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

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

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

An exemplary teacher, devoted to inclusiveness is what defines our guest speak - Ms.Neena Jacob . She personifies acceptance, inclusiveness and compassion. Lead by example is her motto. She is currently one of the trustees at The Sethu Foundation , Goa. The core focus of The Sethu Foundation is to bring many more children into the mainstream education. A trained architect at the J J School of Art, Neena chose education as her profession. She has impacted the lives of ~ 45,000

A prolific writer, thinker, philosopher, trainer and a change maker are some of the descriptors for our guest speaker Dr. Priya M Vaidya. An Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy in the University of Mumbai, Priya has a doctorate in Swami Vivekananda's and Sri Aurobindo’s philosophy of education. She is passionate about bringing in a reflective and values-based approach in society. Naughty Child to a Reader From a young age, Dr. Priya had interesting questions a

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

Introduction Three words, Satyam Shivam Sundaram are a link to the value system for Indian Arts. In India, any classical and traditional art form is a medium to connect oneself to the divine. The first known piece of art, found in Bhimbetka rock shelters, in Madhya Pradesh is 30,000 years old. The Indus Valley Age and the Vedic Age put a very strong foundation for the development of Arts in various other forms such as Literature and Architecture. Our guest, Pratibha Iyer, Fou

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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Authors : Shreya Basu and Deepa Soman "The best way to predict the future is to create it." - Peter Drucker Prem Kumar Vislawath (Founder of Hepicopter) is a creator. He believes that technology and ingenuity can help us fight and defeat the COVID-19 pandemic. His company, Marut Dronetech, is building use cases to show the potential of their remotely piloted devices, in these times of social distancing and mass lockdowns. "We are trying the build the healthcare gap in India’a

~ Vedashree Patankar and Deepa Soman Radhika Bawa is performing on the piano at a Christmas Day concert at Sharan, an elder care facility in Vashi, Navi Mumbai. This is an annual show put up by the music teacher, Bela Peshattiwar. Radhika and her son play a piece, flawlessly and Radhika is all grace. She laughs as Deepa brings this up as a memory of her first time of meeting this woman. Bela ma'am has spoken of Radhika's kindness and generosity when she first started her musi

" Rohan, which is our top-performing Learning Monday video? '. " Jhankar Gadkari" , says Rohan, without missing a beat. " Everyone is tired of being indoors and they love the idea of travel ". P. R. Sakthivel, our Torchbearer Thursday guest speaker says, "Deepa, I don't know how I missed introducing Jhankar. He is a fantastic speaker. He is knowledgeable on so many subjects". A study of Jhankar Gadkri's Linkedin Profile and his interesting TEDx talk at Amity University tell m

What is Palliative care?  Mayo clinic defines it as  specialized medical care that focuses on providing patients relief from pain and other symptoms of a serious illness, no matter the diagnosis or stage of disease. Palliative care teams aim to improve the quality of life for both patients and their families. This form of care is offered alongside curative or other treatments you may be receiving. Palliative care is provided by a team of doctors, nurses and other specially tr

Parthip Thyagarajan , Founder, WeddingSutra.com was our Lumiere Learning Monday guest speaker on 6th April 2020. It was our first ever Zoom Learning Monday. We first met Parthip in 2011 when he came unannounced to our Lumiere - Punit Park office one sunny late afternoon. I saw his silhouette through the frosted glass of my office. “ I saw the board that read Lumière Business Solutions. What kind of services do you offer ?”. WeddingSutra.com is a wedding media company Parthip

Grains to Greens, a venture to make urban garden accessible.

- Mira Venkat What is Torchbearer Thursday? Lumiere Torchbearer Thursday is a weekly initiative that aims to showcase the outstanding contributions made by organisations during the pandemic. Diving deep into technology On May 28, 2020, Lumiere welcomed the “first family of deep technology” from Chennai. The family runs Zuppa Geo Navigation Technologies, which aims to structure a Post-COVID society by enabling efficient use of resources through data driven operations and techn