The people we answer to when we are wrong.

Dr. Adish C. Aggarwala has practised before the Supreme Court of India and the Delhi High Court since enrolling with the Bar Council of Delhi in 1978, and was designated a Senior Advocate in 2006. He holds BA, LLB and LLM degrees and a PhD, awarded with a gold medal.

He was elected President of the Supreme Court Bar Association for 2023 to 2024, having earlier served as its Vice-President from 2009 to 2010. He has also been Acting Chairman and Vice-Chairman of the Bar Council of India, Chairman of the Bar Council of Delhi, Senior Additional Advocate General of Haryana, and Additional Advocate General for Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Punjab.

Today he is President of the International Council of Jurists in London and of the International Commission of Writers in Geneva, Chairman of the All India Bar Association and the National Citizens' Committee, and Convener of the Indian Council of Jurists. His published work includes four revised editions of The Constitution of India, Concepts of International Law, and Mulla's Code of Civil Procedure as co-author.

Ambassador Prabhu Dayal joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1976, after a master's degree in Political Science from Allahabad University, where he graduated among the toppers, and a spell teaching. He went on to hold the rank of Secretary to the Government of India, among the most senior positions in the Service.

His postings took him to Egypt, Pakistan, Iran and India's Permanent Mission in Geneva. He served as Consul General in Dubai from 1994 to 1998, Ambassador to Kuwait from 1998 to 2001, and Ambassador to Morocco from 2004 to 2008.

From 2008 he headed the Consulate General of India in New York, one of the country's most important diplomatic missions, with a jurisdiction spanning much of the north-eastern United States. There he handled sensitive consular questions for Non-Resident Indians and People of Indian Origin, hosted visiting ministers during the United Nations General Assembly each autumn, and started a cultural series that brought leading Indian artists to perform at the Consulate.

For more than two decades, Nidhi Vasandani worked in the fast-paced world of television news and media operations, where every second matters, every story has an impact, and every decision shapes what millions of people see and hear.

After twenty years behind the scenes, she chose to follow something more powerful than deadlines and breaking news: her heart. Wanting to create, explore and tell stories beyond the traditional news cycle, she stepped into digital media.

Today she brings that experience into a more personal and creative space, making podcasts, deep-dive explainers and mindful conversations with prominent personalities, achievers and changemakers whose journeys have something meaningful to say. She is fascinated by what drives people, what challenges them, what they believe in, what they have overcome, and the emotions behind the success others see from the outside.

Her conversations are not just about asking questions. They are about pausing, listening and discovering the person behind the personality. Her explainers go beyond information, her podcasts go beyond interviews, and her conversations go beyond the obvious, because she believes that in a world overflowing with content, the stories that stay with us are the ones that make us think, feel and see something differently.

She calls this her second innings in media: twenty years of experience, a new digital canvas, and a heart full of stories waiting to be told.

Anjali Anand Seth has spent more than thirteen years in higher education leadership, building institutions' presence in global markets, leading cross-functional teams across borders and managing multi-million-dollar budgets. Much of her work sits where education meets diplomacy: shaping how an institution speaks to the world, and working through the government and diplomatic relationships that decide how students move between countries.

Most recently she served at Wesleyan College as AVP and Strategic Advisor to the President, reporting to the president and the executive board and aligning regional operations with the college's wider goals. During her time there the college recorded its strongest enrollment in 190 years and a retention rate of 96 percent.

Her approach pairs close analysis with creative, locally tuned communication, and she has built high-impact partnerships with institutions, governments and communities to strengthen the international student experience. In March 2024 she received the Women Achiever Award in Education from the President of India, one of several recognitions for her work, and she remains committed to advancing quality education and empowering communities globally.

Niraj Harlalka is the Co-Founder and CEO of Eduberance Education Ventures Pvt. Ltd., an online career assistance and learning platform. Through career information, online courses and psychometric assessments, Eduberance has helped more than 20,000 students explore, realise and achieve their true potential.

Before Eduberance, he co-founded Jolly Food Fellow, which garnered 100 crore video views and was featured among the Top 50 Startups of India in the Coffee Table Book at the Vibrant Gujarat Summit 2016.

He has taught Digital Marketing as visiting faculty at several of India's leading institutions, including Nirma University, Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies, the Indian School of Business, NID, CIIE at IIM Ahmedabad and NIMCJ. His specialties span technology in education, AI, cloud, cybersecurity, digital marketing, media and advertising, and branding and promotion.

Niraj has found his ikigai, and it lies in helping others find theirs.