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Thakur Prasad ji has been an active volunteer at SAFIC for several years. He is a dedicated worker who helps with detailed research and proofreading of several of our Sanskrit publications.
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Dr. Prabhjot Kulkarni, a resource person to SAFIC, is the former Principal of Maharshi Valimki College of Education, University of Delhi. With more than 40 years of teaching experience at the University of Delhi,
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Dr. Kulkarni is actively involved with various national level institutions such as Sri Aurobindo Society, Forum for Restoration of National Values, Sri Aurobindo Ashram (Delhi Branch), Indus Quality Foundation, NCERT, NCTE, Bhai Vir Singh Sahitya Sadan, and various progressive schools and other educational and cultural organisations. She participated and conducted two sessions (Drama in Education – A Brief Overview; and Participatory Individual Group Work) at the two day National Workshop on “Sri Aurobindo’s Integral Education” at Pondicherry University organized in collaboration with SAFIC.

Dr. N. Kalyani, a Prenatal and Perinatal Expert, has been associated with SAFIC for about a year.She is a resource person for SAFIC and has been actively conducting various Prenatal sessions and workshops for SAFIC.
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Dr. Pranjal Garg is an archaeologist and specialises in Ancient Indian History and Culture. After graduating from Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education (Ashram School),
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Pranjal did his Masters in his specialised subject. He went on to do further research in Classical Archaeology and completed his Doctorate thesis on the Harappan studies. He has taught at Post-Graduate level as an Assistant Professor at CBL University, Bhiwani and currently teaches at the same position at Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak in the department of History. He started his research back in graduation on the symbolic aspects of Sacrifice (yajña) in Vedas and Indian culture in the light of Sri Aurobindo. He presented this project in an open talk in his final year of graduation, which was later published in Mother India. Since then Pranjal has been working to interweave the different aspects of History with Indian Culture and the writings and the thought of Sri Aurobindo to bring forward a more meaningful and relevant perspectives from a holistic approach. He hopes to bring the thought of Sri Aurobindo to different age groups of students, of which one part has been initiated through Auro Schools, where Sanskrit and Indian Culture is being instilled drop by drop and has shown excellent results until now.
Dr. Pranjal Garg volunteers his time and services at SAFIC whenever possible as a resource person for educational activities related to Indian history and culture in the light of Sri Aurobindo’s vision.

Auro Ashish is a Yoga Entrepreneur based in Pondicherry (India) and he runs an Eco-friendly Yoga Studio by the name of LIFESTYLE YOGA STUDIO and he also manufactures and exports Eco-friendly Yoga Mats and Accessories
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Auro Ashish strongly believes in the usage of Environment Friendly, Natural Yoga Mats & Props as recommended in Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 6, Verse 11: शुचौ देशे प्रतिष्ठाप्य स्थिरमासनमात्मन: | नात्युच्छ्रितं नातिनीचं चैलाजिनकुशोत्तरम् || Auro Ashish is a Life Member of Indian Yoga Association and Joint Secretary for the IYA Pondicherry Chapter. He exports Eco-friendly Yoga Props to about 5 countries and He himself has travelled across 20 countries and got insights on International Yoga Trends & Practices. Auro Ashish is pursuing the path of Yoga & Vedanta and also does skill development of local people coming from economically backward sections into doing something meaningful and productive in life, thereby earning their livelihood in the whole process. Auro Ashish believes in : “Service to Humanity is Service to God.” Auro Ashish has in-depth insight and knowledge in Yoga & Vedanta. His Yoga & Spiritual Guru is his father Dr. Suresh Chandra De (PhD in Yoga & Music, Ex-Administrator of Auroville Foundation, Retd. IPS Officer with President’s Medal and Trained from Scotland Yard, and Author of several books & journals). So, Auro Ashish has been trained in Yoga & Vedanta since childhood by his father and other teachers in the course of time. Auro Ashish has been awarded “Certificate of Recognition” by Ministry of External Affairs, Govt of India for his historic contribution to India & ASEAN trade route by travelling all the way “BY ROAD” from Singapore to India and waiving proudly the Indian National Flag all the way.

Ishwarya is a yoga teacher and yoga therapist trained in Hatha Yoga, Iyenger Yoga and Ashtanga Vinyasa. She holds a post graduate diploma in Yoga Therapy from SVYASA University, a 200 hour certification from Tattva Yogashala Rishikesh, and is trained under her father who is a student of Swami Chidananda, former secretary of the Divine Life Society, Rishikesh. She also spent a large part of four years under the care of Pujya Sri Swami Dayananda Saraswati at Arsha Vidya Gurukulam.
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Ishwarya conducts regular Yoga and meditation classes in Bangalore for individuals as well as companies such as Flipkart, WeWork and Toyota Kirloskar. She often teaches at Arsha Vidya Gurukulam, Rishikesh, nd Saylorsburg. Ishwarya has conducted Yoga workshops and retreats in Rishikesh, Pennsylvania as well as Vancouver, Canada. She is also a trained Bharatanatyam dancer and performer.

