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Ashish Dhar is the co-founder of Pragyata and Upword Foundation and the Director of Operations at The Indic Collective Trust.

Rohit Pathania is an author, analyst and observer with varied interests in politics, history and environment

Pradeep Bhandari is an author, entrepreneur, psephologist, founder & MD of Jan ki Baat and hosts a prime time show at India News.

Shantanu Gupta is the founder of a leading youth based organisation, Yuva Foundation, which works with youth and spreads awareness among them, on policy, politics and social issues. In the past he has worked for a renowned think tank, Center for Civil Society (CCS).   

Shantanu has worked long in the hinterlands of Bundelkhand with UNICEF in Uttar Pradesh. He has also lead large-scale remedial education interventions with Naandi Foundation in Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and New Delhi. Shantanu has worked for a decade as a process and management consultant in many cities in India, Switzerland, Cyprus, Hungry and Israel. He has represented India in many international conferences on economy and policy, in Germany, Malaysia and Srilanka.

His latest book on Yogi Adityanath is now available for purchase.

Chamu Krishna Shastry is an Indian educationist who has been working for the revival of the Sanskrit language for the last four decades, particularly spearheading the movement to teach Sanskrit through Sanskrit. He is the trustee and Secretary of Sanskrit Promotion Foundation. He is also the co-founder of Sanskrit Bharati. 

In 2017, Government of India awarded him with Padma Shri, fourth highest civilian award, for his contribution towards Literature and education.  

In November 2021, the Centre appointed him Chairman of high-powered committee for promotion of Indian languages.

Dr Meenakshi Jain is a historian interested in cultural and religious developments in ancient and medieval India. Her recent publications include Vasudeva Krishna and Mathura (2021); Flight of Deities and Rebirth of Temples (2019); The Battle for Rama: Case of the Temple at Ayodhya (2017); Sati: Evangelicals, Baptist Missionaries, and the Changing Colonial Discourse (2016); and Rama and Ayodhya (2013).  

In 2020, she was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India.

Dr. Anupam Singh is a physician and MD in Internal Medicine. He is a consultant at Aarogya Hospital in Ghaziabad and also works as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine in SMC, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh. His areas of interest are: tuberculosis, asthma, meta-research, Bayesian methods and predictive modelling in medicine. Currently he is working on validity of western cardiovascular risk scores in Indian scenario.

Dr Koenraad Elst (°Leuven, Belgium 1959) has a master’s in Sinology, Indology and Philosophy and a doctorate in Oriental Studies with a dissertation on Hindu Nationalism. While intermittently employed in political journalism and as foreign policy adviser in the Belgian Senate, his scholarly research findings earned him both laurels and ostracism. His numerous publications concern Asian philosophies, language policy, democracy, Indo–European origins, Vedic history and the interface of religion and politics including the Ayodhya dispute.

Nityānanda Miśra is an author based in Mumbai. He works in the investment banking industry. He has edited and authored eight books in Sanskrit, Hindi, and English. Born in Lucknow, Misra is an MBA from IIM Bangalore.

S. Vijay Kumar is a Singapore-based finance and shipping expert who is general manager of a leading ocean transportation company. In 2007–08 he started a blog on Indian art.   

In 2010 Vijay got involved with both Indian and United States law enforcement agencies that were investigating cases of idol theft and smuggling.   Vijay has played a role in the arrests of several idol thieves and smugglers. 

He has also successfully matched several stolen idols with pieces that have been acquired by museums, thereby ensuring their repatriation to India. Based on these experiences, he wrote his first book ‘The Idol Thief’.