Category: Business Profile

Shevantika, Co-Founder and COO of Mimblu

Shevantika Nanda is the Co-founder and the COO of Mimblu – India’s first text-based app that enables affordable and accessible mental health care via texting, sharing voice notes or scheduling video calls with the right professional therapist as perconvenience.

A trained psychologist with diverse experience in the mental healthcare space for over 9 years now, Shevantika has pursued her undergraduate degree in Psychology and Neuroscience from the University of St Andrews in the UK before completing her Master’s in Psychology from the University of Delhi.

While she took her first few steps in the industry as a research intern at the University of St Andrews, it was her internship stint at VIMHANS in Delhi that truly opened her eyes to the pervasiveness of mental health struggles amongst people from all walks of life.Over the years, she has worked at a variety of institutes, including Medanta – the Medicity. Not just that, but she also has been running her private practice for six years now. Shevantika describes her professional journey as having its own ups and downs. She remarks that although difficult and emotionally burdensome at first, she learnt how to survive in this profession over time by developing boundaries, a thick skin and taking care of her own mental health.

The cause of mental well-being has always been close to Shevantika’s heart. Being a therapist herself, she genuinely believes in what Mimblu stands for and shares its philosophy of making quality mental healthcare accessible to all. Her role at Mimblu sees her streamlining mental health practices and bringing uniformity for the app’s users while also providing the therapists with the right kind of support. She personally envisions helping build and grow Mimblu into an app synonymous with accessible mental healthcare.

Shevantika has also contributed a chapter in the book – Covid-19 biopsychosocial perspectives. Additionally, she regularly contributes to articles in notable publications like The Hindu, Times of India and Mint Lounge, amongst others.

Furthermore, having internalised the importance of hard work and perseverance from her mother, Shevantika firmly believes that working hard is essential to achieving your goals. She loves nature and the outdoors. When at leisure, she likes to birdwatch, go on safaris as well as ski. She also likes to unwind by solving jigsaw puzzles, sudoku or building model cars.

IOD felicitates Public and Private Sectors Corporates-Winners of Golden Peacock Awards for CSR and HR Excellence

New Delhi, June 2022: It was a grand gala get together for public and private sector corporates. For some of the big corporates, it was a big time to celebrate their success stories in Corporate Excellence including Social Responsibility (CSR), HR Excellence, Innovation Managment, and Risk Management. Public and Private Sectors Corporates who excelled in their CSR and HR Excellence were felicitated by the Institute of Directors (IOD) for winning the Golden Peacock Awards.

Some of the award winners were from the leading industry and business groups, both public and private sectors from India and abroad namely Amazon Web Services, USA, Tristar Group, UAE, PTT Exploration and Production Public Company, Thailand, Toyota Kirloskar Motor, Bosch Automotive Electronics India, Coromandel International, Muthoot Finance Limited, GAIL (India) Limited, JSW Steel and Reliance Industries Limited. GAIL bags the Golden Peacock Award for CSR in the Gas sector.

Union Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs and Culture, Government of India Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal gave away these coveted awards at a function organised in New Delhi on Friday. The Minister was the Chief Guest at the Golden Peacock Awards ceremony and presented the awards for the Corporate Social Responsibility, HR Excellence, Risk Management and Innovation Management for the year 2021.

On the occasion, Mr Ashok Kapur IAS (Retd), Director General, Institute Of Directors said, “We are delighted to felicitate the winners of Golden Peacock Awards 2021. Golden Peacock Awards, instituted by the IOD in 1991, are now regarded as a Holy Grail of Corporate Excellence Worldwide.”

The International Conference was Inaugurated by Mr Atanu Chakraborty, Chairman, HDFC Bank and former Finance Secretary, Govt. of India, Mr KunalSanghavi, CFO, HDFC Securities, Mr NavneetMunot, MD & CEO, HDFC AMC, Mr Vivek Kumar Dewangan IAS, CMD, RECL. More than 300 Corporate Delegates from India and other different parts of the world such as the UK, USA, UAE, Thailand, Russia and Malaysia attended the function.

Prof. (Judge) Mervyn E. King SC, Chairman, King Committee on Corporate Governance, Chair Emeritus, International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) & Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) was the ‘Guest of Honour’ and delivered the ‘Keynote Address’ through online. Prof. David Grayson CBE, Emeritus Professor of Corporate Responsibility, Cranfield School of Management, UK, delivered the Special Address virtually.

Mr Manoj Joshi IAS, Secretary, Housing and Urban Affairs, India, Ms Vini Mahajan IAS, Secretary, Drinking Water and Sanitation, India also delivered the special address at the International Conference.

Abhimanyu Singh, a young entrepreneur and a social activist…

Abhimanyu Singh is a member of Bhartiya Janta Party and a young entrepreneur at the helm of the DAH Group and Trustee of Maruti Educational Trust. Having successfully completed his education from the University of Coventry, United Kingdom, where he was awarded degree in Masters in Global Business, today he is deeply involved in serving the people through social initiatives aimed for nation building. He strives to be the voice of India’s youth, and the flag-bearer of Maa Bharti’s pride.

