Our Team

When you give the best you have to someone in need, it translates into something much deeper to the receiver.

Om Swami

FOUNDER: OM SWAMI

Om Swami, is a venerable saint, living in Sri Badrika Ashram, in the Himalayan foothills, in Himachal Pradesh. He decided to settle in this remote valley to help revive the dormant practices of Dhyana Yoga and Mantra Sadhana.

He has a bachelor’s degree in business and an MBA from Sydney, Australia. A serial entrepreneur, his business operations spanned 5 continents. He built and exited several multi-million dollar businesses, which he renounced to leave on his spiritual journey in 2010.

He is the founder of Black Lotus App for meditation, os.me a truthful, and kindness community, and most recently Sadhana app an app which revives the Vedic glory of India. It is His tribute to Sanatana Dharma. He shares his wisdom through his fortnightly blogs published on os.me, YouTube, Audible and Soundcloud.  In addition, He has authored 15 bestsellers on meditation, mantras and wellness, such as Kundalini: An Untold Story, A Million Thoughts, and The Book of Kindness.

PROGRAM TEAM

CA Rajiv Mittal
CA Rajiv Mittal
Administrative Head - Sri Badrika Ashram

He is the administrative head of Sri Badrika Ashram and is involved in the social projects of the Society.

Rajiv has an overall experience of over 30 years – serving in a premier financial institution for 14 years and his CA practice for the last 18 years.

Ravi Trivedi
Ravi Trivedi
Program Lead & Fund Raising

Ravi is an entrepreneur, and exited his business in 2020, to move to the development sector. He is an angel investor with 8 investments and is an advisory board member of an education NGO. He mentors startups and NGOs at IIMB NSRCEL. Ravi holds an MBA degree from Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, and a Masters’s in Computer Science from IISc Bangalore.

He is focused on defining the mission, fundraising, delivery of programs, and measurement of the impact of the program.

Sujata Om
Sujata Om
Program Management, Communication

An alumni of FMS Delhi. Actively involved in the projects run by SBA .

She is a Director in an NGO which imparts computer skills to slum children with the sole objective of making them employable.

Namita Om
Namita Om
Lead, Scholarships & Social Media

Namita is a biomedical engineer has worked on breast cancer diagnostic machines and cochlear implants.

To delve deeper into the human psyche, she quit engineering and pursued teaching yoga full-time.

She is currently leading the scholarship program as a liaison between universities/ students and the ashram. Namita also steers the Social Media team for the program.

Avneet Kaur Sidhu
Avneet Kaur Sidhu
Lead, All Streams

Avneet Kaur Sidhu is an Educationist and an Entrepreneur who has successfully chartered her startups in Education, Financial Services and Real Estate. She was the first to introduce Computers and IT to the Government and Private Organizations in Western Punjab in the early ’90s. Her institutes in Punjab have educated and placed hundreds of students in the IT industry. She continues to mentor and counsel youth and parents, especially from Rural Punjab and Gurgaon.

Being a philanthropist, she believes in sharing the resources and opportunities she is blessed with.

Vishal Anand
Vishal Anand
Lead, Partnerships

Vishal aka Hanupriya is a seeker. In his vocation he runs an enterprise that provides employment to 400 plus ITI technicians and helps NCR breath cleaner air. He holds an MBA from FMS, Delhi University and an engineering degree from Punjab University. Before starting his enterprise in 2008, he worked for different multinationals for more than a decade.

A long distance runner and an avid trekker, he decided to spend significant amount of energy in the development sector. Empowering kids in the remotest parts of the hills is his driving force.

Megha Vashishta
Megha Vashishta
Co-Lead, Engineering Stream

Megha is a recent entrepreneur, driving towards maintaining a secure ecosystem for organisations, by achieving compliance quickly and minimal disruption to daily business.

A BTech graduate from Delhi College Of Engineering, she has worked with all big four consulting firms, in and outside India, for around 13+years, in the space of IT Compliance/Audits, Data Privacy, Information Security.

In her free time she loves to sing, listen to good music, read and be close to nature.

