Multipurpose With Lakshit.: Recent Episodes
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I’m Lakshit and I’m passionate about helping people make a positive impact in other people’s lives. I run a podcast called Multipurpose with lakshit, which is a weekly show about building a successful Eco-friendly lifestyle through story and authenticity.
On this episode i sat down with Rajesh Bhatia is an Educationist, Founder and CEO of TreeHouse Education & Accessories Ltd - one of the leading providers of borderless pre-school education in India. TreeHouse has recently launched vocational training courses during the pandemic to make young India future ready. TreeHouse also plans to expand in the Northeast, given how the pandemic has changed the dynamics of education and how pre-school education, which is the foundation of a child's education, is given little importance. Through interesting and engaging activities, TreeHouse ensures that every student is paid equal attention during online classes. Rajesh Bhatia is an MBA holder and worked as an Investment Banker for eight years before starting TreeHouse in 2003. As an Educationist, he envisions providing high quality education to the future of the country. He believes that a standardized education is necessary which is affordable and accessible to everyone for a country and its citizens to progress and grow together.
On This Episode I sat Down With, Amita Deshpande, CEO and founder of reCharkha – The EcoSocial Tribe, which upcycles plastic waste by spinning it into yarn and then weaving it on looms into plastic fibre. The fibre is made into a wide range of products such as bags, cutlery, home decor products
On this episode i sat down with Bhushita Ahuja is UNESCO’s Millennium Indian writer who has authored a book called "Open Your Wardrobe for Answers", in which she has tried to unmask the untapped subject of clothing psychology. A multi-skilled individual, Bhushita Ahuja is a Delhi State U-17 women chess champion, who believes in the pursuit of excellence. Bhushita is deeply passionate about Chess, started Samvedna Foundation, at the age of 15 with a feeling and desire to serve the society by teaching chess to the underprivileged section of the society. She wants to inculcate a healthy sporting culture in the nation and take sports to every nook and cranny. Samvedna Foundations is currently teaching Chess to 350+ underprivileged kids online joined by 20 coaches. Bhushita has collaborated with major NGOs like Sewa Bharti, Pratham, and Katha to reach out thousands of more under privileged children who are eager to learn & play chess. She intends to explore online chess with senior citizens in old age homes. Along with her upcoming book on Gender Inequality, Bhushita has also aimed to reach out to 1000+ underprivileged kids, expanding to 15 states in India through her organization.
In this Episode i had a chance to talk to Honey, Miss. Honey Islam talks about how she pursued her passion for fermentation to build a venture out of it.
On This Episode I sat Down With Malav, Malav Rajda is a popular Director. He is known for Directing the Sab Tv Show 'Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah'.”
On This Episode i sat down with Nikhil! Nikhil Raj has explored the world of magic and blurred the boundary between illusion and reality for more than a decade. At a very young age he has entertained a wide variety of audiences with more than 1000 shows all over India. His techniques have been tested under conditions of high scrutiny by skeptical audiences. His ingenious ways of performing card tricks and stage illusions, expertly timed sleight and dexterity, and in the presentation of mentalism are beyond ordinary. Visual artistry, wacky comedy and gripping mind magic is what his shows are all about. He earned the title 'Mystic Magician' at his most successful show MYSTICITY, an experiment of its kind an orchestration of all styles of magic. After having performed in a non-angle proof Amphitheatre that left his audience awestruck. A world record holder in magic, he was also invited for a Ted X performance in Bangalore. Also a winner of phoenix of the year 2018.
On This Episode I had a chance to talk to Rushina, Rushina Munshaw is a culinary expert, writer & food consultant.
On This Episode I had a chance to talk to shilpa , Dr. shilpa Mehta is Director of Foster Care Society.
On This Episode I Sat Down With Sridevi, Sridevi Reddy D R is Sign language interpreter and has been a voice to 100s of children's with speaking and Hearing Disabilities! her children's today work in top IT companies in bangalore such as Wipro Infosys and many more! Hear the episode and let us understand on how a person with disability goes through in there daily life!
On This Episode I sat Down With Nitin, Nitin Goyal is a yoga teacher and vegan! in this episode about yoga and how vegaism can help you!
