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Mr.Zenesco hails from New York but is more Indian than Indian themselves. Since his teenage, he has been an admirer of Indian culture, architecture, heritage, scripts, and spirituality, and often visits India. His passion, knowledge, and love for ‘Sanskrit’ and Indian Culture are immense.

Mr.Peter Zenesco is associated with Elmo & Montegrappa S.p.A., the name behind the world’s most magical writing instruments based in Northern Italy. He is the head of Montegrappa’s after-sales service and ensures the best standards of continued pen service and repair.

WIF has drafted and published India’s first-ever culture policy in light of the pressing need for a robust policy to strengthen the local economies and MSME creative and cultural industries and thus create jobs. Key stakeholders from the government to the local artisans have welcomed the policy.

To organize a discussion around the need for culture policy, WIF has organized an ‘International Conference on Culture‘ at India International Centre (IIC) on 26th April 2022 from 2.30 pm to 5.00 pm. Key eminent intellectuals and personalities associated with the culture sector were invited as our speakers.

Mr. Dalip Singh, an investigative journalist, and a Chevening scholar bid adieu to the WIF team to join as Deputy Editor, National Security, at The Hindu BusinessLine.

Mr. Singh had contributed extensively to several reports including the Draft Culture Policy of India, published by WIF. He encouraged the young minds at the foundation to think critically and question everything in order to come up with the best solutions.

WIF team celebrated its association with Mr. Dalip Singh over lunch at the Press Club of India, New Delhi. The team wishes Mr. Singh all the best for his new position as Deputy Editor and looks forward to his guidance.

Founding CEO of ‘Dialogue of Civilizations Research Institute,’ a Berlin, Germany based International Think Tank (2016), contributor to Springer Nature’s global encyclopedia on sustainable development goals (2020) and supplemental policy advisor to governments in China, Germany and Rwanda (2018 onwards), Pooran Chandra Pandey currently serves Resident Representative of Climate Scorecard, a US Climate Policy think tank besides being member of the boards of United Nations World Food Programme Trust (2016 onwards) and SOENT group (2018 onwards), a European policy consulting firm. Previously, he served in senior leadership positions at Nippon Ispat, Bennett, Coleman and Company (The Times of India) and the United Nations.

His professional work on issues related to sustainability, circular design, sustainable development, climate change and international treaties, environmental policies, multilateralism, international project collaboration, energy transition, private sector and Development cooperation transcends geographies around and across Asia, Africa and Europe and stands referred to and widely quoted nationally, regionally and internationally.

Stories are the keys to our lost childhood. As Indians, we hail from a rich tradition of oral storytelling, which is on the verge of extinction today.
Project Folk Log is here to rediscover the magical stories of Ellma, Alha Udal, Nartaki Rani, Beerappa Swamy, Bangoma Bangomi and many more. The team behind this project is a culturally diverse group of people trying to preserve and protect this dying art of storytelling, an endeavour made all the more relevant in the era of television and social media.

Project Folklog is a Flagship Initiative of Folklogue Studios Pvt. Ltd and has been collecting, translating, documenting, reimagining and archiving folk stories and performative storytelling forms across India for the past decade.
Folklogue Studios has been a part of many history-based projects, including three museums within the Red Fort, the Museum of Resilience at Kutch, the Museum of Socialism, Lucknow, and historical light and sound shows in Yanam, Bindusagar, Diu, Tilyar Lake, and Gorakhpur.