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Sidhant Mohapatra born 4 May 1966, known popularly as Munna Bhai, is an Indian film, television personality and politician who works predominantly in Odia films. His debut film, Shradhanjali, starred Lekha Nanda as the female lead in 1993. He has acted in more than 150 Odia and Bengali films. He has also appeared in a…
Dr. Sanjeev Chopra is an IAS officer of the 1985 batch. Originally from Kapurthala, Punjab, he has served in multiple capacities with the central and state governments in India. He is also a primary patron and honorary consultant to a premier literary festival, the Valley of Words International Literary Festival, held annually in Dehradun, India.…
Anu Choudhury is a leading Indian actress. She has starred in more than 65 films. Her debut Odia film was Maa Goja Bayani. Anu began her career in Odia film as a child artist. She acted as a child artist in two movies, Badhu Nirupama and Mamata Mage Mula. As a child artist she had…
Dr.Piyush Roy, is an Indian National Film Award winning critic-columnist, an international author, curator, filmmaker and founding dean and professor at the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences in RV University, Bengaluru. Former editor of Stardust and StarWeek, he has authored over 1000 media publications working at senior reporting positions in The Indian Express and…
Sudhanshu Kaushik is a MBA Civic Scholar of the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, a graduate of Columbia University (MA), University of Oxford (MSc). and New York University (BA) where he researched young people and electoral politics. He is the founder of the Young India Foundation, a trust that works to increase youth…
Chinki Sinha is the editor of Outlook Magazine. She studied her master’s in journalism from SI Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University and has worked at various media houses including the BBC and Al Jazeera.
A graduate of UWCSEA and Bard College, where Akshita majored in Political Science and Human Rights as a Davis Scholar. Akshita has spent a decade in social impact with roles in the Wadhwani Institute of Artificial Intelligence as a program and partnerships specialist and prior to that as a senior media executive at Edelman (PR…
Swastik Choudhury is an Actor and Producer from Odisha. He has made several independent productions under his production banner Swastik Arthouse He aims to see Odia cinema celebrated widely. His works include ‘Capital I’, ‘Khyanika-The Lost Idea’, Runanubandha – The He Without Him, ‘Adieu Godard’. All of these have been hugely acclaimed with honors and…
Geetika Kohli is a multilingual writer, public speaker and entrepreneur from Jammu and Kashmir. With eight titles to her name, including six poetry and two short story collections, Geetika has led Hymns and Harmony, an international peace building poetry movement. She believes, “courage is your ability to grow larger than an identity thrust upon you.”