On This Episode I sat Down With Madhusudan, Madhusudan Rao, an Educator, Gender studies enthusiast, and intercultural savvy. In this episode, we discussed the nuances of the impact every teacher makes on students. Teaching is perceived to be a noble profession but does every teacher make a difference? Let's listen to what Madhusudan has to say.
On This Episode I sat Down with Angela Roye, Angela is Founder and Principal of Angela Roye’s Child Development Center. On This epsiode we spoke on how The classroom is a complex environment. If not explicitly managed it can quickly turn into a collection of smaller groups that happen to be in the same room rather than an inclusive whole. See how this, sometimes overlooked, aspect can make a profound difference.
On This Episode I Sat Down With Kalyan, Kalyan Karmakar started his career in market research in 1997. He began food blogging as a hobby in 2007 and then switched tracks in 2013 to become an independent food writer. He is now considered to be one of India’s leading food bloggers. He is a popular food columnist and a published author too. He runs Finely Chopped Consulting, a specialised consumer and market insights offering in the food space that brings together his two worlds of being consumer market researcher and a food writer. He started writing his blog www.FinelyChopped.net in 2007 which makes him a pioneer in the field. His debut book, a food travelogue called The Travelling Belly published by Hachette India in 2014, went into a reprint within a year of it being published. He is the curator of the Times Kitchen Tales, a pan Indian initiative to celebrate regional Indian food from the Times of India. He is also a popular food columnist and his words can be found at NDTV Food, Times of India Blogs, DailyO, Femina, The Indian Express and Scoopwhoop.
On this episode i sat down with Arvind, Arvind Kannan, an animal rights activist and vegan from Tamil Nadu, has been creating videos on animal cruelty and vegan lifestyle in Tamil. Along with his partner Arshvani, he also runs the Facebook page Arvind Animal Activist, which has over a million views.
On This Episode I Sat Down With Sonu, Sonu Venugopal is a stand-up comic, digital creator, radio professional and improviser based out of Bengaluru. She is a seasoned radio professional and voice artist with over 8 years of on-air and off-air experience in both Hindi and Kannada radio industry hosting top rated radio shows such as "Bollywood Cafe" and "City Maatu" in Bengaluru. You can now find her doing stand-up and improv comedy, hosting events, screenwriting, acting, cooking, or acting as if cooking! Fluent in Kannada, English and Hindi, Sonu has created and performed standup comedy content that has been watched 1M+ times online and sold out live shows across Karnataka. Her best cooked Kannada comedy video series called "Baaju Mani Kaaku" is growing 70+ episode strong and gathered 3M+ views. She has an active social media presence with over 15K+ followers on Facebook and 80K+ followers on Instagram, where she has actively collaborated with different brands. She received the "Best Entertainer" award at the Karnataka Women Achievers' Awards (KWAA), 2018. A recent mom, she is trying to be funny to her year old daughter but only fart sounds and fake moustaches seem to work so far.
On This Epiosde I Sat Down With Sachiin, Sachiin Sarvadee is a Equity Technical Analyst by profession & Healer by Passion working in institution department and catering to fii's ,dii's and chief managers of banks for their positional and short term trading, contributing towards society by healing people from disease, Removing Trading Blocks, Investing Blocks, Financial blocks, relationship blocks, by clearing their negative energies through one or mix of below therapies which he practice's.
On This Epiosde I Sat Down With Bonita, Bonita Singh Rajpurohit is someone who came forward as a Transwoman and thrived in the modelling and fashion Industry. n this episode of our Women's Day feature series, UB a Woman, let's hear it from Bonita - A Co-founder of two ventures, namely DurtyFits and Durt Studio & Second Runner-up of Miss Trans Queen India 2019!
On This Epiosde I Sat Down Siddhant, Siddhant Karnick is an Indian television and film actor. He mainly acts in Hindi television soaps and Hindi films. He's very fond of theatre and travelling. An Actor-Artist-Explorer, confesses his life on the road, on reel and in real life.
On This Epiosde I Sat Down With Trupthi, Trupthi Kamkar is Actor, Comedian and Podcaster.
