Alka Saraogi
BLF SPEAKERS
Our Proud Speakers
Ghazala Wahab
Ghazala Wahab is Editor, FORCE Books. Her books include The Hindi Heartland (2025), The Peacemakers (edited, 2023), and Born a Muslim: Some Truths About Islam in India (2021) - winner of two Book of the Year (Non-Fiction) awards: Tata Lit Live and AttaGalatta, and shortlisted for the Kamala Devi Chattopadhyay Book Prize 2022. She co-authored Dragon on our Doorstep: Managing China Through Military Power (2017). She co-founded FORCE magazine in 2003, writing on homeland security, terrorism, Jammu and Kashmir, Left-Wing Extremism and religious extremism. She previously served as principal correspondent at The Telegraph (Delhi bureau) and began her journalism career with The Asian Age in 1994.
Other Speakers
Anamika
Bhawana Somaaya
Daisy Rockwell
Geetanjali Shree
Harish Bhat
Hindol Sengupta
Kanishka Gupta
Lalit Kumar
Maitreyee B Chowdhury
Makarand R Paranjape
Mani Rao
Ranjit Rae
Sayantan Ghosh
Shaan Kashyap
Vineetha Mokkil
Vivek Shanbhag
Sudhir Chandra
Sanjeev Sanyal
Ravi Venkatesan
Poonam Saxena
Subi Taba
Vineet Nayar
Tabish Khair
Baabusha Kohli
Shri.Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wadiyar
Banu Mushtaq
Arjun Subramaniam
Shashi Shekhar
Shishir Sinha
Udayan Vajpeyi
Shobhaa De
Priyanka Sarkar
Mahua Sen
Vyomesh Shukla
Alok Dhanwa
Akhilesh
Ashish Tripathi
Badri Narayan
Dhananjay Singh
Prabhat Ranjan
Priya Doraswamy
Ravi Singh
Anurag Basnet
Salma
Awadhesh Pradhan
Nirmala Putul
Sanjeev Paliwal
Yatish Kumar
Geet Chaturvedi
Rishi Ram Adhikari
Taranand Viyogi
Madhu Kankaria
Moid Rasheedi
Shailesh Bharatwasi
G. N. Devy
Namita Gokhale
Chirag Thakkar
Dr. Prabhat Kumar Mishra
Pankaj Chaturvedi
Sujata Prasad
Shivani Sibal
Tripurari Sharan
Yugal Joshi
Dr Moutushi Mukherjee
Deepak Sapra
Swapnil Kant Dixit
Prof. Rajkumar
Professor Anjoo Sharan Upadhyaya
Prof. Priyankar Upadhyaya
Anukrti Upadhyay
