Project Spark

Discover Sneha's journey, from a fresh graduate to a trailblazing entrepreneur in India's music industry, in this latest sparkable. From how Score Magazine evolved from a coffee table publication to a pioneering digital platform, to how Sneha and her partner, Prakash, have always strived to be ahead of their times, Sneha shares insights on balancing work and personal life, working with her...

Explore the fascinating world of death tourism with Dr. Minakshi Dewan as she delves into her enlightening book, "The Final Farewell". In this podcast, I unravel the intricate tapestry of death rituals in India, where tradition and spirituality intertwine with modern practices. Dr. Dewan eloquently breaks down how different communities across India approach death and final rites, sheddin...

If there was one takeaway for me from this conversation with Mahitha Ravilla, it was to take control of your narrative. How you own your story and stay rooted to where you come from, will determine your future, is how Mahitha ended this absolutely intriguing conversation while we broke down why she decided to become a storyteller, how stories have the power to change societal discourse and what it...

Unfiltered is certainly beautiful and that's what this episode stands for. Dr. Anjali Raj Westwood has been working with mothers at various stages of their journey for more than a decade in South Asia and now in the UK only to get a holistic view of how motherhood and parenthood are construed; how mothers are underrepresented and why they do not necessarily believe in getting help, while fathe...

Wonder what the 4Ts are? Tools, Treasure, Toys & Trash - an approach that Aanchal Kejriwal and her team at Arrange It All conceptualised in order to help people navigate through their decluttering and organising needs. With the vision of creating happy zones for her clients and allowing them to bring to life their stories and personalities through their homes, Anachal and her team are on a Mar...

Stories are all around us - you are either telling them, listening to them or you are simply part of one. And more often than not, they are indeed tools of change, as Janaki calls them. Janaki Sabesh believes that any story harnesses the power to help create that tiny spark that has the ability to change perspectives in children and adults alike.

"A little bit of magic" is how Sudipta describes the story of her life. Throughout her life, she has had various opportunities to pursue her passion for stories as a career and now at 62, she remains unstoppable where she wouldn't stop telling them stories but continues to harvest them as well. Sudipta proudly calls herself a storyteller and a story harvester and it all began when he...

If something that you do gives you joy, you don't ever feel the pressure to actually "do" it. It just flows naturally and there is no stopping you from progressing in your own terms. This has been Aishwarya Vohra's way of life since she discovered her love illustrating a few years ago. From sketching baby gods and goddesses to bringing her own "illustrative" self alive...

Dhwani's passion for food, cooking and feeding people around her is deep rooted. Having grown up in a household where every single person was involved right from packing her dabba to school, to her dear maternal paati making her famous rasam every afternoon, food and therefore cooking became Dhwani's second nature. Paati's Rasam is autobiographical as Dhwani calls it, where she decided...

Has a piece of art ever stopped you on your tracks and have you stared at it for a while only to realize that it evokes something in you? Something that you may have forgotten about or have hidden away in a safe corner? This is exactly what Anu's painting did to me exactly a year ago. An intuitive painter, Anu's purpose in life is to create something from scratch that allows people to &quo...

Having grown in a household where the power balance was equal, becoming a feminist was pretty much the only way to go for Smriti Lamech and it continues till date. As a woman of her word, it was only fair that she decided to kick off a movement that came to life pretty much overnight, with her feminist rag dolls aka bommais as she fondly calls them. Seeing Wonder Woman crash through the ceiling wa...

Nature is at the very core of any living being's survival and the irony of human being ignoring this very component and instead thinking of various other ways to survive leaves Sara pretty perplexed. A certified early years educator and a professional nature and animal communicator, Sara's purpose in life is to create a silent revolution of compassion. And to do so, she believes that it is...

Shivani decided to take the entrepreneurial plunge when her daughter was still an infant and close to two years on, Rashki is a brand with the vision towards building lifestyle products specifically for women. Catering to the women of the age-old multitasking era, the brand's purpose is to ultimately hand over the power to women to truly be themselves at the workplace and in fact, practically...

