Hindustan Times (Lucknow)

LEADERS AT THE SUMMIT

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SUPRIYA SULE

Member of Lok Sabha

Supriya Sule is a Nationalis­t Congress Party politician and a Lok Sabha MP from Baramati, Maharahstr­a. She has been at the forefront of campaigns for women and child rights, including one against female foeticide in Maharashtr­a. She is also involved in the advocacy of empowermen­t of women’s self-help groups, and the dignity and rights of senior citizens

VS RAMACHANDR­AN

Director, CBC, University of California, San Diego

VS Ramachandr­an is world-renowned for his work in neurology and perceptual psychology. He has been called the “Marco Polo of neuroscien­ce” by Oxford’s Richard Dawkins and “The modern Paul Broca” by Nobel laureate Eric Kandel. The TIME magazine named him one of the world’s 100 most influentia­l people. He is author of the New York Times best-seller “The Tell Tale Brain”

JUSTICE MUKUL MUDGAL

Retired Judge; head, Mudgal Committee

Justice Mudgal is a retired judge of the Delhi High Court and was the Chief Justice of the Punjab and Haryana High Court from 2009 to 2011. In 2014, he headed the Mudgal Committee, appointed by the Supreme Court to conduct an inquiry into the allegation of corruption, betting and spot-fixing in Indian Premier League in 2013

RABBI RAMI SHAPIRO

Writer

Rabbi Rami Shapiro is an award–winning author of over thirty books on religion and spirituali­ty. He received rabbinical ordination from the Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion. A congregati­onal rabbi for 20 years, Shapiro has been a professor of religious studies for ten years. He currently co–directs One River Wisdom School and writes a column for the Roadside Assistance for the Spiritual Traveler

BISHAN SINGH BEDI

former Indian cricketer

Bishan Singh Bedi was primarily a slow left-arm bowler. He served Indian cricket from 1966 to 1979 and formed the famous spin quartet along with E Prasanna, S Venkatarag­havan and B Chandrasek­har. He also captained the Indian side for 22 test matches. In 1990, he had a brief stint as coach of the Indian team and was the first person to be appointed to this job in a full-time capacity

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