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Shubh Malhotra is the Style Director from India for London Fashion Week

Smriti Jaisinghani — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 07:32:41 +0000

Celebrity fashion and style guru Shubh Malhotra will be the Style Director – India for the prestigious London Fashion Week (LFW) to be held from September 16 to 20, 2022, as a digital-physical hybrid, styling both womenswear and menswear brands.

Presented by Clearpay, the LFW enables collaboration and brings together fashion, culture and technology. “Fashion represents constant change while style is an emotion. The combination creates a unique identity of yourself,” says Shubh Malhotra.

It’s a dream for every designer and stylist to be a part of the big four Fashion Weeks (the other three being in New York, Milan and Paris) and Shubh looks forward to the London Fashion Week “as part of a fashionable and meaningful journey of life.”

For the record, Shubh Malhotra is an acclaimed celebrity fashion and lifestyle designer, influencer, image consultant and brand mentor, a national and international pageant and fashion show director, a personality groomer, motivational speaker, a world peace leader, special educator (for the cause of autism in USA), and a filmmaker all rolled into one.

But Shubh’s accomplishments do not end there! She is also the founder-CEO of ChaiKoffee Entertainment, a director-producer of music videos and a screenplay writer for Hindi, Punjabi and Telugu films. She is the founder-CEO of Being Handloom Fashion (BHF).

BHF is a global fashion arena that has been devised and created with an aim to symbolize the Indian textile industry heritage, making handloom and khadi a fashionable movement and curating a new wave in sustainable fashion and social responsibility.

Last but not the least, Shubh Malhotra is a philanthropist and the founder of Shubh Astha Foundation. The foundation promotes women empowerment with a mission to contribute towards transforming lives and communities through upliftment of the society. It focuses on social welfare reforms and projects related to health, autism awareness, education, Go Green campaigns and skill development, in the process, assisting reliance to lead a better life.

For her progressive work, Shubh has received numerous national and international awards. She has been honoured with the Rashtriya Ratna Fashion and Style Icon Award 2022 from His excellency Governor Of Kerala, Hon. Arif Mohd Khan and RSS leader Hon. Indresh Kumar. She has also received the Fashion Icon Award by Ashtalakshmi Awards, the Dadasaheb Phalke Icon Award and the Women of Substance Award from Star of the Nation Indus International Awards.

She has been the Maharashtra Women’s Wing Cell President for the Sanyukt Vyapar Mandal. Shubh has also been felicitated as the Youth Women Icon of India by Jai Ho Foundation and has been an ambassador for the Navi Mumbai Fashion Week as well as for LIFT Academy focusing on empowering women. All this and more makes Shubh Malhotra a truly multi-faceted personality.

Famous quotes to live and implement in life by Shiv Nadar

Shivya Kumar — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 13:10:18 +0000

Shiv Nadar is another one of India’s famous personalities. He is also the founding head of HCL Technologies making him one of the richest businessmen in India. In the year 2008, he was also facilitated with Padam Bhusan with an accommodating net of 25 million US dollars. He has served to be an inspiration for a lot of Indian businessmen and has continued to account great work serving motivation for a lot of Individuals which is why we have listed some of the top quotes by him:

We need a world-class institution that will create leaders out of the children who have not had a good start in life
The younger you are, the more courage and audacity you will have to set long-term goals and be there to personally work towards your vision
If you are calm about your aspiration and ambitions, then you become confident of achieving what you set out to do.
If you have excellent people, then you have to give them the power.
Adaptability and constant innovation are key to the survival of any company operating in a competitive market.
I admire companies that give back to communities. It is absolute essential for organisations to watch, mitigate, and improve their impact on the environment, people, communities, their health and overall well-being. This is a necessary condition, not a sufficient condition.
When you are running a business, there is a constant need to reinvent yourself. One should have the foresight to stay ahead during times of rapid change and rid oneself of stickiness in any form in the business.
It is always good to start at a younger age. The only crucial thing is, to carve out your vision and assess your readiness to begin giving. And the commitment and purpose are core to give.
Education is and will be the most powerful tool for individual and social change, and we must do all that it takes to facilitate it.
Like education, healthcare also needs to be given importance.

