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Abbas Raza Nayyar
Poet and Academic
Abhishek Shukla
Poet
Ajay Jain
Entrepreneur & Film Producer
Akshat Gupta
Mythologist
Alka Pande
Author, Art historian and Curator
Amy Singh
Poet, Writer and Performer
Anamika
Poet, Writer and Academic
Anchal Awasthi
storyteller, strategist and creator
Anil Rastogi
Actor
Anindita Ghose
Author & Editor
Anubhav Tyagi
Cultural Strategist and Festival Programmer
Anuj Mishra
Kathak guru
Anuja Chandramouli
Writer and new-age Indian classicist.
Aqeel Shamsi
Patangbaaz
Archana Shukla
Artiste
Arsh Ali
Archeologist & Egyptologist
Ashutosh Dixit
Cultural Revolutionary
Ashwitha Jayakumar
Writer, Editor & Publisher
Asma Hussain
Fashion Designer
Azhar Iqbal
Poet
Chandra Shekhar Varma
Poet and Author
Chugge Khan
Folk Artiste
Devanshi Seth
Author & Journalist
Devashish Mishra
Artiste
Dr. Nishi Pandey
President, Indo-French Alliance | Fulbright Scholar
Farhat Ehsas
Poet and Academic
Gaurav Prakash
Entrepreneur
Ghazala Wahab
Author
Gulliermo Rodriguez
Cultural Visionary
Hina Rizvi Haider
Poet
Jaya Tiwari
Singer
Jayant Krishna
CEO, Foundation for Advancing Science and Technology (FAST India)
Jigyasa Mishra
Artist, Illustrator and Journalist
Jyotsna Mohan
Journalist and Writer
Koral Dasgupta
Author, TEDx speaker and Narrative Strategist
Lokesh
Instrumentalist
Manish Gupta
Confectioner
Manish Shukla
Poet
Manjari Chaturvedi
Dancer, writer and cultural revivalist
Maroof Culmen
Content Creator
Meera Ali
Architect, Designer & Filmmaker
Mehak Jamal
Filmmaker and Writer
Monia Aljalis
Author and Poet
Muzaffar Ali
Filmmaker, Painter and Designer
Nawab Masood Abdullah
cultural connoisseur
Neena Verma
Psychologist and Author
Neha Dixit
Journalist and Author
Nilay Agarwal
Community Welfare Activist
Nimisha
Artiste
Nishtha Gautam
Journalist, Author & Translator
Nitin Sukhija
Author, Podcaster and Creative Director
Rajit Kapur
Actor, Producer, Director
Rakhi Kishore
Animal Welfare Activist
Ranjana Dwivedi
Academic and Musician
Ranu Uniyal Pant
Poet & Disability Activist
Reena Puri
Editor
Ritesh Ranjan Sahai
Writer, Poet and Storyteller
Sagnik Sen
Indian Playback and Classical Singer
Sandeep Yadav
Actor
Saumya Khandelwal
Photographer
Saurabh Chandra
Digital Stotyteller
Shailvee Sharda
Journalist
Sharad Bindal
Author & Mythologist
Shariq Kaifi
Poet
Somya Singh
Legal Practitioner
Srajal Gupta
Entrepreneur
Sujoy Banerjee
Forester, Conservationist & Musician
Taha Ahmad
Visual Artist
Tigmanshu Dhulia
Indian Film Director
Urvi Singh
Educator
Vaibhav Vishal
Screenwriter
Versha Verma
Activist
Vidya Shah
Singer, Musician & Scholar
Wamiq Saifi
Physician & Storyteller
Wasim Barelvi
Poet
Aanchal Malhotra
Oral Historian & Author
Ajay Jain
Entrepreneur & Film Producer
Amit Sinha
Poet
Amitabh Singh Baghel
Festival Director
Anjula Bedi
Writer & Actor
Ankur Saxena
Poet
Anubhav Sinha
Filmmaker
Aparimaya Shyam Das
President, ISKCON Lucknow
Ashutosh Shukla
Journalist
Atma Prakash Mishra
