Meet our Speakers for #TEDxSIBMBengaluru 2016 (Part 02)

February 25, 2016

Aathi- The Mentalist

Mentalism is a performing art in which its practitioners, known as mentalists, appear to demonstrate highly developed mental or intuitive abilities. A Mentalist is someone who uses mental acuity, hypnosis and/or suggestion. He/She is a master manipulator of thoughts and behavior. Adarsh, popularly known as Aathi, is a leading Mentalist who designs and conducts lectures and theatre shows internationally to explore and exploit the Psychology of Deception.  A researcher in Behavioural Psychology, he is an expert in Non-Verbal Communication and one of the youngest and sought-after Deception Analyst. Aathi’s methodology is a result of over a thousand social experiments conducted on people around the world. He is also a trusted consultant for Police department in India and UAE. Aathi is now currently a Researcher Psychologist & Mentalist at Paul Ekman Group. 



Yashas Mitta is a 25-year-old, Bangalore based youngster who has been running his own brand Design studio by day but also focuses a lot of his creative energies on his new venture, Mukha as well.

Writing is one of the hardest things which Yashas has done. He has encountered various job profiles over the years and just settled on establishing his own studio around a while ago where they concentrate on making identity systems and visual dialects that are completely exceptional and new. Yashas is a writer, designer and one of the cofounders of Untold.in. He loves travelling to the corners of the country for stories for Untold.in. He has worked in various creative fields from advertising, publishing, documentaries and comics to name a few.The ‘other side’ of him is very experimental and something he considers to be a gift and curse all at once. He was highly interested in how the world is changing and the people who are leading this change and it was this same curiosity that led him to start Mukha—an online magazine—with a friend of his that features exclusive long form interviews of people who are redefining life and routine as we know it in all fields. It’s a magazine with no topics but has a certain ‘genre’ of people that it talks to/with. We have featured 10 people from 10 different countries till date and they’re only just getting started! “Prioritizing and Organization” have helped him to balance out his life between all the varying interests too.


Dhimant Parekh is an Indian School of Business graduate and a serial entrepreneur. He is the co founder of the Better India along with his wife Anuradha Parekh. The Better India is a revolutionary content and news reporting site with a difference. They report only positive news across India and have more than 100 writers contributing from all over India, a highly engaged community on Facebook and Twitter, and over 5,00,000 visitors on its website every month. The Better India has won several awards including the Manthan Award for Best Alternative News Site across South Asia. TheBetterIndia.com is  India's fastest growing positive news site. In TheBetterIndia.com they use media and technology to help people and share positive stories. By doing so, they have built and inspired a community of people who are always sharing ideas with each other, helping each other with resources –and collectively doing good. 

They also share positive stories of unsung heroes, change makers, innovations, education, children, women empowerment, travel, history, arts & culture, social development and much more.


Sudhir Shivaram is one of India's most respected wildlife photographers. A long and lucrative profession in the IT business did not decrease Sudhir's energy for photography but rather despite what might be expected, guaranteed that he never lost touch with his wild side. So much so that he bid adieu to the corporate jungle to spend more time in the real one. His photos are imperative for their in fact refined and reminiscent character, creating appropriate moods to move viewers. This green evangelist battles for wildlife security around the globe and gives uninhibitedly of his time and pictures to bring issues to light about nature and untamed life. He likewise discusses his work and the condition of wildlife to youngsters over the world wanting to motivate and win their dedication to this cause so dear to him.

Sudhir was one of the brand ambassadors for Canon India and was a Canon contract photographer. He is the recipient of Sanctuary Asia Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2012 award. He has also been recognized as India's 5th most influential person in the photography industry during Asian Photography 2015 awards. In order to share his passion for wildlife photography and the extensive knowledge he has acquired in this field, Sudhir holds photography workshops and Wildlife photo tours to mentor both beginners and advanced photographers enhance their skills and understanding of nature and wildlife photography.

At this year’s worldwide editorial awards held at the National Geographic Society in Washington D.C., National Geographic Traveller India’s September 2013 cover featuring Sudhir’s image won the Yellow Border Award for the best cover across 14 language editions of the magazine worldwide.
In next & final part of this Blog Series on Speaker Profiles, we will come up with more such insights on our speakers for #TEDxSIBMBengaluru2016. 

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(This Blog post is written by Tanzila Merchant - tanzila@ssmc.edu.in & edited by Content Team, TEDxSIBMBengaluru)