Dr. Navaratna Srinivasa Rajaram

A mathematician, scientist and linguist lives between Houston, Texas and Bangalore, India. He has a bachelors degree in electrical engineering (1965) from the BMS College in Bangalore, and a PhD in mathematics (1976) from Indianana University, in Bloomington USA. He was also Principal Scientist at Lokheed Corporation in charge of artificial intelligence research. He has been an advisor to the National Aeronautical and Space Administration (NASA).His technical works have been supported by several organizations including the National Science Foundation, NASA, Air Force Office of Scientific Research and the AMOCO Foundation.

After his stint with the technology he turned his eyes on History where he made his, what one can call, the greatest life time contribution on deciphering Indus Scripts. He has written several authoritative works in this regard and has been optimally successful in debunking the ‘Aryan Invasion’ idea.

Dr. David Frawley

David Frawley, aka Pt. Vamadeva Shastry, was born in 1950 into a Catholic family in La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States. He attended a Catholic school until he was about ten years old. After that he and his family moved to Denver, Colorado.

As an American Hindu, Frawley is one of the few Westerners to be recognized by a major Hindu sect in India as a Vedacharya or teacher of the ancient wisdom. Frawley is the founder director of the American Institute for Vedic Studies in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Through his institute, he offers courses in Yogic Philosophy, Hindu Astrology (Jyotishya), and Ayurveda. In addition, he conducts lecture tours in India every year, delivering talks at universities, Hindu conferences, and to the general public.

M V Kamath

Born in 1921, M V Kamath is one of India’s best-known journalists and writers. He was a correspondent in Bonn, Paris, and Washington, USA, for ‘The Times of India’, editor of the ‘Free Press Journal’ and, till his retirement in 1981, editor of Asia’s oldest features magazine, ‘The Illustrated Weekly of India’.

Having authored over 48 books, Kamath is also a recipient of the ‘Padma Bhushan’—India’s third-highest civilian honour. Until recently, he was the chairman of India’s public service broadcaster, Prasar Bharati Corporation, which runs Doordarshan and All India Radio. He is currently, the honourary director of Manipal Institute of Communication, and a member of the senate of Manipal University.

Adam Clapham

Adam Clapham worked at BBC Television for nearly 20 years as a director and went on to be the senior executive producer in its documentaries department. He was awarded an Imperial Relations Trust bursary to study media in India, and a Leverhulme scholarship to pursue research in Sri Lanka.

He has authored ‘As Nature Intended’, a pictorial history of nudists, and ‘Beware Falling Coconuts’. An Indophile like Mark Tully, Clapham lives in a beach house near Mangalore. Films produced by him include ‘Broken Arrow’, ‘Doomsday Gun’, ‘Secret Weapon’, and ‘Not a Penny More—Not a Penny Less’.

U Mahesh Prabhu

Formerly editor-in-chief of ‘Aseemaa—Journal for National Resurgence’, a premier political monthly, his columns have featured in leading dailies like ‘The Indian Express’, ‘The Pioneer’, ‘The Verdict’, ‘Hosa Digantha’ (Kannada), and several others.

He is a fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, London (UK) since 2007 and a member of the International Federation of Journalists (US).  He is the co-founder, group editor-in-chief and CEO of Prabal Media and Marketing Group and teaches journalism at several journalism schools.

Ashwin Kini

Currently, Ashwin is Regional Chair–APAC (Asia Pacific), for Culminis Inc., USA, a volunteer organization devoted to development of IT communities, worldwide. In 2008, Microsoft also awarded him the ‘Most Valuable Professional’ (MVP) title in appreciation of his contribution to propagation of Microsoft Technologies in India.

He has a Diploma in Mechanical Engineering from Karnataka Board of Technical Education, as well as Bachelors and Masters in Computer Applications (BCA & MCA) from Madurai Kamraj University. He is a technical consultant with Systime Computer Systems Ltd, a unit of CMS Limited, for J D Edwards/PeopleSoft ERP.

Nitin Rao Kumblekar

When at school, Nitin drew a caricature of his class teacher. But he wasn’t punished for it, and the teacher, impressed with his talent, became the first person to promote him. Nitin’s drawing was shown in all the classes with pride.

From then on, there was no looking back. After his schooling, Nitin joined CKP Fine Arts College in 2000 where he completed his Bachelor of Fine Arts and joined Triton Communications as a visualizer, from where he moved on to O&M.