HABIB TANVIR
Habib Tanvir is a noted Hindi playwright, theatre director, poet and actor. He is the writer of famous plays like, Agra Bazar (1954) and Charandas Chor (1975). He founded in 1959, the Naya Theatre, theatre company in Bhopal. He was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1969, Padma Shri in 1983, Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship in 1996, and the Padma Bhushan in 2002; apart from that he has also been nominated as a member of the Upper House of Indian Parliament, the Rajya Sabha (1972-1978). His play 'Charandas Chor' got him the Fringe Firsts Award at Edinburgh International Drama Festival in 1982.
ARUNA ROY
Aruna Roy is a political and social activist. Born in Chennai, she served as an officer in the Indian Administrative Service from 1968-1975. She is best-known for her campaigns to better the lives of the rural poor in Rajasthan (in north-western India). Her long campaigns were instrumental in the passing of the Indian Right to Information Act in 2005. She resigned from the Indian central government (IAS) in order to devote her time to campaigns, social work and social reform. She joined the Social Work and Research Centre in Tilonia, Rajasthan, set up by her husband, Bunker Roy. Aruna Roy worked at the SWRC until 1983, then moved to Devdoongri, a village in the Rajsamand district of Rajasthan in 1987 along with Shanker Singh and Nikhil Dey. In the year 2000, Aruna Roy received the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Community Leadership.
DR. KAMAL CHENOY
Dr. Kamal Chenoy is an Associate Professor of Comparative and Indian Politics at the Jawaharlal Nehru University School of International Studies. Professor Chenoy has been active in reconciliation efforts between India and Pakistan and is one of the founding members of the Track III - Pakistan-India People's Forum for Peace and Democracy. He is also a member of the National Council of the All India Peace and Solidarity Organization and has been associated with the setting up of the South Asian Labour Forum, as well as the Movement in India for Nuclear Disarmament . He is a regular political commentator in the Indian media, and a columnist in The Independent (Bombay) and The Telegraph (Calcutta).
DR BANWARI LAL SHARMA
Eminent Mathematician from the University of Allahbad and University of Paris. He was active in the JP movement and helped organise the National Youth Conference of J P Movement in 1974. He is a well known Gandhian and social activist and was imprisoned for 19 months under MISA. He is the Founder and National Convenor of National Movement Azadi Bachao Andolan since 1989 , the Honorary Director of the Institute of Gandhian Thought & Peace Studies 1990- 2006. He is Chief Editor, Nai Azadi Udghosh, English and Hindi monthly Journal and the Founder of the Swaraj Vidyapeeth (Open University , Allahbad ) and the Sawaraj Film Archive .
DR. USHA RAMANATHAN
Dr Usha Ramanathan, Member - Advisory Council for India, is an internationally recognized expert on law and poverty. She studied law at Madras University, the University of Nagpur and Delhi University. She is a Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, teaches environmental law, labour law and consumer law at the Indian Law Institute and conducts training programmes at the National Institute for Programmes and Policies on Child Development in New Delhi. She has also been invited to teach in many universities around the world. She is a frequent adviser to non-governmental organisations and international organizations. She is a member of Amnesty International's Advisory Panel on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, a member of the Governing Board of the Centre for Equity Studies and has been called upon by the World Health Organisation as a expert on mental health on various occasions.
HARSH MANDER
Harsh Mander was formerly a senior member of the Indian Administrative Service until he resigned in protest after the 2002 Gujarat riots. Mander has served as the Deputy Director of the IAS Academy at Mussoorie. He had previously served as District Collector and as the managing director of the SC/ST Finance Corporation and Director of ActionAid India. Subsequently he has worked as a columnist, a writer and activist. He received the 2002 M.A. Thomas National Human Rights Award from the Vigil India Movement. Among other publications, Mander has written a collection of essays Unheard Voices: Stories of Forgotten Lives published by the Penguin Books (2001).
SIDDHARTH VARDHARAJAN
Siddharth Varadarajan is an Indian journalist and editor of Gujarat: The Making of a Tragedy. He has reported on the NATO war against Yugoslavia, the destruction of the Bamyan Buddhas by the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, the war in Iraq and the crisis in Kashmir. He now works for The Hindu as its Strategic Affairs editor. He was a visiting professor at the Graduate School of Journalism at University of California at Berkeley. After studying economics at the London School of Economics and Columbia University, he taught at New York University for several years before joining The Times of India as an editorial writer in 1995. In 2004, he joined The Hindu, India's leading English-language newspaper, as Deputy Editor. In November 2005, the United Nations Correspondents Association awarded him the Elizabeth Neuffer Memorial Prize Silver Medal for Print Journalism for a series of articles, Persian Puzzle on Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency. In March 2006, he was awarded the Bernardo O'Higgins Order by the President of Chile -- that country's highest civilian honor for a foreign citizen -- for his contributions to journalism and to the promotion of India's relations with Latin America and Chile.
SUDHIR PATTNAIK
Sudhir Patnaik is a well known social activist based in Orissa. He is the chairman of the Samadhrusti Television and Magazine and the co-founder of Bhubaneshwar Film Archive.
RANJAN PALITRanjan Palit is a Cinematographer and Filmmaker based in Kolkatta. A former executive committee member of CPDR Mumbai , Ranjan Palit has over the last 25 years shot over a hundred documentaries, six feature films and 40 commercials as a cinematographer. He has also directed 10 independent documentaries . He is the recipient of 3 National Awards of which 2 were for Best Cinematography. He is also the recipient of the Golden Conch Award at the Mumbai International Film Festivals in 1990 and 1996. He has received several international awards like the City of Freiburg Award, the Unesco Award for the Best Film on Art and Culture and the Valais Award for the Best Independent documentary. He has shot at least 20 films for the BBC and Channel 4 in UK.
AMAR KANWAR
Amar Kanwar is a filmmaker living and working from New Delhi. He is the recipient of the 1st Edvard Munch Award for Contemporary Art from Norway, an Honorary Doctorate in Fine Arts, Maine College of Art, USA, the MacArthur Fellowship in India, the Golden Gate Award (San Francisco International Film Festival); Golden Conch (Mumbai International Film Festival); The First Prize (Torino International Film Festival,Italy); Jury’s Award (Film South Asia, Nepal), Grand Prix at EnviroFilm, Slovak Republic and the Golden Tree at the 1st National Environment and Wildlife Film Festival, Delhi. His films are screened in small rural film festivals as well as international art exhibitions like Documenta 11 (2002) and Documenta 12 (2007) and at museums like the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the National Museum in Oslo, Norway.
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