Deepa Mehta

Deepa Mehta is an Indian-born Canadian film director and screenwriter who is famous for her works which mainly explores the cultural taboos and traditions that exists in India. Her Elements Trilogy-Fire, Earth and Water made her one of the most promising and acclaimed film makers and helped her to achieve several prestigious honors like Genie Awards and Lifetime Achievement award by Loyola Marymount University.

Padma Lakshmi

Padma Lakshmi is a well-known internationally accepted personality who has proved her talent in diverse fields, being an actress, model, Television host and author of cookbooks.

Padma struggled with endometriosis (a female health disorder) for decades and took her own problems before the public with courage, in order to support other people and serve as an inspiration for increased disease research, education and awareness.

Norah Jones

Norah is the daughter of well-known Indian musician Ravi Shankar .This uniquely talented and elegantly beautiful musician has won Grammy awards nine times and was recognized as the 60th-best-selling music artist of the 2000–2009 decade by Billboard’s magazine.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Jhumpa Lahiri is an Indian-American author of Bengali origin, who is recognized as the first Asian to win the prestigious Pulitzer Prize. She was honoured with this achievement for her debut story collection ‘Interpreter of Maladies’ in the year 2000.Her first novel ‘The Namesake’ turned out to be a one of the bestselling novels and was also named the ‘New York Magazine Book of the Year’.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Siddhartha Mukherje, the author of the Pulitzer Prize winning book ‘The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer’ is a prominent physician and researcher .Currently, he is working as an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Columbia University and staff physician at Columbia University Medical Center.