Rajesh Kodukula
Rajesh Kodukula
Co-Lead, Engineering Stream

Rajesh has more than 12 years of experience in Mechanical and manufacturing industry.
Rajesh had completed his degree in mechanical engineering followed by M.Tech in Materials engineering from NITK Surathkal.
Rajesh has worked in Oil and Gas sector with Dutch company Allseas engineering BV for 5 years followed by 6 years in aerospace sector with industry giant Rolls Royce.
Currently Rajesh is working with a start up called Log9 in electric vehicle segment helping it scale up to build world class batteries with make in India at heart of its vision. In his free time Rajesh writes blogs and helps young aspiring entrepreneurs to build the base for their dreams. Rajesh is currently mentoring two 8 year old’s in becoming future GM in chess, three students with their education and one deaf and mute young adult in working towards a meaningful life.

Shailesh Bhandari
Shailesh Bhandari
Co-Lead, Humanities & Hospitality Stream

Ms. Shailesh Om Bhandari has been an educator and a school leader, having worked with reputed Public Schools in Delhi. An alumnus of Hansraj College, Delhi, she holds degrees in English and Education. With a teaching career spanning over 35 years, she has extensive experience as a school administrator and a teacher mentor. She is an ardent advocate of ‘learner centered’ education with a focus on humanism in education. Focusing on teacher empowerment and competence, she has conducted many workshops and training sessions in this direction.

Passionate about building social-emotional wellbeing in children, she has successfully led the Mindfulness Program in her school. Her other interests include yoga, reading spiritual literature and building meaningful bonds.

Nidhi Malik
Nidhi Malik
Co-Lead, Humanities & Hospitality Stream

Brand Specialist, Marketeer & Strategist with varied sectors.

Over 25 years of experience of building brands like Star TV, Shell, Canon, Onida etc. Passionate about giving back to society. A believer in God & theory of Karma. Always a learner though!

Mahamaya Chatterjee
Mahamaya Chatterjee
Co-Lead, Law Stream

Mahamaya practices before the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India, Hon’ble Delhi High Court and various Tribunals. She is on the Union of India Panel and represents the Central Government in both the Supreme Court as also the Delhi High Court. She is a Guest Faculty in the Delhi Police Academy and has been Guest Faculty in various other organisations as well. She has also been conferred with Rajya Puraskar by the then Governor of West Bengal Hon’ble Mr. M.K. Narayanan in the year 2011 as a member of Bharat Scouts and Guides. Mahamaya has presented papers in various conferences and published papers in various journals and platforms. She is regularly invited to deliver lectures on various issues and has judged numerous international and national moot court competitions too.

Dr Sejal Shah
Dr Sejal Shah
Co-Lead, Medical Stream

Dr Sejal Om Shah, a dedicated dental surgeon, GDCH Ahmedabad graduate, specialising in complete dentures and cosmetic dentistry, has 23 years of experience working with her husband at their private dental clinic in Rajkot. She is passionate about nature, trekking , travelling and reading. She approaches life with enthusiasm and a commitment to make a positive impact. She finds fulfilment in her work and personal pursuits. At SBA EYSMS she has served as a mentor since past two years, an experience for which she is grateful and thankful, as it allows her to give back while continue to learn.

Monika Om Sharma
Monika Om Sharma
Co-Lead, Medical Stream

Dr Monika is a Radiologist by profession (MBBS, MD). She has been mentoring medical students in the medical college for many years. She has also been serving at SBA dispensary on multiple occasions.

She is an enthusiastic mentor and excited to be a part of the SBA mentorship program, and looking forward to helping youngsters to achieve their goals and Excel in all the endeavors of life.

Soanali Misra
Soanali Misra
Co-Lead, English Program

In her professional career spanning 27 years, Soanali has had diverse work and learning experiences at various positions in areas of Marketing, Education and Training in Industry and Academia. She is the founder of Anhad Community and has been doing Personality Development, Behavioural and Communication skill training for students, faculty and professionals. Her keen interest in understanding human interactions and behaviour led her to get certification in NLP and Mindfulness. An avid reader, a conversationist and a curious observer, she likes to explore life on a more subtle level.

Rashmi Sharma
Rashmi Sharma
Co-Lead, English Program

Rashmi has nearly fifteen years of experience in education, training, and teaching.

