India

The Honorary Editors

  • Bhanwar Meghwanshi
  • Prof Surendra Pathak PhD
  • Prof Sheela Daga PhD, Rtd
  • Sanjay Sajjan Singh
  • Fr Baiju Chakkal
  • Sanjeev Kumar Sharma
  • Anupama Garg
  • Nishant Rana
  • Sachin Raj Singh Chauhan
  • Rajneesh Sachan
  • Vivek Umrao Glendenning
  • Ashish Sagar Dixit

Ashish Sagar

Founder, https://www.bundelkhand.in

Ashish Sagar completed his Masters in Social Work education in the first class in the year 2007 from Mahatma Gandhi Chitrakoot Gramodaya University.

He worked as a young entrepreneur in CAPART, an agency providing financial assistance to NGOs. Serving three years in the Rural Development Commissioner/Secretariat in Jaipur and Tonk of Rajasthan, also with the Government of Uttar Pradesh. He worked as Program Officer in Dholpur, Rajasthan with MNREGA, the Government of India.

After realising that his life purpose has been gripped in the government system, he quit his job and started to work in Bundelkhand region.

Ashish Sagar has been associated with social activism and independent journalism for social concerns in the Vindhyachal and Bundelkhand regions of Northern India for the last ten years. He has strong understanding on the issues of environment, farmers and rural in Bundelkhand.

Ashish is also a renowned "Right to Information" activist, has fought against the ministers and political leaders on corruption, from the ground to Lokayukta and the High Court Prayagraj. Because of his constant struggle against corruption in Bundelkhand, the sand mafia syndicates have lodged so far five false cases against him, but he defeated them on these false allegations too. Fighting for Water Land and Forest in Bundelkhand region is now the life goal of this strong man.

Honour and Award:

  • India Pacific International Award 2012,
  • Bhadas Web Portal's Bhadas Media Correspondence Award 2016,
  • Anti Corruption Foundation Karnal (Haryana),
  • Shining Diamond Award July 2016,
  • Vishnudutt Memorial Award 2015,
  • Avam Ka Cinema by 'Bundeli Azizam' 2015,
  • Dana 'Kanchan Aren Smriti Samman' 2016 remembering senior journalist of Hindustan Times by Pani Sanstha,
  • Pariah from Green Care Society Meerut Rann Sentinel honors in 2014,
  • Dainik Jagran RTI Ratna Award 2014,
  • selected in 20 main whistle-blowers of India in the October 2015 issue of Aaj Tak Media Group and India Today magazine,

    and other.

The Honorary Advisors

  • Dr Rupnarayan Sett PhD

  • Dr Lenin Raghuvanshi
    Gwangju Human Rights Award (2007)
    ACHA Star Peace award (2008)
    International Human Rights Prize of the city of Weimar (2010)
    Ashoka Fellow (2001)

  • P. K Siddharth IPS​ Rtd
    Author, Critic, Educationist and Social Entrepreneur
    Rtd Additional Director General of Police

  • ​Amla Ashok Ruia
    Industrialist
    Educationist, Environmentalist and Social Entrepreneur

  • Prof H C Verma​ PhD
    ​Rtd Prof IIT Kanpur

  • Fr. Anto Paul
    Director, Peace Channel
    Dimapur, Nagaland

  • Krishna Kumar Jakhar
    Zero-Budget Natural Farmer
    Environmentalist and Farmer Leader
    National President, Khet Khalihan Morcha

  • Prem Singh

  • Dr Amitabh Thakur IPS
    B.Tech, M.Tech (Indian Institute of Technology, IIT)
    PhD (Indian Institute of Management, IIM)

  • N. S. Venkataraman, Editor (Tamilnadu)

  • Prof Jyotirmoy Goswami, Author, Scholar (West Bengal)

  • ​Prof Lebon Serto​ PhD, writer, peace activist (Meghalaya, North East Region)

  • Ravindra Bharti, Eminent writer

  • ​Dr Nutan Thakur​ PhD, D.Litt

  • Promod Chawla, Scholar and Activist (Delhi)

  • Sudhir Gandotra, Humanist movement activist (Delhi)

  • Dharmendra Kumar Yadav

  • Nagendra Singh Tyagi

  • Dr Dheerendra Umrao, Naturopathy Expert

The Honorary Community Legal-Advisors

Prashant Umrao

​Prashant Umrao is an advocate practising at Supreme Court and Delhi High Court. He is a public speaker, writer and a Social Activist. He has been fighting against corruption and is instrumental in raising various social issues that have an impact on society through legal ways.

  • Petition against 21 AAP* MLA’s* holding an 'Office of Profit':

    Prashant had filed a petition to President of India, requesting him to disqualify 21 Aam Aadmi Party MLA’s as they were appointed Parliamentary Secretaries. After this Delhi Government had passed a bill in assembly to keep away Parliamentary Secretary post from Office of Profit, but Lt. Governor refused to sign the bill as it was unconstitutional. Election Commission of India had issued a notice to the accused MLA’s on 16th March 2016 for holding OoP. After three long years of hearing at Election Commission where Prashant Patel argued against these MLAs, and rejoinders were filed. After the completion of the entire procedure, a recommendation to disqualify these AAP MLAs was sent to the President on 19th January 2018. The President accepted the recommendation & ordered to invalidate all these 20 MLAs on 21st January 2018.
    It got published in the Gazette of India.

    (AAP*- Aam Aadmi Party. The ruling party of the Delhi State Government, 2015-20)
    (MLA*- Member of Legislative Assembly)

  • AMU* Food Matter For Non-Muslim Students:

    There was 96 year old tradition in Aligarh Muslim University of not serving breakfast and lunch to non-muslims during Ramadan. Prashant Patel raised his voice against this tradition through social and mass media, after this AMU was forced to stop this tradition and now food is being served to non-muslim students. 

    (AMU*- Aligarh Muslim University)

Awards:

Prashant is accorded with National Changemakers Award 2018, ‘The Hero’s Award’ and ‘Swarajya Rakshak Samman’ for his exemplary services to the society and nation.

Contact Advocate Prashant Umrao here

Tamanna Pankaj

Tamanna Pankaj, an advocate, legal writer and Human rights specialist. She has graduated with a law degree and postgraduate in Human Rights law in 2017. She has been writing since her childhood for various popular Children Magazines and presently is an active writer at various legal websites. She has been practising in the High Court Of Delhi. Presently she is associated with the Guild For Service as a Legal Counselor, headed by Dr Mohini Giri, Padma Bhushan and Ex-Chairperson of National Commission for Women, India. She has prior experience of working with Universal legal, Tripaksha Litigation, Young Arena Litigators and National Green Tribunal of Delhi (NGT).

Contact Advocate Tamanna Pankaj Chaturvedi here

Representatives

  • Prafull Chandra Ghosh​
  • Chandrabhushan​
  • Anokh Kumar​
  • Dr Dheerendra Kumar​
  • Prof Prashant Kumar Katiyar​
  • Vikas Rai​
  • Latajeet Chahar​
  • Prateek Katiyar
  • Prabuddh Sachan
  • Harjeet Singh Chahar