Aayushi Jagad is a former stylist who made the switch to comedy after accidentally getting on stage. She became a comedian and stumbled into a new vocation the same way she stumbles into bad relationships. She discusses her problems, her thoughts and gasps her opinions on stage. It is the true joy of her life to write about herself in the third person for every conference/festival/event. She appeared on Queens of Comedy in 2017, and since has written for several brands because she likes money. She runs a channel called 'Listen Na' where they make sketch comedy videos and she recently started her own podcast, The 'Sun Na' podcast. She's a writer and one day hopes to win a Manikchand sponsored award in absolutely ANY category.

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Aishwarya Dongre is a 2017 batch IPS officer of Kerala cadre. She is currently posted as Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) and has shown impressive leadership during COVID-19 pandemic. Aishwarya was in the news for her impressive effort to make a heart transplant successful amidst COVID-19 induced lock down. She had airlifted a heart and made it land – 207 km away – within 30 minutes.

She is an alumnus of JML belonging to the 2010 batch and then graduated from Xavier's College in 2015. She cleared her UPSC civil service exam in her first attempt at the age of 22.

Akash Khetwani is working as an Investment Banking Analyst at UBS in Singapore. He is an alumnus of JML batch of 2012. After JML, Akash completed his ISC programme from Jamnabai Narsee School. Following that, Akash moved to Singapore to pursue a degree in Electronic Engineering from Nanyang Technological University. He also received a scholarship from the Singapore government.

In addition to the Engineering degree, he also pursued a minor degree in Business. It was through these business courses that he realized his passion for the financial markets. During his penultimate year, he completed an internship on the trading floor at UBS Bank. At the completion of his internship, he was offered a full-time position at the company. He has just completed two years at the company. Outside of work, Akash is passionate about filmmaking, sports and travelling. He actively plays and follows football, basketball, cricket and squash. During his university years, he got the chance to spend a semester abroad at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and got to travel across North America.

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Anahita Hirani was an alumnus of the 2018 batch at JML, currently pursuing a BMS degree from H.R college.

She likes to evaluate procedures and processes to identify any foreseeable issues or concerns, which led her to be the founder at CYC-it-UP, that rents out cycles to people. She loves playing football, learning new things and believes in taking risks.

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Divij is currently studying & completing a course in BMS at Jai Hind College. It may be about anything he starts or uptakes, the only quality that has kept him going and pushed him further even when he’s pressed against a wall, is passion.

The very result of his passion & admiration for dogs in particular resulted in partnering with Gourima Babbar and contributing to the noble cause of founding Street Tails.

He is passionate about culture and events as well and has founded & chaired Zenith, LPHS’ annual cultural fete. He’s also on the advisory board for the alumni foundation of LPHS.

Eshaan Gandhi currently goes to Rutgers University, New Brunswick where he has an academic scholarship. Rutgers is the "birthplace" of college football and has been around since before the American Independence. After 2 years here, he has narrowed his field of study to computer science and math with a keen interest in probability and combinatorics. He graduated from JML in 2018.

He has been following the footsteps of his mother and is now a teaching assistant for Calculus and Data Structures. He is also a grader. Over the Summer he worked as a software engineering intern at a small company in the United States. He is part of the Rutgers rowing team and quantitative finance clubs. He has recently become very interested in combinatorics and probability.

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Global Human Rights Protection Council is an NGO recognized and registered by the Government of India. It was founded on 21 July 2015 by human rights activist Sandeep B. Sharma, who has worked with various human rights organizations for the last 13 years. In the year 2008, he was nominated by the Indian Dalit Sahitya Akademi for the "Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Fellowship Award" for serving the dalit and backward classes. This NGO is working at the national level and has offices in many states of India, it is known as GHRPC (Global Human Rights Protection Council) it deals with cases related to: Incidences of misconduct and dishonor with senior citizens, atrocities against Dalits/Backward Castes, rights related to minorities and death in police torture.

Haneen Farid is a high school graduate from DPS Bangalore North. She wishes to pursue Political Science and then join Politics.

In March 2020, she launched 'Project Arambha' along with Disha Panda, which is a social initiative that aims to educate underprivileged college girls in India and secure their future.

So far, they've raised INR 15 lakh for the education of 44 girls coming from low-income families and have also mentored over 60 girls in job skills.

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Kabeer Khurana is an Indian director, writer, and editor. He made his debut with the short movie ‘Project Oneness’ in 2015, which won 3 International awards in Venice, Ukraine, and Houston. He made many short films like Ism (2016), Strings (2017), Religion of Dummies (2018), and Karma café (2018). His short films have received more than thirty international selections and eight international awards.

