This journey at Tata AIA is very much a work in progress. It is not that we have reached the destination, there is always that danger where when you achieve something you think that you have reached the final destination. Secondly, when you tell the story the mind tends to romanticise some aspects and put...
A lot of people focus on the outcome of the journey from a professional sense. I will share a bit about my childhood because that is a great factor in whatever has happened for me and, of course, the journey of actually building Metropolis. It was not easy at all, and I am happy it...
I started the Inali Foundation in 2015, and it was registered as a non-profit in 2018. Nearly 4000 hands have been distributed and we have been collaborated with a lot of NGOs and awarded by many corporate and industrial bodies in the country. More than 45,000 people in India lose their arm every year. Nearly...
It is a pleasure to be here. I can see my CV doesn’t have all the other attributes that Avaan mentioned. I think it boils down to my mother who is also listening today, who was determined that her daughter had to do everything to make her eminently marriageable. We are followers of the Bahai...
What are your thoughts on the valuations of the Listed Equity markets which, in turn, affects the valuations of the Private markets? Gautam, you have a much tougher challenge than me being an investor in these frothy markets, it is truly a challenge. And I think putting money to work in private markets is probably even...
You had a wonderful and brief journey in Bollywood, but you made a mark; how did you stumble upon this path? Even as a little girl, I enjoyed the performing arts. I did ballet for 12 years, elocution and was always on the stage in school. I never realised I would be an actor. It happened...
I was talking with a young adult about going to gym. I asked him if he went to exercise because he was unwell, for fitness perspective or overall health. He said he did so for his health. That made me question why we never go to see a psychiatrist or a therapist to check in...
It is indeed a pleasure to receive this award. I want to say a heartfelt thank you for recognising and rewarding the work that we do at the Jai Vakeel Foundation with children and adults with intellectual disability. I think receiving this award for Best Teacher 2021 could not have come at a better...
Although I am a vaccine manufacturer and developer, vaccines alone will not be the answer for us to get out of the pandemic. We will need vaccines and other solutions, including therapeutics and faster diagnostics or better diagnostics. The virus is mutating very fast. One hopeful answer to this would be that with multiple mutations,...
Countries like Norway are seeing a 50 per cent adoption of electric cars. There are targets to reduce carbon dioxide and the best way to do that is to move away from internal combustion and to look at alternative sources. Electric cars have gathered momentum around the world but not so much in India. What are the...
Electric cars have really gathered momentum around the world but in India, not so much. I would like to set a background of electric cars vis-à-vis the usual internal combustion engine which has been around since the car was invented in 1885 and it is still around very much but obviously, we are seeing the...
I was an active player until 2015, when I retired to increase focus on and publicity of the women’s cricket team. Therefore, I chose the field of media. The 2017 Women’s World Cup final was painful for all of us. I was in the press box for that final, one of three Indians covering the tournament...