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Explore. Then Commit. Leave Little Room for Regret I Decoding Draupadi
A conversation with Bhavika Mehta, Brand Manager at Home Centre India, who has seen branding from every angle: social media, traditional advertising, digital to omni-channel, from an agency lens and now from the brand side, and who thinks a non-linear path is not a...
Nishita Mantry on why business should feel effortless
"Life is not easy. Life is not fair. Life is a struggle." — Nishita Mantry This is the exact belief Nishita opened our conversation with, and it turned out to be the thread that ran through everything she said next. Not a complaint, more like a starting point. She...
She Is Still Becoming. And for the First Time, She Is Okay With Not Rushing It I Decoding Draupadi
A conversation with Adhya Singh Parmar, Marketing Manager at Godrej & Boyce, who moved from psychology and HR to leading a student music collective, to marketing at Godrej, and who learned the most from her grandmother without her grandmother ever saying it...
Gulnar Virk on building an empire from a study table and never losing herself to it.
"If you can run a company, are you telling me you can't raise children?" That was Gulnar Virk's nani, on the other end of a phone call, cutting through a sleepless, hysterical night of postpartum depression with one Punjabi sentence. Gulnar never forgot it, and...
Reinvention Is Not Disrupting Growth. It Is Growth I Decoding Draupadi
A conversation with Anushree, Senior Brand Manager, Digital Commerce at P&G, who went from software engineering to IIM Calcutta to leading quick commerce, and is now asking bigger questions about what a fulfilling life actually looks like Anushree has spent...
You Cannot Decode Others Until You Have Decoded Yourself I Decoding Draupadi
A conversation with Saloni Mehta, Marketing Insights Manager at Kraft Heinz, who has spent a decade decoding Indian consumers across Nivea, ITC, Meesho, and now Kraft Heinz, and who will tell you the whole field is built on a misunderstanding Saloni Mehta has...
The Best Instincts Are Built on Evidence. Just of a Different Kind I Decoding Draupadi
A conversation with Madhur Gupta, Brand Manager at ITC Limited, who leads with heart, thinks in data both quantitative and qualitative, and is still quietly carrying the question most ambitious women carry Madhur Gupta is Brand Manager at ITC Candyman. She is...
From Outdoing Others to Doing the Best Version of Me I Decoding DraupadiÂ
A conversation with Monikanika Bhowmick, Co-Founder and COO at Yuvrus Botanicals, who spent two decades building digital commerce inside large organisations, never thought she would start her own company, and is now building one anyway Monikanika Bhowmick has...
You Don’t Have to Choose One Version of Yourself to Be Authentic I Decoding Draupadi
Ashmeet Bagga started writing long before it was a career, filling diaries with dramatic entries about small incidents, the kind she now cringes at when she reads them back. She has since moved through content writing, brand communication, and marketing into a role at...
Be Obsessed With the Customer. Everything Else Follows I Decoding Draupadi
A conversation with Ishita Taneja, Product Marketing Manager for YouTube APAC at Google, who built the spam-call warning feature millions of Indians now see on their phone screens, took up improv theatre to unlearn her own need for a plan, and is still, by her own...