He worked as the assistant director, VFX Supervisor, and an actor in the movie 'T for Taj Mahal’ in 2018. He got his training in acting from The Jeff Goldberg Studio. He received the Best Director award at Southern Shorts Awards in Georgia, the USA, in 2018. He is also the Director of Climb Media, which is a 22-time President's National Award-winning production house. He is also the co-founder of the publishing firm ‘Bombaykala Books’, which was published as the country’s youngest publishing venture in The Hindu. He has been featured as one of five Young Changemakers in the Mumbai supplement of the India Today magazine in 2016.

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Krish Tanwani is a 16 yr old 11t grade student who has been actively taking part in various competitions including Marrs Spelling Bee, World Scholars Cup etc.

He has various interests but his passion is writing poetry and articles. He has a small poetry page on Instagram as well.

Namit Malhotra is the Chief Executive Officer of DNEG. Actively seeking out projects that will expand the strengths of the company and challenge its teams to push themselves to the next level, Namit is devoted to nurturing talent and ambition, and to delivering world-class creative and technical services, and intelligent financial solutions.

Namit’s perpetual optimism and entrepreneurial spirit has been an important component of DNEG’s growth and success, which has included the opening of facilities in Vancouver, Montréal, Mumbai and Chennai in India, alongside a number of prestigious award wins.

After establishing Video Workshop (Prime Focus’ predecessor) in 1995, Namit founded Prime Focus, which listed its shares on BSE Limited and the National Stock Exchange of India - and would eventually become the parent company of DNEG. He has been responsible for the strategic growth and success of that business from its modest beginnings in Mumbai in 1997 to its current position as the world’s largest independent and integrated media services powerhouse.

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Pragati Gupta is the Co-Founder at Paws Hunger. She’s a second year BMS student at Usha Pravin Gandhi College and is a JML alumnus . She has always loved animals and is passionate about helping them.

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An alumnus of JML, Rohan Parekh started his comedy career while in engineering college. He used to write jokes all the time until one day he decided to say them out loud in stage. Once he stepped on stage, there was no looking back. In the very first year of doing stand-up comedy, he won stand-up competitions at multiple college festivals, including the most popular one, Mood Indigo.

He continued his passion for the performing arts while working as a consultant with 'Earnst and Young' and brought corporate humour to his offerings. Currently he is working as a stand-up comic full time and is the founder of Comedian Rhapsody, an organisation which gives young stand-up comics a platform to showcase their talent. He is also a professional magician and pursues that interest as a hobby. His favourite pastime includes playing cards and catching up on the latest Netflix shows.

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Saloni Lakhia is what one would call a hyphenated professional. She is academically trained in law, psychology and peace and conflict resolution. Her professional engagement ranges from social legal reforms with governments, to youth and women community inclusion projects, to literary editing for first time.

She has been the youngest to report to sitting home ministers of the state, published handbooks simplifying the complex criminal laws while she was still in law school, and has also been one of the youngest South-Asian recipients to an international fellowship to pursue a masters in Tokyo. Her research has been published for the G20 summit, Central and State Governments and various other regional platforms.

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Sarthak Moudgil is the co-founder of Paws Hunger. He’s a student of NMIMS Mumbai, and before this he completed his ISC from JML School.

Since his childhood, he has been feeding animals in his neighborhood. Witnessing the condition that they had to endure during last year's lockdown pushed Pragati and him to start their organisation.

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Alumna of JML - batch of 1992.

She has a degree in Electronics Engineering and an MBA, but has decided to dedicate her time towards education and to make learning joyful. She is an author of children's stories, poems, puzzles, plays, limericks and jokes. She does what it takes to encourage and help kids read more. She loves to play with words and eyes each one with suspicion, as if it were up to something! That’s probably why she can calmly crack some crazy cryptic crosswords.

She currently works in the management team at Gujarat Research Society.

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Dr Swati Dave is a professor of Anaesthesiology at TNMC/BYL Nair Charitable Hospital, Mumbai. She has more than 25 years of experience in clinical as well as academic fields, with special interest in Cardiovascular Anaesthesia. She is an MD teacher under MUHS Nashik university and has trained many students to achieve MD and DA Anaesthesia degrees.

During the pandemic, Nair hospital was converted into a 'Dedicated Covid Hospital' and she was in charge of the Covid ICU, managing patients on the ventilator in addition to executing anaesthesiology services.The complexity of the human body- and the novelty of the new diseases and challenges she faces continue to drive and fascinate her.