On This Epiosde I Sat Down With Himanshi, Himanshi Singh is a teacher by profession and an inspiration for many youths. She is the Top Women educator on digital media. #himanshisingh
On This Epiosde I Sat Down With Jessica Kumar, originally from America, first came to India in 2006 for work and has since learned fluent Hindi and married Abhishek, originally from Bihar. In addition to working for a nonprofit and living in Bihar, Jessica hosts the Invisible India Podcast about cross cultural relationships and navigating Indian culture.
On This Episode I Sat Down With Fahmil, Fahmil Khan is A self trained vocalist and guitarist, he is currently the lead singer and guitarist for his band On The Rocks.
On This Episode I Sat Down With Joyston and Sugith , Joyston Moreira is CAD Admin, Product Designer and Sugith Hewage are LGBTQ+ Activist 🏳️🌈
Benjamin Daimary was awarded the jury special mention at the 67th National Film Awards for his portrayal of Jhanu, a transgender, in an Assamese film Fireflies. He talks about his journey, on trans actors playing trans roles and how he responds to bullies. #BenjaminDaimary #NationalFilmAwards #Assamesefilms
On This Episode I Sat Down With Anjana, Anjana Padmanabhan, Child prodigy, who bagged the trophy of the 1st ever Indian Idol Junior while she was 10 is all grown up now and is doing some great work. Post her victory she is learning Hindustani classical music as her Prime Style, supplemented by Carnatic and basic western classical. She also did many stage shows in India and outside the country. She has been a part of many noteworthy projects recent one being a concert on the occasion of World Children's Day by UNICEF with Ricky Kej and many other well-known artists such as Hariharan , Jonitha Gandhi , Neeti Mohan , Benny Dayal and many more. The concert was focused on Climate Change and Impact of Covid-19 on children and Child right.
On This I sat Down With Nidhi Mohan Kamal, Nidhi is a Certified Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga Trainer. She’s also a certified Strenght Fitness trainer with a specialization in Rehab and Resistance training, she’s a Puma Ambassador and trainer. She’s one of the 16 top international trainers on the PumaTRAC app. along with Virat Kholi and Lewis Hamilton. She has been working out last 17 years and has learned Functional, weight training, Yoga, Pilates and various dance styles. Besides running their body shaping clinics in Delhi, She is also a writer with regular columns and blogs on food, fitness, and nutrition in many publications like Times of India, Asian Age, Urban Melange and many online portals and TV shows. She’s the brand ambassador of Puma Do You in India along with Jacqueline, Kalki, Liza Haydon, Sakshi Malik & others and was part of their Guinness World Record plank
On This Episode I Sat Down With Vijay, Vijay Katta set up Omay Foods in 2018 to offer consumers healthy, travel-fit snacks, prepared by roasting in rock salt, minus the oil.
On This Episode I Sat Down With Harsh, Harsh Kedia is Harsh Kedia, 'A Diabetic Chef' is a 22-year chef and himself a diabetic.
On This Episode I sat down with Jayati, Jayati Bhatia is an Indian television actress. She is best known for her role as Nirmala "Mataji" Bharadwaj in Sasural Simar Ka, one of the most longest-running TV shows that aired on Colors TV
On This Episode I Sat Down With The Founders Of Paperless Press, Abhimanyu, Agastya, and Mihir Rao share the story on this episode!
On This Episode I Sat Down With Deepan, Deepan Chakkravarthi, a 30-year-old former journalist and YouTuber, from a middle-class family of Namakkal in Tamil Nadu, an independent candidate In Tamil Nadu Assembly elections. He is sure of not winning, but hopes to educate people about the process of contesting through his YouTube videos.
On This Episode I Sat Down With Manvendra Singh Gohil is an Indian prince who is the son and probable heir of the Maharaja of Rajpipla in Gujarat. He is the first openly gay prince in the world. He runs a charity, the Lakshya Trust, which works with the LGBT community.
On This Episode I Sat Down With Sameet and sabat khaldy, The brother duo are climate activist in Jhansi and hold plantation drives and protest for environment.
On This Episode I Sat Down With Sai Sethu, Sai is a content creator & is Travelling all India states To Show the inner india.
On This Episode I Sat Down With Jainam Jain, Jainam is a content creator, Podcast Host, & Student of Philosophy and Astrologer.
