• ​Nalin Mehta
    Nalin Mehta is an award-winning social scientist, journalist and author. He is associate professor with Shiv Nadar University, consulting editor with The Times of India and editor of the international journal South Asian History and Culture (Routledge) as well as the Routledge 'South Asian History and Culture' book series. He has previously been managing editor of India Today's English news channel, adjunct professor at Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, and held senior positions with the Global Fund in Geneva, Switzerland, and UNAIDS. He currently sits on the governing board and governing council of the University Grants Commission Consortium for Educational Communication, an inter-university centre that coordinates the work of 22 centres in universities nationwide on education through communication technologies. He is also on the editorial board of the South Asia Archive, a digital archive encompassing millions of pages of original documents stretching back to the 18th century, and the international peer-reviewed journal Sport in Society: Cultures, Commerce, Media, Politics. Mehta's new book, Behind a Billion Screens: What Television Tells Us About Modern India(New Delhi: HarperCollins, 2015) is a critically acclaimed national bestseller and was longlisted as Business Book of the Year by Tata Literary Live. His other books include 'India on Television: How Satellite Channels Have Changed the Way We Think and Act, which won the 2009 Asian Publishing Award for Best Book, the best-selling Sellotape Legacy: Delhi and the Commonwealth Games, and a critically acclaimed social history of Indian sport, Olympics: The India Story. He has edited Television in India: Satellites, Politics and Cultural Change and co-edited Gujarat Beyond Gandhi: Identity, Conflict and Society as well as 'The Changing Face of Cricket: From Imperial to Global Game'

Festival Co-Director

  • Sagarika Ghose
    Sagarika Ghose is a journalist, author and broadcaster. She joined journalism in 1991 and has been a journalist for over two decades. She began her career at The Times of India, was part of the start up team of Outlook magazine as special correspondent and then went on to work as Senior Editor at The Indian Express. She was co-founder of the news network CNNIBN, as well as prime time anchor of the flagship show Face the Nation. She is the author of two novels, 'The Gin Drinkers' and 'Blind Faith', both published worldwide. In 2004 she became the first woman to anchor the flagship BBC World debate programme Question Time India. She was awarded the Best Anchor Award by the Indian Television Academy in 2013 and named as one of the 50 Most Famous Rhodes Scholars by the Rhodes project. At the moment she is Consulting Editor, The Times of India.