At The Goa Project Sessions, we go this Sunday to our Fringe & Geekery track.

We will discuss left-handedness, and the hacks and adaptations lefties use to negotiate a right-dominant world.

Venkatesh works for the fact-checking organisation BOOM where he created an initiative called Media Buddhi. Prior to this he was a John S. Knight Fellow in journalism at Stanford University. He is a former editor of The Quint and a Senior Anchor at CNN-IBN. He is a Bangalorean who lives in New Delhi, which is very much like being the person in the Sting song, ‘An Englishman in New York.’

Neeharika works in media and advertising in the areas of growth, new business strategy and consumer behaviour. Her past work as a researcher with agencies in India and the Middle East cuts across various research disciplines and industries. Currently she works for the Publicis Groupe and shuttles between Gurgaon and Bangalore. Neeharika is a management graduate and holds a certificate in Advanced Semiotics from Market Research Society, London.

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This Sunday, Science & Technology: how software design exploits our behaviour patterns & lessons learnt on stage to make education more engaging.

Khuzema is an entrepreneur with a passion for using technology as enabler to build better businesses, which led him to start Siam Computing. He works with start-up founders across the world, helping them build technology products. A stickler for detail, nothing pleases him more than a solution that’s designed and crafted with the end user in mind.

Dushyanth is a director, author, playwright, teacher, creative producer and entrepreneur best known for founding theatre-in-education production company Crea-Shakthi. He uses theatre and storytelling as a means to empower children and find their innate creative power. Dushyanth also co-founded Crea-Play which uses courses and content for storytelling to help children create their own tales, perform them and get feedback.

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Soumya has spent 14 years writing and editing in the realm of progressive culture, design, arts, social issues, literature and creative lifestyle. She has formerly been associated with Platform Magazine, Hindustan Times, NDTV, The Guardian and The Times of India Group. Soumya is presently Commissioning Editor at STIR, a global publication for design, architecture and art. She has conducted lectures, moderated talks, held jury for a book of nature fiction and published a curated blog of poetry featuring poets globally. Her work appears on the literary landscape in various forms. She travels often in nature, and goes home to poetry.

A former creative writer and journalist, Sneha is a brand and marketing communication specialist who enjoys working with luxury, retail, fin tech and social impact brands on telling their story with heart and premise. She also teaches writing, criticism and marketing at Istituto Marangoni and Balwant School of Architecture. A creature of process and organisation and creator of empathetic content tinged with a sense of humour, she’s always trying to find new ways to push herself out of her comfort zone.

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Kashif was born in Mithila and grew up in Jamshedpur and Lucknow. Since 1995 he has been living in the United States, and makes his living in the biotech industry. He started Urdu’s first website Urdustan.com which ran for over a decade. Seeing the lack of proper coverage of Muslim issues in Indian media he started TwoCircles.net or TCN in 2006, which went on to do a lot of groundbreaking work, influenced many other news organisations and journalists, and created positive impact in the community. Many alumni of TCN have gone on to work for organisations like Al Jazeera, The Wire, Lallantop, Wired, etc.

Rajshekhar is an Indian journalist with primary interests in energy, environment, climate and India’s ongoing slide into right-wing authoritarianism. His book, Despite the State, an examination of pervasive state failure and democratic decay in India, was published by Westland Publications, India, in January 2021. His work has won the Bala Kailasam Memorial Award, the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Award, and five Shriram Awards for Excellence in Financial Journalism. In his spare time, he runs, cycles and reads.

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