Our Appreciation

LILA is the Luminous Idea of Life Appreciation. Life Appreciation is a fundamental idea and life-practice for us: to change the future, past and present must be fully recognised, acknowledged, and appreciated. Only appreciation can build the path to happiness.

Many individuals, communities and institutions have crossed the path of our Foundation, at different times, in different contexts and for various purposes. We wish to express our deep appreciation to you for connecting with us and encouraging us to continue on the mission of making the world a happier place.

• Abhilasha Pandey, for inputs on the website
• Ahiebam Prahlad, South Asian University, for public relations support
• Ajith Radhakrishnan, for his administrative inputs
• Akshay Abraham, for his logistical help during an event
• Alan Viktor, for his inputs on the website
• Alok Bhalla, for ideas and meetings
• Amit Kapoor and Neera Vohra, for the close help through a new phase
• Anil Gupta, for ideas, meetings, support and encouragement
• Anisur Rahman, for encouraging LILA’s initiatives
• Arpan Daniel Varghese, for advising on media
• Ashwani Gautam, for the working space at Bhikaji
• Balagopalan Bethur, for sharing his knowledge on the arts terrain
• Bhardwaj Rangan, The Hindu, for media support
• BP Thomas, for all the administrative help
• Budhatitya Bhattacharya, The Hindu, for media support
• Chandan Sharma, for his creative software and hardware skills
• Chandana, India Habitat Centre, for the warmth and support
• Chirantan Nath, The Caravan Magazine, for the support and interest in LILA
• Dechen Wangmo, for helping with outreach in Gujarat
• Deeksha Bhattia, SWECHHA, for immensely helping with outreach
• Deepani Seth, for the insightful expertise on the Kaapi LILA logo
• Geeta Parameswaran, India Habitat Learning Centre, for ideas and meetings
• George, South Asian University, for his support
• George Paul, for the overview of the Start Up Village, Kochi
• Harmit Singh, for sharing his time and insights on the visual
• Harsh Tomar, for helping with online outreach
• Indrani Mukherjee, India International Centre, for the warmth and support
• Ishaan Banerjee, for helping with outreach
• Ishaan Tiwari, The Caravan Magazine, for the support and interest in LILA
• Jack Todd, SWECHHA, for the volunteering support during events
• Jaipreet, Abhinav and Sakshi, Bansal and co., for all help with tax and auditing
• Jean-Philippe Bottin, Alliance Française de Delhi, for the support
• K Swaminathan, for the time spent and the abiding interest in LILA
• Kaku Scud, for helping with outreach
• Kapil, for the warmth and availability in making every day easier
• Katha, New Delhi, and friends there, witnesses to our coming together
• Kavita Sharma, South Asian University, for her warmth, support and fellowship
• Linda Ashok, Raedleaf Poetry India, for the fellowship
• Malvika Chandan, for her keen editorial attention
• Manju Kak, for our paths crossing at a special moment
• Martin Tom, for the patient working on early designs and for urging us to expand LILA
• Maya Krishna Rao, for ideas and meetings
• Meenakshi Gandotra, SWECHHA, for numerous meetings and organising volunteers
• Mithun Kurikaose, for sharing inputs on media
• Mitushi Khurana, Alliance Française de Delhi, for the support
• Mujeeb Rahman, for helping with outreach
• Munazzah Rehman, The Caravan Magazine, for the support and interest in LILA
• Namita Krishnan, for the initial website designs
• Narayana Bhattathiri, for designing the logo
• Naresh, Bansal and co., for running errands
• Neha Pradhan Arora, SWECHHA, for numerous meetings and organising volunteers
• Nishant, for helping with online outreach
• Nithil Dennis, for sharing his video expertise
• Nitin Bathla, Urban Age, for his support and enthusiasm about LILA
• Naresh Bhatt, Ashok Lauthra and Rishi Lauthra from Deen Dayal, Bhikaji Cama Place, for being our daily yum suppliers
• Padam Singh, for running errands
• Pasang Tsering, for helping with outreach in Gujarat
• Pep Singh, for the incessant supply of green tea and cookies at the Trust meetings
• Poornima Sardana, for her time and help
• Preeti Singh, for the conversations and her help with designs
• Premola Ghosh, India International Centre, for the warmth and support
• Prayag Bhatt, for the sweet chais in Bhikaji
• Priya Parmar, for sharing her awareness of the social sector
• Priya Ravish Mehra, for demonstrating Life Appreciation
• Rakesh Kacker, India Habitat Centre, for the warmth and support
• Rayson Alex, TiNai Ecofilm Festival, for the fellowship
• Renu Majumdar, India Habitat Centre, for the warmth and support
• Ritu Rattan, for her enthusiastic support during the early days
• Rohit Malik, for spreading the word on Delhi Event
• Rosh Roberts, SWECHHA, for the volunteering support during events
• Sachin Dev, TiNai Ecofilm Festival, for the fellowship
• Sana Anis, for contributing towards outreach at our events
• Sankar Bagh, for the support and for connecting
• Sasanka Perera, for ideas and meetings
• Shadab Husain, India Habitat Centre, for the warmth and support
• Shanti Joshi, for the working space at Bhikaji
• Sharmila Abraham, for her enthusiasm and brilliant design ideas
• Shivani Darbari, India Habitat Centre, for the warmth and support
• Shubhangee Pathak, Charu Puri and Anshu for initial inputs on the website
• Siva Kumar A, for feedbacks on website
• SK Bansal and Indra Bansal for all tax and auditing-related help
• Sonam Togbyal, for helping with outreach in Gujarat
• Sreenivasa Rao, for his support
• Sudha, for hir warmth and fellowship
• Suman, for keeping the Bhikaji office space clean
• Sumit, India International Centre, for his warmth and support
• Sunny Verma, SWECHHA, for numerous meetings and organising volunteers
• Susan Deborah, TiNai Ecofilm Festival, for the fellowship
• Swaminathan, for all the administrative help
• Taneja Ji, for sharing ideas to solve organisational challenges
• Thomas Crowley and Meghana Arora, for the availability and Inter-actions recordings
• Uma, for the video recording
• Vaishna Roy, The Hindu, for media support
• Vimlendu Jha, SWECHHA, for the fellowship
• Vinod Jose, The Caravan Magazine, for the support and interest in LILA
• Wasib, India Habitat Centre, for the warmth and support