She has created teaching and training material for corporations, school audiences, and private universities. She has also worked as an English teacher and subject matter expert. She loves to write, act, sing, and record stories and poetry.

Pragya Agarwal
Pragya Agarwal
Scholarships, Operations

Pragya is a business enterpreneur and a seed investor .
Having started her career with GE in 2000, she developed a keen interest in setting up her own business in 2005. She has been instrumental in setting up an international business and PAN India distribution of Decor goods
Setting up a 5 star resort at Coorg (close to Bangalore), in 2021 is her most recent achievement.

She holds a Masters in Degree in English Literature and Philosophy and has keen interests in Spirituality.

Kakoli Das
Kakoli Das
Scholarship Operations, Website & Social Media

Kakoli holds an MBA in Finance and has worked 25 years in the Banking & Finance industry across Axis Bank, Credit Suisse and hedge funds. Currently, she is involved with a Singapore based Fintech providing “Credit Solution as a Service” through its SME financing platform across Southeast Asia as its Founding Team member and Head of Operations.

At SBAEYSMS, she works for the Scholarship and Social Media teams and supports the Program Lead with website maintenance.

Amrita Chattopadhyay
Amrita Chattopadhyay
Scholarships, Operations

Amrita Chattopadhyay is a Fellow Chartered Accountant from Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) with 17 years of professional experience in Risk Advisory, Internal Audit and Information Security Audit. She has also done a Diploma in Information System Audit (DISA) and has completed course on Forensic Accounting, Fraud detection from ICAI and Power User course of SAP-FICO. She also has a Masters in Business Law (MBL) from National Law School of India University, Bangalore and a Masters in Commerce (M Com) from Andhra University. She has imparted various trainings to corporates in her fields of study and has been a faculty member of Cost Accounting and Financial Management in ICAI.

At SBAEYSMS, she is part of the Scholarships, Operations team.

Sripooja Om
Sripooja Om
Scholarships, Operations

Sripooja specialises in Materials Engineering and has worked in manufacturing plants. She currently works in the Department of Atomic Energy.

She loves to sing, learn new languages and keep herself physically fit.

At SBAEYSMS, she is part of the Scholarships, Operations team.

Divya Kelkar
Divya Kelkar
Scholarships, Operations

Divya is a PGDM in Finance and is currently working in the Banking & Finance industry.
She loves to draw, read, cook and play chess.

At SBAEYSMS, she is part of the Scholarships, Operations team.

Gandhali Om
Gandhali Om
All Streams, Operations

Gandhali has done her Masters in Public Health and has worked for a short while in the field of health research after which she quit this field to pursue music, a long time passion, as her career.
She now engages in teaching classical vocal music and has worked at an International school as a music teacher.
At SBAEYSMS, she co-ordinates on the operations for scholarship and mentorship program.

Kamakshi Gohil
Kamakshi Gohil
Social Media

Kamakshi holds a post-graduate degree in Advertising and PR, fueled by a genuine passion for sports and a deep connection with nature. Currently, she is a proud member of the Social Media team at SBAEYSMS, where she blends her academic expertise with my love for outdoor activities.

MENTORS TEAM

Amarendra Sarma
Amarendra Sarma

Amarendra Om Kumar Sarma is Professor of Physics at IIT Guwahati. Dr. Sarma did his post-graduation and Ph.D. from IIT Delhi. He was a visiting scientist at University of Central Florida, USA in 2012 as an Indo-US Fellow.

Prof. Sarma has successfully mentored 10 Ph.D. students till now. In addition, he has guided numerous engineering students for their B.Tech. projects. In his spare time, Prof. Sarma prefers to play chess, enjoy music, surf os.me and listen to Om Swami’s discourses.

Kalyani Lal
Kalyani Lal

Kalyani is a practicing advocate at the Supreme Court of India, High Courts all over India and District Courts. She has extensive experience spanning 12 years in the field of criminal, matrimonial law, civil law as well as environmental law.

Kalyani has worked 4 years under the tutelage of Mr K.T.S Tulsi MP Rajya Sabha & Ex-vice Chairman Law Commission of India.

