Anil Purohit

Anil Purohit is a design architect and a visual documentarian and writer at heart. A flâneur between work breaks, he searches streets for frames and stories. His curiosity about urban life and human interactions has led to exhibitions across the US, Europe, and India, and publications in photo anthologies and travelogues.

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Moments framed by a camera bridge generations—stirring memory, self-reflection, and an imagined future that reshapes the present.

Jeneva Talwar

Jeneva Talwar is an actor, filmmaker, and pastry chef. After work in advertising and production in Mumbai, she acted across films and series, trained in French pastry in Lyon, and worked in France and India. She later took over The Artful Baker in Delhi and moved to Goa to build Café LaDiDa, a French dessert haven.

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From film sets to French pastry, she reinvents herself—proving a creative life can have many acts.

Gaurang S Patkar

Dr. Gaurang Patkar is an AI researcher, educator, and innovation mentor at Don Bosco College of Engineering, Goa. He mentors student startups and builds applied AI projects. Outside academia, he’s a model—Mr. India 2021 runner-up—and has featured in shoots, runway shows, and short films, blending tech, creativity, and purpose.

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From runway lights to AI labs, he fuses confidence and code to mentor innovators and build purpose-driven impact.

Dr. Shalini Menezes

Shalini Menezes is an intellectual property strategist, patent valuation expert, and entrepreneur based in Goa. A physicist by training and lawyer by profession, she helps organizations unlock the economic value of innovation. She founded Patented Network and Menezes Gaonkar LLP, is a Fulbright Scholar, and is also a runner, poet, podcaster, and mother of two.

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Between scholarship and motherhood, she reflects on holding ambition and care in the same breath.

Dhanya Pilo

Dhanya Pilo is a filmmaker and designer obsessed with maritime history and technology. She sailed with the all-women team Maiden, winners of the Ocean Globe Race 2023–24. Known for a never-say-die attitude, she brings grit, curiosity, and craft to every story—on land or at sea.

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A childhood postcard sparked a lifelong obsession—she sailed oceans with Maiden, driven by grit and curiosity.

Jitendra Choithani

Jitendra Choithani is a poet, performer, and researcher of Sindhi folk culture. His work explores identity, meaning, and connection through language and storytelling. After a freezing night in a remote Nepali village where he couldn’t communicate, he realized expression isn’t eloquence—it’s presence. That insight guides his work today.

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A freezing night in Nepal taught him: connection isn’t eloquence—it’s presence.

Ankita

Ankita is a strategy and finance professional turned entrepreneur, experienced in FP&A, growth planning, and cross-functional leadership across startups. She bridges numbers and narrative—combining financial rigor with brand and operational execution. Now building in hospitality, she turns strategy into real customer experiences through scalable systems, strong concepts, and practical delivery.

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Pandemic chaos and fear couldn’t stop her—she pushed through uncertainty to reach Everest Base Camp anyway.

Meenakshi Menon

Meenakshi Menon challenges the tired narrative that life after 60 fades into the background. Through reflection and real talk, she advocates for joyful ageing—living fully at every stage, redefining what it means to begin again, and choosing fresh terms for the decades ahead.

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Your 60s are not a dusty shelf—live fully, rewrite the terms, and step into a fresh chapter.

Apoorv Bamba

Apoorv Bamba is a father and entrepreneur challenging India’s fractured employability system. He treats unlearning as a sacred practice and seeks growth where discomfort opens new ways of being. A restless traveler and listener, he’s visited 50 countries, collecting everyday wisdom and questions that keep reshaping how he parents, leads, and lives.

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Across 50 countries, he gathered ordinary wisdom around two koans: Who is in? What is life?

Lesly Agnelo Rajendran

Kavita Nair