Prof Malavika Kapur is a Visiting Professor at National Institute of Advanced Studies, Indian Institute of Science Campus, Bengaluru and former Professor and Head of the Department of Clinical Psychology at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bengaluru. She has a PhD in Clinical Psychology from Bangalore University and has twenty books and over 100 publications to her credit. She is a Fellow of the Indian Association of Clinical Psychologists, the Indian Association of Child and Adolescent Mental Health and the British psychological Society. Recently, she has been honoured by the National Academy of Psychology with the honorary fellowship and lifetime achievement award. She has been a consultant for organizations such as the WHO, UGC, NCERT, NIPCCD, ICMR and ICSSR. She has been twice awarded the scholar in residency at the Study and Conference Centre, at Bellagio in Italy, by the Rockefeller Foundation. She has been on the Advisory Group of the ICD Revision of Child Psychiatric Disorders at the WHO Mental Health and Substance Abuse Division, Geneva from March 2010.
Her areas of interest are Developmental Psychology, Community Mental Health Programmes for Children and Adolescents in Primary Health Care Personnel and Anganawadi Workers. She has been involved in training of lay child counsellors. She has developed tools of assessment and intervention packages for the promotion of psycho-social development and for psychological problems of children and adolescents in Child Guidance Centres as well as Urban, Rural and Tribal Schools. Her main contribution is her work of developing integrated models of mental health service delivery for children and adolescents.
Her work is embedded in the cultural context as revealed in her study of childcare in Ancient India based on Ayurveda. In the recent past she has been exploring, in addition to Ayurveda, Child Care in the Indian Indigenous Health Systems in Unani, Siddha and Tibetan Medicine from the Perspective of Developmental Psychology.
The mysteries of the human mind have always fascinated her as a psychologist and a creative writer. She has written several anthologies and a novel for adults and children. She is a prolific reader with deep interest in performing arts. She is an inveterate traveller and loves trekking in the Himalayan foothills.
Books
1) PARENTS BEWARE OF THE DIGITAL DEMON
When tug of war is no longer a game l Parents at War: Custody Battles in Indian Courts
Will Short Stories be in trend again? Subroto Bandopadhyay | The Bangkok Fiasco and Other Stories
Gandhi was human too.
JP to BJP: In Conversation with Santosh Singh
New book on Gumnami Baba, Government Doesn't Want You To Know This by Chandrachur Ghose & Anuj Dhar.
Backfire in Nepal how India Lost The Plot to China
'Nobody will be spared. Mother Nature will punish us all’, says author Bane Singh in this discussion
Nitin Sathe, airforce officer assigned to revive the Car Nicober airforce station hit by tsunami
'Krishna myth or reality? What is the relevance of Lord Krishna?
The Demons of Jaitraya is now available at leading book stores across the country and on Amazon.
Nayna is a Mumbai based Graphic Designer and Illustrator. She completed her post graduation in communication design at IDC IIT Bombay. Her interests include Graphic design, Illustration, short and longform narratives including zines and comics, Art and Design History and Pedagogy and lifestyle products. These days she is teaching University in the capacity of an assistant professor.
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1) THE SQUADRON DIARIES
MANOJ YADAV is an author in Business and Management genre. He holds MLE℠ title and is a president’s select member of ‘Leaders Excellence’, a business leader’s community at Harvard Square, Massachusetts, USA. He has numerous global professional certifications to his credits namely ITIL Foundation certified from AXELOS (UK), PMP certified from PMI (USA), ISO 9001:2015 certification from DNV GL (Norway), and is a trained CMMI professional.
He is an IT veteran with 14+ years’ rich diverse work experience in Business Excellence, Project Management, Business Analyst, and Technology services of organisation. He has served Fortune 500 clients like American Express, Humana Inc, and AmerisourceBergen in his roles with MNCs—IBM, AtoS Syntel, Patni Computer Systems, and Lionbridge.
He has audited around 150+ projects, thereby interviewing 300+ managers and leaders, enabled them to improve operations so as to exceed customer satisfaction and improved profit margin of the organisation. His book ‘101 SECRETS OF PROJECT RISK MANAGEMENT’ is an innovative book on project management where for the first time he is detailing in-depth around 98% risks affecting organisation projects and strategies to mitigate them. It is a 3-in-1 book for effective decision making in aspects of project, quality, and risk management. It is useful for various industries. He is also a pioneer in IT Risk Management.
An alumnus of one of the top engineering institute VJTI, Mumbai University, he graduated in BE Computer Engineering. He also holds certification in Finance and Marketing from Emory University (USA) and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA) respectively. Apart from these, he has certifications in life and general insurance from reputed Insurance Institute of India (III) and multiple finance certifications from premier National Institute of Security Markets (NISM), India.
He is amongst top writers in knowledge sharing social media website, Quora, and has reach of 1,00,000+ readers across the globe. He resolves queries and doubts of professionals and students in leadership and management space. He is a people person who loves to inspire and has written more than 100 motivational quotes on leadership. He has a network of 13,500+ people following him on LinkedIn.
A multi-talented personality, he is good in various activities like singing, dialogue delivery, and sports like carrom, table tennis, chess, etc.
Books
1) 101 SECRETS OF PROJECT RISK MANAGEMENT
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