Jury Members

Girish Karkera
Editor-in-Chief, car&bike
Girish has been a journalist for over 25 years, most of it spent covering the automotive industry and reviewing cars and bikes. His long career trajectory includes some of India’s well-known media titles including Indian Express, Autocar India, BBC TopGear India and Times Auto. He took over the leadership role as Editor-in-Chief at car&bike in February 2023. A resident of Mumbai, he has also been featured in India Book of Records, twice. Apart from these, he is also a jury member for World Car Awards.

Shams Raza Naqvi
Senior Editor, car&bike
Shams has been an automotive journalist for more than a decade and a half, working at several leading news networks in India to create automotive features. He has been a part of the car&bike family for the last 3 years. He thrives on audience interaction & always yearns to simplify complex automotive things for his viewers.

Seshan Vijayraghvan
Senior Editor, car&bike
Seshan has been a key member of the car&bike’s editorial team for the past seven years. He’s one of those people who chose to be an automotive journalist just for the pleasure of getting their hands on all the new four- and two-wheeled machines in the market. Over the years he’s gained expertise covering stories on different aspects of the Indian automotive industry.

Bilal Firfiray
Assistant Editor, car&bike
With little over 8 years of experience in the Automotive Journalism, Bilal Firfiray’s connection with cars began a decade before he stepped in the professional field. Carrying forward an in-depth experience of comprehensive and consistent testing of cars – be it fuel efficiency, performance testing or even measurements, Bilal has done it all. Behind the screen time, you’d find him researching, reading, rendering, rambling, rummaging, and recommending cars. He can also talk about EVs for hours to an end.

Raj Kapoor
Motorsport Constructor/Auto Analyst
Raj has over 30 years of varied experience in Motorsport, Auto analysis and Journalism. From being a rally driver to a TV show presenter he has done it all and now spends his time in doing Auto analysis, organising events and building cars. This is the third time that Raj is a part of car jury and annual c&b awards.

Parth Ghorpade
International Racing Driver
Parth is a five-time National Karting champion in various categories & has represented India in 3 consecutive Rotax World Finals. He was the Asian Champion in the 2012 Formula Pilota single-seater series, in addition he has raced in Europe in Formula Renault, Formula 3, Lamborghini Super Trofeo, LMP3 & LMP2. Parth was the first Indian race driver to test an F3 car with the Ferrari Driver Academy at Fiorano in 2013.

Bhuvan Chowdhary
Auto Expert
Bhuvan has been associated with motoring for more than two decades, touching every vertical from digital automotive content, stunt riding, journalism, drifting, media and production, travel and more. While in his current role, he documents Indian car culture on Instagram and YouTube, while also contributing to Marwar India Magazine. His previous stints include EVO India magazine, Overdrive, Indian Autos Blog and a other noteworthy publications.
