Theme: The Future You

The Future You... When we think about our life do we realise how many times a day we say the word “I” ? We need to realise that every passing moment is precious, every passing moment could have been lived differently. We need to start taking action and use our time to actually make a difference in the world. Years of hard work and dedication is the key to achieve the world of our dreams where the environment is clean and fresh , malpractices don’t exist, corruption has stopped and there is acceptance for diversities.Our world consists of unmatchable beauty thus the only way to truly embrace it is by weaving the future well, by weaving the present step by step.

Neerja Modi School
Shipra Path
Jaipur, Rajasthan, 302020
India

Aubrey Aloysius

President, LAMP Trust

He is an ex-International Banker, Marketing Professional,Entrepreneur, Educationist, Film Maker and Culture Enthusiast. He is also a dynamic visionary with a focus on planning and execution. He is the Founder Trustee & President of LAMP Trust. LAMP Trust aims to seed transformational thoughts and facilitate our nation’s children and youth and inspire them to dream, act and excel in every sphere of life, individually and collectively. This, we believe, will finally lead India to break the entrenched cycle of poverty & inequality, developing us into a strong economic super-power and leader-influencer in the comity of nations by 2047. The Nation Building Project “India Dreams 2047” aims to reach out to every Indian child,youth, and through them their families across India, and to the Indian Diaspora and persons of Indian origin across the globe. The project will cut through the urban-rural, socio-economic, geographic, cultural and other divides to unite the nation and its people.

Kartik Bajoria

Writer, Columnist, Educator and Literary Moderator

Kartik is a Writer, Columnist, Educator and Literary Moderator. Kartik’s passion for writing, has morphed into a diverse career that includes writing across various media. He has become a Regular Commentator & Contributor on Education and his articles are featured pan-India across a wide range of reputed publications such as The Hindu, Entrepreneur, Business World, The Indian Express, The Times Of India, TOI’s Newspaper In Education, Your Story and The Afternoon Kartik also draws on his wealth of professional and academic knowledge from having studied at some premier institutions the world over and from his decade-long experience across the Media Industry in Bombay. he possesses a keen knowledge of production, direction, casting, art direction as well as writing.

Neha Sahu

Co-founder, Just for Kicks and Director, Operations at Enabling Leaderships

Neha, having an extensive educational background, believes education is the most important tool to create change in the world. She has been involved in diverse development projects, including initiating HIV/AIDS prevention, care and social protection with PEPSICO in Mumbai, mental health research and educational outreach in New York public schools. She has also worked with the Scratch Programming at MIT Media Labs, and international Google Apps for Education Summits, fostered her interest in changing the way children learn and apply 21st century skills. She has further developed this interest by co-founding Just for kicks to inculcate life skills, using football. Having grown this project to a full-fledged organization over the past 6 years, she is now a director, operating at Enabling Leadership to take its unique programs to urban and rural landscapes.

Rhea Saxena

Student

Classical group dance winner at Dfest State Dance Championship, played main role as mother in School Play Leopard, CMUN got special mention,did WIMUN Agra, at the Rajmata debate secured 3rd position, does Theatre with Jairangam and TOSS Jaipur, does theatre workshops at JKK Jaipur, participated in musical evening in 8th grade, attended ‘ Fields ‘music workshop for vocals at NMS, debate workshop with Awaaz team NMS, writes English stories and Hindi poems, plays Badminton at school level, combination of A and B grades in Grade 9 IGCSE.

Saisha Saxena

Student

A free spirited individual, Saisha strongly believes in equality of all kinds. She loves to read and write, and was the recipient of The Hindustan Times scholarship award for essay writing. Saisha strongly believes in the adage- everyone wants to make a difference, but nobody is willing to be different.

Shantanu Duttagupta

Publisher

He started his professional career in 2004 as a freelance copywriter for advertising agencies. He then moved on to writing for the Times of India as a rookie journalist. His interest in technology then took him to the International Data Group, publishers of magazines such as PCWorld and MACWorld where he worked as a correspondent covering technology related stories. Since 2007, he has worked in children’s publishing. His love of reading landed him a job where he could truly express himself. He is extremely passionate about books and their power to change. He believes that every experience builds character and hopes that everybody finds a calling where they can express themselves creatively and passionately.

Wasim Akram

Deputy Director- Special Projects at Wildlife SOS

A geologist who understands the anthropogenic influences on the environment and has an expertise in developing conservation conflict interventions, studying human wildlife interactions and wildlife crime control, he is a conservation innovator and the Deputy Director – Special Projects Division at Wildlife SOS. Wasim helped design and develop India’s First Elephant Hospital in Mathura, India’s first elephant ambulance, India’s first mobile surgical unit to mitigate human primate conflict, a pilot project to turn feral dogs into security dogs. Former Bear Stud, Bookkeeper of India with specialised training in Animal Welfare and Conservation from the Battersea Academy, United Kingdom, Wasim primarily works with reptiles, antelopes, big cats, aves and primates.