Our TEAM
Dr. Pankaj Kaw
Pankaj is a co-founder of Lifting Soulz Foundation and is currently working as a Sports Medicine/Orthopedic specialist in New York. An alumnus of King George Medical College, Lucknow, Dr. Kaw is a trained Orthopedic specialist and subspecializes in Sports Medicine. His initial medical training was from an affiliate hospital of prestigious Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA. Dr. Kaw subsequently completed his Hand surgery fellowship from Mount Sinai Hospital, New York. He is also fellowship trained in Sports Medicine from Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia.
Dr Kaw is also the founder of US based 501(C)(3) exempt Non-Profit organization “Giving hands Foundation” which is actively involved in the realms of child education and healthcare for underprivileged. In the past he has been actively involved in other Non-Profit organizations like the “Bhor Foundation” since its inception and has mentored strategic planning, design, expansion, and execution of its various programs.
Beyond the confines of the hospital, Dr Kaw has a deep-seated belief that we all have the power to foster change and uplift those in need. He strives to expand the reach and impact of the foundation through strategic alliances, expert collaborations, and resourceful commitment.
Sanjiv Pande
Sanjiv is the co-founder and CEO of Lifting Soulz Foundation. He started LSF with Pankaj after a 32 year career in the technology industry, holding multiple roles in business development, marketing and ESG in India and overseas. His latest stint was as Head of ESG and CSR in a global product engineering company based in Bangalore, where he was responsible for driving the company’s ESG and CSR strategy aligned with United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
As CEO, Sanjiv is responsible for conceptualizing and executing projects, fund raising and compliance.
He considers contributing to society a calling and duty, rather than an act of charity. His other interests include organic farming, reading, music and travelling. He is also an early adopter of technology and likes to tinker with gadgets. He and his family live in Bangalore.
Sanjiv holds a graduate degree in Electronics & Communication Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology, Ranchi, India.
Vandana Pande
Vandana is the co-founderof Lifting Soulz Foundation. She started LSF with Pankaj with the vision of contributing to education and well-being of underprivileged children and make them productive citizens. She’s a trained teacher and taught primary school children in one of Bangalore’s most prestigious schools for several years.
As a co-founder, Vandana is responsible for conceptualizing education initiatives and implementation methodologies. Her other interests include organic farming, gardening and travelling. She and her family live in Bangalore.
Vandana holds a masters degree in Geology and a graduate degree in Education from the University of Lucknow, India.
“But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful. Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain, but because occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure. To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? But who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences, or one who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure?”
Section 1.10.33 of “de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum”, written by Cicero in 45 BC
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“On the other hand, we denounce with righteous indignation and dislike men who are so beguiled and demoralized by the charms of pleasure of the moment, so blinded by desire, that they cannot foresee the pain and trouble that are bound to ensue; and equal blame belongs to those who fail in their duty through weakness of will, which is the same as saying through shrinking from toil and pain. These cases are perfectly simple and easy to distinguish. In a free hour, when our power of choice is untrammelled and when nothing prevents our being able to do what we like best, every pleasure is to be welcomed and every pain avoided. But in certain circumstances and owing to the claims of duty or the obligations of business it will frequently occur that pleasures have to be repudiated and annoyances accepted. The wise man therefore always holds in these matters to this principle of selection: he rejects pleasures to secure other greater pleasures, or else he endures pains to avoid worse pains.”
“On the other hand, we denounce with righteous indignation and dislike men who are so beguiled and demoralized by the charms of pleasure of the moment, so blinded by desire, that they cannot foresee the pain and trouble that are bound to ensue; and equal blame belongs to those who fail in their duty through weakness of will, which is the same as saying through shrinking from toil and pain. These cases are perfectly simple and easy to distinguish. In a free hour, when our power of choice is untrammelled and when nothing prevents our being able to do what we like best, every pleasure is to be welcomed and every pain avoided. But in certain circumstances and owing to the claims of duty or the obligations of business it will frequently occur that pleasures have to be repudiated and annoyances accepted. The wise man therefore always holds in these matters to this principle of selection: he rejects pleasures to secure other greater pleasures, or else he endures pains to avoid worse pains.”