On This Episode I Sat Down With Milind, Milind Chandwani is a social activist and founder of an NGO Called Camp Diaries.
On This Episode I Sat Down With Garima Surana, Garima is a content creator & a Podcast Host.
On This Episode I Sat Down With Equalist Aastha, Aastha is a a content creator who speaks on social and current issues.
On This Episode I Sat Down With Divas Gupta , Divas is India's first IKIGAI coach, and a Public Speaking Coach, He His on a mission to help 1 million individuals live a purposeful life.
Ruma is a New Delhi based Tarot Card Reader, Numerologist and Merlin Trinity Healer. She is also Gita Tarot Card Reader. Bhagvad Gita Tarot guides you in a similar manner like lord Krishna guides Arjuna to lead simple life.
On This Episode I Sat Down With Sandeep, Sandeep Das Is the Director of PwC, Best-selling author (3 books)| 100+ columns with Fortune, Economic Times, Mint, Business World Has been Speaker at 20+ Corporates, IITs & IIMs, Featured in ToI, Mint, Hindu, Asian Age
On this episode i sat down with Vishwajeet, Vishwajeet Sangle, is International tennis Player, shares his thoughts on Failure. He says he opted for open school to be able to completely focus on Tennis.
On This Episode Of Multipurpose I Sat Down with Varsha, Varsha Mathur is a speaker and coach, has a mission to help women find love by uprooting traditional norms and working from the inside out to build the confidence needed to find lasting love. She believes that a lack of self-confidence is what holds us back from being our most authentic selves.
On This Episode I sat Down With Tenzin,Tenzin Tsundue, is a poet and activist, who lives in McLeodganj—a suburb of Dharamshala in the Kangra district of Himachal Pradesh and the exiled home of the Dalai Lama—personifies the restlessness among the young refugees. He survives on the minimal profit he makes from selling self-published books of his poetry. Tsundue has been jailed 15 times for crossing the borders between Tibet and India and holding protests. He said he will continue until Tibet is free.
On This Episode Of Multipurpose I Sat Down with Bijay Gautam, Bijay Gautam, the host of a chart-topping podcast, The Inspiring Talk. Bijay is also a podcast coach and the Co-Founder at WYN Studio.
On This Episode Of Multipurpose I sat down Ojas, Ojas Batra Serial Entrepreneur & is Earning in 6 Figures through Drop shipping.
On This episode i sat down with Bhavesh Shaha, Bhavesh is a content creator turned entrepreneur. He started YouTube out in grade 3 to improve his speaking skills teaching Photoshop and Game Development in his channel. Slowly, he turned into a freelancer and a content marketer who believes in the philosophy of never being too young to do anything. He is currently in grade 12 and makes 6 figures passive income venturing in the gamification of education and content marketing
On This Episode Of Multipurpose, I Sat Down With Daksh, Daksh Seth is a soft skills trainer and the founder of 'Guby Rogers'. From networking with the top corporates to preparing students coming right of schools/colleges for their new world, he lives to "Impact" rather than "Impress" people.
Lily D. Moore. Is an American actress and model best known for the recurring role of Rebecca in #NeverHaveIEver on Netflix. She is also an ambassador and advocate for the Down Syndrome community and for all people with disabilities.
On This episode i sat down with Mrudula, Mrudula is the founder of Ullisu. Have you ever stopped to think about how much waste you produce? In this engaging talk, Mrudula explores the impacts of waste and explains the benefits that living a zero-waste lifestyle can have on the individual and society.
On this episode of the Multipurpose i sat down with Pavan, Pavan Badllani is a graphologist high-performance coach keynote speaker
On This Episode Of Multipurpose, I Sat Down With Suryanshu Panda and Ipari Pritam, graduates in Bachelor of Business Management from Xavier University Bhubaneswar and foodies started Chef Junction, a food delivery platform from where a customer can order hygienic home-cooked food prepared by handpicked home chefs.
On This Episode Of Multipurpose, I Sat Down With Dinesh Mohan, Dinesh is a model and Bollywood actor.
On This Episode Of Multipurpose, I Sat Down With Raveena Taurani, today, is a chef specializing in plant-based living and CEO of the Mumbai-based food brand, Yogisattva.