His father Thakur Jaivir Singh is currently a Member of Legislative Assembly(MLA) from the Barauli Vidhan Sabha, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh. Thakur Jaivir Singh was previously elected as a Member of Legislative Assembly(MLA) from 2002-2007 and was appointed as a Cabinet Minister in the Uttar Pradesh Government. He was re-elected as a Member of Legislative Assembly(MLA) from 2007-2012 and was re-appointed as the Cabinet minister in the Uttar Pradesh Government. He served as a Member of Legislative Council(MLC) from 2012-2017 and then again from 2018-2022.

His mother Smt. Rajkumari Chauhan was a Member of Parliament from the Aligarh Constituency in the the 15th Lok Sabha of India.
Abhimanyu Singh has been raised to serve the people. He upholds his core ideals strongly irrespective of the situation facing him, at the same time as relentless pursuing every objective that he has to accomplish. He brings the perfect amalgamation of innovation through his entrepreneurial idea coupled with idealism and pragmatism of creating livelihood and positive indelible mark into the lives of people.

Hyderabad-based Designer Aaliya Deeba, known for her elegant and bridal collections

Aaliya Deeba is the creative force behind the label ‘Ideebs London’, a brand that has over the years cemented top spot place amongst Hyderabad’s leading Fashion couture Houses.

After completing her Fashion course from London’s Central Saint Martin, Aaliya returned to India and started setting a vision for expanding her studio, which is known as Ideebs London.Aaliya Deeba is respected for her combination of intricate traditional embellishments, flattering silhouettes and attention to detail. Each collection is conceived with glamour, elegance and versatility in mind. This year IDEEBS has launched casual ready to wear diffusion line and in coming day they also plan to launch an e-store where customers across the globe can purchase pret collection. In a short span of 8 years, Aaliya has expanded her label and created an effective and influential place for Ideebs London in the fashion industry.

IDeebs London is synonymous with elegance, grandeur and luxury. Established in 2015, Aaliya Deeba is the founder and creative director behind the label and the fashion house. The brand gained early success because of its intricately detailed, grandeur styled craft, and luxurious bridal wear with customised body-conscious silhouettes. Recently Ideebs has also launched Casual collection. With regularly updated designs, this line is proving to be very successful with cosmopolitan women who do not want to compromise on elegance or quality in their daily wear.

The brand is indispensable for those who will settle for nothing less than international standards of quality and stitching detail in their traditional bridal or casual wear. The design team labours over every detail of their creations, employing intricate hand stitching as well as other classic and modern techniques. This label has an eye on international fashion and its heart in real, accessible clothes that not only look beautiful, but also make the wearer feel confident and radiant. Modern or traditional, heavily worked or elegantly embellished, haute couture or ready to wear prey; everything designed in our studios is timeless and beautiful.

Network marketing changed the life of KD Kuldeep

“Never let success get to your head; never let failure get to your heart” might be a quote that no one knows who wrote, but it tells a lot about how a person should walk the road of success.

One such story is of a simple man from a small village who knew he wanted something big in his life – Mr. Kuldeep Singh, a network marketing entrepreneur and a business coach – a 37-year-old man coming from  Shyampur Jatt (a small village near Hapur), Uttar Pradesh – who always wanted to shift to Delhi and live a different life than his hometown.

Though he did not like studying much, yet wanted to have a larger-than-life experience. The entrepreneur comes from a farmers’ family and a town that emphasizes competitive exams and Army training. Differing from the society that wanted to decide his fate, Mr. Kuldeep came to Delhi as he was offered a job in the DMRC in 2005. However, this was not the happy ending he was aspiring for; life has some more struggles planned for him. The job was a scam, and now he had two options – go back to his hometown and tell everyone he failed or stay in Delhi and make something out of his life. Being a strong-headed person, he decided to stay in the city and figure out his life. To survive in Delhi, he got a job to work as an assistant to a person in water purifying sales and service. At that time, his salary was only Rs 1500 per month.

He tried the taste of different waters and worked in the retail sector – customer service – for some time to sustain his life in Delhi.

In 2011, when he got married to Mrs. Durga Singh, he knew this could not keep going on. He needs to stick to one profession and make something out of it for his family. Mr. Kuldeep and his wife enrolled in a hairstyling course at VLCC in 2014. A year later, they started working in reputed salons as hairstylists, and they knew this was the field they wanted to invest in – with effort and time.

The idea was to make a salon network and grow a brand with people working under them and salon outlets worldwide.

A friend introduced Mr. Kuldeep to the world of Direct network marketing, to which he did not pay much attention in 2014. However, in 2016, that friend convinced Mr. Kuldeep to work with Vestige Marketing Pvt. Ltd, and that is when Mr. Kuldeep thought of giving direct marketing a try.

He started working part-time in the network marketing industry in July 2016. He continued to work as a hairstylist in the salon. However, in November, he quit his job to continue as a network marketer full time.

Dealing in FMCG, health, and wellness products, Mr. Kuldeep has a team of lakhs of people working with him. Some of the family’s incomes have surpassed lakhs in a short period.

Mr. Kuldeep Singh has managed to attain his dream life by venturing into direct selling marketing, and now, he mentors thousands of people to achieve their dreams.

We have often heard that good things take time; they did in the case of this highly motivated entrepreneur. And in the end, it was all worth it. So, if you are a dreamer, believe in your dreams and take that one risk to make it happen.