Akshay Iyer
Akshay Iyer

Akshay Iyer started his career as an instructional designer and worked with Symantec, BMC, and CA Technologies.

He subsequently managed a documentation team before becoming an individual contributor and leads the information experience for software products in Broadcom.

Aditya Shahi
Aditya Shahi

Aditya has a degree in Finance & Accounting and currently works with Amazon.

He has 10+ years of experience and spent the first 9 years in the Investment industry before switching to tech at Amazon. Aditya enjoys mentoring & coaching and has been doing that for 5+ years now.

Dr Sanju Goel
Dr Sanju Goel

Dr Sanju is an MBBS MD PHYSIOLOGY from GOVT. MEDICAL COLLEGE PATIALA.

She has been working as a physiologist for 18 years. She loves reading books, music and dance and is a passionate mentor.

Peeush Bishnoi
Peeush Bishnoi

Peeush has worked in Corporate R&D for twenty-two years and in the area of Higher Technical Education for the last six years.

His skills include: People management, project management, mentoring of students and faculty, launch of green field institutes, technology development in area of energy and propulsion, and teaching.

He is a doctorate in Mechanical Engineering and always ready to learn skills and build knowledge in new areas.

Harshita Gaur
Harshita Gaur

Harshita is a professional nurse and currently pursuing higher studies in community mental health nursing in Niagara college, Canada.

She is a growth oriented individual and volunteered in various nursing programs, health checkups and pulse polio programs. She is also BLS and CPR certified.

Dipti Tandon
Dipti Tandon

Dipti has played various roles in life at different stages. 20 years in the airline industry and thereafter as a creative entrepreneur for 15 years. Still learning and trying to strike the right balance. Each perspective is uniquely true. Lots to gain and loose on the way. In the end it doesn’t go in vain.

Niren Patel
Niren Patel

Niren is Co-Founder and CEO of FyuGén Inc. USA

Niren Patel pursued his education from IIT-Varanasi (former IT-BHU) & Master of Science course work (MS-Computer Science) from the University of Cincinnati USA. Currently pursuing Ph.D.

He has worked in the USA for over a decade. He has given his services to some of the best brands worldwide being in the USA and when his career was at the shooting stage he took a decision to come back to India and shape the future of this country. He runs a state-of-the-art academy to train students preparing for Engineering Entrance and Medical Entrance in Bhilai.

His other credentials are:
Adjunct Faculty, University of Cincinnati Applied Mathematics Department, USA
Adjunct Faculty, Upward Bound Program, USA.

Priyanka Om Malik
Priyanka Om Malik

Priyanka is a post-graduate teacher in English, and a Haryana govt employee, posted in a rural area since 2010.

She feels it is a golden chance to serve mankind through this profession as students are mostly from poor backgrounds.

Malini Bharath
Malini Bharath

Malini is an independent trained professional who has been working with children for many years. She empowers children to deal with life’s challenges and to bring out their inner potential. She is also actively involved with an NGO working with children whose focus is in the field of life skills, reproductive health and personal safety.

Navneet Om Dhand
Navneet Om Dhand

An Engineer with B.E in Electronics & Communication, having 22+ years of experience in Mobile Telecom Industry. Worked with leading mobile service providers in India & abroad (UK). He has handled various leadership and project management roles at various positions with multi-cultural teams

Dr Chetana Om Verma
Dr Chetana Om Verma

Dr Chetana is an MBBS from Lucknow, and with MS in OBS/GYN from Agra. She has lived in various cities, studied in government schools, and is a mother of two.

Kavya Anklekar
Kavya Anklekar

Kavya Anklekar completed her masters in Political Science from Mysore University. After
successfully clearing the NET and SLET on her first attempt, she went on to work as an Assistant
Professor at St. Philomena’s College, Mysore. Her love for education led her to take up the role
of a Post Graduate Teacher at the Orbis School, Pune, where she also served as the Head of the
Social Science Department for ten years. When she’s not busy teaching and interacting with
students, she loves spending time in nature and getting lost in a good novel.

