Rajiv Mehrotra

Rajiv Mehrotra is an Indian writer, television producer-director,documentary film maker, a close personal student of HH The Dalai Lama for whom he manages as Trustee/Secretary The Foundation for Universal Responsibility (www.furhhdl.org) established with the Nobel Peace Prize. 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 45 national awards from the President of India and more than 195 international awards. They have had more than 1340 film festival screenings around the world from Berlin, Chicago and Rotterdam to Mumbai, Qatar 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 was a student of the late Swami Ranganathananda, President of The Ramakrishna Mission and of the iconic Yoga teacher BKS Iyengar. He serves as the Founder and Managing Trustee of The Public Service Broadcasting Trust (www.psbt.org) and till recently Chairman of The Media Foundation (www.thehoot.org)

Rajiv Mehrotra did his schooling from La Martiniere Calcutta , and later studied at St. Stephen's College, Delhi, St Edmund Hall, Oxford, Oxford University and received his Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Film Direction from Columbia University in 1981. While in school he twice won the Best Speakers Award at the National Public Schools Debating Competition, was editor of the School Magazine and a lead actor in school productions; at Stephen's he was Secretary of The Shakespeare Society, The English Literary Society and the Cine Club and Acting President of the Students Union; at Oxford University he directed several plays including Othello, Shrivings (Peter Shaffer), The Shrew (Marowitz) and Tughlaq (Girish Karnad) as a Director for the prestigious Oxford University Experimental Theatre Club at the professional Oxford Playhouse. At Columbia University he worked with the Oscar-winning film director Miloš Forman and won scholarships from the INLAKS Foundation & UNESCO.

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