Despite his many medical problems, chef and author, Suvir Saran is determined to make authentic Indian food popular across the world. His new book, ‘Instamatic’, which is a collection of 80 photographs and 80 essays, will be out soon. Here’s what this brilliant chef has to say… Chef, entrepreneur, author, Suvir Saran returned to India…
An Interview With Anurag Khanna
Award winning art collector and an astute businessman, Anurag Khanna has been collecting works of art for almost two decades. His collections include pans through various mediums wherein the underlying aspects are politics, gender, feminism, sexuality, minimalism, and abstraction. In a freewheeling chat with Indrojit D. Chaudhuri, he shares how each one of them come…
Life after MH370 – A story of personal loss and survival of hope
Chennai-based management consultant KS Narendran’s wife Chandrika who was on the ill-fated flight has penned his ordeal, his tryst with grief, his learning and more in a recently published book ‘Life After MH370: Journeying Through a Void’. Two hundred and thirty-nine families were grievously impacted when the Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 went missing mid-air before…
When Ayurveda meets apothecary: Presenting Arjoon Mehra’s ‘green’ body and skincare brand
Greenberry Organics, a 100 per cent chemical-free brand, has grown through word of mouth and the 27-year-old founder is now chalking out expansion plans. To 27-year-old Arjoon Mehra, a self-confessed job hopper, the idea of working for someone never really worked. So in November 2016, he decided to set up Greenberry Organics, a 100 per…
iBot goes after the holy grail of IoT, ‘smartens’ products into connected devices
IoT for everyone—if that sounds futuristic, or unrealistic, then it’s time for a reality check, because Hyderabad-based iBot Inc. is doing just that—democratising the Internet of Things (IoT) to make it something everybody can use. Theirs is an IoT platform that allows people and businesses to ‘talk’ to machines, do business with them and even…
How BigTrunk leveraged the smartphone explosion to launch its digital agency
The touch of a little screen connects people to the world. News, information, trade, music, movies, romance. Anything, anywhere, anytime. It takes prescience and chutzpah to realise that the mobile phone is a key marketing tool and this is exactly what two long-time buddies foresaw in 2013. At the time, digital marketing a buzzword being…
There’s curated boxes for food & fashion, why not books, ask this enterprising duo
Delhi-based Big Book Box offers book lovers an interesting way to discover new reads and also get a hold of some fun merchandise. It isn’t often that one comes across youngsters who have a passion for doing something meaningful and deliver in equal measure. Twenty-two-year-olds Surabhi Sanjana Rai and Desh Deepak Singh are two…
ProEves saves the day for working mothers
With an eye to bringing quality parenting solutions to an industry largely lacking in transparency, these two successful women professionals look to aid young mothers in achieving the ever-evasive work-life balance. Ex-colleagues Ketika Kapoor and Divya Mehta, both 35, were managing different verticals at Aon Hewitt when their common aspiration of becoming great mothers while…
Yasmin Kidwai on her socio-entrepreneurial journey and beyond
From making documentaries to starting her own business to contesting elections in Delhi, Yasmin Kidwai wishes to spark a spirited awakening in the lives she touches. For documentary filmmaker and entrepreneur Yasmin Kidwai, life seems to have come full circle. “In my teens, I was campaigning for my maternal grandmother, Tajdar Babbar, who was…
Chambers of Ink is bringing the charm back into the world of writing journals
Sukriti Jiwarajka launched her startup with the idea of introducing the Indian customer to superior writing journals. There is something therapeutic, almost magical, about writing on paper. And it was in this magical world that 26-year-old Sukriti Jiwarajka found her calling. A student of economics and a finance major from Singapore Management University, she set…