Creative Future
Who will be India’s Creative Future 2007?

60 hopefuls become 20 as the shortlist is announced.
Next stop: The Creative Future School at IIM Bangalore


Sixty applicants vied for the 20 places available in the Creative Future School at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore between 13 and 26 August, 2006. Over a period of three days, gruelling interviews took place in New Delhi and Chennai.

The winners are:
Jaspal Singh (Mumbai) Reshmi Chatterjee, (Kolkota)
Priya Patil (Mumbai) Sheetal Sudhir (Mumbai)
Aparna Rao (Bangalore) Tarun Rawat (New Delhi)
Tanya Gyani (New Delhi) Ayush Rajvanshi (Bangalore)
Nila Madhab Panda (New Delhi) Malvika Narayan (Mumbai)
Arjun Pandey (New Delhi) Srishti Bajaj (New Delhi)
Nitin Das (Pune) Cindu Chandrasekharan ( Bangalore)
Debu Bhattacharya (Kolkota) Shailesh Prabhu (Mumbai)
Akshai Sarin (Mumbai) Ekta Khokhar (New Delhi)
Tejinder Singh (Mumbai) Vishwajyoti Ghosh (New Delhi)


Jaspal Singh
Mumbai
Music
34-year-old Jaspal Singh is a music consultant.

His music consultancy firm Supreme Beings of Leisure deals with music broadcasting/development/management and music marketing.
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Reshmi Chatterjee
Kolkata
Traditional Indian arts/crafts
34-year-old Reshmi Chatterjee is curator of the Halo Heritage art gallery which she set up in 2002.

Halo Heritage houses a center to produce artefacts and heritage art by employing noted and talented artisans. Reshmi has a Masters degree in Museology from Calcutta University.
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Priya Patil
Mumbai
Designer Fashion
27-year-old Priya Patil is a fashion/accessory designer. She holds a Diploma in Fashion Design from NIFT Mumbai and a Masters Degree in Fashion & Textiles from Nottingham Trent University, UK.

Priya launched her accessory line in 2001. She currently works as a designer/ buyer and production-coordinator for Alberto Makali.
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Sheetal Sudhir
Mumbai
Design / Television
30-year-old Sheetal Sudhir is a Graduate in Film Making from National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad. She has over eight years of experience in broadcast design. Currently she is Head of on-air-promotions of Channel [V], Star India Pvt. Ltd.
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Aparna Rao
Bangalore
Design
28-year-old Aparna Rao is the proprietor and senior designer of Applied Fiction - an interaction design studio. She is a Graduate in Graphic Design from National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad and a Post Graduate from Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, Italy.
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Tarun Rawat
New Delhi
Design
32-year-old Tarun Rawat represents www.rayd8design.com - a graphic design/exhibition design/interactive media design firm that he set up. He is a Graduate from National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad with a specialisation in ‘Graphic Design’. He holds a Post Graduation degree in Interaction Design from Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, Italy.
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Tanya Gyani
New Delhi
Design
26-year-old Tanya Gyani is an interior/product/furniture designer. Tanya holds a Graduate degree in Accessory Design from National Institute of Fashion Technology, New Delhi. She holds a Masters degree in Interior Design from Florence Design Academy, Italy and a Certification in Exhibition Design from Vitra Design Museum, France. She was winner of the Elite Student Award 2006, Italy. She currently works as an interior designer with Wildlife SOS India.
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Ayush Rajvanshi
Bangalore
Interactive Leisure Software
22-year-old Ayush Rajvanshi is a student of Animation Film Design at National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad. Ayush is winner of the Emerging Young Designer Award at NID-Business world Design Excellence Awards, 2005.
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Nila Madhab Panda
New Delhi
Film
33-year-old Nila represents Eleanora Images - a multimedia organisation involved in creating unique audio-visual software. He is a filmmaker from New Delhi who has produced and directed over 50 films. Nila has been awarded the UN audio-visual award 2002, Heroism in Cinematography 2003 and the UK Environment Film Fellowship 2005.
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Malvika Narayan
Mumbai
Media
32-year-old Malvika Narayan is a media consultant. She has over ten years of experience in television, media and radio and has been associated with MTV, Channel [V], EMI and Warner Music.
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Arjun Pandey
New Delhi
Film / Television
27-year-old Arjun Pandey is a filmmaker from New Delhi who set up Ishwar Media “to allow any person across the planet who has made a film which is either fiction or documentary to be able to sell their films online as well as through a network of retail shops”. Ishwar Media has three filmmakers and four titles under its banner.
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Srishti Bajaj
New Delhi
Design
26-year-old Srishti Bajaj is a product and accessory designer. Srishti has a Diploma in Accessory Design from National Institute of Fashion Technology (Delhi) and a MA - Design Products from Royal College of Arts, London. Srishti has worked on toys, lifestyle products, furniture, bags and jewellery.
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Nitin Das
Pune
Film
30-year-old Nitin Das is an independent filmmaker. An engineer from Pune University, he also holds an MBA from Indian Institute of Management Lucknow and has completed a filmmaking course from New York.
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Cindu Chandrasekharan
Bangalore
Radio
25-year-old Cindu Chandrasekharan is a radio jockey and a consultant in media. She completed her Bachelors in Arts in Mass Communication, English Literature and Psychology from Christ College, Bangalore. She has an English honours degree in Themes in contemporary poetry and literature in popular music from St. Joseph’s College of Arts and Science, Bangalore. She has over 5 years of experience in radio and is currently working with Radio Indigo, Bangalore.
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Debu Bhattacharya
Kolkata
Film
28-year-old Debu Bhattacharya represents Theme Entertainment that he set up recently to produce documentaries. The first Theme Entertainment work is under production. Debu had a brief stint at FEMIS (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Métier de l’Image et du Son in Paris) on a scholarship from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of France. He is currently a student of Film Direction & Screenplay Writing at Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute.
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Shailesh Prabhu
Mumbai
Interactive Leisure Software / Computer Games
24-year-old Shailesh Prabhu is a game producer-designer. Shailesh and his partner Avin Sharma have an experience of over two years in the game development industry.
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Akshai Sarin
Mumbai
Music
24-year old Akshai Sarin is a music composer/producer/performer/dj and media entrepreneur. He currently has exclusive worldwide management rights for the prestigious jazz outfit "The Saurang Orchestra" (Surinder Sandhu and collaborators Steve Vai, The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Any Shepperd, George Lucas - to name a few). With partners in five countries already, Akshai is setting up a global organisation involved in all the stages of music development and delivery - with emphasis on a record label and independent distribution in India.
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Ekta Khokhar
New Delhi
Designer Fashion
29-year-old Ekta Khokhar is currently pursuing a Masters degree in Textile Design at the School of Textile and Design, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland. She has a Diploma in Apparel Design from National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad.
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Tejinder Singh
Mumbai
Fashion / Film / Visual Arts
35-year-old Tejinder Singh is the Chief Design Officer of Future Group in Mumbai.
He holds a Masters degree in Fashion and Textiles Communication from Royal College of Art, London.
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Vishwajyoti Ghosh
New Delhi
Film / Publishing / Visual Arts
34-year-old Vishwajyoti Ghosh is an author and illustrator (comic). He has experience of over seven years in illustrations and graphics, specialising in editorial and children’s illustrations. He currently works as Creative Head at Inverted Commas, an independent communications collective.
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Note: submission of applications closed for 2006.
For further details email creative.future@in.britishcouncil.org