On This Episode Of Multipurpose, I Sat Down With Inder Sahani Is A You tuber & A Comedian.
On This Episode Of Multipurpose, I Sat Down With Ridhima Pandey is an activist from India who campaigns for action against climate change.
On This Episode Of Multipurpose, I Sat Down With Ankita Chatterjee is an Astrologer & Numerologist (Nominated for Best Astrologer of the Year 2016 by Skilled India Entrepreneurs Award).
On This Episode Of Multipurpose, I Sat Down With Co-Founder & CEO @weareyuvaa Nikhil Taneja, Nikhil Is Global Advisory Board, Goalkeepers @gatesfoundation Writer, Producer, Storyteller &Teacher.
On This Episode Of Multipurpose, I Sat Down With Rushabh Turakhia, founder of ‘Your Turn Now’ is on a mission to spread kindness in the world.
On This Episode Of Multipurpose, I Sat Down With Radhakrishnan Pillai, Mr.Radhakrishnan Is An Author, Coach & Entrepreneur.
On This Episode Of Multipurpose, I Sat Down With Jason D’Souza's time in the F&B industry spans from the Taj hotel group to his work with molecular gastronomy, and assisting chef Gordon Ramsay.
Abhay Ragan Is The Founder Of Goodmylk Has Been On Forbes 30 under 30, 2019 and 2020 Abhay started as an animal rights activist at 16, founded Goodmylk with his mother to make plant milk affordable in India.
On This Episode Of Multipurpose, I Sat Down with Chirag, Chirag Is an Illusionist, Mentalist & A Magician.
On This Episode Of Multipurpose, I sat Down With Choice Bison, Bison Is A vegan artist & a change maker.
On This episode of multipurpose I sat down with Janelle Christa, Janelle Is An Author, actor, coach, producer & A screenwriter.
On This Episode Of Multipurpose, I Sat Down With Dessidre (pronounced as Dé -Zee-Ray) hails from Patna but now calls Delhi her home after living here for more than 15 years and securing a decent job in the city. She was born with one ear that caused the disfigurement of the right side of her face.
However, what is written in a medical textbook is not a story Dessidre wished to write for herself; her willpower to turn her medical condition into her strength is heroic in the face of hatred she’d faced from society and her close ones. “As a child, I had all sorts of suggestions flowing in from people of non-medical background. While some wanted me to undergo surgeries, others forced me to use hearing aid machines. Eventually, they all gave up on me because I wouldn’t hear,”
On This Episode Of Multipurpose, I Sat Down With Jayesh Sachdev, Jayesh is a Visual Artist, Designer, and Creative entrepreneur. Founder of the Multi-Award Winning art based Designer label Quirk Box. Jayesh holds the National Record for having painted India's largest concept artwork, he continues to practice as an Artist, exhibiting through New York to Bombay.
On This Episode Of Multipurpose, I sat Down With Darshana Muzumdar, Darshana is an International Animal Rights Activist & Creator of the Vegan Super Chef Challenge. She Has Organized the first vegan fest in India with other vegans. And two more fests subsequently.
On This Episode I sat Down With Roshan Nausad, Roshan is A 𝙈𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙪𝙥 𝘼𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙨𝙩, 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝘾𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙤𝙧 & 𝙎𝙤𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝘼𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙞𝙨𝙩.
On This Episode Of Multipurpose, I sat Down With Sailaja Manacha, Sailaja is An Author, Psychotherapist, Transformational Coach, talks about her ten years of working with women leaders.
On this Episode Of Multipurpose, I Sat down with Siri Ravikumar, Siri is a Radio Jockey an actress and assistant director, known for Crossroads (2019) and Mr. Joe B. Carvalho (2014).
On this Episode Of Multipurpose, I sat Down With Martin, Martin is an Entrepreneur & share's his experience being gay and accepting himself.
On this Episode Of Multipurpose, I Sat down with Insiyah, Insiyah is a journalist and socio-political writer, as well as the founder of the social justice initiative called GoondaRaj. Both, her initiative as well as a podcast by the same name aim to function as an effort to counter the new, brazen culture of mob violence in India. In her podcast 'GoondaRaj', she brings forth real, raw stories, told in the voices of the victims themselves.