Nikhil Garg
Nikhil Garg

A Mechanical engineer with more than a decade of experience in the Energy Sector, Nikhil is presently working as a senior consultant with a US-based energy company. His area of expertise includes energy sector commercial and financial advisory, strategic planning, economic analysis, corporate strategies, and capacity building.

He has also mentored students on higher education, test and exam preparation, career choice and aptitudes, overseas education, scholarship advice, and career development.

Passionate about teaching, he has been coaching students for more than a decade and believes that every child deserves an equal opportunity for education.

Bhupinder Kaur
Bhupinder Kaur

She is an Ayurveda doctor with a post graduation in public health nutrition. She has spent the majority of her professional life working with children, be it through her job as a medical officer at a public school or through her involvement in several NGO’s.
She believes in “Initiative is all you need to bring out change”.

Dr Mona Patel
Dr Mona Patel

Dr. Mona Patel, M.S., Ophthalmology, also an Organic Farmer and Certified Heal Your Life teacher.
Doing organic farming with an aim to grow healthful clean food for my family and it is absolutely rewarding.
Have always wanted to do community work.

L.V. Keshav
L.V. Keshav

Post Graduate Chemical engineer with over forty years experience in the Chemical and Pharmaceutical industry. Served in senior positions in a leading Water Treatment company in India for around twenty five years. |
An enthusiastic traveler and Nature lover. Have visited many of the interesting places in India and the world over. Love reading and interacting with people to help them build on their strengths. Currently retired and doing whatever I can for Natural Resource Conservation to heal Mother Nature.

Ravikanth M
Ravikanth M

Ravikanth is an Engineering and Business Management leader and an Angel Investor, with more than 20 years of experience. He worked with both Fortune 100 companies and start-ups across the globe.
Currently, he is working in Product Management with a leading Software MNC and lives in Toronto, Canada. Ravikanth studied engineering at IIT Kanpur and Business Management at IIM Lucknow.

Passionate about teaching and mentoring others, Ravikanth believes everyone deserves the opportunity to excel and achieve their goals.

Preeti Jain
Preeti Jain

A Professor of Pharmacy with more than 10 years of experience in teaching and research. Preeti received her Ph.D., M. Tech (Biotechnology) and B. Pharm degrees from Jadavpur University, India. She has mentored numerous Pharmacy students in their academic and research activities. Teaching is her passion and she loves working with students.

Dr Tripti Mongia
Dr Tripti Mongia

Dr Mongia is a Specialist Cataract and Refractive Surgeon in India. She hold a M.S, FICO(UK) degree in her specialisation field.

Besides her practice, she works with 2 leading charitable Eye Centers, The Pramukhswami Eye Hospital and The Ramakrishna Mission Hospital. She believes that “the mission to serve people by enabling them to see well is the closest one can get to serving Bhagwan”.

Abhijit Om Dhada
Abhijit Om Dhada

Abhijit Om Dhada heads the Information Technology function of a US Multinational company. Abhijit has 15 years of rich experience in diverse areas of technology such as ERP, Infrastructure, Applications, CRM, AI-ML, Analytics and Digital Transformation. He has done Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communications and Post-Graduation in Business Analytics.

He is also a certified Scrum Master and an expert in Agile Project Management.

Abhijit believes in giving back to society and has always related to various social causes like supporting the technology function of social startups, teaching the underprivileged, participating in rural health camps, etc. He is an avid reader, a writer, meditator, passionate about cooking, a marathoner and a lifelong learner.

Bindu Sharma
Bindu Sharma

Bindu is the Founder and CEO of Origiin IP Solutions. She is a post-graduate in Microbiology, LLB from Bangalore University and a registered patent agent at Indian patent office. Origiin was also listed as Company of the year 2014 Patents by Silicon India.

She was listed as one of top 100 most powerful women in law by WIPF in 2016 & 2021. She has been a speaker in more than 300 national and international conferences, academic institutions and corporates. She has authored various books & articles and three of her books have been kept in European Patent Office library.

Dr. Surbhi Mahajan
Dr. Surbhi Mahajan

Dr. Surbhi, MD is a dermatologist by profession and a skin blogger by passion. She intends to cure skin and hair issues by not only using medicines and procedures but also by bringing changes in lifestyle, diet, and stress levels. She was a three times gold medalist while pursuing MBBS with many more awards during her MD in Dermatology training.

