Sci560 Mediators
Mediators are an integral part of each exhibition-season at Science Gallery Bengaluru (SGB). By providing each visitor the unique opportunity to deeply engage with our exhibits, events, and programmes, the mediators are at the backbone of our commitment to public engagement at SGB.
Having undergone intensive training from a range of artists and scholars each exhibition-season, the mediators are positioned to help each visitor establish a personal relationship with the different themes of the exhibition. This year, for our exhibition-season Sci560, we have a diverse group of mediators who are part of SGB full-time, as well as part-time. Come say hi!
Aditi Rajesh Narayanan
Aditi is a passionate baker and owner of a home bakery. With a background in commerce, she initially pursued a career that didn’t quite resonate with her vibrant personality. Realizing that the whole desk job scene wasn’t for her, she transitioned into baking. When she’s not busy crafting delicious confections, she can often be found exploring nature through walks, treks, and scenic drives. Her love for food extends beyond the kitchen, as these drives and rides are often just a pretext to discover and savor amazing culinary experiences. She also enjoys engaging with people and has embraced her role as a mediator with SGB, where she channels her enthusiasm for communication to help people connect and understand each other better.
Akshad Somnathe
Akshad holds a Bachelor's degree in Humanities from Azim Premji University in Bengaluru. He is a political enthusiast aspiring to contribute intellectually and actively to the Indian mass movements.
An amateur poet who enjoys long walks and deep conversations, Akshad is a cat lover who occasionally sings. He once learned guitar in an attempt to impress someone he loved, but the effort ended in humorous failure. Education is a subject close to his heart, and he likes reading books on various topics.
Akshad is currently transitioning towards a vegan lifestyle in response to awareness of climate catastrophe. Uncertain about his future career path, he is learning to embrace the idea of saying ""I don't know,"" navigating the uncertainty with an open mind.
Anusha Bhairaddy
Anusha went from looking at microbial networks to neural networks! After her postgraduate degree in microbiology, she discovered her interest in neuroscience in the gap year. Exploring the biology of human behaviour in response to different environmental factors is what excites her.
You'll probably spot her sipping on cold coffee in winters or tucked up in a blanket on a summer afternoon. She is either hooked onto a fiction novel or some crime/psychological thrillers in her free time.
Diya Mathur
Diya loves to read and write about films, visual arts and culture. She is interested to finding diffrent perpectives with which she can look at the world. She is also an absolutue history nerd who obsesses over maritime trade routes, folk tales and etymologies. She belives the finding connections between ideas, events, images is the ultimate puzzle that she wants to spend her life solving.
Fathima Aslaha T R
Fathima Aslaha T R, aka Aslaha, graduated with a BS-MS dual degree in Science, specialising in biological sciences from IISER Tirupati. Her interest in the origin and spread of diseases led her to taste the fields of paleopathology and disease ecology. Throughout this journey, she pondered the accessibility of science to society. In the coming months, she wants to understand and take action on this. Times other than when she seems confused and lost, you can find her grooving to music with dance moves, doing embroidery, telling stories, or even embarking on adventures. She has a soft corner for diaries and journaling everything and anything in them. Gotta camera? She love dressing up and posing for the camera!
Gaayatri Chandrasekharan
Gaayatri has a masters in physics and puts this to good use trying to answer questions she gets when she looks around. She grew up in nature, and feels this has given her a sense of awe for the beauty of the universe which she appreciates through both art and science. She wants to write, draw and stitch more and hopes her creative pursuits reflect a tiny fraction of this beauty. She also loves the sense of possibility and community a city gives and is excited to explore more of Bengaluru. In her free time she goes for walks, watches movies, listens to music and writes while trying to escape the pull of instagram reels.
Gokul Prabhu
Gokul, who goes by Gokal is a post-graduate from IISER Thiruvananthapuram, where he was a total maverick, doing his own thing. His entrepreneurial dreams were slightly fulfilled by building a small group of science communicators at ‘Into Their Minds’. Before Science Gallery Bengaluru, he applied for the position of barista at Starbucks and was brutally rejected. Despite that, he's your go-to guy for a great cup of coffee. At the moment, he is probably walking in a random park in Bengaluru, striking up a "life, the universe, and everything" conversation with a random dude he just met.
Jagrut Amuri
From a young age, Jagrut has been captivated by the realms of science, ecology, and communication. Inspired by BBC and NatGeo documentaries, he has always dreamt of exploring jungles and oceans while celebrating the diverse life forms that share our planet.
Jagrut's journey is fuelled by uncovering the unique adaptations of Earth's creatures that reveal stories of mystery, devotion, tragedy, resilience, and triumph. He believes that sharing these journeys can deepen our connection to each other and raise awareness of our place in the vast web of life.
Also, swimming, yoga, flow arts, origami, plants and hiking.
Sandhra Sajeevan
Sandhra graduated with an integrated BS-MS degree in Materials Science. She has since been on a side quest to find spaces where her myriad interests overlap with work that could have a social impact. Whenever she has the time, she explores nature for shiny insects (even if it’s in her backyard). She loves to curl up on a rainy day, sippin tea, with a book in hand. She likes art, dogs, cooking, and being cringe on the internet. In her free time Sandhra likes to explore the realms on YouTube where people dissect life, movies and feminism. She is also weirdly into freaky deep-sea creatures (don’t look up the goblin shark).
Upasana Patgiri
Upasana is an urban planner with a curiosity for understanding how cities evolve, how ecosystems coexist, and how people interact with the spaces and the environment around them.
She finds comfort in embroidery and a good cup of tea and likes to travel and take photos, lots of photos (her phone gallery has 108 GB worth of photos). She is also a big fan of animated movies (there was a time she genuinely wished minions were real).
One day, she dreams of owning a lemon farm to celebrate her love for lemons because being from Assam Kaji Nemu supremacy is real.
Vignesh K
Vignesh is currently learning the craft of storytelling as a Mediator. He’s had a vexing but interesting relationship with the city despite being a local, having never learnt the local language, instead having to pick it up by word. With his desire for completion and extraordinary persistence, he’s hoping to flesh it all out this season and finally have answers to what it means when someone says they love a city. He’s also interested in Reporting and is currently pursuing an MA in English. Steeping himself in books, poetry, and film is part of the journey, come talk to him about it anytime!