S5E04 Lumière Learning Monday With Rekha Kotia Catch the Lumière Learning Monday with host Deepa Soman, 🎙️ in conversation with Rekha Koita, Co-Founder and Director of Koita Foundation, which focuses on digitally transforming nonprofit operations to optimize performance and growth 📈. Rekha is passionate about education, healthcare, and livelihoods. Her work includes spearheading digital health projects in India,🖥️ such as the Koita Centre for Digital Health, and contribut

In this episode of #StartupSaturday, 🎙️ host Deepa Soman talks to Rahul Verma, Founder and Director of Frubon, a dairy and ice cream brand under Dev Milk Foods Pvt. Ltd. 🍦 An alumnus of IIT Bombay (B. Tech & M. Tech) and IIM Ahmedabad (PGDM), Rahul spent a decade in the banking sector across Hong Kong, Singapore, and Tokyo. 🌏 Under his leadership, Frubon has grown into a significant player in the dairy industry. The brand is committed to providing innovative and high-quali

A Legacy of Empowerment: Mrinalini Kher’s Vision for a Better Tomorrow Catch the Lumière Learning Monday with host Deepa Soman in conversation with Mrinalini Kher, a passionate social worker with over 20 years of dedicated service in the social welfare sector. Co-founder of Yuva Parivartan (YP), a transformative project of the Kherwadi Social Welfare Association (KSWA), she also serves as Honorary Secretary and Trustee. Under her leadership, YP has grown into one of the large

We have been doing Lumière Learning Mondays, inviting inspiring people to engage with the team at the Lumière office. During Covid, we transitioned Learning Mondays to an online video podcast featuring two-hour conversations with guests to delve into their journeys. The sessions were aired live on Zoom Webinar and later on YouTube. A snapshot of an event aired in 2020 We launched other online events, such as Torchbearer Thursday and CMA Samvaad , each with specific inspirati

An engineer turned marketing fanatic Rajesh Srivastava has had one heck of a professional journey. After finishing his engineering at IIT Kanpur, he went to IIM Bangalore - "I thought I would be a bad engineer. So I decided to do what the world is doing. I joined the MBA program." Post his MBA, he joined the alcoholic beverage industry, which is very unlike his personality. This shy marketing enthusiast, who disliked partying, has helped create the finest and most popular alc

“Allow your passion to become your purpose and it will one day become your profession.” A conventional path from the beginning Anil Nair, CEO of St. Jude India Childcare Centres was our guest for the Lumiere Learning Monday session on 4 July. At first glance, he comes across as quiet and unassuming but underneath it all lies a wealth of knowledge, leadership, and a passion for helping others. His journey was pretty much a conventional one - he went to the “ right schools and

Wise Wednesday guest speaker Dr. T V Sairam is a founder-member of the Nada Centre for Music Therapy (2004) and the Indian Music Therapy Association (2018). He identifies himself as a former administrator, economist, ethnobotanist, and musicologist. He is a retired civil servant (IRS). He has done pioneering research on herbs, alternative medicine, environment, art, aesthetics, architecture, music therapy, and nada yoga in India for the last 30 years. He has written over 350

Dr. Sarita Subramaniam, Director, Earth Brigade Foundation our Lumiere Learning Monday guest, is a multi-faceted professional who raises the bar in everything she does. A dentist with over 32 years of experience, Sarita describes herself as an "incurable animal lover, nature aficionado, forest conserver, animal activist, tiger savior, and philanthropist". Born to pet-loving parents, Sarita grew up in a tiny urban apartment with pet dogs. The close bond with dogs and their way

Hema Hattangady shares her life’s journey on Lumiere Learning Monday. She is a Mentor, Author, Independent Director, and Former CEO of Conzerv systems Pvt. Ltd., acquired by Schneider Electric. Hema has a Bachelor's degree in Commerce and a Post Graduate Diploma in Management PGDM from the premier Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata. She also has a post-graduate diploma in French from Karnataka University. She has co-authored a book with Ashish Sen titled Lift Off - Trans

