Voice Of Achievers

You want to start an online business with a minimum budget but don’t know how to begin.Finding answers to all your queries about e-commerce businesses, the fashion retail industry, and how to start a small online business from idea to prototype to product while offering the best customer experience.Our guest Dhruv Toshniwal branched out from a 40+ year old family textile manufacturing business to bring new flavours of fashion to the youth.He is the Founder and CEO of Aanswr Fashion Private Lt...

Adulting isn’t easy!The right career choice, the right course, internships, Jobs, Mentors, Friends and amidst all of this the fun life that’s fleeting away.As we complete 50 episodes, we take you down the rabbit hole, and bring back Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Only this time, you’re looking through the glass of coping with the complexities of adulthood.Existential questions like Who are we? And Why are we here are explored while the reins of your story shall still remain in your own han...

How do you create for a global audience?What does curating mean?Is media management as important as media creation?We speak to Aseem Chhabra, a film journalist, freelance writer, author and film festival programmer based in New York and India who comes with over 30 years of experience. He is the author or three biographies of Film personalities - Irrfan Khan, Shashi Kapoor and Priyanka ChopraAseem has been published in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Outl...

Can there be overlaps between organizations of social impact and popular media & entertainment?When a Woman told women stories in the early 90s, she was considered progressive and bold.What is the purpose of creating content in today’s times?Producer, Director, and Writer of several television serials including the trailblazing "Tara", Shatranj, and Aur Phir Ek Din, among others, our guest Vinta Nanda is the co-founder of the Asian Centre for Entertainment Education (ACEE) and the torchbe...

What’s the power of a question?Why choose college over course?What we need to know about criticism?Why media can’t be taught but can be learnt?Journalism, College Politics, Bias, Perspective, Culture, Criticism, peppered with films on this Media Minds Special Episode.Our guest Mayank Shekhar is an Indian film critic, journalist and author of three books- Bombay Talkies, Cinema Ka Safar and Name Place Animal thing. Currently, Entertainment Head at Mid Day, he’s been a journalist with Hindustan...

Can business and spirituality coexist?Where is the Media & Content Business headed?Pressure, Eternal Optimism, Rejection & the new meaning of NO and being Realistic vs Being crazy as a business owner.In our Media Minds Special series, we speak to Dr. Anurag Batra, an entrepreneur, a media mogul, a journalist, an investor, an author, a TV show host, and an optimist. A corporate professional turned first-gen entrepreneur he owns, Business World, Exchange4media group and has impacted the...

Can movement be a form of art?What does it mean to be in body flow and how can it help you?How can we change energies, especially when working with people who we may not like?Our guest Preeti Acharya is the founder of Fitcue and practices and teaches Yoga, and Animal flow. An engineer from BITS Pilani with a corporate job at CISCO she craved for more and moved to finding her feet with yoga and do the things that give her meaning.She’s a certified Ashtanga yoga teacher and animal flow instruct...

What are the parallels between mythology and the workplace?How has mythology shaped social and gender construct?How we’ve misinterpreted masculinity and feminism?What we should know about inner communication and writing?We’re speaking to our woman of substance- communication expert and author Koral Dasgupta. A compulsive storyteller and literary patron, Koral has published five books Rasiya-Dance of desire, Summer Holidays and The Power of a Common Man – connecting with consumers the Sharukh ...

The Fun in fundamentals of sexual education, the relevance of public medical education and critical health topics like intimate and sexual hygiene, decoding what it means to be in the medical profession and how science can be fun!Meet our woman of substance Dr. Tanaya Narendra, fondly called Dr Cuterus or Millennial Doctor on social mediums. She’s an internationally trained doctor, embryologist, and scientist who took the influencer route to empower the public about medical educati...

We end up carrying emotional burdens with us- academic, professional, personal or just general existential!In this episode, we dig deep into emotional management, dealing with anxiety, fear, insecurity, burnout and braving emotions!Our guest Rashmi Datt is a certified psychodramatist and experienced trainer, coach and author. She started her training and consulting practice in 1993 after working with Pfizer for 8 years. Over the last 26 years, she has conducted Organisational Development inte...