Journalist
Chandra Shekhar Varma
Writer, Behavioural Scientist & Motivational Speaker
Devapriya Roy
Writer
Devika Rangachari
Historian & Author
Diksha Bisla
Journalist
Dr Nishi Pandey
Academic
Dr. Ravi Bhatt
Historian
Duvvuri Subba Rao
Ex-Governor of RBI & Author
Eric Chopra
Founder of Itihasology & Writer
Gaurav Prakash
Entrepreneur
Gopal Sinha
Poet
Harshita Gupta
Content Creator & Author
Hindol Sengupta
Author & Historian
Ila Arun
Singer, Actor & Writer
Ira Mukhoty
Historian & Author
Jayant Krishna
Corporate Honcho, Heritage Evangelist, Skills Activist & Reforms Propeller
Malavika Rajkotia
Legal Practitioner & Author
Maroof Culeman
Content Creator
Mr. Anurag Gupta
EVP & Head - Direct Sales Force & Yes Bank Partnership, Max Life Insurance
Muzaffar Ali
Indian Filmmaker & Designer
Nilotpal Mrinal
Writer, Poet & Motivational Speaker
Nishant Upadhyay
Conservation Architect
Nusrat Jafri
Cinematographer & Author
Prabhat Ranjan
Writer & Journalist
Prayaag Akbar
Author
Purushottam Agrawal
Historian
Radha Kumar
Academic & Author
Rahul Singh
Zonal Business Head, YES Bank
Raj Smriti
Writer
Rakesh Chandra
Poet
Rana Safvi
Historian & Author
Rupali Chandra
Poet
Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati
Spiritual Leader & Author
Sanjeev Sanyal
Member of EAC-PM & Author
Saurabh Kirpal
Lawyer & Author
Saurav Jha
Geoeconomics Expert & Author
Shailja Kejriwal
Storyteller & Producer
Shailvee Sharda
Journalist
Shenaz Treasury
Actor, Television Host & Writer
Shubhra Gupta
Film Critic & Author
Suman Keshari
Writer
Sumati Misra
Poet
Taha Ahmad
Visual Artist
Tahira Hasan
Social Activist
Taiyaba
Chef & Food Writer
TCA Raghavan
Former Diplomat & Author
Vikas Swarup
Former Diplomat & Writer
yogi Aditya
Poet
Yogi Yogesh Shukla
Poet
Abhishek Shukla
Ali Khan Mahmudabad
Amitabh Singh Baghel
Chandra Shekhar Varma
Deepak Balani
Dr. Nishi Pandey
Gaurav Prakash
Gurcharan Das
Himanshu Bajpai
Ishita Basu
John Zubrzycki
Kasturika Mishra
Malini Awasthi
Maroof Culmen
Muzaffar Ali
Pankaj Bhadouria
Pawan Kumar
Prabha Srivastava
Pushpesh Pant
Richa S. Mukherjee
Safir Anand
Sanjay Mishra
Sanjay Singh
Sathya Saran
Saurabh Dwivedi
Sharad Bindal
Suhel Seth
Tigmanshu Dhulia
Ustad Ghulam Siraj Niazi
VIPUL B. VARSHNEY
Vivek Agnihotri
Aaku Srivastava
Abhishek Shukla
Ajay Jain
Akhilesh
Anand Neelakantan
Arif Mohammad Khan
Ashwin Sanghi
Asma hussain
Chandra Shekhar Varma
Deepa Agarwal
Devdutt Pattanaik
Dr. Nishi Pandey
Farhat Ehsas
Himanshu Bajpai
Hindol Sengupta
Jaideep Karnik
Jayant Krishna
Kena Shree
Madhavi Kuckreja
Malavika Banerjee
Malini Awasthi
Manish Shukla
Manish Tewari
Muzaffar Ali
Nawab Jafar Mir Abdullah
Neetu Singh
Pragya Sharma
Pratyaksha
Preety Chaudhary
Priyanka Pradhan
Rakhshanda Jalil
Ratan Mani Lal
Ravi Bhatt
Rohit Gandhi
Santosh Valmiki
Shantanu Gupta
Shobhaa De
Tigmanshu Dhulia
Toolika Rani
Uday Mahurkar
Urmila Singh
Vidya Shah
Vijai Trivedi
Vikram Sampath
Virendra Sarang
Yatindra Mishra
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