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Ajay Koul
Founder Director
Founder of Iqwat. The originator of the vision — a global, self-sustaining platform that gives the Kashmiri Pandit community the digital home it deserves.
LinkedInThe team & extended family
The hands behind Iqwat.
A small core team, a wide circle of volunteers, advisors, and partners. Iqwat is built by Kashmiri Pandits, for Kashmiri Pandits — held up by a community of contribution.
Five fingers of one hand. One leaf, dispersed wherever.
The team you'll meet below is the visible part of a much wider network that keeps Iqwat alive across cities and continents.
Directors
The founders & governance.
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Sandeep Kaul
Director
Director at Iqwat Foundation. Helps shape the foundation's strategic direction, governance, and long-term sustainability.
LinkedInCore team
The people building, day to day.
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Aditya Kalla
Chief Convenor
Operational lead at Iqwat. Drives product, content, community programmes, and the day-to-day work of bringing the foundation to life.
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Veronica Mam
GM — Operations & Admin
General Manager — Operations and Administration. Keeps the engine of Iqwat running — events, members, partnerships, and the quiet machinery behind every gathering.
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Sheetal Koul
Core Team
Core team member at Iqwat. Contributes across community, content, and operations — one of the steady hands that makes the foundation move.
LinkedInMore core members will join the page as the team expands. The next phase of recruitment spans community programme leads, content editors, app developers, and chapter coordinators across multiple cities.
Small core, wide circle. The fewest hands holding the most accountability — and the most hands welcomed for everything else.
The extended Iqwat family
The wider circle that holds it up.
Iqwat's reach into 30+ cities globally is the work of hundreds of Kashmiri Pandits — and friends of the community — giving their time freely. Six ways to belong:
Advisors
Senior community elders and subject experts who guide Iqwat's direction. Quarterly check-ins with the directors. Quiet, weighty, indispensable.
Chapter leads
City-level volunteers who run Iqwat's offline community in their location — the Herath gathering, the Navreh celebration, the monthly mentor meet, the annual mohalla reunion.
Mentors
Senior KP professionals who give an hour a month to mentor someone younger in the community. Career advice, business introductions, a steady older voice in life decisions.
Content contributors
Writers, photographers, illustrators, translators, recipe-keepers, oral historians — community members who contribute to the iqwat.com archive on a project basis.
Skill volunteers
Lawyers reviewing our compliance pro bono. Accountants helping with quarterly reports. Designers refining our visuals. Developers fixing bugs on weekends. Iqwat runs on a thousand small generosities.
Institutional partners
Cultural societies, academic institutions, KP organisations, and friends-of-the-community NGOs whose work overlaps with Iqwat's. Coordinated, not consolidated.
Volunteer with Iqwat
Tell us how you'd like to help.
Whether you have one hour a month or one weekend a quarter, Iqwat has a place for you. Drop us a note with the following:
- Your name and city
- Your professional/skill background
- How much time you can comfortably give per month
- Which role above feels most yours — or describe a different one
hello@iqwat.com — subject line: "Volunteer". A team member will reply within a week.
I came to my first Herath gathering in this city expecting fifteen people.
We ended up with eighty.
Half of them I had never met before — and somehow each of us already knew someone in the other's family.
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