How AI Pricing Is Helping India’s Small Businesses Survive the Festive Wars Each year, as India steps into its vibrant festive season, the country’s digital marketplaces light up with an intensity rivaled only by Diwali lamps themselves. Flash sales, “mega offers,” and “lightning deals” take over screens, as e-commerce giants launch price wars designed to […]
How Grassroots Collectives Are Recasting Justice for Survivors of Gender Violence For decades, justice for survivors of gender violence has been framed as a courtroom battle, a sterile space of paperwork, interrogation, and procedural delay. But for millions of women and queer persons, that “justice” feels hollow. Courtrooms cannot always restore dignity. Legal forms rarely […]
Where Science Meets the Soul of Survival This single line captures the essence of Dr. Ramon Gutierrez-Sandoval’s extraordinary journey, one that bridges the worlds of medicine, humanity, and resilience. Over more than three decades in science, he has turned adversity into innovation, proving that the greatest discoveries often emerge from the deepest struggles. Sixteen years […]
How Anahita Kalsy Turned Pain into a Movement for Self-Acceptance When the world called her a monster, she chose to become a mirror of courage. When society told her to hide, she stepped onto the ramp instead. Born with a tumour in her left eye, bullied through her childhood, and told by many she would […]
It is said that true entrepreneurs don’t just build companies, they build symbols that outlive them. In the story of Gour Mohon Dutta, a Bengali merchant turned visionary, that symbol took the form of a green tube with a white elephant. In a marketplace crowded with foreign goods, Dutta’s Boroline was not merely a cream; […]
For generations of Indian children, the fiercest debate in the classroom wasn’t about cricket scores or cartoons. It was about pencils: Nataraj or Apsara? Was Nataraj sturdier, the pencil for every child? Or did Apsara, with its legendary promise of “five extra marks,” hold the key to success? What students never realized was that both […]
When life closes a door, some search for another way in. Others build a whole new house. At just fifteen, Inder T. Jaisinghani was thrust into circumstances that could have easily broken him. Instead, he chose resilience. What began as a desperate attempt to save a family shop in Mumbai’s crowded Lohar Chawl would evolve, […]
In the bustling cities of early 2000s India, the hospitality market looked like a story of extremes. Five-star luxury hotels like the Taj and Oberoi catered to the elite, charging anywhere between ₹15,000 and ₹25,000 a night. On the other end of the spectrum, budget lodges offered rooms for ₹1,000, often dingy, unhygienic, and stripped […]
While the world quantifies success in foreign degrees, dollar paychecks, and a U.S. zip code, one man took a different route. For Vineet Goyal, success wasn’t about leaving India, it was about creating something here to last beyond him. Rather than pursue status overseas, he opted to cultivate communities locally. What started as a vision […]
When life pushed her into silence, she chose to paint her future with the colours of resilience. From abandonment as a young mother in a rented residence to establishing one of Maharashtra’s most promising beauty and art schools, Shamim Yunus Dhamaskar converted adversity into ambition. Now, as the founder of Ayesha & Rabiya’s School of […]
