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2025-2026
2024-2025
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2022-2023
Abbas Raza Nayyar
( Poet and Academic )
Abhishek Shukla
( Poet )
Ajay Jain
( Entrepreneur & Film Producer )
Akshat Gupta
( Mythologist )
Alka Pande
( Author, Art historian and Curator )
Amy Singh
( Poet, Writer and Performer )
Anamika
( Poet, Writer and Academic )
Anchal Awasthi
( storyteller, strategist and creator )
Anil Rastogi
( Actor )
Anindita Ghose
( Author & Editor )
Anubhav Tyagi
( Cultural Strategist and Festival Programmer )
Anuj Mishra
( Kathak guru )
Anuja Chandramouli
( Writer and new-age Indian classicist. )
Aqeel Shamsi
( Patangbaaz )
Archana Shukla
( Artiste )
Arsh Ali
( Archeologist & Egyptologist )
Ashutosh Dixit
( Cultural Revolutionary )
Ashwitha Jayakumar
( Writer, Editor & Publisher )
Asma Hussain
( Fashion Designer )
Azhar Iqbal
( Poet )
Chandra Shekhar Varma
( Poet and Author )
Chugge Khan
( Folk Artiste )
Devanshi Seth
( Author & Journalist )
Devashish Mishra
( Artiste )
Dr. Nishi Pandey
( President, Indo-French Alliance | Fulbright Scholar )
Farhat Ehsas
( Poet and Academic )
Gaurav Prakash
( Entrepreneur )
Ghazala Wahab
( Author )
Gulliermo Rodriguez
( Cultural Visionary )
Hina Rizvi Haider
( Poet )
Jaya Tiwari
( Singer )
Jayant Krishna
( CEO, Foundation for Advancing Science and Technology (FAST India) )
Jigyasa Mishra
( Artist, Illustrator and Journalist )
Jyotsna Mohan
( Journalist and Writer )
Koral Dasgupta
( Author, TEDx speaker and Narrative Strategist )
Lokesh
( Instrumentalist )
Manish Gupta
( Confectioner )
Manish Shukla
( Poet )
Manjari Chaturvedi
( Dancer, writer and cultural revivalist )
Maroof Culmen
( Content Creator )
Meera Ali
( Architect, Designer & Filmmaker )
Mehak Jamal
( Filmmaker and Writer )
Monia Aljalis
( Author and Poet )
Muzaffar Ali
( Filmmaker, Painter and Designer )
Nawab Masood Abdullah
( cultural connoisseur )
Neena Verma
( Psychologist and Author )
Neha Dixit
( Journalist and Author )
Nilay Agarwal
( Community Welfare Activist )
Nimisha
( Artiste )
Nishtha Gautam
( Journalist, Author & Translator )
Nitin Sukhija
( Author, Podcaster and Creative Director )
Rajit Kapur
( Actor, Producer, Director )
Rakhi Kishore
( Animal Welfare Activist )
Ranjana Dwivedi
( Academic and Musician )
Ranu Uniyal Pant
( Poet & Disability Activist )
Reena Puri
( Editor )
Ritesh Ranjan Sahai
( Writer, Poet and Storyteller )
Sagnik Sen
( Indian Playback and Classical Singer )
Sandeep Yadav
( Actor )
Saumya Khandelwal
( Photographer )
Saurabh Chandra
( Digital Stotyteller )
Shailvee Sharda
( Journalist )
Sharad Bindal
( Author & Mythologist )
Shariq Kaifi
( Poet )
Somya Singh
( Legal Practitioner )
Srajal Gupta
( Entrepreneur )
Sujoy Banerjee
( Forester, Conservationist & Musician )
Taha Ahmad
( Visual Artist )
Tigmanshu Dhulia
( Indian Film Director )
Urvi Singh
( Educator )
Vaibhav Vishal
( Screenwriter )
Versha Verma
( Activist )
Vidya Shah
( Singer, Musician & Scholar )
Wamiq Saifi
( Physician & Storyteller )
Wasim Barelvi
( Poet )
Aanchal Malhotra
( Oral Historian & Author )
Ajay Jain
( Entrepreneur & Film Producer )
Amit Sinha
( Poet )
Amitabh Singh Baghel
( Festival Director )
Anjula Bedi
( Writer & Actor )
Ankur Saxena
