High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rajiv Mehrotra is an Indian writer, television producer-director and documentary film maker, is best known as the host the acclaimed host of one of India`s longest running talk shows on public television, "In Conversation", that has been through several incarnations over more than twenty years, aired on the India’s National broadcaster, Doordarshan News Channel, Saturdays at 9.30 pm. As a documentary film maker his films have won 18 national and more than 80 international awards. He has authored half a dozen books on spirituality, most notably Conversations with The Dalai Lama, Thakur - a biography of Sri Ramakrishna and Mind of The Guru. He is a close personal student `chela` of HH The Dalai Lama and has been a student of the late Swami Ranganathananda, President of The Ramakrishna Mission and of the iconic Yoga teacher BKS Iyengar. He is a Trustee/Secretary of The Foundation for Universal Responsibility of His Holiness The Dalai Lama established with the Nobel Peace prize (www.furhhdl.org), Managing Trustee of The Public Service Broadcasting Trust (www.psbt.org) He is currently working on the official, national film on Swami Vivekananda to commemerate his 150 birth centenerary in 2013. This was commissioned by a National Committee chaired by The Prime Minister of India