As a graphic designer by qualification, Sudipta Basu, over the years has found her niche of how she can bring in her love for design and art to life with Due To Hue. Her spark to bring this to life on multiple surfaces while experimenting with different textures took over and thus, Due To Hue was born. But the twist to the post comes in where she believes it is pertinent that everything she does t...

When Amritha's dad father decided it was time to have one of his daughters take on the reigns of Hindustan Trading Company, Amritha made sure it was important for her to learn on-the-job as she did when she first started counting cash at the age of 11. There's been no looking back ever since. HTC--as residents of Chennai call it fondly till date--is at the core of the art scene in India; f...

Subadra discovered her love for art and colours about 8 years ago when she was actively looking for a hobby. Having found a niche in giving Indian art forms her own twist with a bit of her personality, Subadra today sees colours everywhere and is constantly wondering how that palette can translate to a canvas. Her relationship with art is slow but steady, something that gives her joy, something th...

Mathangi Kumar was all of 7 years old when she started cooking in the kitchen with her mother. Fast forward to today, that's where she gets her energy from. Having graduated from Le Cordon Bleu at the age of 23 and starting That Madras Place less than a year later, this formidable chef was hardly spending any time in the kitchen, cooking up a storm. She was now not a chef, but a business owner...

As two scientists by training, Gayatri and Sanjana felt it was important to provide the right kind of information to women--specifically about midlife health--in the light of COVID. Women have always been curious about their health but don't know where to look for this information and thus, Miyara Women was set up to address this gap. However, as we all know, old habits are hard to change, and...

In this unfiltered conversation with Abirami Dusshyanth, Founder of HonestPad, we've dwelled deep into a subject that unfortunately still needs to be spoken about - period stigma. One one hand, HonestPad is all about being 100% safe and transparent about what goes in making each and every pad which is INR 2 more than a Whisper pad and on the other, Abirami's larger vision of creating acces...

Hailing from Bhilai, Chhattisgarh, Nikhat Sheikh decided it was important for her to respect her parents' wishes and decided to build her business from home. Seven years on (and counting), Nikhat is one of the few successful surface pattern designers in the country today. While she runs an extremely successful business, nothing has stopped her from sharing her purpose-filled passion with those...

Jayashree Ratan never imagined that she would be able to gather 400+ crocheting and knitting enthusiasts from different parts of the world to come together for one collective purpose - to help women who have been through mastectomies to regain a sense of self with the help of their huggable knockers. As of February 2023, this wonderful group has knitted and crocheted and knitted over 10,000 knocke...

Unless you learned swimming voluntarily, it is almost a fair assumption to make that you did not enjoy the experience. For an activity that results in a life skill, a good learning experience should be a bare minimum right? That is all Nirala wanted to bring to the pool. A way to get kids to love water and willingly put their heads in and swim even before they learned to walk! And after working wi...

After having founded Arture Designs back in 2015 which is now pretty much on auto pilot mode, Shivani decided it was time to pick up that brush again and paint because she enjoyed doing so. The pandemic was pretty much a turning point for her where she tapped into that natural instinct of wanting to dabble with yet another medium and this time, it was Gouache. The rest is pretty much history.&nbsp...

Sukanya, a photographer from Chennai is a storyteller whose purpose is to make people fall in themselves all over again just by showing them what she sees through her window of happiness. As someone who believes that storytelling is possible only when you are being honest with yourself as the storyteller on one hand, while you get the protagonist to be honest on the other hand, Listen in as our co...

What do you think of when you listen to the word 'Instagram Influencer'? Someone who has thousands of followers, who collaborates with the biggest brands and hardly responds to comments? 😅 Now, meet Dhanya Srinath, an Instagram Influencer who is very different from 'that definition' of an influencer. Her authenticity is her USP and her love for community building is her strength. You can binge wa...