Trustees
Kamala Menon
Kamala Menon is the wife of Appan Menon and the Founder Trustee. She has worked in the field of Education for over 30 years and continues to be in the Mirambika Free Progress School, Sri Aurobindo Ashram – Delhi branch. She worked in the Department of Measurement and Evaluation at the NCERT for 17 years and thereafter as a teacher of Geography at The Mother’s International School, New Delhi. For 10 years she was Principal of Mirambika Free Progress school- Sri Aurobindo Ashram. She is a member of the Delhi Science Forum which is a member organization of the All India People’s Science Movement
AG Krishna Menon
A G Krishna Menon is an architect, urban planner and conservation consultant practicing in Delhi for over 40 years. He has been simultaneously teaching in Delhi and in 1990 co-founded the TVB School of Habitat Studies in New Delhi. In 2007 this private School became the University School of Architecture and Planning of the Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi. He is actively engaged in research and his contributions have been extensively published in professional journals and several academic books. He has also been actively involved in urban conservation and in 2004 drafted the INTACH Charter for the Conservation of Unprotected Architectural Heritage and Sites in India.
AG Menon
Gopal Menon is the youngest brother of Appan. Based in Bangalore, he retired as faculty from the Indian Institute of Science in 2014. He is an engineer by training and moved to Bangalore in the 70’s to pursue his doctoral research at the IISc in an area of applied physics. He lives in Bangalore with his wife and daughter.
Prannoy Roy
Prannoy Roy is an Indian journalist, who is the co-founder and executive co-chairperson of New Delhi Television (NDTV) along with his wife Radhika Roy. On Doordarshan, he hosted news programs “The News Tonight” and “The World This Week.” He also started India’s first 24-hour English news channel NDTV 24×7.
Brij Tankha
Brij Tankha was born in Lucknow, India and studied in St. Stephen’s college, Delhi University and went on to teach at the Department of East Asian Studies where he became Professor of Modern Japanese History. He served as Head of Department and retired in 2012. Tankha has been awarded research fellowships and been visiting professor in Tokyo, Waseda, and Ryukoku University in Kyoto where he held the Chair of Indian Studies of the Indian council of Cultural Relations (ICCR) in 2012. At present he is Honorary Fellow at the Institute of Chinese Studies of Delhi, an independent think tank, and on the board of directors of Chirag, an NGO active in education and developmental work.
John Cherian
John Cherian focuses mainly on issues relating to the global South. In his more than three decades long career as a media practitioner, he has traveled extensively to file stories from numerous countries. Articles on Latin America, Africa and West Asia have figured prominently in his writings and has interviewed leading politicians and heads of state on his numerous assignments worldwide.
John retired last year from Frontline magazine in Delhi where he worked as Chief of Bureau and World Affairs Correspondent. He continues to write regularly on international affairs in the magazine.
Shobhana Bhattacharji
Prof. Shobhana Bhattacharji PhD taught for over four decades at Jesus and Mary College, University of Delhi, in addition to English, she also taught media studies. She is Member, Advisory Board, International Association of Byron Societies.
Chetan Bhattacharji
Chetan Bhattacharji is Senior Managing Editor at NDTV 24×7, and oversees much of the newsroom and editorial systems. Apart from this, his particular focus at NDTV and outside is research and writing on air pollution and climate change policies and news. He is also a governing board member of Care For Air.
Mallika Menon
Mallika manages Original Content at Discovery Communications India, overseeing production of non-fiction, factual content for the network’s digital and linear platforms. She started her career at the CNBC-TV18 news desk, and proceeded to produce one of India’s longest running feature programmes, Young Turks. She has subsequently produced a range of popular titles, including the food-travel show Highway On My Plate, and prior to Discovery, was responsible for local productions for HistoryTV18.