Gautam Sen has spent more than 3 decades in media, starting with the launch of The Telegraph in 1984. He then moved to The Times of India and worked for 26 years in various locations, developing business, both ATL and BTL, as National Business Head for multiple verticals and retired as Associate Vice President.

Presently he is a consultant with an English newspaper and helps few companies with Strategic Marketing and Communication.

He completed MBA from Kolkata University and is a Law graduate from Barkatullah University, Bhopal. He is a Guest Faculty in few Delhi Institutes, teaching Principles of Communication and Media Law.

Sheeba Aslam Fehmi is a Delhi based journalist/editor, writer, feminist, research scholar, gender-trainer, and literature enthusiast. She has extensively written on identity formations through cultural markers such as language, culture and cuisine in the modern, democratic Nation-State. From a family  of the Urdu journal “ Deen Duniya” and TV commentator on minority issues and has worked for the MODERNISATION OF MADRASA EDUCATION PROGRAM as the coordinator for the NCPUL, nodal agency of Government of India.

She has been organising Adabi nashists, mushairas, kitabi tabsira, Dastangoi and musical events to promote Ganga-Jamuni Urdu literary culture in the Old City of Shahjahanabad in Delhi. The penetration of high culture of Turkiye, Iran, Uzbekistan and the rest of Central Asia is in focus in her academic research. She is currently pursuing her doctoral research on ‘Social Movements of Muslim Women in India’ in CPS-JNU, Delhi.

A media person in Delhi for 43 years who had a stint in corporate/telecom sector for two decades. He was trained at IIMC, Delhi and IJI W Berlin in the 1980s.Is also an early bird in telecom/digital reporting in India.

He has worked with Deccan Chronicle, Amrita Bazar Patrika, Financial Express, and was part of the initial team of the Hindu Business Line in Delhi. He has been an editor with Telematics India and IT News of Jain TV

He is a specialist in Telecom-IT issues and has worked as a public affairs person for telecom companies like Vodafone, Idea, MTS, BSNL and COAI, the industry association

He has authored six books. Currently, a columnist, documentary filmmaker, YouTuber and runs a tech-media/digital consultancy.

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Bobby Luthra Sinha PhD ( from UNIBAS, Basel, Switzerland: 2011-2016) and PostDoc (UKZN, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa: 2018-2019) in Social Anthropology, Political Science and African Studies. Community based developmental work and research methodologies, documentation, teaching/ training, project and implementation work and ground as well as desk research in Human Rights, Public Policy, Education, Gender Rights, Tribal Rights, Environmental Rights, and Public Health in India, South Asia, Africa and Latin America form her core areas of expertise. She has core training and experience in community based immersions- field work, Human Rights and Habitat Rights Claims processes, training and interventions. She has an expert knowledge of and experience in implementing methodologies for sensitive, conflict ridden, disaster prone regions. Her work has focussed on marginalised and vulnerable peoples, esp women and children and tribes and Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups. She has served multicultural organisations, countries and communities in India, Bangladesh, Argentina, Switzerland, Ghana and South Africa. She is fluent in English, Spanish, Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu-Punjabi and German.

Shujat Ali Quadri has been associated in community service and journalism since the last 15 years. He has pursued his B. Tech and M. Tech degrees and a PhD in Artificial Intelligence. He has a sharp understanding of information and cyber warfare.

He is involved in freelance writing and journalism and is currently the National Chairman of the Muslim Students’ Organization of India.

He runs a fact-checking unit against hate politics – DEFRAC.