Speakers 2012
Vasundhara Raje
THE IRON HAND Having been in politics for 30 years, Vasundhara Raje is one of India’s leading woman politicians. Between 2003 and 2008, she was chief minister of the BJP government in Rajasthan. Having narrowly lost the election in 2008, many political observers are predicting a second term for her after the next Rajasthan election Read More…
Yashwant Sinha
THE SWADESHI REFORMER For sheer breadth of experience, few in the political establishment can match Yashwant Sinha. In the course of an eventful political career with the Bharatiya Janata Party, he has held two of the most visible – and coveted – ministerial positions, those of Finance Minister and External Affairs Minister. But Sinha’s in-depth Read More…
Zhang Mei
THE MAVERICK BUSINESSWOMAN She’s a woman who loves to walk on the wild side. That love for the unusual, the off-the-beaten-track, the one-off led, marks her life, and is best exemplified in the firm she founded and now runs, the incredibly successful WildChina. A native of Yunnan in southwest China, Mei holds an MBA from Read More…
Zoya Akhtar
She may have two films to her directorial credit, but Zoya Akhtar is anything but inexperienced. In fact, it’s the sheer range of her experiences that seem to inform her work with relevance and contemporariness; giving her very glossy characters a very contradictory everydayness. She’s been an advertising copywriter. She co-directed a music video called Read More…
