Mr. Ashish Pillai is a renowned Bharatanatyam/Kathak Dancer and a Rehabilitation Psychologist. He is  heading Drupad Society of Arts and Development and running  Drupad Dance Academy for the last 15 years in Indore. He has been awarded Honoris Causa Doctorate in 2021 for his extraordinary work in the field of Dance Education and Psychosocial Rehabilitation through Arts.

Apart from this he is also a great writer, he has published his anthology of poems titled ‘Blossoms’ in 2020.