Talat Mahmood was an Indian playback singer who is considered as one of the greatest and most popular male Indian film song and ghazal singers. Although he tried his luck as a film actor, he did not succeed a great deal in acting.
Simi Garewal is an Indian actress, director, producer and a talk show hostess.
Sagarika Ghose is an Indian Member of Parliament, journalist, columnist and author. She has been a journalist since 1991 and has worked at The Times of India, Outlook and The Indian Express. She was a prime time anchor for BBC World on Question Time India and on the news network CNN-IBN, also being the deputy editor for the latter. Ghose has won several awards in journalism and is the author of two novels, as well as the biography of Indira Gandhi, Indira: India's Most Powerful Prime Minister. She worked as Consulting Editor of The Times of India from 2014 to 2020. In 2022, her biography of former Indian Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee was released.
Sakshi Tanwar is an Indian actress and presenter, who primarily works in Hindi films and television. Tanwar is considered among the highest-paid television actresses in India. Tanwar is widely recognised for her portrayal of Parvati Agarwal in Kahaani Ghar Ghar Kii and Priya Sharma Kapoor in Bade Achhe Lagte Hain.
Nalini Singh is an Indian journalist.
Talat Hussain Warsi was a Pakistani actor and radio host.
Divyanka Tripathi Dahiya is an Indian television actress. She is known for playing the double roles of Vidya Pratapsingh and Divya Shukla in Zee TV's Banoo Main Teri Dulhann and Dr. Ishita Bhalla in Star Plus's Yeh Hai Mohabbatein. In 2017, participated in the dance reality show Nach Baliye 8 and emerged as the winner. In 2021, she participated at Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi 11 as a contestant where she emerged as the runner-up.
Drashti Dhami is an Indian actress, model and dancer who works predominantly in Hindi television. Dhami is considered among the most popular Hindi television actresses. She has been part of successful shows like, Dill Mill Gayye, Geet, Madhubala, Ek Tha Raja Ek Thi Rani and Silsila Badalte Rishton Ka.
Bahar Dutt is an Indian television journalist and environmental editor and columnist for CNN-IBN.
Swara Bhasker is an Indian actress and political activist who worked in Hindi films. Best known for her supporting work in mainstream productions and starring roles in independent films, she has won two Screen Awards and has received four Filmfare Award nominations.
Mini Menon is an Indian journalist, author, co-founder and editor of Live History India.
Saundarya Rajesh is an Indian entrepreneur who is the founder and president of Avtar Group. She is known for her efforts in promoting second career opportunities for women in the corporate sector in India. She runs Project Puthri, an initiative to empower underprivileged girls to secure employment. She was awarded the ‘100 Women Achievers of India’ in 2016 by the Minister of Women and Child Development for her work. She received the Women Transforming India Award from the NITI Aayog and the United Nations in 2016.
Reela Hota is an Odissi dance performer, educator and producer, who has several performances to her credit. Daughter of Yoga Guru, Bijoylaxmi Hota and former bureaucrat Purna Chandra Hota, Reela was exposed to dance, yoga & ashram life since childhood. Having trained under the 3 doyens of Odissi dance, Guru Gangadhar Pradhan, Srimati Madhavi Mudgal and Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra, she inculcated perfect rhythm, sophistication, grace and presentation skills. A trend setter, Reela Hota pioneered in making Indian spiritual philosophy such as Yoga, Kundalini and Sanskrit the theme of her performances and is credited for adding a new dimension to Odissi Dance - the spiritual aspect.
Sudha Menon is an author, actor, motivational speaker and founder of writing workshop series, Get Writing and Writing With Women. She is the author of six non-fiction books: 'Recipes For Life', Feisty at Fifty, Legacy: Letters to their daughters from eminent Indian men and women, Gifted: inspirational stories of people with disabilities, and Devi, Diva or She-Devil: The Smart Career woman's survival guide and Leading Ladies: Women Who Inspire India. Her books have been translated into several Indian languages including Marathi, Hindi, Malayalam, Kannada, Bengali and Tamil.
Rashmika Mandanna is an Indian actress who works in Telugu, Kannada, Hindi and Tamil films. She has received several accolades including four SIIMA Awards and a Filmfare Award. One of South India's highest-paid actresses, she was featured in Forbes India's 2024 list of "30 Under 30".
Smriti Nagpal is an Indian television presenter, sign language interpreter, and social entrepreneur. She worked for the Doordarshan network where she presented the morning news bulletin for the hearing impaired. She is the founder of Atulyakala, an organisation promoting deaf education and awareness of sign language. Nagpal has also co-founded the Hearken Café in Shahpur Jat, which is run by deaf employees. She is an advocate of Indian Sign Language. Nagpal was included in the BBC's 100 Women series in 2015, in the "30 Under 30" entrepreneur category, In 2016, Nagpal received the Nelson Mandela – Graça Machel Innovation Award in the Youth Category, presented at International Civil Society Week in Bogotá, Colombia.
Sahar Habib Ghazi is a media strategist, trainer and a journalist. She was the Managing Editor at Global Voices from 2014 to 2018 and she was a 2011 John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University. She has spent over 15 years leading teams in national and international broadcast and digital newsrooms. Ghazi has worked as a journalist in Pakistan where she helped launch the country's first English language TV channel DawnNews and produced a TV series on US-Pakistan relations, called the Disposable Ally.
Manek Premchand is an Indian writer and historian of film music at St. Xavier's College, Mumbai, who has written several books pertaining to the history of Indian film music and biographies of musicians. He has hosted shows on WorldSpace Satellite Radio and been a consultant with Saregama.
Mitali Mukherjee is an Indian news anchor and financial journalist. She is currently the Director of Journalist Programmes at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.
