Rajiv Mehrotra

Rajiv Mehrotra is an Indian writer, television producer-director and documentary film maker, is best known as the former acclaimed host of one of India's longest running talk shows on public television, "In Conversation", that has been through several incarnations over more than twenty years, aired on the India’s National broadcaster, Doordarshan News Channel, Saturdays at 9.30 pm. As a documentary film maker, producer and commissioning editor his films have won 18 national awards from the President of India and more than 150 international awards. They have had more than 400 film festival screenings around the world from Berlin, Chicago and Rotterdam to Mumbai, Quatar and Yamagata. He has authored half a dozen books on spirituality, most notably Conversations with The Dalai Lama, Thakur - a biography of Sri Ramakrishna and Mind of The Guru. He is a close personal student 'chela' of HH The Dalai Lama and has been a student of the late Swami Ranganathananda, President of The Ramakrishna Mission and of the iconic Yoga teacher BKS Iyengar. He is a Trustee/Secretary of the Foundation for Universal Responsibility of His Holiness the Dalai Lama established with the Nobel Peace prize (www.furhhdl.org), Managing Trustee of The Public Service Broadcasting Trust (www.psbt.org) and Chairman of The Media Foundation. He is currently working on the official, national film on Swami Vivekananda to commemorate his 150 birth centenary in 2013. This was commissioned by a National Committee chaired by The Prime Minister of India