With an eye to bringing quality parenting solutions to an industry largely lacking in transparency, these two successful women professionals look to aid young mothers in achieving the ever-evasive work-life balance. Ex-colleagues Ketika Kapoor and Divya Mehta, both 35, were managing different verticals at Aon Hewitt when their common aspiration of becoming great mothers while…

From making documentaries to starting her own business to contesting elections in Delhi, Yasmin Kidwai wishes to spark a spirited awakening in the lives she touches.   For documentary filmmaker and entrepreneur Yasmin Kidwai, life seems to have come full circle. “In my teens, I was campaigning for my maternal grandmother, Tajdar Babbar, who was…

Sukriti Jiwarajka launched her startup with the idea of introducing the Indian customer to superior writing journals.  There is something therapeutic, almost magical, about writing on paper. And it was in this magical world that 26-year-old Sukriti Jiwarajka found her calling. A student of economics and a finance major from Singapore Management University, she set…

Carpe diem with Shuchi Muley, one of 107 artists who hand-painted scenes for ‘Loving Vincent’ All of 34, representational oil painter Shuchi Muley has already made her mark in international art and cinema — Bengaluru-based Shuchi has just returned to India after working as a painter and animator for the much talked about international movie…

“In a way, it’s my second life,” says Alka Pande, on her artful meanderings as a curator, critic, cultural theorist, teacher, writer on art, and recipient of the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres award from the French government. “At the age of 41, when I received the Charles Wallace award, it altered…

Dilshad Master Kumar, 49 years old, was battling with cancer when she realised that she has had enough. She did not want to give her blood and sweat for someone else to create his millions, rather she wanted to draw all the energy and strength in setting up something of her own that she could…

Imbibing positivity is humanity’s way of moving through obstacles and carving a niche. Artist Kiran Dixit Thacker turned her traumatic childhood, made worse by a stepmother, an abusive husband, and loss of her only daughter, into a temple of creativity. Kiran Dixit Thacker, 68 years old, a sculptor trained under the illustrious Ramkinkar Baij, started…

The Indian wedding industry is pegged at an all time high of 50 billion dollars where every event planner, stylist, decorator, florist, caterer, makeup artist, set designer, choreographer has made a beeline to work in this dream industry. The grandiose nature of each wedding attended gets curiouser and curiouser: a world unexplored, an unseen sight,…