On this episode of multipurpose I sat down with Prince Manvendra Singh Gohil is an Indian prince who is the son and probable heir of the Maharaja of Rajpipla in Gujarat. He is the first openly gay prince in the world. He runs a charity, the Lakshya Trust, which works with the LGBT community.
On This Episode Of Multipurpose I sat down with Leslie Tripathy, Leslie (also known as Lezlie Tripathy) is an Indian actress who mainly appears in music videos and Bollywood. In 2014, Tripathy debuted in the Hindi film industry with W, directed by Tarun Madan Chopra.
On this Episode Of Multipurpose, I Sat down with Brunda Sreedhar. Brunda is 24 a web developer and an entrepreneur. She has a bachelor's degree in Information Science and Engineering. Ambica and Brunda started Scentora in December 2018 with a really simple product (a lip balm) and She says I am proud of what we are doing today and how we are doing it. We have lately been obsessed with learning a lot more about sustainability in the field of personal care from a cosmetic science perspective. She is an environmental activist and participates in strikes and other climate events whenever she can. She loves watching football and consuming socio-economic content. Brunda also enjoys exploring new plant-based foods and traveling.
On this Episode Of Multipurpose, I Sat down with Poonam Bir Kasturi was trained as an industrial designer and is passionate about using design for changing systems. Her experience with teaching and working in both industrial and craft sectors inform her work at the helm of Daily Dump. The organization focuses on creating easy and engaging solutions for conscious city living. It does this by making people aware of the big picture in fresh and simple ways and by making it easy and fulfilling for everyone to tackle large issues like waste in a city.
On this Episode Of Multipurpose, I Sat down with Kuntal Joisher. The most unique thing about Kuntal is that he himself is a vegan and promotes veganism. In this episode Kuntal deciphers the levels of exercise required when it comes to mountaineering training in terms of physical fitness and mental fitness levels. This video is a true motivation for people wanting to follow their passion and dreams. Kuntal Joisher Vegan and Kuntal Joisher Everest are some of the most common names for this person.
On This Episode Of Multipurpose, I Sat Down With Vinita, Vinita Khilnani is an actor, comedian, improviser, and singer based in Los Angeles, Ca. She also is a voice-over actor with a huge library of voices/characters. She currently holds the title as 2018 Miss India North America and is using her platform to encourage other young diverse women to pursue their dreams. You have probably seen Vinita in numerous Buzzfeed videos as well as a few commercials for Toyota, Geico, Sunday Riley, Scrubbing Bubbles and Keep America Beautiful.
On this Episode of multipurpose, I sat down with Akshata from dopology This is a story of a couple, who wanted to embark on a journey of being entrepreneurs. Though they were small, they made a difference. Thus was born Dopolgy - more as a way of life. It is all about making small changes in your life and the products you use to make a huge difference to nature. With this thought, we dived headon with just a small list of products - Newspaper Pencils, Newspaper Seed Pencils, Newspaper Colour Pencils, Seed Bombs, Bamboo Toothbrushes, and Natural Loofah.
On this episode of multipurpose, I sat down with Rukmini Poddar, Rukmini is an artist, designer, and illustrator living in NYC. When she’s not working as a designer in the day, she spends her nights drawing other people’s emotions. She wrote a book about her own in 2016 entitled “100 Obscure Emotions” and since then she started a web blog called Dear Ruksi and encourages everyone to anonymously submit their emotions to her so she can draw them. She believes we are all going through one big, similar Human Experience. The sooner we realize how alike we are, the more we can create a culture of empathy and personalism. She is currently drawing 100 days of the enneagram and posts daily on her Instagram: @rockinruksi
Markian Benhamou is an influencer, leader of a smile squad, positive and creative YouTuber, and much more. He considers that his job is to make people smile. Even though he is only 22 years old, he has accomplished to live his dream.
On this episode of multipurpose, I sat down with Dr. Mohinder Pal Singh Gujral, Dr.Mohinder Pal is a homeopathic doctor and has a clinic in Udaipur, He Has done his Homoeopathic studies by Rajasthan Vidyapeeth Homoeopathic Medical College & Hospital, Dabok. Here In this episode, I talk about how coronavirus is affecting as in our personal and professional lives and how it is making our mind feel anxiety & Pain.
