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Wordsmiths who have made a mark in Travel Writing and continue to inspire budding travel writers with their ability to weave-in the picture of a place with words. Here are details of the judges, who agreed to judge India Discovered Travelogue Writing Contest.

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Editor of Sanctuary Asia and Founder Editor of Sanctuary Cub, Bittu Sahgal is a journalist-writer and wildlife conservationist, who has been closely involved with several national environmental and wildlife campaigns. His columns on environmental and development issues appear in a number of English and regional language publications in India. The battle he is most identified with is the one that seeks to save the tiger from extinction. He is also the founder of Kids for Tigers, an environmental education programme in schools across India, aims at increasing awareness among children about the nation's biodiversity and sensitise them to the fact that saving tigers and forests will secure water supply, mitigate the impact of climate change and help save ourselves.

Bittu Sahgal
Editor of Sanctuary Asia and Founder Editor of Sanctuary Cub

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Sonal Kalra is Associate Editor with Hindustan Times and heads the Lifestyle segment of HT City comprising the areas of Travel, Fashion, Health & Beauty, Food, Decor, Gadgets and Relationships. Prior to HT, she was an independent Lifestyle consultant to various media houses including the India Today Group and Infomedia Ltd. She also edited 'Informatics' a popular IT magazine for over 12 years besides contributes regularly to lifestyle publications. She writes a weekly column 'A calmer you' which appears in HT City. She is a gold medalist from Indian Institute of Mass Communication and has a masters degree in Information management, besides Journalism.

Sonal Kalra
Associate Editor
Hindustan Times

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Gushtasp Irani is a well known travel writer and photographer associated leading publications like Outlook Traveller, The Hindu, The Economic Times, IT Travel Plus, Jetwings, Namskar and more�He was felicitated by the Tourism Boards of Australia, New Zealand, Italy, France, South Africa, Malaysia amongst others. He always had an interest in Travel Writing and curiously, photography started out as more of a support to his writings. With more than 25 years of experience in Travel Writing, his passion and interest in its intricacies has only grown.

Gushtasp Irani
Photographer & Journalist Mumbai

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Radharani Mitra joined the BBC World Service Trust, the development communication arm of the BBC, after nearly two decades in advertising. Travel is one of her passions, that has taken her to many fascinating places in India and abroad besides her work. She agrees with G K Chesterton, "The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see." For her, people, experiences, food, culture, history are integral parts of any journey. Some of her most treasured travel moments: Driving through the lunar landscape in Ladakh, dusk at Sundarbans, being in Cezanne's studio in Aix-en-Provence, France, dining aboard her host's boat on the Bosphorus in Istanbul. Her favourite travelogues: The Happy Isles of Oceania by Paul Theroux and From the Holy Mountain by William Dalrymple.

Radharani Mitra
Creative Director BBC World Service Trust

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