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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...
Worst Case, the Answer Is No. Knock Anyway I Decoding Draupadi
A conversation with Ami Jagani, Manager in the AI Unit at Bajaj Finance, who moved from engineering to a remote plant posting during Covid, to an MBA at IIM Bangalore, through consulting and fintech, and into AI, by knocking on every door that looked interesting and...
Returning Back to Myself I Decoding Draupadi
A conversation with Manmeet Kaur Sethi, Lead, OEM Alliances at Bajaj Pay, Bajaj Finserv, who turns 40 this July, has spent over a decade across media, payments, banking, and fintech, and is more at peace with herself now than at any point along the way Manmeet...
The Dreams Have Morphed. The Urgency Has Not I Decoding Draupadi
 A conversation with Bipasha Biswas, Brand Manager at Classmate, ITC Limited, who let go of a design dream, climbed mountains, just became a mother, and still wants to dance in the rain Bipasha Biswas has worked in storytelling at Pratilipi and now builds brands at...
Patience Is a Virtue. Tolerance Is Not I Decoding Draupadi
A conversation with Jinal Patel, Senior Brand Manager at a rapidly growing startup Jinal Patel is 26. She has worked across community building, public relations, client servicing, and brand management. She published her views in her masters’ dissertation on the impact...
The Challenge Is Not Choosing Between Ambition and Balance. It Is Finding a Way to Have Both I Decoding DraupadiÂ
A conversation with Aditi Nagpal, Brand Manager at Safari Industries India Ltd., who built a marketing career without an MBA, across fashion, lifestyle, consulting, beverages and consumer brands, and is still working out what sustainable success actually looks...
Being Enough and Becoming More Can Coexist I Decoding Draupadi
A conversation with Ritesh Kumari, Senior Project Manager at DTDC Express, who grew up in a small village in Haryana, studied at SRCC, graduated with a Gold Medal, failed UPSC, published a poetry book, became a mother, and is still building Ritesh Kumari's story...
Your Non-Linearity Is Not a Liability. It Is Your Edge I Decoding DraupadiÂ
A conversation with Apoorva, Growth Marketing Leader who has spent seven years building growth engines across fintech, hospitality, e-commerce, entertainment, and mobility, and who will tell you plainly that growth marketing is a boring process, and means it as a...
Ambition and Well-Being in the Same Hand I Decoding Draupadi
A conversation with Sayali Kalsekar, Brand Manager at Pittie Group, who grew up in Vengurla, built a career across food brands, customer experience, sales, and marketplace growth, and is now learning to measure a good life by more than what she has ticked off ...