Nupur Tewari, the founder of HealTokyo and HealIndya. An internationally acclaimed and award winning transformation coach, spiritual healer, motivational speaker, community empowerment expert, expert on Japanese productivity management, yoga consultant and a philanthropist . HealTokyo and HealIndya work for emotional empowerment of the society specially for women and children.
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One of the most popular face on media” media always covers her sessions whenever she’s on the stage. Japanese media called her unofficial ambassador of india for her contribution to spread indian culture in Japan.
She has been involved with different kind of social work, she built a school for underprivileged children in india, distributed blankets among homeless people, always gather funds whenever needed for different parts of the world specially for India. She has taken almost 1000 sessions in different universities in India in her empowering youth project.She has been contributing through her sessions during this corona period too.
As a part of HealTokyo’s project she organizes various regular free healing camps, workshops in Japan and for underprivileged children in India and awareness programmes about mental health & drug abuse, Stress, Emotional Parenting, Suicide and prevention, Depression, Anxiety, Behavioural Problem.
She did a course from her home town ( Ramakrishna yoga) on hatha yoga and did a few more short courses on Yoga. SHe is more of a self–taught person who learned from life and Gurus like Sri Aurobindo and Swami Vivekananda.

Dr. Anil Kumar Acharya is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sanskrit, Ambedkar College (Govt. Degree College), Fatikroy, Unakoti, Tripura.
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Dr. Acharya has obtained his Ph.D. in Sanskrit from Pondicherry University, Puducherry, in the year 2010. He has also worked in several research projects of the French Institute of Pondicherry (IFP), a research Institute of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs situated in the Union Territory of Puducherry. His areas of research are Sanskrit Literature, Manuscriptology and History of Śaivism (Śivadharma Corpus). He has attended a number of National and International Conferences as resource person. He has participated in the first and second international work shop on “Early Tantra” held in 2008 and 2009 at Kathmandu, Nepal and Puducherry, respectively. He is crowned by the ‘Pandit Ganeshwar Dash Prize’ for the best performance in ‘Epic & Puranas’ section of the 45th session of the All-India Oriental Conference held at Tirupati in the year 2010. Dr. Acharya has participated and presented a research paper in the 15th World Sanskrit Conference held at New Delhi in 2012. He has published several papers pertaining to his area study in various national and international journals. He is associated with different research organisations and academic bodies in various capacities.

Ms. Sheetal Verma is an Educator, Author, Trainer, and a Certified Parenting Coach. She is familiar with the writings Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, and has delivered talks on the SAFIC Facebook Live sessions on topics like – Educator an Extended Parent and New Age Education.
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She has attended a workshop on ‘Basic course in – Theatre & Craft in Integral Education’ organized by India Council for Integral Education (ICIE), Sri Aurobindo Society, Puducherry. She was also a participant of the All India Youth Camp titled, “Towards Self Mastery” organized by Auro Youth, Sri Aurobindo Society, Puducherry. She holds the degree of Company Secretary from ICSI, MA in Economics from DAVV University and Post Graduate Diploma in Education Management and Administration (PGDEMA) from IGNOU. She is associated with the field of education for the last 17 years and is consistently working for the betterment of youth. She is currently teaching Economics at one of the top schools of Madhya Pradesh, The Shishukunj International School. She is a co-author in books for subjects Business Studies and Economics for Classes XI and XII. She has also served as a Cultural Head and as Head Mistress in her school experience. She has one module at her credit in the spiritual area – “11 questions to answer… In search of I”, which talks about self-introspection. For the same, she has taken training of around 20 youngsters at Aurobindo Ashram, Haridwar. She is serving as a trainer in ICSI and ICMA and has trained more than 700 students from ICSI and ICMA in last 8 years on varied topics like motivation, positive thinking, stress management, corporate training, leadership, and professional etiquettes. She was also associated as a Volunteer with Vidya Daan Yojana started by Indore Commissioner, Shri Sanjay Dubey focussing on supporting the school teachers in Government schools in Indore. She was a faculty for Economics in the program of Madhya Pradesh government in the name of ‘Super 100’ for students of classes XI and XII. She has served as a subject expert in interview board for the selection of TGT/PGT – Commerce for Shree Vaishnav Educational Trust and has also trained more than 200 teachers on topics like effective teaching, teaching tactics, classroom management and ‘Smart Online Education – Using Google’ in recent months during this Pandemic. She is actively taking sessions on parenting (as a Certified Parenting Coach) for parents and has her YouTube channel in the name of “Training Mascot” wherein she shares parenting tips and tips for teenagers, with a tagline – “Let cook happiness to eat happiness.” She believes in the idea of working on Youth as they are the CHANGE AGENTS of any Nation and holds this thought in her mind – “We can’t always build a future for our youth, but we can always build our youth for the future” by Franklin D. Roosevelt.