Founders & Creators in the Tribe
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Raghava KK, Story-teller, 4 Time TED Speaker
Raghava K.K is a renowned multidisciplinary artist and his work spans the globe. Be it the double-headed tiger that sits in Sachin Tendulkar’s living room, the backdrop used by American folk singer Paul Simon on his album tour, or his recent art display on Instagram titled Eye Candy in collaboration with Under 25. CNN has called him one of the ten “most fascinating people you have never heard of” after he gave a speech at TED California.
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Vaibhav Sisinity, Founder of Growth School
Vaibhav Sisinty is a growth consultant for brands and helps startups turn into profitable businesses. He is the founder of an award-winning digital media company CrazyHeads. He is also a coach and trainer, has built courses on growth hacking, and how to turn Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, and chatbots into massive growth tools.
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Tanmay Shah, Filmmaker & Limca Book of Records Winner
Tanmay Shah is a director, producer, writer, editor, cinematographer, script and screenwriter from Gujarat, India who is known for the 52FilmsProject and his short documentary Pinch of Salt. He is the Founder and CEO of FridayFictionFilm. In 2016, Shah was awarded the Limca Book of Records for making 52 zero budget short films in 52 weeks.
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Megha Rao, Poet and Author
At the age of 26, not only has Megha published three novels, she has had her work featured in many significant platforms including ScoopWhoop, Kommune, UnErase and Terribly Tiny Tales (ttt)
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Eshna Kutty
A hoop dancer, teacher, facilitator, performer and learner since ten years, Eshna went from hula hooping alone in her bedroom to now sharing this flow art all over the country. Kutty also made quite the wave by using her platform to talk about issues like sexism.
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Shefali Shah, National Award-winning Actress & Emmy Award Nominee
Shefali Shah is an Indian actress of Hindi films, television and web series. After making her film debut with a minor role in the 1995 drama Rangeela, she has gone on to work with some of the biggest projects including Delhi Crime, Dil Dhadakne Do, Jalsa, Waqt.
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Priyanka Banerjee, Filmfare Award-winning Director
Priyanka is a theatre and film writer-director. She is the founder and CEO of Leogirl Productions that has staged 70 shows across India to explore themes of Diversity & Inclusion. Priyanka's latest venture as a director is a powerful short on women and sisterhood called Devi that bagged a Filmfare award.
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Cinema of Excess
Anirudh Ravi, Bharath Kashyap, and Abheet Anand are the acoustic trio that make up Cinema of Excess. The essence of their music is largely introspective and their art is something everyone can relate to. Well known in the Indian indie circuit, they have had crowds sway at F of X Festival, NH7, Control ALT Delete, Zomaland and many more.
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When Chai Met Toast
Founded in 2016, When Chai Met Toast consists of vocalist Ashwin Gopakumar, guitarist Achyuth Jaigopal, keyboard player Palee Francis and drummer Pai Sailesh, who met in the music circles of Kochi, Kerala. Probably one of the only groups to literally define their genre of music as ‘happy,’ When Chai Met Toast is an electric yet breezy indie quartet that has been spreading an infectious, foot-tapping energy ever since their debut EP 'Joy of Little Things', drawing upon multi-lingual lyrics and infectious sing along choruses. The collective made a swift rise, and their energetic live performances endeared them to crowds internationally.
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Jay Oza, Cinematographer - Gully Boy fame
Jay has had an impressive career with some exceptional projects under his belt, including the more recent hits, Gully Boy and Made in Heaven. Hailing from Baroda, Gujarat, Jay was majoring in art history and aesthetics when he decided to take a stab at filmmaking by interning as a set PA over his summer breaks. He was awarded the Indian Telly Award and the 14th Indian Television Academy Award in 2014 for his cinematography on the TV series 24: India.
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Prathamesh Tambe, Music Director & Singer-Songwriter
Prathamesh Tambe is an independent songwriter from Mumbai, with an unadulterated approach towards his words and music. A Maharashtrian lad who has a penchant for surreal lyrics and moving music, Prathamesh's music is often described as 'soul-stirring'.
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Pranati Oza, Founder Pink Window Productions
Pranati Nagarseth is a producer with an experience of more than 15 years for various big-budget films and television channels. She went to become a part of the core team that launched the Epic channel, worked on Jodha Akbar, Rang De Basanti and India's first 3D film: ABCD. She started Pink Window Productions that produced various popular digital series like Girl In The City and Bandish Bandits.
