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Featured Pieces · 16 Oct 2026

Remove ‘Am I Good Enough’ From Your Dictionary. Replace It With ‘Am I Doing My Best?’

Niharika Bhatnagar has built her career at the intersection of brand reputation and public perception: at Ola when it was tumultuous, at Nestlé when it was complicated, and at Bajaj Auto, where she led PR, media, and events before her recent promotion to Brand Content & Social Manager. She knows what it costs to shape…

Featured Pieces · 31 Aug 2026

I Don’t Need to Earn My Seat in Every Meeting

A conversation with Isha Patwardhan, Sr. Digital Marketing Manager at ICICI Lombard, who has built brands across fashion, financial services, and insurance Isha has spent her career moving between categories that share almost nothing on the surface, fashion, financial services, insurance, and carrying one conviction across all of them: people don’t buy products, they buy…

Podcast · 29 Aug 2026

Vinita Surana on why the reality bends once you stop waiting for someone else’s yes.

Vinita Surana learned early that reality bends to conviction, not the other way round. This is the story of how she stopped needing anyone else’s yes.

Featured Pieces · 29 Aug 2026

The Strategy Slide Is 5% of the Job

A conversation with Monika Kewalramani, Director – Marketing GTM at Disprz, leading go-to-market strategy across APAC and MEA Monika runs go-to-market strategy across markets that don’t share a language, a time zone, or a playbook, while raising a two-year-old who wants the same toy shown to her for the fifteenth time like it’s brand new.…

Featured Pieces · 25 Aug 2026

Not My Monkey

A conversation with Yamini Malpani, who last served as Modern Trade and Exports Controller, Pan India, at L’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 Lauder, and most recently L’Oréal,in modern trade and exports, for India Market. But the through-line in this conversation isn’t…

Featured Pieces · 15 Aug 2026

As Long as I Can Go Back to the Blank Page, I Am Doing Okay

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, had an existential crisis immediately after, and found out who she really…

Featured Pieces · 13 Aug 2026

The Best Kept Sword Is Being Present

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 leadership role at Godrej & Boyce. Somewhere in that shuffle of titles, she picked up a habit most of…

Podcast · 6 Aug 2026

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.

Podcast · 27 Jul 2026

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 how many times, she actually acted…

Featured Pieces · 25 Jul 2026

Explore. Then Commit. Leave Little Room for Regret

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 problem to explain but a strength to own Bhavika Mehta transitioned…

Podcast · 24 Jul 2026

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 spoke about the unfairness of life…

Featured Pieces · 24 Jul 2026

She Is Still Becoming. And for the First Time, She Is Okay With Not Rushing It

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 directly Adhya Singh Parmar is Marketing Manager at Interio by Godrej, Godrej &…