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Behind the scenes :)

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Dr. Shovana Narayan expounds on her life's passion, Kathak. Attend her talk on 14th April at NSIT!

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An Interview with Dr. Kiran Seth. Catch him live at the BEL Conference this Sunday!

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Click through to go to the fantastic website for the organisation run by Claire Abrams and her parents.

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Claire Abrams: Co- founder of Animal Aid Unlimited, Udaipur, talks about her beliefs, motivation, struggles, and victories as she runs her project.

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The Venue. Click the photo to go to our official website.

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Yassine Ben Yakoub

Yassine is a French citizen driven by the passion to teach and the thrills of adventure. He is deeply inspired by all that he reads and because of his passion to experience more, he took the leap of faith to pursue his love of learning new things and has travelled to 15 different countries. Currently employed at the French Embassy, Yassine started teaching at NSIT and amazed his students with his views through the deep understanding of Indian culture, his love for Indian cinema and his Hindi!

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Claire Abrams

Claire Abrams is an animal lover and social activist. She is the co-founder of a charitable organization named Animal Aid Unlimited at Udaipur, India. Claire’s family always used to love animals; they had cats in their home since she was born. But the idea struck to start the hospital and rescue-centre (Animal Aid) when they saw the condition of street animals all over Indian cities and Udaipur. They observed that there was a government hospital-serving farmer for dairy cows and goats, but there was no hospital for street animals. They wanted to change the fate of street animals in Udaipur. So they decided to start a hospital for the suffering, neglected, abandoned, abused stray animals in Udaipur. Claire’s parents founded Animal Aid Unlimited in 2002. It is a U.S-based charitable organization that runs a full of activity animal hospital and shelter in Udaipur, Rajasthan, India, where ownerless street animals are rescued, healed, loved and returned to the neighborhoods from where they came.

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Mudit Murarka

Mudit Murarka maybe in his teens but this young film-maker is quite aware of the tensions that the young struggle with. A X standard boy of Apeejay School, Pitampura, with lucent understanding came up with a short film "The Mirror"which recently won the international filmmaking competition 'Faith Shorts' organised by Tony Blair foundation. ‘The Mirror’ showcases his personal opinion on battling stereotypes prevailing in the modern world. The 15-year-old made his foray into live action filmmaking when he was just 12. He joined a film-making course in Std VIand learnt animation and started to work on slide shows. He even began live action, as early as in Std VIII. Currently bollywood movie making is a big no no from him but documentary making is definitely on the young talent's list.

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Dr. Mrinal Satish

Dr. Mrinal Satish is an Associate Professor of Law at NLU Delhi. His area of interest and specialization is criminal law and administration. He holds a doctorate in law from Yale Law School, for which he wrote a dissertation titled “Discretion, Discrimination, and the Rule of Law: Reforming Rape Sentencing in India.”, it examines the need and feasibility of introducing sentencing guidelines in India, using rape sentencing as a case study. Mrinal is a graduate of Yale Law School and the National Law School of India University, Bangalore (NLSIU). He obtained a B.A., LL.B (Hons.) degree from NLSIU in 2001, and was also awarded a gold medal. In 2002, he was awarded the Mahatma Gandhi National Law Teaching Fellowship at NLSIU. Mrinal is currently researching on issues pertaining to the death penalty. Within this framework, he is examining the issue of access to justice, and ineffective assistance of counsel. He is also interested in issues relating to gender and the law, and medical jurisprudence in its interface with rape law.

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Dr. Avnish Seth

Dr Avnish Seth is Director and HOD, Gastroenterology & Hepatobiliary Sciences at Fortis Memorial Research Institute, Gurgaon and is Director of Fortis Organ Retrieval & Transplantation (FORT). In 2004 he was appointed head of department at the prestigious Army Hospital (Research & Referral), New Delhi where he was designated Gastroenterologist to President of India. He initiated the DNB (Gastroenterology) program in 2004. In 2006 he concluded a 6 months fellowship in liver transplantation at UK and established a successful liver transplant program at Army Hospital (R&R). In 2007 Dr Seth launched the Armed Forces Organ Retrieval & Transplantation Authority (AORTA). As founding director he spearheaded the most successful campaign on organ donation after brain death in North India which has resulted in over 70 liver transplants, 140 kidney and cornea transplants and 3 heart transplants. He was member of Government of India, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare committee on formulation of national guidelines for liver transplantation in 2007.  He was awarded the Vishisht Sewa Medal for meritorious service by the President of India on 26 January 2009.

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Dr. Jayashree Gupta

"Vision is seeing the invisible. Mission is doing the impossible.” With this very conviction, President, Consumers India and former Additional Secretary to Government of India and CMD,IDPL, Dr. Jayashree Gupta, has become one of the leading exponents in the domain of Consumer Rights activism in our country today. While serving with Ministry of Consumer Affairs,Food and Public Distribution, Government of India, she was also associated with the very popular"" Jago Grahak Jago"" movement.  Dr. Gupta has indeed managed to open several doors and windows for the naïve and gullible consumer of today, becoming the beacon of change in India’s socio-economic scene.

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Saurav Ghosal

In 2004, Saurav became the first Indian ever to win the coveted British Junior Open Under-19 Squash title. His conquests boasts of achieving the distinction of being the top junior player in the world, bronze medal at the Asian Games 2006 Doha and the Arjuna Award which was awarded by the President of India in 2007. The 26 year old is a consistent performer and now ranked 19 in the world rankings. He attributes his success to the power of dreams and desire to make his country proud.

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Dr. Shovana Narayan

Speaker profile: Dr. Shovana Narayan Dr. Shovana Narayan is one of the most eminent dancers and a name synonymous with Kathak. With brilliant additions to the two thousand year old dance form, Dr. Shovana has been successful in giving a whole new dimension to the art form, transforming it with her innovations. She was one of the leading disciples of Pt. Birju Maharaj and was initiated into the world of Kathak at a very young age of four by well known dancer-actress Sadhna Bose at Calcutta and by Guru Kundanlal at Bombay. She has worked in collaboration with a number of prominent national and international musicians as well as dancers. She has worked in close association with dancers from Western classical ballet and American tap dancing. She has given various dance performances with dancers of other Indian classical dance forms. Dr. Shovana Narayan is a Padma Shri awardee and has also been honored by various other awards like the Indira Priyadarshini award, Delhi Government’s Parishad Samman, Bihar Gaurav Puraskar among many such high honors.

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Mr. Reji Pillai

Speaker profile: Mr. Reji Pillai Mr Reji Pillai is a renowned expert in the electric power sector with 30-plus years of international experience in the electricity industry in diverse functions across the entire value chain. He has been a key member of many multidisciplinary teams that were engaged in reform and restructuring of power and water utilities in Asia, Middle East and Africa. In Oct 2011, Mr Pillai was unanimously elected as the President of India Smart Grid Forum, a public-private partnership initiative of the government of India for accelerated development of smart grid technologies in the Indian power sector for a two-year term. As an entrepreneur, Mr Pillai has built successful enterprises in India and UAE and exited them. Presently he is the Founder and Managing Director with Magnetar Venture, a 100 million USD India focused Fund to foster innovation in clean technologies with a mission to build globally successful enterprises out of India in the emerging Clentech revolution. He is also an active member of the Indian Angel Network.