Malleshwar Rao : An Unsung Hero
An Unsung Hero: Malleshwar Rao I, Malleshwar Rao, come from a family where we had just the right amount of sustainability. My father was a farmer and he was the sole earner of the house. If he would not work in the fields for a day, our plates along with your stomachs would be empty […]
BREAKING THE MENSTRUAL TABOOS
BREAKING THE MENSTRUAL TABOOS A lot of us got into volunteering relief work during the lockdown. People used to distribute ration kits, which sometimes included sanitary pads and other hygiene products, to slums and other poverty prone areas. Menstrual hygiene was never given much attention as a sole problem. We felt that we needed to […]
Calm in Chaos: Avani Vira
Calm in Chaos My parents were taken back when the doctor identified me with a medical condition known as Albino. Goldilocks was the name people called me with to me because of my golden hair. And to make it worse, I was later on diagnosed with a learning disability which made me skip some subjects. […]
The Story of Kerumoni Queen
The Story of Kerumoni Queen Fashion had always been something I looked up to, and it was my dream ever since I was a child. The beacon I lit was named ‘Kharika jai.’ It is a jewelry based company from my homeland of Assam, which provides handmade silver ornaments. Like most of us, I was […]
Learn to live for yourself
Learn to live for yourself Born and brought up in Punjab, I settled in Chennai after my marriage into a conservative family that did not approve of my interest in fashion. I also lacked resources and felt my potential waste away. After a rocky journey of 20 years, I decided to stand up for myself, […]
From Grief to Glory
From Grief to Glory I was born into a family with a media background. With my grandfather being a senior journalist and a freedom fighter; I was expected to conform to predetermined societal norms. This didn’t sit well with me as I am free-spirited and could not express myself during the early stages of my […]
From Passion to Profession
From Passion to Profession: Rucha Padhye Four years ago, I started with paper quilling jewellery. Back then, my college allowed me to have an exhibition there, post which I had no plans for the future. Being from Mumbai, a place where the vogue was fresh, I thought of starting a business out of it. Having […]
Differently Beautiful : Shaurya Gupta
Differently Beautiful: Shaurya Gupta I had started working as a cabin crew in Indigo Airlines, and later I got married. Everything was perfect, and I was living my dream life until one day, my life turned upside down. My life changed when one day, my son got a high fever. He was only four months […]
A Tale of Autism : Abeer Shrivastava
A Tale of Autism: Abeer Shrivastava “My life’s journey began when my autistic brother, Abeer, was born in 2007; and my life took an unexpected turn. In March 2010, my family noticed Abeer was not responding to cues accurately, and this set off alarms for us all. This was when we made our way to […]
Rajashree Nedungadi: Adept ‘Art-epreneur’
An Adept ‘Art-epreneur’ It all started at a summer camp in Gurgaon. I was a mother of two at the time teaching art to children. Although I always aspired to be a school teacher, becoming a mother changed my priorities. Couple of small art workshops that I conducted made me realise that this was my […]