Inspirational Woman: Nida Mahmood | Fashion Designer
Nina Mahmood is a fashion designer, artist and graphic designer. She is the owner of New India Bioscope Co. Tell us about yourself, your background and what you do currently I am a trained fashion designer but truly an artist at heart. My design philosophy is art translated. I look... Read More
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
Inspirational Woman: Neha Gupta | Founder of Women Relaxology
Neha Gupta founded Women Relaxology in January 2016 with the objective of making women explore their unique interests and hobbies. Women Relaxology is an online platform which provides workshops and sessions for interests like photography, travel, books, food, spirituality, health and entrepreneurship USP. Women Relaxology has women leaders who have... 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
Inspirational Woman: Dr.Shernaz Cama | Director, UNESCO Parzor & Associate Professor, Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi University
Dr. Shernaz Cama did her BA (Hons.) from Madras University and her MA, MPhil and PhD from the University of Delhi. During the course of her PhD researches on Blake and Zoroastrianism, she worked at the British Museum and the School of Oriental and African Studies in London under the... Read More
Inspirational Woman: Harshaa Seth | Inspirational Women/Women Achievement Award Winner and Founder of Harshaa’s Modern Art Classes
Tell us about yourself, your background and what you do currently. I have a Bachelor’s Degree in Science & Doctor of Naturopathy. Initially, I was working in Pharmaceutical MNC, but as art and education is my passion I left my job to pursue it. I started my own institute, called... Read More
Inspirational Woman: Alicia Souza | Illustrator, www.aliciasouza.com
Tell us about yourself, your background and what you do currently I was born and raised in Abu Dhabi, UAE and moved to Melbourne for university, where I stayed for five years. I moved to Bangalore about six years ago to work as an illustrator and I’ve been drawing for... Read More
Inspirational Woman: Aakanksha Bhargava | CEO, PMR at P.M. Relocations Pvt Ltd. (PMR)
Tell us about yourself, your background and what you do currently I am the CEO at P.M. Relocations Pvt Ltd (PMR). Currently, I am leading a move management company in India. The industry I work in is pre-dominantly labour intensive and male-oriented. Having joined the family owned business at 21,... Read More
Inspirational Woman: Sujaya Mahesh | Director, Sameeksha Boutique/School of Embroidery
Tell us about yourself and your background I am a home scientist, born to an educated, culturally rich parent. I wanted to work and have an identity of my own, but I didn’t have any specific career in mind. Just to get back at my mum, alongside a lack of... Read More
Inspirational Woman: Paromita Bardoloi | Writer, Theatre Activist
Tell us about yourself as an Inspirational Woman, your background and what you do currently. I am a laid back person. I daydream and I believe in human goodness. I am an idealist most of the times. I love long afternoons, lying on my bed watching the tree that flirts... Read More
Inspirational Woman: Puja Mapxencar | Founder of KANDIDA
Why did you set up the company? / What drove you to become an Entrepreneur? During a lunch break in office I got a call from my higher secondary school teacher and I remembered an assignment of my 12th Standard. I had created a layout of my future store and... Read More
Inspirational Woman: Tarang Sinha | author of ‘We Will Meet Again’
Tell us about yourself, your background and what you do currently? I am a freelance writer, avid reader and an active Blogger. My works have been published in magazines like Good Housekeeping India, Child India, Woman’s Era and Alive, and a bestselling anthology “Uff Ye Emotions 2”. I’m a Science... Read More
Inspirational Woman: Radha Thomas | Musician, former VP Business Development at Explocity.com and Business Owner
Radha Thomas is Musician, author, poet, songwriter, former VP Business Development at Explocity.com, business owner, doggie lover. Tell us about yourself, your background and what you do currently I was born in Tamil Nadu, grew up in Mumbai and Delhi and left for the USA when I was around 20... Read More