The Mohua Show

Ashu Kaur is a make up artist, a mother to three boys and an immigrant Indian living in UK since she was 19. She shares her entrepreneurial journey, which is a story of courage and conviction. Ashu Kaur loves to empower women with a look that they covet in their hearts. She supports new inventions as an esthetician for women who wish to enhance their beauty quotient. According to her beauty is abo...

Siddarth Abraham, A Hyper Monkey of a personality, Personal Trainer, Strength Coach, Kickboxing trainer, and a strong believer of a holistic approach to fitness and all things love and life. He believes that being fit should enable you to do what you'd like to do it when you like to do it without having to have an excuse as to why you are not doing it! He has been training people for 13 years...

Atikaa Ahluwalia shuttles between Kolkata and Bangalore and is Partner & Brand Head at Eina Ahluwalia. She is a survivor of Domestic Violence and is now a vocal activist for domestic violence awareness through her medium of online content creation. 🎙️ Tune in to today's episode of the MoodyMo Awaaz Podcast  listen to Atikaa's story Instagram: @ atikaa_ahluwalia Podcast in collaborati...

Meghna Khanna is an entrepreneur, the founder, and creative director behind Levitate, an old Bangalore Favourite ~ also touted as Bangalore’s best kept secret shopping destination when it was around, an avid motorcyclist and also featured in the Limca book of records as the 1st Indian woman to ride up to Khardung La pass, the highest motorable pass in the world. 🎙 Tune in to today's episode o...

Sanjay Kumar set up and ran London’s first ever counseling service for South Asian Gay and Bi-sexual men through the Naz Project London and has been conducting therapeutic groups through PACE for the past five years, offering support to gay and bisexual men from various ethnic backgrounds. He's an Integrative Psychotherapist with his own private practice at The Health and Wellness Centre of T...

Antra Bhargava is the CEO of SuVitas, an innovative healthcare startup in India that works on bridging the gap between hospitals and home. The programs range from rehabilitation for post-stroke recovery and other neurological issues to pulmonary rehab for COVID recovery patients, mixing clinical expertise with loving, family-like caregiving. Antra is a mother, a law graduate and chartered accounta...

Bharat Gupta is a creative and fashion consultant whose resume runs into several pages-- he's has made a huge mark in the industry. He has worked with brands including Puma, Asian Paints, Nykaa, DHL, Tata Capital, Olay, Colgate, he's the official stylist for Femina Miss India, Miss Diva India Universe and Mr. India pageants, and has styled Norah Fatehi, Taapsee Pannu, Shiamak Davar, Arma...

"Androgyny is a gender identity and it becomes part of your state of mind. You'll find that the so-called confusion on gender identity and the differences between feminine and masculine is a thin line in the world of androgyny. And when you start relating to that on a deep level, you gravitate towards this direction." Today's episode of MoodyMo Awaaz is with Queen Andro— we hav...

Today's episode is with Sal Yusuf, a much-loved actor in the South Indian film Industry. Sal was born to Cypriot immigrants in London. Gazing down upon the palatially Indian-inspired Brighton Pavilion, from a Polytechnic window, instilled awe. Little did he know then that this inspiration was to become a vision of his own personal Cinema Paradiso. He came to India in 2007 and has managed to c...

Did you spend your youth being passive about your sexual desires and needs? Most women do, and Pallavi Barnwal was no exception. But Pallavi turned her awakening into an inspiring career. She realized that the physical, emotional and spiritual connection between two people is one of the most honest spaces we will ever experience, where unfortunately dishonesty rules the game instead. And she wants...

“Oh, so you're are a model? What else do you do for a living?" Shweta Doli takes offence to this question. And with good reason. Shweta Dolli breaks myths for us in this episode. She tells us about her full life of discipline, wellness, and ambition, and the misconception that all models lead a life of drugs, sex, and compromises. Hear the gorgeous, firebrand, towering 5.11 ft tall mathe...

Bhavna is the founder of Artist Adda, a platform for budding and established artists to join hands and showcase their talent in a warm and unconventional environment. This monthly addebaazi is known for people coming in as strangers and leaving as friends, confidants and family members! And there's more.. Bhavna has not only been a media professional for almost two decades taking on branding...

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...