Having qualified as a Chartered Accountant, he joined Dalal, Desai & Kumana in 1956 and Retired as Senior Partner of the firm in 1997. He has been Past President of the Bombay Chartered Accountants’ Society (BCAS). He has contributed several articles and papers on Accounting Auditing and Direct Taxes.
Somasekhar Sundaresan
Advocate
A partner in JSA, a national Indian law firm, he heads the securities law practice. He is an active participant in various policy-making and law-writing initiatives, notable among which are regulations on insider trading, takeover regulations, policy on global depository receipts, the draft Indian Financial Code recommended by the Financial Sector Legislative Reform Commission and the RBI’s committee on corporate governance in the banking sector. He is a former assistant editor of The Times of India and now writes a weekly column in a few editions of the Mirror, and a monthly column in Business Standard.
Sanjeevani Bhelande
Singer
She is the first ever winner of a TV talent show in 1995 and has won the best playback singer award for the film, ‘Kareeb’. She has performed over 1,500 live concerts world-wide. She has also ‘song slated’ Meera Bai’s poems into English creating her book and album named ‘Meera and Me’. She has composed and sung around 100 tracks devotional music, she is now learning Odissi dance. An masters in cdommerce, with a degree in Hindustani music and a diploma in Mass Communication, she is now learning Odissi dance.
Dilip Deshmukh
Architect
He has his own firm M/s. Dilip Deshmukh & Associates, after having worked with well-known architects for nearly 18 years. A graduate from the Raheja College of Artchitecture with an additional degree in Architecture from the Mumbai University, he has developed method of conceptualizing a project unique ways, beyond vaastu. He has undertaken a number of turnkey projects, designing commercial offices, residential complexes, hospitals, media rooms, auditoriums conference halls, community centres etc.
Prakash Bhikdeo Bal
Journalist
He is now the Hon. Director of the C.D. Deshmukh Administrative Training Institute, having been a Lecturer there since 1990. He was the Deputy Editor of the Maharashtra Times and the Resident Editor of the Loksatta. He has been a Member of the Board of Studiesof the the BMM Course in the Mumbai University. He has written books on the ethnic conflicts in Sri Lanka and on the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the U.S.A.