Climate and health campaigner Shweta Narayan, is a TED Speaker who will show us the pandemic through a Climate lens and talk to us about how India and other developing Nations can build health systems that will become resilient to Climate Change.

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Australian astrophysicist Jessie Christiansen from NASA’s Kepler Mission will take us on her journey of searching for exoplanets and talk to us about how their data has the potential to answer timeless questions about our very existence.

mythologist, storyteller and an acknowledged authority on the Kama Sutra. She will show us how the narratives of the stories we tell need to be changed to incorporate the women’s perspective and show the direct impact it has on the empowerment of women.

Aditi Mangaldas is among the topmost Kathak dancers and choreographers in our country. She will, through her dance, make the audience open their minds to woman fantasy and desire and will demonstrate what it means to be utterly free in a woman's body.

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Our host for the evening will be renowned singer and composer Sonam Kalra- Her powerful voice and ability to own the stage with grace will take the audience on a journey with the talks.

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Jaya Row, a renowned spiritual leader of Vedanta Philosophy will talk to us about Happiness, the simplicity and complexity of it and help us understand that gaining Happiness is easier than we make it to be.

Kajal Odedra is an author and activist who will talk about the intersection of hair with power through activism by exploring the connections with history, politics, religion, culture, gender, sexuality and status. This becomes even more relevant with the Iran protests in the background.

What if sports could be genderless? Sadam Hanjabam, the Founder of Ya_All  and the curator of Queer Games India & Asia's first all Transmen Football Team, will talk to us about how India can be a frontrunner for inclusion and equity in sports.

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Srishti Bakshi is a women’s rights activist who walked from Kashmir to Kanyakumari in 260 days - to understand the reasons behind gender violence in India. She brings to the stage an important way of solving this issue, weaved in with her personal experiences and learnings from her extraordinary journey.

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Shefali Shah is an Indian actress of film, television and theatre. Respected for her acting prowess, she works primarily in independent Hindi films and has received local and foreign accolades for her performances.

Michelin Star Chef Vikas Khanna is an internationally acclaimed Indian chef, award-winning author, poet and filmmaker. He is the recipient of Access to Freedom Award, Eleanor Roosevelt’s Shining Star Award, GQ Man of the Year and was featured as “10 Global Legendary Chefs who’ve revolutionized our eating habits” by Deutsche Welle.Chef Vikas Khanna has established himself as a top authority on Indian Cuisine, hosting sccessful cooking shows and has written more than 25 cookbooks. His book Flavors First won the prestigious Benjamin Franklin Award. Khanna Sutra, My Great India and Savor Mumbai won Gourmand World Cookbook Awards.UTSAV- A Culinary Epic of Indian Festivals has become the world’s most expensive cookbook. UTSAV was launched at 68th Cannes Film Festival and has been presented to President Obama, HH Dalai Lama, Pope Francis, PM Modi and most recently Chef Vikas was invited toBuckingham Palace to present UTSAV to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.His cooking style was called “inventive” and a New York Magazine quoted “an instinctive chef whose dishes just get it right” in a review.His documentary series Holy Kitchens, which explores the bond between faith and food, has been showcased at Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, Oxford and many other Universities and Film Festivals. His documentary “Kitchens of Gratitude” was featured at Marche du Film during 69th Cannes Film Festival.

It is no exaggeration to say that 28-year-old Kazakh singer Dimash Qudaibergen is widely viewed as one of the world’s greatest vocalists. He is unrivaled in vocal range and technique, plays several musical instruments, and has performed songs in thirteen languages. A genre-defying musical artist, he was born into a family of professional musicians and a culture steeped in music. He began his classical training at the age of five and has a Bachelor’s degree in vocal performance, a Master’s in composition, and a PhD in musicology in progress.Now emerging in the West, Dimash is already a superstar in the East, known as an electrifying stage performer who has an intense emotional impact on his audience. He has won some of the top awards available to musical artists in several countries, including the United Arab Emirates, Kazakhstan, Russia, and China. He regularly performs on television and has sold out arenas from New York to London to Dubai to Shenzhen. Nearly 30,000 people from 68 nations attended his most recent concert in his home country of Kazakhstan. He is best known in the United States for appearing on the CBS “The World’s Best” competition where, as the front-runner for the million-dollar grand prize, he withdrew at the semi-finals to allow younger competitors a chance to move forward.This choice reflects Dimash’s deeply held philosophy that we are put on this earth to be human, not to be artists or stars. His millions of ardent fans admire him for his voice but adore him for his humility and devotion to family, culture, and the cause of peace. He endorses several global and local charities and goes to great lengths to encourage the development of young talents by supporting music festivals and vocal competitions, as well as regularly inviting young people to perform at his own concerts.In September of this year, Dimash premiered his latest song, “The Story of One Sky,” at the Seventh Congress of the Leaders of the World and Traditional Religions. Over one hundred global religious leaders attended his performance and responded with a standing ovation, and thereafter referred to “One Sky” as the unofficial anthem of the event.

