Flowers’ fragrance stays in the air, even after they are plucked. Ritu Singh was one of the founding team members, who gave form and words to Malikar’s vision of flight from the darkness of ‘not knowing’, towards the light of ‘knowing.’ A History postgraduate, she was an alumnus of St. Mary’s Convent, Nainital, and La Martiniere Girls’ College, Lucknow. During her career, Ritu had been a consulting editor with some of the leading national and international publishing houses, with special interest and experience in writing for children for print and audio-visual media. Children’s Literature was passionately close to her heart! She had penned, scores of stories and poems for children, along with scripts, lyrics for films and documentaries. She had also translated numerous plays in English and Hindi.

Raj K. Singh, former CEO at Uptron TPL, a post-graduate in Economics and Psychology. An alumnus of Canning College and La Martiniere College, Raj is an experienced academic manager. He lectures at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi and Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS) Pilani. His areas of specialization are Business Communication and Organization Behaviour & Human Resources Management (OBHRM). For 30 years, Raj has consulted, trained, coached for multiple government and multinational organizations; Associated with the Management Skill Formation Program for Entrepreneurial Ventures (IIT) Delhi. In 2012, as chief investigator of a project from the Planning Commission, he and his team conducted a nationwide study of parameters of the changing academic profession in higher education. During 2018 & 2019 Raj conducted the Heritage Tourism Promotion Training under Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY), and Tourist Relationship Management Training for Hotels and Museums across India.

Dr. Harish Chaudhry is a Professor with the Department of Management Studies, IIT Delhi. He did his schooling at The Doon School, Dehradun; earned Ph.D. from IIT Delhi; B-Tech from IIT Kanpur, and PGDM from IIM, Bangalore. He has worked in companies like Dunlop India Ltd., NIIT, and RAAG Systems before joining academics with the Department of Management Studies, IIT, Delhi. Dr. Chaudhry has conducted over 500 training programmes in areas of expert systems, ERP, behavioural sciences, and technology management. He has been a consultant to organizations like Godfrey Philips, ITC, Network Ltd., PCL, IRCON, RITES, and STC. He is the pioneer of the movement on value education and good education practices which started as a workshop in IIT Delhi, and now has touched more than 3000 school Principals from India and abroad in the form of Principal Training Programs, International Study Tours and Teacher Training Programs. He is also part of the team created by the Government of India for setting up a “National School of Leadership” for the head teachers of Indian K-12 Schools.

Dr. Sunil Gupta has a Ph.D. from IIT, Delhi; He is a B.Tech; from IIT Delhi, and PGDM from IIM Bangalore. Dr. Gupta has 30 years of rich experience in senior management positions in the industry and 11 years of teaching management students and institution building at a pioneering private university in India. He has worked with HCL group company, Modi Industries, VIP group, and Icfai University. Among other things, he established the incubation center for entrepreneurs at Icfai. Currently, he is consulting and teaching at various management institutes and is an advisor to India's leading rating company for education grading of B-schools.

Dr. Dolly Kandpal is an Information Technology professional with 30+ years of experience as a technology advisor and leading large-scale technology projects in Asia and Europe. Dr. Kandpal holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from Technical University, Graz, Austria. For a decade, she has been managing her Board of Investment, Thailand promoted company Qamlo Information Services Limited based out of Bangkok, Thailand. Her expertise lies in techno-managerial lead roles with multinational companies like Oracle Thailand, Oracle India,Siemens, Accenture, and local players in Germany and Austria like AVL, Bernd Struck, Heidelberg Pre-press, and Technology Park in India. She was also Chief Technology Officer for Sheego.com, a start-up formed by German publishers Springer Verlag and Europe’s largest mail-house delivery company Otto Versand. She has been key personnel at strategic technology and architecture projects as part of major consulting and delivery engagements in India, Thailand, and Europe. She has conducted workshops internationally for C-level and managers in the Service Oriented Architecture and related domains in collaboration with Arcitura, a leading Vendor-Neutral IT Training and Certification Company based in British Columbia, Canada.

