The Mohua Show

When you meet a man who wishes to preserve the tradition of the Sari it's like a breath of fresh air. Manish Saksena doesn't just love the sari but has made it his profession. He narrates to us how the simple act of watching the process of his mother starching her cotton saris in the dry heat of Delhi, made him fall in love with the garment forever. Manish is the lead advisor for Aadyam...

Omal Paul, a landscape artist, writer and healer, left London and her finance job to return to India to create beautiful gardens in offices and homes. She says she finds god in the little saplings that rage to grow out of the hard crust of the earth and blossom into a flowering tree. Listen now to our episode with the eccentric and firebrand Omal, speaking her mind in her signature style: about li...

Dhanya Ramkumar is the "new kid on the block" to watch out for. She embodies the values that her grandfather, the late, great actor Dr. Rajkumar was famous for, as well as the talent, vibrant aesthetic and daring of the new generation of actors. Dhanya is soon going to be seen in her debut Kannada film Ninna Sanihake. Today she's having a candid chat with us, talking about the craft...

Today's guest is Kapila Chandran, Associate Vice President of Marketing at the pan-India Urban Development company, Virtuous Retail (VR). Apart from being at the top of her game no matter what she does, Kapila broke the norm and decided to have a baby after her divorce.  How many of us women worry in our 20s about our impending "deadline" to start a family? How many times have we he...

Welcome to the very first episode of the MoodyMo Awaaz Podcast! On today's episode, our guest is the awesome and inspiring Roshini Kumar. A photographer and their lens form the view of the world they inhabit. Roshni uses this art to create magic on subjects close to her heart. A cancer survivor, body positivity activist and member of the queer community, she teaches us that you can achieve an...

Introducing a whole new set of episodes on MoodyMo Awaaz starting this Saturday! I am an eternal optimist. I believe the age-old moral codes, social dynamics and what we're willing to expect from our lives are changing rapidly with time. So we will be talking to dreamers, believers and the rebels who are always giving the metaphorical middle finger when others tell them that they are crazy to...

Independence Day 2020. As the tricolour unfolds today we pray for a country where truly the mind is without fear and the head is held high. Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free Where the world has not been broken up into fragments By narrow domestic walls Where words come out from the depth of truth Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perf...

In her art lay a heart full of hope mixed with hopelessness, and love and also the pain of being unloved. Frida is an enigma, a paradox, a totality of womanhood. She taught us self love in most of her art, she remained her own muse forever. This is my letter to Diego Rivera, through the heart and pen of Frida Kahlo, that I had originally written on her birthday earlier this month. 🎙️ Thanks for Li...

We all seek love. We die and live for love. The kind of love that can conquer and can destroy. Such is the power of love. Thanks for Listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The treat and the Trauma of Motherhood.  You constantly gravitate to get acknowledgement during the child’s hormonal years and that’s pretty daunting for many. You glow in your child’s praise of you and also your sense of self many times comes from this space. Most often they are dealing with their growing pangs and the easy target is the mother. It’s a seesaw of feelings. After the children have...

He is the feisty activist sort you associate with those fighting for factory workers, labour laws, and against human injustice. He is fiercely honest, extremely well-read, finds refuge in cinema, art, books etc, yet remains highly aligned to his age-old ideology and political views which seem stubborn and childish to me as I grow older.  And yet, with his progressive views (back when progress was...

To me filmmaking is one of the most immersive forms of a visual and artistic medium of storytelling and the late Rituparno Ghosh is one of the finest storytellers. He has created a body of work with narratives that remain relevant even today. His subjects were a complex amalgamation of simple human feelings, poignant pieces from great works of literature and he dared to walk the path less trodden....

इस बार की ईद कुछ अलग है । As the sun sets for the night of the first sighting moon, we're praying for the situation to get better soon. But the ecstasy of celebrating this festival still remains the same. Though each of us is so far apart, in some ways we are all closer than we ever were. The Eid of 2020 will mark a historic celebration which will be one of its kind. And as with all great fes...

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As I sat on my desk to write about Tagore, the words were getting jumbled up in my mind and my pen was failing for words to sum up the enigma of Robi Thakur. I realized it is never easy to articulate about someone who is seamlessly present everyday in my life, from the break of dawn to the settling of dusk, his words and songs are played on a loop like a divine morning prayer. Thanks for Listening...

Hi I'm Mohua, and this is MoodyMo Awaaz.  Each episode of MoodyMo Awaaz is a journey through the minds and lives of achievers, people who inspire, leaders of industry, unsung heroes, stories that have moved us and also your favorite artists, writers and editors. We will travel together from the start of their big idea and their act of courage, which made them swim against the current to reach...