India Week

These volunteers are practicing journalists in India, USA and other countries.
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Hegde's work on India's iron ore export was debated in the Indian Parliament just prior to the infamous Emergency.
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An ability to grasp the intricacies of India's complex agri-economy and the impact of World Trade Organization (WTO) won her the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) World Food Day award in 1998, for best agriculture and food reporting in the print media.

Starting with The Indian Express, she moved to The Economic Times, Delhi to fulfill her ambition of being a Science Correspondent.During her 7 year tenure there, she covered diverse issues ranging from aquaculture in Orissa to the birth of India's one billionth baby.In the paper's Economic News Bureau she broke stories such as the jinxed Oman-India Fertilizer Project where she unearthed facts relating to politico-bureaucratic complicity in getting India a financially bad deal.She also represented Indian media at the World Bank SAARC countries workshop on AIDS/HIV in Kathmandu in 1998 and Hewlett Packard's annual conference in Australia in 1999.

As a Deputy Editor at A&M magazine, she conceptualized and started the World Business Section.In her eight years in journalism she came to be known for her professionalism, clarity in writing and as one who would never compromise on journalistic principles.

In 2001, she was head hunted by GE Capital, venturing into the brave new world of E-learning, then a new industry in India.She effortlessly moved from journalism to IT and mastered Six Sigma earning a Black Belt assignment.She trained in Education Technology from the San Diego State University and went on to work for prestigious accounts like Milwaukee-based GE Medical Systems as an Instructional Designer, and as a Learning Specialist for NBC in New York where she conducted a Training Needs Analysis for some 8000 employees.

A Life Sciences graduate with a PG diploma in Social Communications Media from Mumbai's Sophia College, she is a proficient Bharatnatyam dancer.
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Saggere has given a global perspective to his work with his assignments in Sri Lanka and Egypt and his work has been exhibited in major cities in India.