The Founder
The founder, Shruti Mohta, has been actively promoting the cause of organ donation since 2017. Her mantra has always been ‘Live Kingsize Die Kingsize’ and this became the name of the foundation.
A TEDx speaker, Shruti has been covered by the prestigious Marwar magazine in their March-April 2022 issue, and in several other publications.
She has been invited to several esteemed organisations like the Chartered Accountants Institute of India on their Platinum Jubilee and the Rotary in its centenary year to give awareness talks on organ donation.
Kolkata Police too invited her for an awareness event at their auditorium.
The Hon’ble Former President of India, Late Pranab Mukherjee was the Chief Guest at an event she played a key role in organising and moderating.
An emotional poem recited by her on organ donation was played at all 44 Inox theatres across West Bengal for more than a month before the start of every film in the year 2019.
In December 2021, a video clip by former Indian cricket captain, Kapil Dev, and her was played by INOX pan-India at the highly acclaimed film 83.
Award-winning Indian actor Bhagyashree was in conversation with her at the FICCI Ladies Organisation, FLO, Hyderabad in August 2022.
Shruti is invited regularly by hospitals such as the Apollo Gleneagles and Fortis, organisations like the Round Table, the Lions Club, the Young Indians (part of the CII), FLO (FICCI Ladies Organisation), Ladies Circle, and by several prestigious clubs and educational institutions to give awareness talks.
During the pandemic too, she was invited by many organisations to have online awareness events, including addressing a fresh batch of 400 incoming MBBS students at the Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences, Nagpur, which saw a very enthusiastic and emotional response.
Although based in Kolkata, she has been promoting awareness all over India and across the world through social media, newspapers, radio and television.
Shruti was earlier part of the Bengal Organ Donation Society before founding her own organization named after her mantra. She has also been invited on the Advisory Board of The Kidney Care Society. She enjoys nature, reading, music, dance and theatre.
She has received several awards but she says, “The greatest award is to be able to touch a heart; the greatest achievement is to see the joy with which people come forward to pledge.”
Her dream is to usher in a social revolution so that in a few years no one dies for want of an organ.
Divine coincidence that at a sit-down dinner with different messages for 80 people, the founder gets this one...!
