Women Entrepreneurship to Surge 90% in Next 5 Years: Study
While the study has reported an improvement in socio-cultural aspects for women due to entrepreneurship, it has also revealed that there are still significant gaps
Women Entrepreneurs of India
Foolishly Brave, That’s How I Like To Refer To Myself, And This Is My Story
Sometimes we use materials made from pineapple, cactus and more to experiment how we can create fashion out of sustainable things. Wasn’t easy to first create a business, then live with motherhood guilt and go against the grain of your parents. Here’s my story.
Meet Meghana Rao Whose Indoor Plants Are Adding Chlorofill To Homes
Landscaping was always my dream started gardening at the age of 10 learnt about plants by passion took me 10 years to get here and launch Chlorofill.
Kerala to set up India’s first Global Trade Center for Women
In an initiative to accelerate women entrepreneurship and secure gender parity, Kerala will set up India’s first International Women’s Trade Centre (iWTC), under the Gender Park in line with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in Kozhikode. A key project of the state’s Gender Park under the Department of Social Justice, it is envisaged […]
Angel Tax Removed For Start-Ups, Says Finance Minister
The Finance Minister also announced that the ‘angel tax’ provision will be withdrawn for startups and their investors. Angel Tax for startups dropped; Section 56(2) (viib) shall not be applicable to startups registered under DPIIT. To mitigate genuine difficulties of startups, the Centre will set up cell led by member of CBDT for addressing problems […]
Why I said, ‘I Do’ To The Indian Wedding Business Says An Investment Banker
I don’t have a background in weddings, but when I came across the space in 2014 when witnessing a friend plan her sister’s wedding, it fascinated me. Weddings are a social and cultural centre of communities in India, hugely influential in film and fashion, massive, emotional family milestones but still at the same time so […]
Introducing gender lens investing. It’s more than pink-washing
Since mid-last year, Wall Street investors in sensitive industries have been insisting on so-called “Weinstein clauses”, that allow them to claw back their money if revelations of inappropriate behaviour damage the business. It’s a mere part of something bigger, called gender lens investing, that goes way beyond the earlier concept of pink washing. Danielle Logue and […]
Meet The Mother Behind India’s Eco-Friendly Cloth Diaper Brand
Pallavi Utagi got really tensed when her baby got her first diaper rash. That was when she realised the negative impact of disposable diapers on baby’s skin and also how the diapers were extremely harmful for the environment with each diaper lasting 500+ years. That’s when she began exploring options for high-performance cloth diapers and found that […]
The Pursuit of Making Shoes Taking Myriad Shapes, Pooja Thakur
Can intricate moorings of a metropolitan carve a career for an explorer? How a city that has been celebrated by authors in their satirical outpourings can become a fancy of an archetypal small townie? The quest for this answer can be cut short if one turns his or her attention to the journey of Pooja […]
My Story: Journey of Indian technocrat becoming Social Activist
Mine was family of four, myself, younger brother and parents. My dad was in Indian Airforce, and with him we travelled a lot because of his transferable job, lived in almost all states of India and imbibed bits of every cultures. So now when somebody ask me a simple question where are you from? I […]