Conflicts, Inclusion, Socio-Economic & Gender Diversity, Teamwork and Competition.These are common threads between sports and the workplace and that’s what we’re addressing in our Women of Substance Special for this episode.Our guest Megna Shankaranarayanan is the current President of the Ultimate Players Association of India that governs over 10,000+ athletes. She has represented India in multiple Asian, European & World Championships and brought home medals from the World Champ...

How does a renowned educational institute impact one’s professional growth?Is the power of academic research underrated in a Google empowered world?Are we at the cusp of understanding communication via text messages & emoticons, only and how is that affecting other forms of verbal and non-verbal communication?Our Woman of Substance Vinati Dev holds a B.A. in Economics and International Development from Clark University, and M.A. and a M.Sc. in Political Economy from London School of Econo...

“Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if only one remembers to turn on the light.” -JK Rowling.We’ve all been through various personal and professional challenges throughout the year. As creatives, artists, entrepreneurs, freelancers, or professionals.As we approach the end of an unexpected year, why not revisit some good times from the year that swept by.20 Questions from 2020 is a curated episode from some of the best moments of the podcast recorded throughout th...

Chai (Tea) in India isn’t a beverage. It’s an emotion.We’re blending emotions, management lessons, business principles, cultures, and class through the Indian Tea Legacy in this episode.Established in 1926 and marching towards completing a 100 years of serving tea, our experienced and senior guest Lakhwindersinghji (a 2nd generation entrepreneur) is building a business with trust as he sits right beneath the Gurudwara in Calcutta’s famous tea shop Balwant Singh. Mornings, Evenings and even la...

Investments and Financial Prudence have been and continue to be one of the grey areas for most individuals.We’re covering Financial Literacy, Women in 1990’s in India & battling the male ego, the biggest challenge of the modern Indian Woman, the power of Choice and Freedom and weighing high value items against low value items to create wealth!Our guest, Mr. Bishnu Dhanuka began with a vision of empowering women through financial literacy back in 1990. An accomplished businessman, successf...

Building and managing Remote Teams, Building a Diverse Work Culture, Handling Difficult People @ Work and Blending Learning techniques for professional and personal development.The pandemic has made all of this more critical than ever.We sit down with Mr. Peter Horwing the CEO at Chart Learning Solutions, an organization providing training to employees & students through a combination of eLearning, and blended learning approach solutions. Headquartered in Sweden, he’s been managing remote...

Creativity & Multicultural Experiences, The Role of Mentors & Assisting Experiences in shaping Creative Professions, Non-Conformity in Society, & Women in Cinema.We’re speaking today with Antara Lahiri, a passionate freelance film editor (whose films have won awards at the South Asian Film Festival in New York and The Indian Film Festival at LA ) born in Kolkata & working in Mumbai with over 13 years of experience. Her work repertoire includes Netflix’s Bard of Blood & Yeh...

Interview preps, job opportunities, job changes and internship opportunities- hiring and campus placements will soon be at their peak.So, we thought let’s turn the tables a little and grill an interviewer this time.Recognized as one of the Top HR minds of India by World HRD Congress, we’re talking to Gauri Das who is currently leading HR at India Factoring Finance Solutions Limited. A computer science engineer, to a master’s degree in Psychology and very recently an Organization Development c...

Keep the child in you alive, they say.Curiosity, Creativity & crazy Imagination power are some of the characteristics most children have and most adults & professionals are striving to build.We’re exploring the child-like attributes and characteristics with our guest today.Born and raised in Vadodara, Shantanu Duttagupta is currently the Publisher for Scholastic in India. A copywriter and journalist turned publisher, he began his career in 2004 and has worked with The Times of India, ...

When a crisis hits, it ends up affecting your personal and professional life.What if one had to deal with multiple crises (both personally & professionally?How does one explain job losses, pay cuts and personal rough patches in an interview?How is the landscape of marketing changing? We speak to global World Marketing Award Winner Ms. Manjula Nairr about the deep impact left by major crises she’s seen both personally and professionally. She’s donned multiple hats as a corporate ...