Tapan Misra is an Indian scientist who was the director of Space Applications Centre, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). He was involved in design for the development of C-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) of the RISAT-1. He wrote an algorithm for real-time processing of SAR data during his stint as a guest scientist in the German Aerospace Agency in 1990. He was also associated with development of the multi-frequency scanning microwave radiometer instrument of Oceansat-1 and Scanning Scatterometer of Oceansat-2. He served as the deputy director of microwave remote sensing area of Space Applications Centre (SAC) before being appointed as the director in February 2015.  In January 2021, Misra claimed through a Facebook post that he was poisoned with arsenic trioxide on 23 May 2017, when he was in a promotional interview at ISRO headquarters in Bengaluru. He also added that the attack might have been carried out by people who have feared the loss of contract from the Indian government due to low cost technology of ISRO.

Sanal Edamaruku is an Indian author and rationalist. He is the founder-president and editor of Rationalist International, the president of the Indian Rationalist Association and the author of 25 books and other articles.

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In this insightful conversation, Subhashini Ali, daughter of INA veterans Capt. Laxmi Sahgal and Col. Prem Sahgal shares interesting anecdotes about the Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose led Azad Hind Fauj, especially the Rani of Jhansi Regiment, and shares the sacrifices made to free India from the clutches of the British.

Kiruba Munusamy is an advocate practicing in the Supreme Court of India. She is a social, political and judicial activist striving for social justice by eliminating all forms of discriminations, oppressions and inequalities in the society.  She is working against various human rights violations in India that includes caste and gender based discriminations, caste based atrocities against Dalits, violence against women, discrimination in the academic spaces, death penalty, state repression and prohibition of the inhuman practice of manual scavenging.  Through her activism she works for the annihilation of caste and supports Dalit women empowerment, indigenous rights, LGBTQI rights, minorities, advancement of disadvantaged groups, and freedom of expression.  She has filed several public interest litigations before the Indian courts of law to bring judicial intervention in the issues of grave violation of human rights and to restore the fundamental rights of the public at large.  Apart from the legal framework, she organizes and conducts awareness campaigns, workshops to bring awareness and educate the downtrodden, sexual minorities (LGBTQI) and dalit women about their fundamental human rights and legal remedies on violation.

Tara Kaushal is a writer and media consultant. Her first book, Why Men Rape: An Indian Undercover Investigation was published by HarperCollins on the 22nd of June, 2020. Part of the multimedia gender journalism and activism project Why Men Rape (www.whymenrape.com) that she’d started in 2017, it has been widely and well received. This reputed international publishing house is also publishing her second book, a work of narrative nonfiction in the human-rights and gender-justice space.