Dr Soumya Swaminathan was appointed WHO’s first Chief Scientist in March 2019. A paediatrician from India and a globally recognized researcher on tuberculosis and HIV, she brings with her 30 years of experience in clinical care and research and has worked throughout her career to translate research into impactful programmes.

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Raghu Raman is a risk expert with a corporate background and understanding for operations in India who has helped digitize security response and analysis. He has spent eleven years as an officer in the Indian Armed Forces, followed by another eleven years in the corporate sector before joining the Government as CEO of the National Intelligence Grid.

Aaditya Uddhav Thackeray is an Indian Politician who served as a Cabinet Minister of Higher Education, Cabinet Minister of Tourism and Environment for the Government of Maharashtra. He is also an MLA of Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from Mumbai, Maharashtra.

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Satya S. Tripathi is Secretary-General of the Global Alliance for a Sustainable Planet. A lawyer and development economist by training, Mr. Tripathi has served with the UN since 1998 in key positions in Europe, Asia and Africa spanning a broad range of tasks pertaining to Climate Change, Humanitarian Affairs, Human Rights, Democratic Governance and Legal Affairs. These include an acclaimed stint as Chair of the Committees on Laws, Treaties and Administrative matters for the UN mediated Cyprus unification talks in 2004.

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Aswath Damodaran, is a Professor of Finance at the Stern School of Business at New York University, where he teaches corporate finance and equity valuation.

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Nir Eyal is formerly a Lecturer in Marketing at Stanford's Graduate School of Business and also taught at the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design. His first book, Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products, is an international bestseller and taught companies how to design more engaging products. His second bestseller, Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life, reveals the Achilles' heel of distraction and provides a guidebook for getting the best of technology without letting it get the best of us.

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Laxminarayan is founder and director of the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy (CDDEP) in Washington, D.C., a senior research scholar at Princeton University and affiliate professor at the University of Washington. Since 1995, Laxminarayan has worked to improve the understanding of antibiotic resistance as a problem of managing a shared global resource.

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Sudha Murthy is an Indian engineering teacher and author in Kannada and English. She began her professional career as a computer scientist and engineer. She is the chairperson of the Infosys Foundation and a member of public health care initiatives of the Gates Foundation.

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Shashi Tharoor is an Indian former international civil servant, diplomat, politician, writer and public intellectual who has been serving as Member of Parliament for Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, since 2009. He is currently running in the 2022 Indian National Congress Presidential elections.

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Chetna Gala Sinha is an Indian social activist working to empower women in drought-prone areas of rural India by teaching entrepreneurial skills, access to land and means of production. Sinha and six other women chaired the 48th Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland in January 2018.

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Sparsh Shah is an American rapper, singer, songwriter and inspirational speaker from New Jersey, US. He was born in 2003 in Iselin, New Jersey, to a family of Indian descent. Sparsh has a very rare disorder Osteogenesis Imperfecta, also known as Brittle Bone Disorder.

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Danish Siddiqui was an Indian photojournalist based in Delhi, who used to lead the national Reuters multimedia team and was Chief Photographer India. He received his first 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography, as part of the Reuters team, for documenting the Rohingya refugee crisis.

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Leila Seth was an Indian judge who served as the first woman judge on the Delhi High Court and became the first woman to become Chief Justice of a state High Court, Himachal Pradesh High Court, on 5 August 1991. She was also the first woman to be designated as a senior counsel by the Supreme Court of India.

Stan Lee was an American comic book writer, editor, publisher, and producer. He rose through the ranks of a family-run business called Timely Publications which would later become Marvel Comics.

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Devdutt Pattanaik is a mythologist from Mumbai, India. He is also a speaker, illustrator and author, on Hindu sacred lore, legends, folklore, fables and parables. His work focuses largely on the areas of religion, mythology, and management.

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