Team

Sana Durrani, originally from Bhopal, is a Chartered Financial Analyst with a background in investment banking and financial management. She brings expertise in Economics, Business Studies, and Entrepreneurship, and has taught commerce subjects for over a decade in prestigious schools across India.

A graduate of Sydenham College of Commerce and Economics with a master's from IGNOU, she is currently Head of Business and Economics at Shrewsbury International School India, Bhopal, where she teaches Cambridge Business Studies and Economics.

Prabhat Kumar is a chemist, educator, and entrepreneur with a Master's degree in Organic Chemistry from CCS University, Meerut. His work spans environmental chemistry, pollution studies, hazardous waste management, and sustainable resource use.

Alongside authoring multiple chemistry textbooks for JEE and NEET, he leads institutions across publishing, manufacturing, education, and industry, including Shri Balaji Publications, Aramco Paper Pvt Ltd, and Seadnxt Education Pvt Ltd. His core interests lie at the intersection of Environment, Energy, and Education.

Dr. Sunil Nanda is an environmental engineer with over 15 years of expertise in the in-situ rejuvenation of polluted rivers and drains, industrial wastewater treatment, and aquaculture. He holds a PhD from AIU, USA, and has devoted his career to developing sustainable technology solutions for global environmental challenges.

His nano and biotech products under the brands "Aquaritin" and "Bioritin" are deployed across India, the USA, Canada, the UK, Australia, and Southeast Asia for water quality remediation, algal bloom control, and sludge management. He has executed international Biological Sewage Treatment Plant projects across Asia and the United States, earning recognition from governments, municipalities, and industries worldwide.

Padmavati Dwivedi is a pioneering figure in India's urban ecological movement, dedicated to restoring the balance between city life and nature. A certified Global Biodiversity Standard Assessor, she blends scientific rigour with community action, turning ecological restoration into a participatory public mission grounded in the belief that every citizen can be a steward of their environment.

She has authored a guide on suitable tree species for Delhi, collaborated with the Chandigarh Police to green police stations, and served as visiting faculty at NIFT Delhi. Her contributions were officially recognised by Smt. Smriti Irani on International Women's Day 2023.

Raj Basu (Supratim Basu in official records) is often referred to as "Tourism Gandhi" for his work in the remote and border villages of Northeast India and West Bengal. He has pioneered cross-border conservation and people-to-people exchange with neighbouring countries, enhanced through tourism livelihoods.

Founder of Help Tourism, India's first ecotourism company (est. 1991), and the Association for Conservation and Tourism (ACT, est. 2001), he advises Northeastern states on rural tourism policy, training, and market linkage. He has worked with UN organisations, the Ministry of Tourism, and international universities, and has influenced nearly 2.5 lakh people across the Hindukush Himalayan region through his philosophy and grassroots work.

Dr. Atul Bahadur Singh is a third-generation physician practicing in Najibabad in the foothills of the Uttarakhand Shivaliks, continuing a family legacy of medical service spanning over 111 years. Educated at Welham's Preparatory School and The Doon School, he completed his MBBS and Diploma in Orthopaedic Surgery from King George's Medical College, Lucknow, in 1985 and 1987 respectively.

He has maintained an independent medical practice since 1989 and served for over 12 years on the executive committee of the Indian Orthopaedic Association. He currently oversees the education of approximately 6,000 students as Manager and Deputy Manager of two government-aided schools under the Sahu Jain Trust in Najibabad, and is locally recognised for his activism in Right to Information matters.

Brigadier Harash Vir Singh, commissioned into The Deccan Horse, a regiment once commanded by his father, has served across the full spectrum of the Indian Army's operational and institutional landscape. From developing pioneering training simulators to commanding his regiment during Op Parakram, his career reflects a rare blend of innovation, leadership, and deep systemic understanding.

Achyut Tiwari is an entrepreneur and researcher working at the intersection of AI, risk, and infrastructure resilience. He is the Founder and CEO of GeoLiquefy, where he builds interpretable AI systems for geotechnical risk assessment, and the Curator of IndianExceptionalism.org.

An Emergent Ventures Fellow, he previously built factory-scale prediction systems as a Data Scientist at Unilever. His interests span infrastructure resilience, institutions and culture, geography and statecraft, and interpretable AI.

Asha Kohli, a resident of the Kullu Valley, has been an integral part of setting up and running the basic infrastructure that also involved digitising and uploading the vast amount of data, especially images shot over decades. Looking after the logistics for the Arunachal shoots, she has travelled to all the districts of the frontier state. She is currently honing her skills on making in-house maps for the various books under production.