On This Episode Of Multipurpose, I sat Down With Shraddha AKA Soda.Pop.Love. is a women's lifestyle influencer by the name Soda Pop Love, with a podcast in partnership with Hindustan Times Smartcast called Five to Thrive. She ventured into the world of blogging and content 3 years ago to discover herself and unleash her creativity unto the world. In this time, Shraddha not only discovered her own hidden talents, but also her love for out of the box, yet relatable content. An Orthodontist by day, Shraddha's passion for serving women by giving them tips, tools, and recommendations to help them Thrive are what drives her love and dedication for her growing Digital Presence.
On this Episode Of Multipurpose, I Sat Down With Japleen smashes the patriarchy for a living. Founder & Editor-in-chief of Feminism in India, she is a feminist activist based in New Delhi, India. She is a writer, educator, campaigner, and researcher. She has vast experience in digital media and online publishing. Her interest lies in women’s studies, global feminism, gender, sexuality, VAW, SRHR, feminist praxis and internet as space. Currently, she is working on media representation of gender-based violence, in the past, she has worked on online violence against women in India. She’d like to use skills to intersect gender and sexuality with digital & social media and develop safe online spaces for women and marginalized communities.
On this episode of Multi-Purpose, I Sat down with Smriti Nothani. Smriti is an ex-advertising girl who always knew the creative space is where she belongs. After her stint as a copywriter, she dipped her toes in the world of digital publishing, writing for various fabulous websites like Lifestyle Asia, Indiatimes, Popxo, Wedmegood, etc. She currently works as a content writer and an editorial writer in the lifestyle space. She’s also the Founder of Real Girl – an unfiltered lifestyle blog for Indian women and her newest baby is her podcast ‘Real Talk with Smriti Notani’ where she talks in-depth about very real topics.
On This Episode of Multipurpose, I sat With Neetu Chopra. Neetu grew up as a tomboy, with an innate instinct to question the atrocities in society. After graduating from the College of Home Science, MPUAT, Udaipur and went on to pursue an MBA in Human Resources. During her graduation, she enrolled in NCC (National Cadet Corps), was top rank and went on to become a GCI( Girl Cadet Instructor). "I always wanted to serve the community, so I left the job in 11 months and came back to follow my passion and started an event organizing firm in which she handles project about conservation of nature and women empowerment. Neetu Have Travelled From north to south India On A scooter To tell That A Women can do Wonders. She Travelled 4200km in a month.
Ankit Puri Have Been volunteering at animal shelters and environmental NGOs since the age of 15, he founded Voiceless India in 2017 with the vision to create a change in society’s perception of non-human beings and spreading the message of climate action. In 2018, he was recognized with the DLF Pramerica Award for Social Service.
Recently, he represented his organization at the Vegan India Conference 2019 held in New Delhi and was recently invited as a panelist at a Panel Discussion on Social Entrepreneurship at Christ (Deemed to be University) as well as an NGO Partner at Christ (Bannerghatta). Under Voiceless India, they conduct Workshops with students of schools and colleges such as NPS, Pathways, Christ University, etc, to spread the message of compassion and sustainability, sterilization drives for dogs, reflective collar drives, cleanliness drives, and many more activities.
On this episode of Multi Purpose, I sat down with Padmanabha Arkalgudand is the Founder President of Citizens Forum Yelahanka, a travel enthusiast and a veteran theatre person, who went back to the stage after 50 years in 2011. He has always been associated with several social causes and in his capacity as VP, Bhadrachalam Paper Boards, had implemented the Drinking Water Project for Sarapaka, a village with a population of 10,000, which he calls the ‘best contribution to my country in my life.’ Post retirement, he has been a consultant with ITC and Christian Medical Association of India, among others. His belief is that, “whatever I may do, my debt to my country will always remain in debt.”
Mr. Padmanabha says that every situation appears as a challenge to me rather than induce fear. We spoke about work which he is doing with his friend Mr. Venkatasubba Rao They are trying to create a better place for students studying in government schools.