KARISHMA The Rotary Club of Bombay, with its core values of fellowship, diversity, and integrity, is such an incredible platform for inspiration. We are so happy to share our story with you all today. If I may, I would like to give some insight of our parent company Chanakya, that laid the foundation of Chanakya school...
My journey started with a very profound statement I heard when I was 30: 80% of family businesses do not survive the third generation, globally. It’s shocking when you hear this the first time. To top it all, I was the third generation in my family business and so there was a lot of burden...
Since this is a women’s empowerment award, I want to share the perspective and approach towards women’s empowerment. Towards that, I would like to share photos of some of my friends and colleagues. They are grassroot leaders who are either working on women empowerment, issues of social justice or marginalised communities. CORO has a grassroot...
The way I thought about this conversation was around the theme of transformation, and for me this one word is probably my favourite word in the English vocabulary because it stands for so many things. I don't know how many of you can guess what this picture is [on ppt - sun shining on Mt...
D. Sivanandan is one of India’s most highly regarded Indian Police Service (IPS) officers. He joined the IPS in 1976 and retired as Director General of Police of Maharashtra in 2011. He was Police Commissioner of Mumbai in 2009, promoted in the aftermath of the November 2008 Mumbai attacks. Sivanandan helped build the city’s defences...
What is a human eye? The human eye is a specialised sense organ capable of receiving visual images which are then carried to the brain. The retina is a light-sensitive layer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0B_CiOEXSI Vision is one of the most important senses. The eye’s main function is to detect light patterns and partner with the brain to translate light...
As an architect, what is your vision for Kabul? Honestly, there was nothing there 20 years ago due to the war. So, when everybody came back to Afghanistan, everyone wanted to see development of education of youth and women. And there was a lot of progress that happened. We had beautiful mountains and as an architect...
I was still in college when we started OnCourse in 2010. The five founders are my husband Akhil and I, we are based in Bombay, and Nitin, Niraj and Abhishek based in Delhi and Gurgaon. We have offices across the world and our focus is under-graduate, post-graduate education abroad and test-prep, primarily for SAT, ACT,...
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...