The near and dear of Abdullah Abdul Hameed, AR Hari Kumar, Jaswant Singh, Lijo Stephan Chacko, Rizio Yohannan Raj, Samuel Buchoul, Satchin Joseph Koshyand Sunita Devi for their love, understanding and patience.

LILA PRISM

2013

Ambai Anil Gupta Anita Cherian GN Devy Harsh Mander Jayati Ghosh Jonathan Gil Harris K Srinath Reddy Kalyani Menon-Sen Kanika Batra Kaushik Dasgupta Kavita Sharma KK Chakravarty Krishna Kumar Madhavi Menon Mahmood Farooqui

Mary E John Muchkund Dubey Paula Richman Purabi Panwar Raj Liberhan Rich Rice Richard Mahapatra Sadanand Menon Sambudha Sen Shiv Vishvanathan Shuddhabrata Sengupta Sumanyu Satpathy Sundar Sarukkai T Ramasami Vinod K Jose

2014

Anuradha Kapur Daya Bai Dunu Roy Eddin Khoo EP Unny G. Arunima Kristine Michael KS Radhakrishnan Naman Ahuja Navtej Johar Pepita Seth R Cheran Raj Liberhan Ranjit Mitra

Ravikant Ritu Menon Ritu Priya Mehrotra Rizio Yohannan Raj Savyasaachi Shashwati Goswami Somnath Bandyopadhyay Tapan Chakravarty Uma Chakravarti Uzramma Vandana Shiva Vidya Rao

LILA Special/Memorial Lectures

Alok Bhalla BN Goswamy Jonathan Gil Harris

Michael H Fisher Paula Richman Rustom Bharucha

LILA Lumieres

Anamika Aparna Sanyal Devender Pal Singh EP Unny Himanjali Sankar Kaif Ali Taqvi Kim Longinotto Kottakkal Jayan Kumar Shahani Mit Jani MR Rajan