She loves to devote her free time to meditation, spiritual development and volunteering. She has conducted workshops at more than 25 JNVs (Government residential schools) and done camps at more than 10 villages as part of volunteering.

Peeyush Mohit
Peeyush Mohit

Peeyush Mohit is the Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of O2 Power Pvt Ltd, one of the fastest growing renewable energy production companies in India and has built a portfolio of more than 2000 MW of solar and wind power plants since 2020. Peeyush graduated in Electrical and Electronics from BITS, Pilani and then completed MBA in Finance and Strategy from IIM, Lucknow. He has been a speaker at multiple global forums and has been a consultant to the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy for their initiatives.

In his spare time, he loves listening to music, spending time with his kids, meditating and following Swamiji’s discourses and books.

Santwana Sneha
Santwana Sneha

With almost over a decade of experience in the corporate and social sector, Santwana brings a unique perspective to the team. Her expertise includes research, knowledge management and design-thinking solutions. Her work focuses on an inclusive approach to gender equality and climate change mitigation through sustainable waste management.

She has a management degree in agri-business from Vamnicom and a diploma in leadership and change management from XLRI. She serves on the board of FINISH Society and also supports Monitoring & Evaluation work for FINISH and consults other non-profits. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Humanities and Social Studies.

Pulkit Om Gupta
Pulkit Om Gupta

Pulkit is an economics graduate and has done a Management course from SP Jain, Mumbai. He has been running his start-up for the last ten years in the Fintech domain. The entrepreneurial journey has allowed him to learn varied areas of running a business efficiently. Recently, he founded his second venture focused on deploying Zoho Finance solutions through Training and Implementation. He has implemented business process automation for sectors such as e-commerce, distribution, and retail.

He is passionate about training and loves spirituality, meditation, and yoga. He enjoys reading, writing, and listening to devotional music.

Rohit Sharma
Rohit Sharma

Rohit is an NLU Punjab Graduate in Economics and heads the Law Division at Smartkeeda along with his own coaching institute in Shimla. His interests lie in providing students with high quality and affordable web solutions for legal education. With a vibrant mind and in depth domain knowledge, he truly adds immense value to aspirants preparing for Legal exams.

Puneeta Gohil
Puneeta Gohil

Puneeta Gohil is an alumni of St Xavier’s College, Ahmedabad with a degree in Psychology and English.

A seeker and learner, she enjoys reading, travelling and music. She is also a certified Life coach and is very passionate about empowering youth.

Rashmin Thakeria
Rashmin Thakeria

Rashmin is a fellow chartered accountant, IIM alumni, Harvard alumni and certifies in specialized laws. He has been the CEO of a Swiss Multinational for 25 years employing over 1500 employees in India. Currently he is a management advisor, catalyst, entrepreneur in residence for several large Indian Corporations and the big 4 firms.

He is a book hoarder and a voracious reader though currently focused more on the journey inward through spirituality seeking glory of the divine with light from his Master.

Teena Mehta
Teena Mehta

Teena Mehta is a Senior Delivery Manager with 17+ years of experience in the IT field. She is currently employed with a Product based FinTech organization.

She started her career as a developer in Microsoft technology stack and has played various roles in several IT organizations before assuming the current one. She has worked in various domains like Wealth Management, Aviation, Health Care and Payments.

Vineeta Rajput
Vineeta Rajput

Ms. Vineeta Rajput is the Principal of The Millennium School, Patiala.

She is a Postgraduate in English Literature and Public Administration with 23 years’ experience as a principal. Her trail blazing career consists of curriculum management and pedagogy, admission strategy, planning of the evaluation system, providing leadership in administrative matter, initiating and participating in academic planning, monitoring academic programs and curriculum developments. She has framed policies around developing curriculum to accommodate diverse learning style for maximizing students’ comprehension and research-oriented discussion.

Manish Bharadwaj
Manish Bharadwaj

Manish is a Law graduate with Post Graduate Diploma in IR & PM. During the initial few years of his career, he worked with corporates like Aptech Ltd, Ansal Properties & Amp Industries. Manish has been actively working in the Real Estate sector as consultant for housing and commercial projects for past 20 years.

