Every morning, I wake up thinking, ‘What’s next?’” said Joy contemplatively. Business India was at breakfast, speaking to Joy in his home in Dubai. Globalising a home-grown brand has not been easy for Joy Alukka…
Despite working for several years at a multiple Academy Award-winning animation and visual-effects (VFX) studio in India and US, and then launching her own startup in Los Angeles and Mumbai, Saraswathi ‘Vani’ Balg…
From canvases to cars to mall installations, artist Sangeeta Babani has experimented with a variety of mediums in the course of her artist career. So, when the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) commissioned her…
Raised in Bengaluru and Delhi, television actor and social entrepreneur Aditi Deshmukh has ended up making an unlikely location her karmabhoomi, or land of action: Latur, located in the Marathwada region of southeas…
Sighting this woman from a distance, it became evident that her aura drew me towards her. In any case I was looking to speak to an emancipated woman that morning. Part of a routine that I had set for myself. Having never been af…
Keen to highlight interesting things to do in her adopted city Goa during the offseason, Vijaya Josephine Pais founded the Facebook group Offbeat Goa in 2014. What started as a mere social-media page has grown today into 2…
We are sometimes defined by that one major milestone in our lives. For Bhagyashree, it was her unforgettable debut role in the Bollywood blockbuster Maine Pyar Kiya (1989). Though she went on to star in 20 more films after t…
After eking a living as a domestic helper, snack-stall owner, tea-seller and tailor, single mother Minaj Nadaf now drives an auto-rickshaw, wins marathons and even works for charity!
A single mom of two teenage kids, a do…
Associate supervisor and fellow of the Albert Ellis Institute, New York, Dr Varkha Chulani practises rational emotive behaviour therapy system. To put it in layman’s terms, the clinical psychologist and psychother…