Former President and CEO of Domino's Pizza India is an alumnus of Faculty of Management Studies (FMS) Delhi. He is an all-around sales, marketing, and operations manager with over 35 years of experience in starting and managing small and large divisions/companies in a variety of consumer-oriented Indian and Multinational companies. Has a successful track record of building a profitable operation from scratch, or turning around a losing operation under very challenging circumstances. In particular, he has demonstrated strengths in formulating strategies for marketing new products and building a strong team quickly to implement them. Known for cost-effective management, customer and service orientation. Ramesh is skilled in dealing with bureaucracies and has travelled widely. Along with all the above, he is a known theatre personality, with five decades of stage experience.

A seasoned human resources professional with over 28 years of experience in and outside India. She has been associated with a leading multilateral funding agency where her contribution led the agency to win the first civil service ‘Diversity award’ from the Government of UK. Apart from this, Anuradha continues to be associated with the development sector where she spearheaded strategic HR and OD initiatives in renowned organizations, such as the Bureau of Energy Efficiency, Dr Reddy’s Foundation, Oxfam India, etc. Anuradha is an honours graduate of Lady Shri Ram College, New Delhi. Further, she went on to complete her post-graduation diploma in Training Practice from the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development, London, the UK, acquiring the status of Associate Member of the Institute.

Rakesh Kumar Srivastava, is an accomplished lawyer, specializing in real estate, and development sector affairs. Rakesh, a career tea planter, rose to become CEO and whole time director of the prestigious tea company, James Warren Tea Ltd (JWTL). JWTL is held in high esteem for high quality tea, both in Indian and overseas markets. During his career spanning nearly three and a half decades, Rakesh successfully managed JWTL’s tea estates’ corporate and legal affairs. The company, under his stewardship managed a task force of ten thousand workers, staff, and executives.

Ranmal Jhala, an alumnus of Wadia College, Pune, and National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad is a designer of repute and a passionate environmental educationist. He has boldly tried to link arts and crafts to mainstream education. In Ranmal’s words; “My career has been twofold – first, practising professional design and second, exploring creative educational alternatives. Both have been satisfying in their own ways. However, 35 years after graduating I find that my heart lies in the sphere of education.” In 1994, Ranmal conducted a workshop at the Crafts Museum. The workshop was attended by children from many Indian schools (private and government), the American School, the French School and the German School. Over a period of six months, the children learnt several skills from crafts people from all over India – pottery, weaving bamboo baskets, appliqué, lost wax metal-casting, carving and painting wooden toys, scroll painting, glass painting, making stuffed toys and cutting paper stencils. They also observed several other craft skills (a variety of textile techniques, stone craft, glass craft etc.) and performing arts (folk dancing, puppetry, vocal and instrumental music etc.). Many hours were also spent in sketching, finding their inner essence. The participants who painted the scrolls, narrated their stories at the first ‘Man and Nature’ bazaar organized by Dastkar at Dilli Haat. At the French School he conducted a programme called ‘Artecology’ for six years (1990-1996). There he was given a free hand to experiment. Children learnt about nature through assorted media, visited the zoo, museums, art galleries, monuments and parks. They also went on treks and attended camps where they explored India’s culture, history, rural life and its different ecosystems. Ranmal has successfully encouraged people - both in villages and corporates - to plant trees around factories and even in the sea! Currently, he is involved in revitalizing a village in Gujarat.

Has over 25 years of experience in the domain of corporate and brand communication development. Nivedita assists brands and businesses to develop and establish a strong digital presence, particularly in the new normal scenario. From CXO, thought leadership articles, blogs to website content, her forte is empathetic storytelling for maximum impact. As a journalist and documentary film & TV producer, she has made films for Discovery Channel and for the India Today Group (Newstrack and Aaj Tak). She has also worked extensively in the education space, helping in curriculum development both at the school and university levels. Her expertise includes writing, evaluating, and editing manuscripts & film scripts as well as rewriting and reframing topical content into human interest stories to accelerate partnerships with funding agencies and other key stakeholders. Organizations worked for include: The Aga Khan Development Network and INP+ (International Network for Positive People), Sir Ratan Tata Trust, and Family Health International. She has also worked with leading publishing houses like Harper Collins and Roli Books as a consultant editor.