Additionally, he has been actively mentoring students and young professionals for past 10 years, primarily making them understand their strengths and how to overcome their weakness.

Dr. Reeta Chawda Om
Dr. Reeta Chawda Om

MBBS, DGO. a practicing obstetrician and gynecologist in Raipur, Chhattisgarh, Dr. Reeta along with her husband has been running their own nursing home for the past 23 years. Having handled many critical patients to the best of her efforts, her principle of work has always been honesty, sincerity and devotion.

She now wishes to give back to the society and looks forward to mentoring individuals from the medical field with the blessings of the almighty.

TEACHERS

Manjula Om Bains
Manjula Om Bains

Manjula Bains hails from New Delhi, wherein she taught English Language and Literature at three prestigious schools.

Post her relocation to Singapore over 20 years ago, she set up her private teaching in which she mentored international students and working professionals from diverse nationalities in English Language Learning, ESL, SATS, IELTS, EIKEN Step Test and Phonics. To date, she continues to tutor International School students for IGCSE & IB English.

Manjula has attained an Advanced TESOL, Advanced English Grammar, Pronunciation & Vocabulary certification from the UK; in addition to BA( Pol Sc Hons) & B.Ed from Delhi University, India.

While in Singapore, she loved acting in plays. In her free time, she loves to read and travel.

Malini Bharath
Malini Bharath

Malini is an independent trained professional who has been working with children for many years. She empowers children to deal with life’s challenges and to bring out their inner potential. She is also actively involved with an NGO working with children whose focus is in the field of life skills, reproductive health and personal safety.

Srividya
Srividya

Srividya is from Coimbatore. Initially, she worked primarily as an English teacher in Pune. Having shifted her base to Coimbatore, a few years back she was involved in setting up English Language Labs and training teachers to run the English programs. She is also associated with VETA and has been conducting Spoken English programs in corporation schools and also for the corporate sector. Script writing has always been her passion.

Kavya Anklekar
Kavya Anklekar

Kavya Anklekar completed her masters in Political Science from Mysore University. After
successfully clearing the NET and SLET on her first attempt, she went on to work as an Assistant
Professor at St. Philomena’s College, Mysore. Her love for education led her to take up the role
of a Post Graduate Teacher at the Orbis School, Pune, where she also served as the Head of the
Social Science Department for ten years. When she’s not busy teaching and interacting with
students, she loves spending time in nature and getting lost in a good novel.

Nikhil Garg
Nikhil Garg

A Mechanical engineer with more than a decade of experience in the Energy Sector, Nikhil is presently working as a senior consultant with a US-based energy company. His area of expertise includes energy sector commercial and financial advisory, strategic planning, economic analysis, corporate strategies, and capacity building.

He has also mentored students on higher education, test and exam preparation, career choice and aptitudes, overseas education, scholarship advice, and career development.

Passionate about teaching, he has been coaching students for more than a decade and believes that every child deserves an equal opportunity for education.

Divya Vanshika
Divya Vanshika

Divya is a senior corporate leader with diverse and rich experience in Customer Business Development across leading MNCs P&G Unilever and PMI. Her passion however lies in writing and in teaching. She shares her thoughts on the big and small questions of life through her blog on medium. She mentors young managers at work and finds fulfilment in teaching English and other skills to students associated with the SBA program.

She is a voracious reader and a keen learner committed to the cause of multiplying opportunities through effective communication.

Akanksha Anand
Akanksha Anand

Akanksha is a certified phonics trainer and a B.Ed, teaching international students. She has done her MBA in International Business from the Asian Institute of Management, Bangkok.

She is a dedicated educator, seeking new ways to enhance her teaching skills. Her keen areas of interest are in learning new things and travelling.

SBA EMERGING YOUTH SCHOLARSHIP & MENTORSHIP SCHEME

Sri Badrika Ashram Cum Charitable & Social Welfare Society.
Village - Shalamu
Post - Kargaanu
Distt. Sirmour, Himachal Pradesh
Pincode - 173223