5 Uninformed Ideas Against Feminism in India
India both loves and hates the female form. A country of exceptional diversity, it is filled with nuance and contradictions—especially when it comes to women and gender. India is the amalgamation of thousands upon thousands of years of civilization. Today it is a State with over 122 major languages, more than 2000 ethnic groups, and […]
She Speaks: Is the Queen Bee Syndrome Real?
She Speaks is an original Shenomics series of dialogues between leading women from various disciplines on relevant issues pertaining to professional women in India. There continues to be a lot of discussion about the two archetypes of women in the corporate world: the queen bee and the worker bee. The Queen Bee Syndrome describes a woman in […]
She Leads: 3 Lessons from Michelle Obama
America certainly has gone through a major political upheaval over the past one year and whether we like it or not, it has elected a President who appears, in many ways, to be the stark opposite of the one before. But will we only miss Barack Obama? Or also, strangely, miss his wife even more […]
5 Practical Ways to Support Feminism
“I am not free while any woman is unfree, even if her shackles are very different than my own.” Intersectionality (n): is the study of intersecting social identities and the related systems of oppression. First, coined within the context of feminism, it examines social hierarchies that privilege and oppress people based on overlapping aspects of their identity such as: […]
Lakshmi Rebecca
I’m Lakshmi Rebecca, Filmmaker and Anchor, and this is how I Lead from Within Lakshmi Rebecca is a talk show host, director and producer. Lakshmi founded Red Bangle, a film production house, in 2011. In the same year, she also launched an online talk show called Chai with Lakshmi. The show, which has received over 3 […]
Mahua Acharya
I’m Mahua Acharya, CEO of CQC Green Ventures, and this is how I Lead from Within Mahua is a graduate of Yale University and has had a distinguished career in carbon finance and corporate social responsibility. She led the development of a carbon protocol while in the World Business Council for Sustainable Development in Geneva, […]
Minnat Lalpuria
I’m Minnat Lalpuria, Founder of 7 Vachan, and this is how I Lead from Within Minnat Lalpuria, an Indian School of Business alumnus, is the Founder of 7 Vachan – a Wedding Consultancy and Aggregator. Through 7 Vachan, she is helping couples who opt for DIY weddings take all the pain and stress out of […]
Anu Sridharan
I’m Anu Sridharan, Co-Founder of NextDrop, and this is how I Lead from Within Anu Sridharan is the Co-founder of NextDrop. NextDrop improves access to water for residents in urban India by providing access to timely and reliable information about piped water supply, and establishing a feedback loop to inform better water management for the water […]
Anshulika Dubey
I’m Anshulika Dubey, Co-Founder of Wishberry, and this is how I Lead from Within Anshulika Dubey is the co-founder of the crowd funding platform, Wishberry. An ex-McKinsey analyst, she discovered crowd funding while working on a project at McKinsey. It fascinated her so much, she decided to say no to a U.S. job opportunity and flew […]
Madhumita Halder
I’m Madhumita Halder, Co-Founder of MadRat Games, and this is how I Lead from Within Madhumita Halder is the co-founder of MadRat Games, considered one of India’s most innovative startups. A computer-science graduate from IIT-Bombay, she left behind what seemed like an obvious career in technology to find and carve her own path in nurturing the […]