The Golden Chisel

Seethalakshmi S. is an award-winning journalist and the former metro editor of The Times of India, Bengaluru. An alumnus of the US Government's premier International Visitor Leadership Program, she now co-heads an independent think tank, Antardhwani. She has also received a European Union scholarship for a malnutrition project. Her prominent accolades include the Namma Bengaluru Award for excellence in journalism, the best young journalist award by Zee Group and the Editor of the Year Award 2017. She co-authored the first-ever lead article of The Journal of the Indian Institute of Science (October 2020 issue). She has advised and helped IIIT Bangalore with innovative outreach initiatives. She is one of the contributing authors of Perils in Practice: The Prevention of Violence Against Healthcare Professionals and Dr Mathai's ABC To Health. She featured among the 15 prominent women personalities from across India in the initiative 'A Gem of a Woman' by CKC Group in 2022. Rahul Nandan is an independent journalist and former deputy news editor of The Times of India, Delhi and Bengaluru. He has held various editorial positions in some of the country's leading news publications including The Times of India, The Indian Express and The Statesman. He is the co-head of a Bengaluru-based non-partisan think tank, Antardhwani. He attended the Global Smart City Conference in Singapore in 2015. Selected by the US Department of State for the prestigious Foreign Press Reporting Tour on 'Emerging Women Entrepreneurs in America' as a prelude to the Global Entrepreneurship Summit 2017 held in India, he studied and reported on the thriving immigrant women ecosystem in America. He continues to write across a wide range of areas. As a former senior consultant, he advised and helped IIIT Bangalore with innovative outreach initiatives. He is the co-author of the first-ever lead article of The Journal of the Indian Institute of Science (October 2020 issue) on digital health and one of the contributing authors of Dr Mathai's ABC To Health.