Our Contributors

Dr. (Mrs) Farukh, Arjmand was born in Srinagar, Kashmir and is currently working as Professor of Chemistry, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India. She has research and teaching experience of 26 years in the specialization area of medicinal inorganic chemistry. She has published 145 research papers related to her specialization in the peer reviewed journals of international reFarukh pute and has contributed 49 articles to national and international conferences/symposium. She also has two patents on metallic antitumor drug entities. She has 3980 citations to her credit with h-index 35 and i10-index 93 . Prof Arjmand is presently serving as Co-director of APJ Abdul Kalam STEM ER Centre – a joint collaboration venture of The Ohio State University, USA and AMU, Aligarh. She has successfully completed the Academic leadership (LeAP) program at AMU, India, and OSU, USA. She was recently awarded the CRSI bronze medal 2019 and was chosen a prestigious CRSI council member in 2020.

Grauer, Christine completed a Master of Science degree in Human Biology and Nutritional Science and a post-graduate Certificate in Adult Learning from the University of Guelph and has spent her entire career in adult education and training. She's been a spiritual seeker for the past 20 years and continues to be a fervent student of life. She's a mother, an editor, a writer, a speaker, a life coach, a yogi, a runner, a renovator and a corporate nine-to-fiver. Christine has realized the essence of her True Being.

Regardless of external conditions, she now lives each day with joy, vitality, unconditional happiness and love, and she is an unstoppable force in helping others to experience the same in their lives. 

Mr HAGAN, CHRISTOPHER,  BA. LLB  ,  Solicitor ,  Sydney Australia has majored in philosophy, mathematics, geosciences and law at the University of New South Wales. He established his law practice in 1982 and in 1983, he pioneered the flotation of the first biomedical company onto a stock exchange in Australia.   He practiced law for many years advising resource, biomedical and technology companies before taking on executive roles in industry.    He is a founding director of the not for profit, Thinking Read Forum-see www.thinkingreadforum.org.   Amongst other works, he has produced two manuscripts for the educational and popular science genres in recent years - A history of science manuscript: ‘Newton’s Reality after Hawking’  and a philosophical work:  ‘Ideas to blend Science and Religion’.      His other passions are philosophy, biology, cancer research, physics, mathematics and spiritual health.   He continues to write in these areas. He has been married for over 30 years with one adult son and lives in Sydney, Australia. 

Haskell, Dennis is the author of 8 collections of poetry, the most recent Ahead of Us (Fremantle Press, 2016) and What Are You Doing Here? (University of The Philippines Press, 2015) plus 14 volumes of literary scholarship and criticism. He is the recipient of the Western Australia Premier’s Prize for Poetry, the A A Phillips Prize for a distinguished contribution to Australian literature (from the Association for the Study of Australian Literature), and of an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from The University of Western Australia. In 2015 he was made a Member of the Order of Australia for “services to literature, particularly poetry, to education and to intercultural understanding”. He is currently Chair of the Board of writingWA. His website is dennishaskell.com.au

Kapoor, Garima Talwar is the Director of Policy and Research with the Maytree, a charitable foundation that works to advance systemic solutions to poverty through a human rights approach. Prior to this position, she held one of Executive Assistant and Special Policy Advisor to the Assistant Deputy Minister of Income Security and Pension Policy at the Ministry of Finance in Ontario, Canada. 

Her main interests are in understanding how various sectors of society (government, civil society and private industry, for example) can work together to improve the well-being of populations worldwide. She holds a Masters of Public Health from the University of Toronto.

Dr.  Rafiq, Sami is a professor of English at Aligarh. She is a translator, writer, poet and novelist who celebrates human values.

Sami Rafiq had her education from St. Mary's Convent Naini Tal and Scindia Kanya Vidyalaya, Gwalior. Her undergraduate and graduate studies are from Aligarh Muslim University in India.

She is the founding editor of Cloverleaf: Journal of Education in Evolvement and All Encompassing Spirituality, http://cloverleaf.spiritualeducation.org/.

Talwar, Shiv received his undergraduate degree in civil engineering from the Punjab University, India and his graduate degrees from Lehigh University, USA and the University of Waterloo, Canada. He retired from his career in 1996 and established Spiritual Heritage Education Network Inc. in 2000. He has been serving as its President since its inception. He owes his spiritual education to his parents, his school teachers in India and his mentor, Swami Vishwatma Bawra to whom he is eternally indebted.