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Not My Monkey I Decoding Draupadi
A conversation with Yamini Malpani, who last served as Modern Trade and Exports Controller, Pan India, atL'Oréal, on self-doubt, stakeholder blind spots, and refusing to carry what isn't hers. Yamini's career runs through Grant Thornton,Colgate-Palmolive,Estée...
As Long as I Can Go Back to the Blank Page, I Am Doing Okay I Decoding Draupadi
A conversation with Sanjana Menon, 29 (Y) Senior Manager (Brand Marketing) at Swiggy, who fought to get into advertising, pivoted to comedy writing for a YouTube channel and performed standup at open mics before anyone understood why, became a Creative Director at 27,...
The Best Kept Sword Is Being Present I Decoding Draupadi
A conversation with Anupama Sharma, Deputy Manager at Godrej & Boyce, on ownership, unlearning, and choosing presence over performance. Anupama has moved through copywriting, agency life, client servicing, and brand management before landing in an in-house...
Sudha Chandani Khatri on turning the camera into a mirror women finally like looking into.
“The world sees you through your eyes only,” says portrait photographer Sudha Chandani Khatri, whose entire business is built on helping women see themselves differently, one frame at a time.
Sneha Jain on quitting a job she loved, twice, and building something of her own instead.
“I don’t want to follow the herd. I’m going to make my own life.” Sneha said this describing the instinct that has shaped almost every decision of her adult life, starting with the one she made straight out of college. It sounds like a throwaway line until you count...
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...