Shirin Bharucha is a lawyer who worked with the Tata Group for several years. She is involved with a number of trusts that work for the city’s urban renewal, and was part of the team that restored the Oval Maidan, the Horniman Circle Garden and the Kala Ghoda Art District (www.kalaghodassociation.org).
Cyrus Guzder is an urban environmental activist who has played an active role in a wide range of urban issues and, in particular, in the conservation of Heritage buildings and precincts in Mumbai. He has served as a Governor of the MMR Heritage Society, a member of the Mumbai Heritage Conservation Committee, a Trustee on the Board
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of the INTACH UK Trust and also as a Trustee of the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sanghralaya (formerly the Prince of Wales Museum of Western India). He is also a founder Director of The Indian Institute for Human Settlements in Bangalore and a member of the Court of Governors of the Administrative Staff College of India, Hyderabad.
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Rahul Mehrotra is a practicing architect, urban designer, and educator. His firm, RMA Architects, was founded in 1990 in Mumbai and has designed and executed projects for clients that include government and nongovernmental agencies, corporate, as well as private individuals and institutions. The firm has also initiated several unsolicited
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projects driven by the firm’s commitment to advocacy in the city of Mumbai. Mehrotra is a professor of urban design and planning at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) and has written and lectured extensively on architecture, conservation, and urban planning in Mumbai and India. His writings include co-authoring Bombay— The Cities Within, Banganga—Sacred Tank, Public Places Bombay, Bombay to Mumbai—Changing Perspectives and The Kumbh Mela – mapping the ephemeral mega city. He has also co-authored Conserving an Image Center—The Fort Precinct in Bombay. Based on this study and its recommendations, the historic Fort area in Mumbai was declared a conservation precinct in 1995—the first such designation in India. His most recent book is titled Architecture in India, since 1990 which inspired an exhibition he co-curated titled – The State of Architecture – Practices and Processes in India which was shown at the National Gallery of Modern Art in Mumbai from Jan to March 2016.
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Anuj Bhagwati is Managing Director of A.T.E. Enterprises (ategroup.com) in Mumbai, India, and a Director of its affiliate companies. His business background is in textile engineering, clean technology and printing and packaging. He has experience across all areas of small and medium enterprises.
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He is involved with creating technology based businesses in textile engineering (ategroup.com/teraspin); energy-efficient cooling (ategroup.com/hmx); waste-water treatment (ategroup.com/products/wastewater-treatment); remote monitoring (ategroup.com/ecoaxis); SHE in printing and textile (ategroup.com/valence); and small concentrated solar thermal (ategroup.com/products/energy-efficiency). His non-profit engagements are mainly in urban planning, governance and education. These include the Urban Design Research Institute, Mumbai (udri.org – Trustee), the Kalaghoda Association (www.kalaghodaassociation.com – Executive Committee member), the Praja Foundation (praja.org – Co-Founder, Trustee), the K J Somaiya Trust (somaiya.edu – Trustee), and the Cornell University College of Architecture, Art and Planning Advisory Council (aap.cornell.edu – Member).
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Nayana Kathpalia volunteered with INTACH New Delhi for 8 years and on relocation to Mumbai in 1995, has been active with NGOs such as OCRA, OVAL Trust, UDRI and NAGAR, all of whom are working for the civic and urban renewal of Mumbai.