EdTech startup Vedantu to announce quantum this month

Aayushi Singh — Sat, 07 Aug 2021 15:52:18 +0000

Vedantu, an EdTech firm, has been in the middle of fundraising and has intended to announce the quantum this month, after refuting allegations of a takeover by BYJU’s.

Vamsi Krishna, Vedantu’s co-founder and CEO, had mentioned in an interview that the firm had received many calls from suppliers since the media reported on BYJU’s acquisition of Vedantu on August 6.

Their investors had all been in the company for a long time and were well aware of the rumours. Krishna said that they were lucky to have their support.

He said that currently Vedantu was expanding three times each year and they had no plans to be bought and any suggestions of their purchase would be just fictional. He added to say that they would be continuing to construct Vedantu.

When asked about the impact of common investors on BYJU’s and Vedantu, Krishna pointed out that Tiger Global is the sole common investor between the two EdTech companies. Krishna also said that Tiger Global had elected not to accept a board seat in Vedantu, as they had done in the past with previous investments.

Vedantu had intended to use the funds raised to expand its K-12 services. Krishna mentioned that they would always be open to acquisitions, but their investments would be committed to improving teaching experiences, expanding their reach, and delivering their courses as they strived to enhance student outcomes.

Vedantu, which was founded in 2011 by Krishna, Pulkit Jain, Anand Prakash, and Saurabh Saxena, now supports dynamic coaching courses for K12 students, including for admission examinations such as IIT-JEE Main and Advanced for engineering and NEET for medical institutions.

It offers lessons for CBSE, ICSE, and other state boards, and also sample question papers, revision notes, mock exams, and previous year’s examinations. Vedantu claims 27 million monthly website traffic and 68 million monthly YouTube views. Many of these clients receive Vedantu’s services for free, but the magnitude reflects the company’s rising popularity.

It has 200,000 paying subscribers, which has increased fourfold in the last year.

Karan Bajaj leaves WhiteHat Jr, Trupti Mukker to take over position

Aayushi Singh — Wed, 04 Aug 2021 09:32:26 +0000

The CEO and Founder, Karan Bajaj, of the online learning platform WhiteHat Jr, has moved on to start the next chapter of his life and the Head of Customer and Delivery, Trupti Mukker, would be the lead of the organisation.

Byju Raveendran, the Founder and CEO of the leading edtech firm Bjju’s had sent an internal email to its employees which said that Karan was ready to progress onto the next chapter of his life and that they had mutually decided at the time of acquisition.

Mr Raveendran said in the email that in the current week, they would have completed one year of joining of the WhiteHat Jr in the Byju’s family. He mentioned Trupti Mukker would lead the organisation which was skilfully supported by the strong leadership team that was set up by Karan and Byju. Mr Raveendran was the Head of Customer Experience and Delivery.
He was the Head of Customer Experience and Delivery.

In the previous year, Byju’s acquired WhiteHat Jr, a Mumbai based live online coding provider, in an all cash deal of worth $300 million.
In 2018, WhiteHat Jr was founded by Bajaj with a vision to make children creators of technology rather than being passive consumers of it.

The WhiteHat Jr has forayed into 1:1 online music classes, and also brought up physical digital blended coding curriculum to Indian Schools with an aim to teach over 10 lakh students till the next academic year, originally WhiteHat Jr was only a Math and Coding learning platform.

According to Raveendran, WhiteHat Jr and Byju’s Future School, under Bajaj’s leadership, would allow many students in the world daily to learn and create with more than 11,000 teachers.

Bajaj said that he would be fully present in the transition and intends to carve out a career in public interest as the next step.

Bajaj had said that three years ago, WhiteHat Jr was just an idea and now they were a team of more than 17,000 employees and teachers in countries around the world, like India, UK, Australia, US and Latin America, etc.

Bajaj had written three bestseller novels which were published by HarperCollins-India and Penguin Random House. His three novels were Keep off the Grass, Johnny Gone Down, and The Seeker, in India, these novels altogether sold over 200,000 copies.

Bajaj served as the CEO for Discovery South Asia, he was a graduate of IIM Banglore.
Bajaj in the past had been associated with companies like P&G, BCG and Kraft Foods Group.

Currently, more than 11,000-strong teacher workforce conducts thousands of Live Coding, Math and Music online classes every day on its platform.

Cumulatively, the company has conducted more than 8.5 million classes to date.