( Poet )
Anubhav Sinha
( Filmmaker )
Aparimaya Shyam Das
( President, ISKCON Lucknow )
Ashutosh Shukla
( Journalist )
Atma Prakash Mishra
( Journalist )
Chandra Shekhar Varma
( Writer, Behavioural Scientist & Motivational Speaker )
Devapriya Roy
( Writer )
Devika Rangachari
( Historian & Author )
Diksha Bisla
( Journalist )
Dr Nishi Pandey
( Academic )
Dr. Ravi Bhatt
( Historian )
Duvvuri Subba Rao
( Ex-Governor of RBI & Author )
Eric Chopra
( Founder of Itihasology & Writer )
Gaurav Prakash
( Entrepreneur )
Gopal Sinha
( Poet )
Harshita Gupta
( Content Creator & Author )
Hindol Sengupta
( Author & Historian )
Ila Arun
( Singer, Actor & Writer )
Ira Mukhoty
( Historian & Author )
Jayant Krishna
( Corporate Honcho, Heritage Evangelist, Skills Activist & Reforms Propeller )
Malavika Rajkotia
( Legal Practitioner & Author )
Maroof Culeman
( Content Creator )
Mr. Anurag Gupta
( EVP & Head - Direct Sales Force & Yes Bank Partnership, Max Life Insurance )
Muzaffar Ali
( Indian Filmmaker & Designer )
Nilotpal Mrinal
( Writer, Poet & Motivational Speaker )
Nishant Upadhyay
( Conservation Architect )
Nusrat Jafri
( Cinematographer & Author )
Prabhat Ranjan
( Writer & Journalist )
Prayaag Akbar
( Author )
Purushottam Agrawal
( Historian )
Radha Kumar
( Academic & Author )
Rahul Singh
( Zonal Business Head, YES Bank )
Raj Smriti
( Writer )
Rakesh Chandra
( Poet )
Rana Safvi
( Historian & Author )
Rupali Chandra
( Poet )
Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati
( Spiritual Leader & Author )
Sanjeev Sanyal
( Member of EAC-PM & Author )
Saurabh Kirpal
( Lawyer & Author )
Saurav Jha
( Geoeconomics Expert & Author )
Shailja Kejriwal
( Storyteller & Producer )
Shailvee Sharda
( Journalist )
Shenaz Treasury
( Actor, Television Host & Writer )
Shubhra Gupta
( Film Critic & Author )
Suman Keshari
( Writer )
Sumati Misra
( Poet )
Taha Ahmad
( Visual Artist )
Tahira Hasan
( Social Activist )
Taiyaba
( Chef & Food Writer )
TCA Raghavan
( Former Diplomat & Author )
Vikas Swarup
( Former Diplomat & Writer )
yogi Aditya
( Poet )
Yogi Yogesh Shukla
( Poet )
Abhishek Shukla
Ali Khan Mahmudabad
Amitabh Singh Baghel
Chandra Shekhar Varma
Deepak Balani
Dr. Nishi Pandey
Gaurav Prakash
Gurcharan Das
Himanshu Bajpai
Ishita Basu
John Zubrzycki
Kasturika Mishra
Malini Awasthi
Maroof Culmen
Muzaffar Ali
Pankaj Bhadouria
Pawan Kumar
Prabha Srivastava
Pushpesh Pant
Richa S. Mukherjee
Safir Anand
Sanjay Mishra
Sanjay Singh
Sathya Saran
Saurabh Dwivedi
Sharad Bindal
Suhel Seth
Tigmanshu Dhulia
Ustad Ghulam Siraj Niazi
VIPUL B. VARSHNEY
Vivek Agnihotri
Aaku Srivastava
Abhishek Shukla
Ajay Jain
Akhilesh
Anand Neelakantan
Arif Mohammad Khan
Ashwin Sanghi
Asma hussain
Chandra Shekhar Varma
Deepa Agarwal
Devdutt Pattanaik
Dr. Nishi Pandey
Farhat Ehsas
Himanshu Bajpai
Hindol Sengupta
Jaideep Karnik
Jayant Krishna
Kena Shree
Madhavi Kuckreja
Malavika Banerjee
Malini Awasthi
Manish Shukla
Manish Tewari
Muzaffar Ali
Nawab Jafar Mir Abdullah
Neetu Singh
Pragya Sharma
Pratyaksha
Preety Chaudhary
Priyanka Pradhan
Rakhshanda Jalil
Ratan Mani Lal
Ravi Bhatt
Rohit Gandhi
Santosh Valmiki
Shantanu Gupta
Shobhaa De
Tigmanshu Dhulia
Toolika Rani
Uday Mahurkar
Urmila Singh
Vidya Shah
Vijai Trivedi
Vikram Sampath
Virendra Sarang
Yatindra Mishra