MITHU B is a prominent name in kolkata’s cultural field, since the late 1980s. She has started her career as an excellent performing artist and stage performer at Star Theatre, Kolkata. Later, her career graph turned as a successful corporate and business professional for a prolonged period. Finally, she resumed her professional career and dedicated herself as a selfless social worker, in mission to women empowerment in the state of West Bengal, since 2011. She is the Founder Secretary of the non-profit Shyampukukur Labannya. “Now Labannya represents a concept, where the founder becomes irrelevant” she describes!

It is always difficult to brief a person like Samik G. He has been internationally known as a wildlife journalist, editor, Conservationist and desperate social worker for the last 35 years. His published papers and reports on forests and wildlife are numbered more than 600, coupled with 26 documentary films. He has also commissioned more than ten national-level community development projects in the remote forest and rural fields. He has also extended his valuable consultancy services to the Government/s and several NGOs, in several geographic locations of India. As an outcome of his vast works, he has been acclaimed by the honourable President of India, twice a time and has become a member of iucn-cec, since 2008 to till date!