Inspirational Woman: Lakshmi Puri | United Nations Assistant Secretary-General & Deputy Executive Director, UN-Women
Tell us about yourself, your background and what you do currently. My father Balkrishna Murdeshwar was a feminist father – a man with a vision and an idealist – ahead of his times, as was my mother Malati – a fierce feminist! They were role models to me in... Read More
Inspirational Woman: Roshni Kapoor | Fashion, beauty & lifestyle blogger, Haute Manmzel
Originality is key to starting a fashion blog. I started blogging as an experiment some months back. I had several ideas that I was interested in blogging and I thought I could be fairly good at giving tips, analyzing fashion trends. What started off as an experiment a few months ago... Read More
Colleen Taylor Sen | Author
Colleen Taylor Sen is a Canadian-America author and culinary historian based in Chicago. She was born in Toronto, Canada and has lived in Chicago since 1968. She is the author of six books, including Food Culture in India; Curry: A Global History; Turmeric: The Wonder Spice; A Guide to Indian... Read More
Inspirational Woman: Shikha Pakhide
Shikha Pakhide has been a working professional for the past twelve years and has worked across several different industries. She is the Marketing Manager at Bentley Systems India Pvt Ltd. At present, she is settled in Pune with her family and has no plans to retire any time soon! Tell us... Read More
Inspirational Woman: Deepika Arora | Wyndham Hotel Group
Deepika Arora, regional vice president-Eurasia is responsible for growing the portfolio of Wyndham Hotel Group brands. Tell us about yourself, your background and what you do currently. As a child I had a flair for the creative, which led to many accolades in art and painting competitions, and ultimately transformed... Read More
Inspirational Woman: Ridhi Bahl | Astrologer & Vatsu Consultant
Ridhi Bahl is the great grand-daughter of Pt. Madhu Sudan Ojha, the astrologer of royal lineage of Jaipur who was given the title of Vidyavachaspati by the former king of Jaipur, Maharaja Madho Singh. Ridhi completed her schooling from the prestigious Maharani Gayatri Devi Girl’s and went on to pursue... Read More
Female Entrepreneur: Dr Saundarya Rajesh | Founder & President of AVTAR Group
Dr. Saundarya Rajesh is one of India’s earliest voices to speak on Gender Diversity & Inclusion of Women. She has won a slew of awards – a few of which are listed here – The Standard Chartered SCOPE Woman Exemplar Award 2006, The Yuvashakthi woman entrepreneur award 2007, the CavinKare... Read More
Inspirational Woman: Huda Shaikh | Founder, NutriBond (www.nutribond.co.in)
Tell us about yourself and your background I am a Clinical Nutritionist and Dietitian by profession and also the Founder and Director of www.nutribond.co.in. Throughout the years, I believed that I would become a doctor or engineer someday. But that turned out not to be the case and I believe... Read More
Inspirational Woman: Jhilmil Breckenridge | Poet, Writer & Activist
Tell us about yourself, your background and what you do currently I’m just a girl trying to make a tiny difference in the world. I have been many things from a management consultant, a nappy changer (I have four sons) and a chef. However, I currently write. I write poetry... Read More
Inspirational Woman: Shuchi Singh Kalra | Author and Freelance Writer, Pixie Dust Writing Studio
Tell us about yourself, your background and what you do currently For the most part I am a thinker and a dreamer who spends her time poring over books. I live in my own idealistic little world and am cruelly jolted back to reality every once in a while when... Read More