About

She recently gave up her vibrant corporate career to help expedite the setting up of HIAL, Himalayan Institute of Alternatives, Ladakh. Gitanjali is a multi-talented dynamic woman. She is a management graduate from XIMB, Xavier's Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar and has since been in key corporate positions nationally and internationally in Indian and multinational companies.

As an entrepreneur she has helped launch her own businesses, Pushan and Shanghai Power Projects Ltd.

As a social entrepreneur she is the founder of a publishing company Helios Books, Aum Hospitals, AUM Trust and Love your Liver Foundation.

As an educator she is the founding member of Himalayan Institute of Alternatives, Ladakh, Advisor to Maharashtra International Education Board, MIEB, Government of Maharashtra, and has headed a well known Cambridge School in Chennai.

Apart from that, she is a Black Belt in Karate and has won the World championship in 2009 in USA, together with her son Aryan.

She loves dancing Odissi and Russian Ballet, singing Hindustani Classical and playing the Piano.

She is spiritual seeker with a deep interest in Indian Spirituality and is a life-long student of Sri Aurobindo’s philosophy, Vedas and the Upanishads. She enjoys insights into the inner and outer worlds and practices yoga, pranayama and meditation.

Himalayan Institute of Alternatives, Ladakh (HIAL)

Founding CEO & Dean

HIAL, the world’s first Doer’s University will champion relevant, contextual and experiential learning. It will engage youths from multiple Hindukush Himalayan countries in Research & Enterprise Development to tackle the issues faced by mountain people, especially in the domains of culture, education, and environment. HIAL  aims to break the rigid boxes of conventional thinking, be relevant to people’s lives, and encourage learning via practical application of knowledge.

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Transform India

Founder

Transformindia.com is the platform that will spearhead this initiative.Bringing together like-minded people, it will enable collaboration to rediscover our greatness; for in this self-discovery and new forms of self-expression alone, will lie our true freedom!
Come partner with us as we work towards this Freedom, which alone can be the basis on which India can realize its true destiny and take its rightful place in the world arena!
This is a two year action research program where change makers and mentors will be working together to make each of these action areas a reality.

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Transform India

Founder

Transformindia.com is the platform that will spearhead this initiative.Bringing together like-minded people, it will enable collaboration to rediscover our greatness; for in this self-discovery and new forms of self-expression alone, will lie our true freedom!
Come partner with us as we work towards this Freedom, which alone can be the basis on which India can realize its true destiny and take its rightful place in the world arena!
This is a two year action research program where change makers and mentors will be working together to make each of these action areas a reality.

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Helios Books

Founder

Helios Books is an independent publisher with a strong commitment and vision to publish quality fiction as well as non-fiction of a high standard, based on meticulous and original research. Distinctive vision, creative use of narrative and plot, and elegance and finesse in the style of writing are the distinguishing features of our fiction. The hallmark of our non-fiction is the lucid presentation of original research.

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