Niveditha Kalarikkal Poonam Natarajan Prateek Gupta Rabiul Islam Rahul Mehra Rizio Yohannan Raj Roomy Naqvy Salma Surbhi Taneja Vivek Chaudhary Virender Singh

LILA Bearing Witness

Aditi Mody Anamika Arvind Balyan Bharath Visweswariah Chandana Eddin Khoo James Withrow K Sreenivasarao K. Satchidanandan Kavita Sharma Kumar Shahani Michael Creighton Minakshi Thakur Minnie Sharma MR Rajan Parash Moni Dutta

Priya Ravish Mehra R Cheran Rakesh Kacker Renu Manjumdar Rizio Yohannan Raj Sadanand Menon Sasanka Perera Shadab Husain Shivani Darbari Sudeep Sen Supriya Atrey Vanita Vikram Kapur Wasib Yoshiko Iwamoto Wada

LILA Menso

Adrian Navigante Debdatta Saha Jacques Cloarec

Kavita Sharma Navtej Johar

Kaapi LILA

Heike Fielder Mirjam Spoolder Gitanjali Kolanad

Priya Ravish Mehra Ravish Mehra Sadaf Raza

LILA Inter-actions

2014

Aaranya Rajasingam Ambroise C. Bukasa Amitabh Mitra Ananya Rao Ananya Vajpeyi Anjali Gopalan Anoor Ananthakrishna Sharma Benoy K Behl Bhakti Niskama Shanta Brinda Karat BRP Bhaskar Cheran Rudhramoorthy Christian Nkanu Dipti Darshna Swamy Dominik Tolksdorf Eddin Khoo Gayathri Sankar Glory Alexander Hari Shankar Prasad Harsh Mander Hartosh Bal Singh Himanjali Sankar Himanshu Thakkar Hyginus Uchenna Okoronkwo Ibrahim Abughali Irfan Habib J John Jaswant Singh K Venu K. Satchidanandan K.C. Rosakkutty Kala Ramesh Kumar Shahani Kumkum Roy Lekha Roy Len Anderson Lijo Stephen Chacko Loulou d’Aki Luca Stevenson Ludovic Aubin Manjeet Baruah ManMohini Kaul Manoj Yesodharan Mavin Khoo MD Nalapat Meghna Chandra Mitra Phukan MN Buch Munish Tamang

N Nagaraju N Satiya Moorthy Nalini Jameela Naman Ahuja Nandivad Rathnasree Nikhil Govind Nirmal Selvamony NS Madhavan P P Sneha Pachuau Lalmalsawma Pepita Seth Pramada Menon Pravakar Sahoo Praveen Jha Pritham K. Chakravarthy Puran Bhaat Pushpamala N Rahman Shah Raj Liberhan Rajesh Talwar Rajgopal Saikumar Ravi Agarwal Rich Rice Rizio Yohannan Raj Rosalyn D’Mello Samuel Buchoul Sarah Joseph Satinath Sarangi Saurav Das Shankar Bagh Sharankumar Limbale Shashwati Goswami Somnath Bandyopadhyay Speto Sudheendra Kulkarni Sujata Ashwarya Cheema Susantha Goonatilake Tapan Chakravarty Tarun Gogoi Teesta Setalvad Thomas Crowley Vidya Subrahmaniam Vikram Kapur Vikramaditya Sahai Vinita Yadav Will Simcoe Willie Mc Loud Zahira Rahman

2015

Abanti Bhattacharya Abhay Regi Agneya Singh Anamika Chitra Kalyani Come Carpentier de Gourdon C.R. Yadu Devasia M. Antony Divya Trivedi Dunu Roy Esther David Gauhar Raza George Szirtes Guillaume Gandelin Jaideep Chatterjee Jasmine Lovely George Joe Keysor K Shanthi K Swaminathan

Lucy Peck Mallika Shakya Manju Kak Maya Krishna Rao Meena Alexander Meenakshi Ajaykumar Mukul Kesavan Omar Sheira Priya Ravish Mehra Ritu Dewan S. Gopalakrishnan Sasanka Perera Shriyam Gupta Subhash Gatade T.P. Sreenivasan Thiranjala Weerasinghe Vijay Pratap Vinod Vyasulu