Location: Uttarakhand
By profession, I am a Petroleum Engineer at ONGC. I graduated from IIT Roorkee with a M.Tech in Applied Geology. I’m associated with formulation of development in plan of oil and gas fields of ONGC aiming to achieve the vision of our honourable prime minister “Making India Self Reliantâ€.
Ex Executive Director, Author, Seeker and Motivational Speaker
Location: Uttarakhand
Outstanding reviewer awardee from Emerald Literati Network U.K., Dr. Balvir Talwar (https://balvirtalwar.com) is a non-fiction author. He is renowned for his expertise in integrating spirituality with personal and professional experiences. Born into a simple yet spiritually inclined family, he imbibed profound insights into spirituality through daily Yajna rituals and encounters with highly evolved saints during childhood. After graduating in Mechanical Engineering, Dr. Talwar enjoyed a 38+ year career with BHEL (Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd.). Excelling in various roles like HR, Quality, CSR, Strategy, and leading transformation initiatives, he retired as Executive Director. He earned a Ph.D. in Management from IIT Roorkee, publishing several papers on integrating spirituality and business excellence. Post-retirement, he emerged as an inspirational author and speaker focusing on Vedic philosophy, ethics, governance, and more. His dedication to inclusive growth and divinity has earned him admiration as a spiritual guide and the Secretary at the UN Global Compact Network India during 2018 to 2021. Dr. Balvir Talwar's passion lies in unleashing limitless excellence through his influential writings, as demonstrated in his four books of the Corporate Transformation Series. In addition, Corporate Rishi was his First book.
Ex-Director General Naval Armament Inspection and GM BrahMos Aerospace
Location: Uttarakhand
Om Prakash Singh Rana is an alumnus of Indian Naval Academy. After Post Graduation, he joined Indian Navy in Jul 81 and commissioned on 01 Jan 1983. Subsequently, he specialised in Armament stream. He graduated from Garhwal University, Madras University, Defence Institute of Advanced Technology (DIAT)/ Deemed University and Bombay University, where he did MSc (Mathematics), MSc (Def & Strategic Studies), Special Weapons Course/ PG (Aerospace) and MPhill (Def & Strategic Studies) respectively. His other service courses include Technical Staff course, Staff Course from DSSC Wellington and Naval Higher Command Course.
Admiral Rana had an illustrious career in Navy spanning over 36 years. In his various appointments, he was involved in:
1. Development, production, transfer of technology, quality assurance, indigenisation, life assessment, life cycle management, etc of strategic and tactical armament systems in association with DRDO, Ordnance Factories & Public/ Pvt industry and services.
2. Faculty & Head of Department/ Director of Studies(Navy) at DIAT(DU) and member of Lab Research Committee NSTL/ DRDO.
3. Principal Director and Director General at Integrated Headquarters-Ministry of Defence(Navy).
He also participated in many national/ international seminars/ workshops and presented papers on armament design, indigenisation, production, quality, life cycle management, life extension/ assessment related subjects.
For his outstanding career in service, Rana was promoted to the flag rank/ Rear Admiral on 01 Apr 2013 and appointed as Director General Naval Armament Inspection. For his exceptional contributions to service and nation, Admiral Rana was awarded; Commendations by Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief Eastern Naval Command and Chief of the Naval Staff and Ati Vishisht Seva Medal (AVSM) and Vishisht Seva Medal (VSM) by the Honourable President of India.
Post superannuation on 31 Aug 2017, Admiral Rana joined BrahMos Aerospace and made immense contributions by setting up 220 acres state of the art BrahMos missile integration facilities at Pilani and on completion of his assignment, moved on to settle down at Dehradun in Jan 2019.
Presently, Admiral Rana is engaged in writing articles, mentoring students, reviewing PhD thesis and delivering talks on defence academics, technologies, engineering and Atmanirbhar Bharat related subjects at Universities and Scientific Institutions besides providing suggestions to Navy and Govt organisations as and when sought.