 2 joined hands with iProspect from the Dentsu Aegis Network (DAN) in 2012). At the end of 2015, the company… Continue reading Vivek Bhargava
Girish Mathrubootham is the founder and CEO of Freshworks, one of the world’s fastest-growing SaaS product company, winning the Economic Times Startup of the Year in 2016, the Business Standard Startup of the Year in 2017, and now part of India’s unicorn club. The homegrown customer-engagement software maker has a suite of products – Freshdesk,… Continue reading Girish Mathrubootham