In 2017 we received an opportunity to conduct capacity building and leadership development for Setco Foundation. Setco Foundation started out as a CSR initiative of the Setco Auto Limited (SAL), a market leader in the manufacture of automotive clutches. When Urja Shah, the creative and strategic thinking President of the Foundation invited us to work with them, she had done the necessary due diligence. Our client list included St. Jude Childcare Centres (SJCC) doing exemplary

An accomplished vocalist and an independent Qualitative Market Research consultant, Deepti Rege worked as a core team member of Lumiere before she set herself up as an independent. Deepti talks about how she navigated her journey. She talks about how she observed, understood, and rewired her thinking to change the course of her destiny. M&M - Music and Moderation Talent and a deep interest in music led Deepti to become an accomplished vocalist with a Master's degree in Music

Manisha Kapoor, is currently the Secretary General of The Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI). A multi-faceted professional, she has been a brand marketer and a consultant. Manisha has helped companies establish and nurture brands through brand building, new product development, marketing and media strategy development. She has helped businesses grow and differentiate through integration of social development goals into business and brand strategy. In her current ro

Written by Juili Dharmadhikari and Deepa Soman Planning and Preparing It was after I interviewed Soundari Mukherjea on Learning Monday, that I learned about one more facet to her persona - pottery! The potter's wheel is a metaphor for God's creation of "clay", man. As a people collector, I lend a platform for interesting people to talk about their life and work on the Lumiere Learning Monday. A person has many layers and the longer one's history with a person, the more storie

Nature as Teacher Vijaya's curiosity and intelligence were shaped in her growing up close to nature in the deep Western Ghats. She learned about wild fruits and birds. St. Xavier's College opened up another world. Libraries jostled besides movie halls. Her academic, cultural and nature education had begun. Movies and books became her teachers along side learning via nature trails with the Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) and Friends of Trees (FOT). Xavier's has been one

Discovering Eleanor's Magic We were preparing for a Lumiere Learning Monday session by Ramesh Lakshman. I got interested in the subject and attended a session by Eleanor Crisswell Hanna, his teacher of Somatic Yoga. After the event I spoke to Ramesh about trying Somatics for my frozen shoulder. I had taken a few physiotherapy sessions by then but was not taking any medication. I attended an 8-week program called "Myth of Ageing" with Ramesh Lakshman and invited friends in my

~ Esha Mohol and Deepa Soman Torchbearer Thursday Grand Finale The season finale of the Torchbearer Thursday series is a tribute to women, work and well-being, a cause that reflects the Lumiere purpose. Madhura Dasgupta Sinha and Reema Sen, co-founders of Aspire For Her have initiated a movement to offer mentoring and guidance to women to take ownership of their careers.  "Our mission is to motivate women to enter and stay in the workforce and we want to add 1 million women t

Illustration: Nisheel Shetty This episode of Torchbearer Thursday is dedicated to those individuals who thrive a little differently amongst us; in conversation with Dr. Tatyana Dias, neurobiologist and co-founder of Veruschka Foundation where she lets us into the dreams and lives of individuals afflicted with developmental disabilities.  Sister Act - Tatyana and Versuscha Tatyana's younger sister, Veruschka was born in Mumbai, 1988; a time and place where there wasn't enough

वर्तमान भारत का इतिहास भी यथार्थ में विविध संस्कृतियों के संघर्षों एवं संग्रहों का इतिहास है. -लक्ष्मणशास्त्री जोशी “The history of present day India is also a history of the struggles and compilations of varied cultures.” Lakshman Shastri Joshi Introduction Learning Monday guest speaker, Jhankar Gadkari, is a history and culture lover. Founder and Managing Consultant of AEIOU Consulting, his firm specializes in transforming human capital through the framework of Emotional In

By Shreya Basu and Deepa Soman Singing connects an individual directly to another’s soul.  Radhika Sood Nayak with her Tanpura The Lumière Learning Monday on 24th of May, had Sufi Singer & Composer - Radhika Sood Nayak as guest. Radhika talks about her journey as a child "with a voice" and her journey as Hindustani classical singer, to a Sufi music composer and singer. “Sufi poetry is woven around themes of love for the divine, renouncing empty rituals and man-made hierarchie

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