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Sadhna Prasad - Co-founder Aravani Art Project
Sadhna is an artist who creates safe spaces for alternate voices to share their stories. She is the Art Director of Aravani Art Project - a collective movement working to enable the Transgender Community through Visual Arts, Socially Inclusive Experiments and Magic.
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Nori Norbhu - Founder, Noriiart
A designer and illustrator hailing from the North-East, Nori seamlessly weaves in artistic elements inspired by her roots, with modern artistic styles. She is known to take strong stances that resonate with the youth and has contributed to many social causes through her work.
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Siddharth Jain, Founder The Story Ink (Ex Creative Head, Hotstar)
Sidharth Jain founded India’s first story company – The Story Ink & in a span of 12 months, became India’s leading book to screen company, with over 75 book to screen adaptation deals. The Story Ink is also co-producing more than 20 projects based on books.
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Yash Rane, Go Pro Brand Ambassador & Content Influencer
Having quit his job as a head chef on a cruise-liner, Yash switched to becoming a content maverick with Go-Pro. Recognised as one of India’s finest micro-content creators he has bagged projects with tourism boards of Thailand, Singapore, Abu Dhabi, Nepal and enterprises like Ferrari, Oppo, Disneyland, Ather and the ilk.
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Riddhi Parekh, Photographer & Visual Story-teller
Winner of Craftsmen of the year, Best Fashion Photographer and Best Food Photographer by Luxoculus in 2011, Riddhi has worked with some of the best brands in the country including AirBnB, Pantene, Royal Enfield, H&M, Sabyaasachi and celebrities like Ranveer Brar, Saba Azad, Rajkummar Rao, Varun Thakur and Sarah Todd.
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Vaishakhi Haria, Founder Splash Salons & Celebrity Stylist
Director at Splash – The Salon in Mumbai, Vaishakhi Haria ventured into hairdressing at an early age of 17. One of the seven esteemed ID Artists with L’Oréal Professionnel, she is determined to educate and assist aspiring artists and provide them with a platform where they can excel
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Amar Ramesh, Photographer & Fouder, Studio A
Founder of Studio A Weddings, a creative wedding photography firm that has a talented team of 25 passionate minds. With over 400 weddings under his belt across the world, Amar believes in the power of visual storytelling and has started passion projects in temple architecture, social documentaries, hand-painted backdrops and Discover Tamil Nadu. His latest project documents the daily life of the maestro Illayaraja.
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Shaina Shah, Educator, Filmmaker & Founder - The Wow Women Project
Shaina has Co-founded Limelight Pictures, a film production company that has created and released two feature films so far and is working on a few more. She mentors and educates over 5000+ girl children on topics of entrepreneurship, and started The Wow Women Project during the pandemic to showcase 100 powerful stories of women from war-torn countries.
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Shayak Sen, Design Head at Vedantu
Shayak is the Head of Design and a part of the leadership team at Vedantu - India's second-largest K12 Edtech platform. Prior to this Shayak has headed design teams at Meesho, Practo, and Commonfloor, and has received accolades nationally and internationally for his contribution to each.
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Aakanksha Gupta, Co-Founder The Other Circle and Winner of PR Entrepreneur of the Year
The Other Circle, a leading firm that optimizes public relations solutions for over hundreds of enterprises, is the brainchild of Aakanksha Gupta. It is a company with the right blends of PR & Marketing that now cross-section of clients who belong to the fields of hospitality, lifestyle, and e-commerce.
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Prateek Kotha, Associate Marketing Director - Myntra
Heading Sports, Beauty and Personal Care(BPC) and Footwear Categories (Men,Women & Kids) for Marketing and Monetization; Prateek has also helped brands like Hamleys and Alive Outdoor Media and has done activations with Disney, Mattel, Funskool, WWE, etc.
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George Therian, Founding Team of India’s First Meta-Influencer, Kyra
‘Kyra’, the first meta-influencer of India is launched by TopSocial. TopSocial launched Kyra on the grounds of other successful virtual influencers like Lil Miquela, the first Virtual Influencer sensation with over 3 million followers.
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Akash Mohimen, Screenwriter & Playwright
He has written four plays including two children's plays, The Mighty Mirembayanna and The Prisoners of Peace, and a musical, Hattamala. His fourth play Mahua was produced at the famous Prithvi Theatre in Mumbai. His most recent works also include Bhaukaal S1 & 2 which are streaming on MX Player.