Jabeen Merchant is a film editor trained at the Film and Television Institute of India, with a wide and varied experience within the mainstream film industry as well as the independent filmmaking community. She has edited a range of fiction feature films that have won commercial and critical success. She is particularly well known for […]

Tushar Gandhi is the great-grandson of Kasturba and Mahatma Gandhi, son of Sunanda and Arun Manilal Gandhi, the US-based Peace And Nonviolence activist whose father Manilal was the Mahatma’s second son who along with his wife Sushila managed the Phoenix Ashram and published the Indian Opinion. Tushar spent time with his grandmother and sister at Phoenix […]

Rajni Bakshi is a freelance journalist and author from Mumbai and writes about social and political movements in India. She has written and spoken extensively on Gandi’s philosophy and alternative economics. Writings: Bapu Kuti: Journeys in Rediscovery of Gandhi (1998); Bazaars, Conversations and Freedom (2009) which won two Vodafone Crossword Book Awards, LETS Make it […]

Rev. Fr. Justin Kallely is the Chancellor of the Diocese of Kalyan, Judge in the Diocesan Tribunal, and also visiting professor of Church History and Latin in St. Thomas Minor Seminary, Panvel. After completing his B.A in Psychology and Sociology from the University of Mumbai, and Bachelor of Philosophy and Theology in the Seminary he […]

Uzramma has been associated with the indigenous cotton textile industry of India since 1989. She founded a not-for-profit research consultancy for the industry, Dastkar Andhra, in 1990, from which she retired in 2005. During her tenure Dastkar Andhra was active in working with cotton handloom weaver co-operatives to develop systems for linking artisanal textile production […]

Dr. S. P. Padma Prasad is Hon. Project Director for ‘The Centre for the study of Jain culture and literature’ in Bangalore. He is a renowned Jain scholar, educationist and author. He has authored several books in English and Kannada. In 2015 he was chosen for the coveted He was awarded the “Siddhantha Keerthi Award” […]

Kyoshi. P. R. Ratnapala, aged 61, is the Chief Instructor and the Chief Technical Director of the International Okinawan Shorin Ryu Seibukan Karate do of India. He is currently the President of Tamilnadu Karate do Association and has been elected as the Vice President of All India Karate do Federation (in charge of South Zone). […]

Dr M.N. Rajesh is Assistant Professor in History at the University of Hyderabad.  He completed his PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi and has since worked extensively on several aspects of medieval Indian history, socio-religious movements, Dalit politics, Tibetan history and culture. He has a vast knowledge of Buddhism, and Buddhist history. Published work: […]